Topically-focused digital collections of primary, unpublished historical documents drawn from institutional and governmental sources and private collections. Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; women’s studies; and more.

The Bibliography of Asian Studies is a comprehensive database that covers the cultures and histories of East, Southeast, and South Asia, as well as overseas Asian communities.

Provides access to primary sources documenting the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and 20th centuries.

Provides digitized, full-text access to pamphlets published between c. 1750 and 1929, mostly in English, that address such issues as foreign relations and diplomacy, the Chinese Diaspora, missionaries and Christianity, and more. Also includes some secondary source material.

Access primary sources from nine archives in the UK, New Zealand, and the US to give insight into the changes in China during this period. Covers the time period from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic.

Contains documents from the US State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs from 1945-1955. Provides insight into the domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period.

Provides searchable access from 1897-2017 to the first English-language newspaper in Japan.

Provides access to newspapers that document day-to-day life in the internment camps. Most of the papers are in English or in dual text.

Contains Japanese-language dictionaries, encyclopedias of Japanese history and culture, and primary source texts from Japanese religious traditions and cultural life. The database can be viewed in either English or Japanese, and the search engine/main search function searches all available reference materials at once

Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse.

Module I. This module covers all aspects of the migration experience, from motives and departures to arrival and permanent settlement. Significant material on the movement of Indian and Chinese indentured labourers is included from The National Archives.

Provides full-text searchable access to both U.S. and selected international historical newspapers, including: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1998), Wall Street Journal (1889-2011), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Washington Post (1877-2006), New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010), Times of India (1838-2010), Korea Times (1956-2016), Irish Times and Weekly Irish Times (1859-2021), and the Chinese Historical Newspapers Collection (1832-1953). More recent issues may be available through other databases. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page.

Provides access to 12 English-language Chinese newspapers published between 1832-1953, including North China Herald (1850-1941); Canton Times (1919-1920); China Critic (1939-1946); The China Press (1925-1938); China Weekly Review (1917-1953); Chinese Recorder (1868-1940); Chinese Repository (1832-1851); Peking Daily News (1914-1917); Peking Gazette (1915-1917); Peking Leader (1918-1919); Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921); Shanghai Times (1914-1921). Full-image access includes articles, advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and more.

Provides searchable, full text access. Published in Tokyo to stimulate US-Japan amity and written for both Japanese and western readerships, Trans-Pacific Online is a source of political, cultural and commercial news in the early 20th century.