ZSR Databases

×
≡

World History Primary Sources: Documents & Manuscripts

Get help with World History research
45 databases

A

  • Ancestry.com
    The world’s largest online family history resource provides instant access to hundreds of years of history in billions of historical documents and millions of historical photos from all over the world. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Apartheid South Africa
    Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Coverage: 1948-1980. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Archives Unbound
    Gain access to rare primary source documents with these topically focused digital 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 Archives Unbound program consists of more than 300,000 documents totaling more than 13 million pages. primary sources documents manuscripts

B

  • British Parliamentary Papers
    House of Commons Parliamentary Papers allows researches to access the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century papers, and the Hansard parliamentary debates, via a single interface, cross-searching across topics to see how issues were explored and legislation formed. Coverage: 1688-2015. primary sources documents manuscripts

C

E

F

G

  • Gale Primary Sources
    Combined interface for searching three primary-source databases simultaneously: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), The Making of the Modern World, and British Library Newspapers 1800-1900. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Global Commodities
    This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

I

J

  • JSTOR Global Plants
    The Global Plants database is a growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials from community contributors around the world. This resource also features partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs. Selected sub-collections include reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, illustrations from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, and Kew’s Directors’ Correspondence. artwork images primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

M

  • Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
    Provides complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) and memoranda of Harold Macmillan’s government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees. Coverage: 1957-1963. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts reports
  • Making of the Modern World
    Digital facsimile images of primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth from the period 1450-1914. Full-text searching across works in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more. Coverage: 1450-1914. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Mass Observation Online
    Mass Observation was a social research organization formed in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This collection includes studies and publications, diaries and personal writings, photographs, and interactive maps. It describes everyday life in the words of ordinary people, with interviews and records of overheard conversations, rather than through polls. Coverage: 1937-1965. primary sources documents manuscripts reports
  • Medieval Family Life
    Contains full-color images of original medieval manuscripts from five family letter collections. Includes full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where available, plus supplementary material such as family trees, chronology, glossary, images, links to related scholarly websites, etc. Coverage: Middle ages. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Medieval Travel Writing
    The project combines multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville, with translations, route maps and introductory essays. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Meiji Japan
    Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Migration to New Worlds
    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. Coverage: 1800-1924. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

N

R

  • Records of the Persian Gulf War
    This collection contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Source Library: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Coverage: 1990-1991. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Republic of New Afrika: Independence, Reparations, and Citizenship
    This collection provides documentation collected by the FBI and chronicles the activities of the social movement organization The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), including activities of national and local leaders, power struggles within the organization, its growing militancy, and its affiliations with other Black militant organizations. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Library. Coverage: 1968-1980. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
    Presents the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, researchers unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers. Authors and artists represented include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Ruskin, Gainsborough, and others. Also includes over 2,500 fine art pieces from the Wordsworth Trust's fine art collection. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts

S

T

U

  • U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
    Correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes as U.S.-Vatican relations, the Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews. Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1940-1950. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Contains: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Signature Ceremonies, Treaty titles in the UN Official Languages, Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties, Treaty Handbook, Monthly Statements of treaties and International Agreements, Depositary Notifications (CNs) by the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and Notes verbales from The Legal Counsel relating to the depositary practice and the registration of treaties pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter. Coverage: 1946-. primary sources documents manuscripts

W

Your Bookmarks

To add a bookmark, click the bookmark button next to a database.

×

Book a Research Session

×