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- 1980s Culture and Society
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- Age of Exploration
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- American History
- American West
- Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
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- Broadcasting America
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- China: Culture and Society
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- Defining Gender
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- East India Company
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- Empire Online
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- Frontier Life
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- Grand Tour
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- India, Raj and Empire
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
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- Interwar Culture
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- Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive
- London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld
- Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
- Mass Observation Online
- Mass Observation Project: Module I 1980s
- Medical Services and Warfare
- Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers
- Medieval Travel Writing
- Meiji Japan: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
- Mexico in History
- Migration to New Worlds
- Missionary Studies
- Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
- Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
- Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
- Race Relations in America
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
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- Service Newspapers of World War II
- Sex and Sexuality
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
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- Socialism on Film
- The Olympic Movement
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- Trade in Early Modern London Livery Company Records, 1450-1750
- Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
- Victorian Popular Culture
- Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life
- Virginia Company Archives
- Women's Voices and Life Writing
- World's Fairs
Gale Primary Sources
HathiTrust
History Vault
ProQuest News and Newspapers
NewspaperArchive
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)

African-American Biographical Database (ProQuest)
American Memory
American West (Adam Matthew)
AP Newsroom (EBSCO)
Adam Matthew Explorer (Adam Matthew)
- 1980s Culture and Society
- Africa and the New Imperialism
- African American Communities
- Age of Exploration
- America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts
- American Committee on Africa
- American History
- American West
- Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
- British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film
- Broadcasting America
- Children's Literature and Culture
- China, America and The Pacific
- China: Culture and Society
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture
- Church Missionary Society Periodicals
- Colonial America
- Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office Files from the National Archives UK
- Defining Gender
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life
- East India Company
- Eighteenth Century Drama : Censorship, Society and the Stage
- Eighteenth Century Journals
- Empire Online
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
- Everyday Life and Women in America
- First World War
- Food and Drink in History
- Frontier Life
- Gender: Identity and Social Change
- Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Global Commodities
- Grand Tour
- Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
- India, Raj and Empire
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America
- Interwar Culture
- J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
- Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
- Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
- Literary Manuscripts Berg
- Literary Manuscripts Leeds
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive
- London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld
- Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
- Mass Observation Online
- Mass Observation Project: Module I 1980s
- Medical Services and Warfare
- Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers
- Medieval Travel Writing
- Meiji Japan: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
- Mexico in History
- Migration to New Worlds
- Missionary Studies
- Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
- Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
- Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
- Race Relations in America
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
- Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
- Service Newspapers of World War II
- Sex and Sexuality
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
- Socialism on Film
- The Olympic Movement
- Trade Catalogues and the American Home
- Trade in Early Modern London Livery Company Records, 1450-1750
- Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
- Victorian Popular Culture
- Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life
- Virginia Company Archives
- Women's Voices and Life Writing
- World's Fairs
Alexander Street (Alexander Street)
British Periodicals Collection (ProQuest)
Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection
Country Life Archive (ProQuest)
Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) (ProQuest)
Digital Public Library of America
Documents on British Policy Overseas (ProQuest)
Gale Primary Sources
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew)
HathiTrust
Hein Online
Historical Statistics of the United States
History Vault
Index to Early American Periodicals
International Historical Statistics
John Johnson Collection (ProQuest)
Military Database (ProQuest)
New York Times (ProQuest)
Oxford African American Studies Center
Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest)
ProQuest Congressional Legislative & Executive Publications
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Proquest Indian Claims Insight
Readers' Guide (EBSCO)
New Mexico Archives Online
Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War (ProQuest)
U.K. Parliamentary Papers

African-American Biographical Database (ProQuest)
African American Newspapers (History Commons)
America's Historical Newspapers (Readex)
American Memory
American Periodicals (ProQuest)
American State Papers
American West (Adam Matthew)
AP Newsroom (EBSCO)
Adam Matthew Explorer (Adam Matthew)
- 1980s Culture and Society
- Africa and the New Imperialism
- African American Communities
- Age of Exploration
- America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts
- American Committee on Africa
- American History
- American West
- Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
- British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film
- Broadcasting America
- Children's Literature and Culture
- China, America and The Pacific
- China: Culture and Society
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture
- Church Missionary Society Periodicals
- Colonial America
- Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office Files from the National Archives UK
- Defining Gender
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life
- East India Company
- Eighteenth Century Drama : Censorship, Society and the Stage
- Eighteenth Century Journals
- Empire Online
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
- Everyday Life and Women in America
- First World War
- Food and Drink in History
- Frontier Life
- Gender: Identity and Social Change
- Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Global Commodities
- Grand Tour
- Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
- India, Raj and Empire
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America
- Interwar Culture
- J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
- Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
- Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
- Literary Manuscripts Berg
- Literary Manuscripts Leeds
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive
- London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld
- Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
- Mass Observation Online
- Mass Observation Project: Module I 1980s
- Medical Services and Warfare
- Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers
- Medieval Travel Writing
- Meiji Japan: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
- Mexico in History
- Migration to New Worlds
- Missionary Studies
- Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
- Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
- Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
- Race Relations in America
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
- Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
- Service Newspapers of World War II
- Sex and Sexuality
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
- Socialism on Film
- The Olympic Movement
- Trade Catalogues and the American Home
- Trade in Early Modern London Livery Company Records, 1450-1750
- Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
- Victorian Popular Culture
- Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life
- Virginia Company Archives
- Women's Voices and Life Writing
- World's Fairs
Archive Finder (including ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland) (ProQuest)
Black Abolitionist Papers (ProQuest)
British Periodicals Collection (ProQuest)
C19: Nineteenth Century Index (ProQuest)
Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection
Digital Public Library of America
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Everyday Life and Women in America Online, c.1820-1900 (Adam Matthew)
Gale Primary Sources
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew)
HathiTrust
Hein Online
Historical Statistics of the United States
Index to Early American Periodicals
International Historical Statistics
John Johnson Collection (ProQuest)
Making of America (Michigan)
Making of America Journals (Cornell)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Civil War Era
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (C19)
Queen Victoria's Journals (C19)
U.K. Parliamentary Papers

Acta Sanctorum (ProQuest)
Adam Matthew Explorer (Adam Matthew)
- 1980s Culture and Society
- Africa and the New Imperialism
- African American Communities
- Age of Exploration
- America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts
- American Committee on Africa
- American History
- American West
- Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
- British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film
- Broadcasting America
- Children's Literature and Culture
- China, America and The Pacific
- China: Culture and Society
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture
- Church Missionary Society Periodicals
- Colonial America
- Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office Files from the National Archives UK
- Defining Gender
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life
- East India Company
- Eighteenth Century Drama : Censorship, Society and the Stage
- Eighteenth Century Journals
- Empire Online
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
- Everyday Life and Women in America
- First World War
- Food and Drink in History
- Frontier Life
- Gender: Identity and Social Change
- Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Global Commodities
- Grand Tour
- Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
- India, Raj and Empire
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America
- Interwar Culture
- J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
- Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
- Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
- Literary Manuscripts Berg
- Literary Manuscripts Leeds
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive
- London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld
- Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
- Mass Observation Online
- Mass Observation Project: Module I 1980s
- Medical Services and Warfare
- Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers
- Medieval Travel Writing
- Meiji Japan: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
- Mexico in History
- Migration to New Worlds
- Missionary Studies
- Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
- Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
- Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
- Race Relations in America
- Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
- Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
- Service Newspapers of World War II
- Sex and Sexuality
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
- Socialism on Film
- The Olympic Movement
- Trade Catalogues and the American Home
- Trade in Early Modern London Livery Company Records, 1450-1750
- Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
- Victorian Popular Culture
- Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life
- Virginia Company Archives
- Women's Voices and Life Writing
- World's Fairs
Alexander Street (Alexander Street)
America's Historical Newspapers (Readex)
American Memory
American Periodicals (ProQuest)
American State Papers
American West (Adam Matthew)
Colonial State Papers (ProQuest)
Digital Public Library of America
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Gale Primary Sources
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew)
HathiTrust
Hein Online
Historical Statistics of the United States
Index to Early American Periodicals
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street)
Oxford African American Studies Center
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest)
ProQuest Congressional Legislative & Executive Publications
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Proquest Indian Claims Insight
New Mexico Archives Online
U.K. Parliamentary Papers

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