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Times Literary Supplement
A subscription research database from The Gale Group, offering the world's premier contemporary
literary review in fully searchable image format.  This mirror to the cultural history of our century -
fully indexed with most of the original contributors now revealed for the first time - delivers unparalleled research information to scholars, students and librarians.

City Directories
The world’s only full-text searchable archival collection of U.S. city directories from the 18th through the 20th centuries. City directories provide listings of names, occupations, street addresses, churches, schools, associations, businesses, and local government and community leaders. With this data, genealogists can create and expand their family trees, while scholars in the social sciences can use the same information to reconstruct communities, study living conditions, work patterns and examine changes in the local population. Moreover, cultural and business historians or genealogists who hope to discover more clues about a family-owned business can consult our digitized facsimiles of the original advertisements.

Womens Periodicals
A selection of women's journals, newspapers and magazines, from Primary Source Media's History
of Women microfilm collection, is now available online! Women's Studies Archives: International
Women's Periodicals is a tool designed to assist scholars and researchers on all levels achieve faster,
easier and more flexible access to a world class resource in women's studies. Search, access and
evaluate women's issues through first hand accounts in the most significant periodical database of its
kind.

Witchcraft
This site gathers more than ninety-five essential works in the literature of witchcraft and demonology. Drawing from Cornell University’s world-renowned rare book collection, Primary Source Media is giving unprecedented access to materials on the origins and development of witchcraft in Europe and America. Every page of every book is offered as a digital facsimile with fully-searchable electronic text. Query one of the world’s rarest archives for any word, phrase, or concept. Print or download images of unique texts dating from the late 15th to 19th centuries, on persecutions and trials in Europe and America.

DDRS
From the presidential libraries, the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and a host of other agencies comes this
collection of U.S. government documents. The major domestic and international events of the post-
World War II world are covered in information by and for presidents, senators, and congress
members. All were classified. Some were top secret. Now you can search every one of them.
View a digital facsimile to see what was removed -- and what was left in. A tool for international
relations specialists, political scientists, economists, journalists, historians, anyone interested in
how a government thinks and acts.

Brontes
The complete works of all four Bront� siblings plus a selection of their most important manuscripts
are presented here. Texts by Anne, Emily, Charlotte, and Branwell Bront� appear in scholarly
editions from Oxford University Press, Garland and Macmillan. A selection of manuscripts with the
editor's extensive commentary from Haworth Parsonage and The British Library--including letters,
poems, and juvenalia--is provided, as are complete manuscript fair copies of Jane Eyre, Shirley,
Villette, and the Gondal poems.

Walt Whitman
Researchers can chart the genealogy of work by America’s most influential poet. Digital facsimiles
of poetry manuscripts from the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library hyperlink to
transcriptions and commentary in the complete, twenty-two volume New York University Press
Collected Writing of Walt Whitman. Every edition of Leaves of Grass published in Whitman’s
lifetime appears as both keyed text and digital facsimile along with more than 100 images of the
poet.

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
The works of two of the eighteenth century’s most studied authors is fully searchable with electronic
text of the best scholarly editions: every volume of the Yale Johnson series and L.F. Powell’s six-
volume Life of Johnson. Other texts include the first edition of Johnson’s Dictionary, letters,
parliamentary debates and commentary on Shakespeare hyperlinked to the full text of the plays.

Virginia Woolf
This project allows for inquiry into the work of one of the twentieth century’s key authors in
unprecedented ways. Fully searchable electronic text of all of Woolf’s fiction, diaries, letters, and
correspondence is combined with 12,000 fully annotated digital facsimiles of her manuscripts. Every
name, date, literary allusion, and character hyperlinks to one of 2000 detailed discussions.

Miguel de Cervantes (English)
This project is a complete resource for studying the greatest writer in the Spanish language in both
English and Spanish. It contains keyed text of all of Cervantes’s works in their first edition linked,
page by page, to facsimile images which can be printed or downloaded. Spanish critical editions of
all of Cervantes’s works are offered with the most widely-used English translations and Covarrubias’s classic 1611 reference work Tesoro de la lengua castellana in fully searchable e-text and facsimile. A visually dazzling gallery of over 100 images of Don Quixote, from a variety of cultures including Europe, the U.S., and Asia is also included.
 

Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish)
This project is a complete resource for studying the greatest writer in the Spanish language in both
English and Spanish. It contains keyed text of all of Cervantes’s works in their first edition linked,
page by page, to facsimile images which can be printed or downloaded. Spanish critical editions of
all of Cervantes’s works are offered with the most widely-used English translations and Covarrubias’s classic 1611 reference work Tesoro de la lengua castellana in fully searchable e-text and facsimile. A visually dazzling gallery of over 100 images of Don Quixote, from a variety of cultures including Europe, the U.S., and Asia is also included.

The African-American Experience
This presentation of the African-American experience contains nearly four hundred primary documents (many reprinted in their entirety) and some three hundred photographs, paintings, prints, and other images, drawn from all periods of American history.  Most of the items gathered here are primary source materials of the sort historians use.  Users gain a new understanding and perspective on the African-American experience through these varied and rare primary source materials.

The American Revolution
This collection of primary sources offers a panoramic view of the conflict from which the United States emerged. Documents and commentary on colonial America’s language, its newspapers and publishing industry, and its economics trace the roots of conflict. Letters and journals of common soldiers, Native Americans and women portray the experience and far-reaching effects of the Revolutionary War.

The Asian-American Experience
This title amasses a rich array of primary sources to tell the history of Asian Americans from their own perspectives and in their own words. Drawing on the exhaustive research of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, it chronicles the Asian-American experience from pre-historic Asian/North American migrations up to the works of contemporary Asian-American artists and writers. Religion and spirituality, Filipino immigration, and the culture of South Asians and Pacific Islanders come to life in texts, graphics, and oral histories.

The Civil War
This collection examines America’s "divided house" within the broad context of national life between 1829 and 1877. Documents detailing the economic and social differences of the antebellum North and South offer background on the conflict. Slave naratives, accounts by Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians chronicle the realities of the war and its aftermath in Reconstruction.

The Constitution and Supreme Court
Research the foundation and legacy of "the machine that would run of itself"—the U.S. Constitution. Examining the documents that influenced the Constitution alongside the texts of Supreme Court decisions that interpreted it, researchers can expand their understanding of state’s rights, original intent, separation of powers, republican government and other issues that fuel public debate in America.

The Great Depression & the New Deal
From the text of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speeches and Federal Arts Project graphics to
archival recordings and movie footage researchers gain in-depth understanding of this pivotal
decade in 1930s America. Initiatives such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and
the Federal Writers Project, as well as the economic crisis and the coming of global war, are
examined from personal and public perspectives.

The Hispanic-American Experience
The diverse materials in this collection range from poetry by the indigenous forerunners of today’s Central American immigrants to the work of Los Angeles’ Chicano muralists. The texts of treaties, maps, a dazzling selection of full color artworks and examples of Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican-American and Dominican music reflect the full range of the Latino experience.

The Immigrant Experience
This collection covers the full range of the immigrant experience including sources on Native
American migrations, European and Asian immigrants of the 19th century, the incorporation
of Hispanic peoples as the United States expanded westward, and the forced migration of
African-Americans by the slave trade. Recent controversies over regulating immigration and
the issue of political refugeeism are also represented.

The Native American Experience
In this collection, users explore the history and culture of the indigenous people of America.
Drawing on a rich array of primary sources, from treaties, autobiographies, and letters to photographs, paintings, and sculpture, this title surveys the past and present trials and triumphs
of Native American peoples. Significant events, from the Trail of Tears to the rise of the American Indian Movement, are coupled with overviews of Native education, religious practice, arts, and literature to offer a comprehensive understanding of the Native American experience.

The Vietnam Era
This title presents the swirl of events that surrounded America’s involvement in Vietnam, tracing the meeting of East and West--from the bloody French-Indochina War to the American entry into Vietnam, from Johnson’s escalation of American forces to Nixon’s decision to bomb Cambodia, from America’s final withdrawal to the renewal of American-Vietnamese relations. This collection of primary sources also tells the story of America’s coming of age in the "war at home" as well as the war overseas. The growth of the antiwar movement--from mass demonstrations to the campaigns of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy--is treated alongside the formative role of the media in covering the war and the eventual return of Vietnam veterans to a war-torn America.

Westward Expansion
See the American frontier through the eyes of explorers, missionaries, Mexicans, naturalists, cowboys, and Native Americans. Their writings, journals, travel accounts, songs, stories, photographs and paintings allow users to research as well as rethink and revise their notions
of the West and its place in American history.

Women in America
An unparalleled gathering of letters, speeches, photographs, works of art, articles and audio clips chronicle the history of women in America from colonial times into the 1990s. Writers, rebels, suffragists, pacifists, pioneers, spies and slaves - these women, prominent and obscure, offer their experiences for a broader, deeper, more varied understanding of the role of gender in U.S. history.