May 3, 2022
American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
Database of hundreds of prison newspapers from across the U.S. representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women’s-only…
Database of hundreds of prison newspapers from across the U.S. representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women’s-only…
Archive of documents highlighting the Jewish American culture, identity, and experiences, sourced from the American Jewish Historical Society.
Archive documenting the history of nursing and medicinal practices during wartime, with a focus on the American Civil War, the Crimean War, and the First…
Major collection of oral histories, personal accounts, correspondence, shipping records, and many other primary sources covering the experience of migration…
Pamphlets, ads, books, trade cards, posters, and other ephemera meant to educate the general public about “popular” medicine and remedies.
Digitized trade catalogues highlighting American consumerism, marketing, manufacturing, and home life in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Primary sources relating to various frontiers that arose from the movements of Europeans to Africa, Australasia and North America. The majority of the…
Collection of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides for the study of American social, cultural and popular history. Particularly rich in conduct-of-life…
Primary sources charting the rise and fall of empires, from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others to decolonization in the second half…
Collection of the most important papers generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices relating to North America. Covers the United States, Canada…