Primary Source Collections
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African American Newspapers (1827-1998) This link opens in a new windowFull text for approximately 270 U.S. newspapers from 35 states, chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. Includes rare 19th century titles.
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British Online Archives3,832,343 records covering 1000 years of world history: from politics & warfare, to slavery & revolution
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Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowThis archive presents a vast, expertly curated, comprehensive collection of significant primary source documents, arranged in collections, that are central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1947 to 1996 This link opens in a new windowCreated by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events translated into English.
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Foreign Relations Between the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944 This link opens in a new windowDeclassified documents outlining American interventionism in Latin America. Topics include U.S. financial support for dictatorships, military training, and economic and cultural penetration.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new windowSlavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new windowThis collection brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.
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Slave VoyagesTrans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trade databases.
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The Times (London) Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowDigital Archive of The Times of London for the years 1785–2019. Printed subject indexes to the Times can help locating relevant articles.
