Using the Library's Databases

Gale Primary Source Databases:

• American Fiction 1774-1920: Prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I. 
• Archives of Human Sexuality & Gender: Presents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. 
  • LGBTQ History & Culture since 1940, Part I
• Associated Press Collections Online: The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting, founded in 1846. 
  • U.S. Cities Bureaus Collection
  • European Bureaus Collection
  • News Features & Internal Communications
  • Washington, D.C. Bureau Collection
  • The Middle East Bureaus Collection
• Brazilian & Portuguese History & Culture: Oliveira Lima's (1867-1928) collection of books, manuscripts, works of art, and other materials for the study of Brazil, Portugal, and the Ibero-American world. 
• British Literary Manuscripts Online: Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, and drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works. The manuscripts range from medieval texts to the works of Oscar Wilde.
• British Library Newspapers: Delivers a wide range of local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Provides an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press over a period of more than 200 years.
• Burney Collection of 17th/18th Century Newspapers: Reverend Charles Burney's (1757-1817) collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media. Helps chart the development of the newspaper as we now know it, beginning with irregularly published transcriptions of Parliamentary debates and proclamations to coffee house newsbooks, finally arriving at newspaper in its current form.
• Chatham House Online Archive: Contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference.
• China-From Empire to Republic: Collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in or about China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
  • Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949
• Crime Punishment and Popular Culture 1790-1920: Gathers the raw data about crime, its solutions, and the popular response in the nineteenth century.
• Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004:  Includes more than one hundred years of this major UK national newspaper.
• Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900): Digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Exemplifies the long exchange of ideas and learning between Europe and the Arabic-speaking world.
  • Religion and Law
  • Sciences, History, and Geography
  • Periodicals, Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogs, and General Works
• Economist Historical Archive: First published in 1843, The Economist provides a unique, unbiased analysis of major world events, facilitates the comparison of economic trends across continents and centuries, and offer an ideal historical resource for cutting-edge ideas in an easily digestible form.
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Books, pamphlets, and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800.
• Financial Times Historical Archives 1888-2010: The Financial Times has chronicled the critical financial and economic events that shaped the world, from the late nineteenth and entire twentieth centuries to today.
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003: This publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events, including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science. 
• Independent Digital Archive 1986-2016: The Independent is a major British daily national newspaper, launched in 1986 as an antidote to its often overtly political rivals. The paper presents alternative perspectives on the news of the day.
• Indigenous Peoples of North America: This collection covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations with unprecedented depth and breadth.
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Offers content from the 15th to the 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress.
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive 1924-1950: This magazine charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America through three of its most significant decades. 
• Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991: The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1929. It is one of the few means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts and it also previewed major literary and musical shows and regularly reviewed new books.
• Making of the Modern World: Covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation, as well as the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: This archive contains the collections below. Click on the title link to search the whole archive or click a collection link to search within a specific collection. 
  • Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
  • British Politics and Society
  • British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
  • Children's Literature and Childhood
  • Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
  • European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
  • Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
  • Photography: The World through the Lens
  • Religion, Reform, and Society
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part I
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II
  • Women: Transnational Networks
• 19th Century North American Newspapers: Provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America, written by those who experienced it and recorded it in newspaper pages from coast to coast.
• 19th Century U.K. Periodicals: Covers the events, lives, values, and themes that shaped nineteenth century U.K. 
  • Part I: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure
  • Part II: Empire
• Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957: The Picture Post's innovative use of photojournalism became the window on the world for ordinary people, bringing the major social and political issues of the day into popular consciousness.
• Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992: Punch was a satirical magazine that played a central role in the formation of British identity and how the rest of the world saw the British nation from its early years as a campaigner for social justice to its transformation into national icon.
• Sabin Americana: Offers content from the 15th to the 20th century on life in the western hemisphere. This collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions, and momentous events of the time through sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, and literature.
• Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: This collection is devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century. 
  • The Age of Emancipation
  • Debates over Slavery and Abolition
  • The Institution of Slavery
  • Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
• Smithsonian Collections Online: This archive is comprised of digitized primary source materials from deep within the museums, libraries, and archives of the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex.
  • Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive
  • Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Frontlist
  • Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991
  • Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry
  • World's Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow
• State Papers Online 1509-1782: The British State Papers cover a wide range of documents, subjects, and importance, concerning internal English/British affairs and administration of the country, and foreign affairs, marriage alliances, treaties and wars.
  • Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 1: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council
  • Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part 2: State Papers Foreign, Low Countries and Germany
  • Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
  • Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
  • Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
  • Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
• Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006: The Sunday Times was founded to uphold the freedom of the press against those "emperors, kings, and their ministers" who would stifle it. It has consistently provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large.
• Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000: The Telegraph has published widely on foreign affairs and foreign cultures. It has strived to be at the forefront of journalistic innovation in the UK and has historical significance for the development of newspapers over the centuries. 
• Times Digital Archive 1785-2008: The Times is one of the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication and is a highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage.
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2009: The Times Literary Supplement has served for over 100 years as a leading forum for fine writing, literary discoveries, and insightful debate.