Primary Sources : General
Databases
- Defining gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new windowOver 50,000 primary documents - Covers conduct and politeness, domesticity and the family, consumption and leisure, education and sensibility, and the body - Documents are of many types, including ephemera, advice literature, periodical articles, diaries, and more.
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies
- Annual RegisterFull Text - Contains: contemporary opinion; historical context; biographical information.
- Electronic Enlightenment This link opens in a new windowIncludes correspondence (letters, manuscripts, early printed editions, scholarly annotations) between the greatest thinkers/writers of the long eighteenth century and their families, friends, bankers, booksellers, patrons, publishers
Internet Sources
- World Digital LibraryThe World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
- The Avalon ProjectDigital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
- The National ArchivesThe government's national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom holds over 1,000 years of the nation's records for everyone to discover and use.
- National ArchivesThe National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is a record keeper for the United States Federal government.
- Smithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, which provides several online exhibitions.
- Internet History Sourcebooks ProjectA collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts
- European History Primary SourcesProvides an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe
Personal Accounts
- Travelers' AccountsA large number of travelers' accounts from various time periods and locations
- Oral History OnlineIndexes collections of oral history in English from around the world. Some full-text material is contained in the database; there are links to other materials, textual as well as audio and video, available on other websites