This guide provides quick access to the best resources at WU for conducting research related to history of Europe, South and Central America, Asia and general World History Topics.
Search millions of pages of primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries. Includes Award-winning digital resources spanning the social sciences and humanities, developed in collaboration with leading libraries and archives.
The Asian Reading Room provides public access to more than 4 million items in over 130 Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Hindi, Thai, and many others. In the reading room, researchers can use the Asian Division’s collections of printed materials, microform, and databases and confer with reference librarians to answer research questions about the countries of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Large and growing collection of "documents on law, history and diplomacy." Organized by century (pre-18th, 18th, 19th & 20th) and alphabetically by author/title, subject, and/or event. Also searchable.
This extensive image bank of high quality imagery reflects the vast British Library collections of over 150 million items including manuscripts, rare books, musical texts, maps, illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs spanning almost 3000 years.
Mesoamerican codex written by unknown indigens for Antonio de Mendoza, viceroy of New Spain, who may have commissioned it. It combines Aztec pictograms with Spanish text. The original is held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War.
First published over the course of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the Encyclopédie include 21 volumes of text with more than 70,000 articles on subjects ranging from asparagus to zodiac. The remaining 11 volumes contain beautifully engraved plates illustrating many of the articles. The Encyclopédie was the major achievement of the French Enlightenment whose aim, in Diderot's words, was to "change the common way of thinking" through the expansion of knowledge and the development of critical modes of thought.
The European Reading Room should be the starting point for readers and researchers whose interest relates to European countries, including the Russian-speaking areas of Asia, but excluding Spain, Portugal, and the British Isles.
Historia general de las cosas de nueva España (General history of the things of New Spain) is an encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico in 1529, eight years after completion of the Spanish conquest by Hernan Cortés.
Provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans. (This site is in French.)
(GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history from the beginning of the early modern period to the present
The Great War Archive contains over 6,500 digital items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from, or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War, either abroad or at home.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts from around the globe presented for educational use. Ancient, Medieval and Modern History resources can be found here, with resources for African, East Asian, Indian, Jewish, Islamic regions.
Project Gutenberg is a major source of free historical electronic texts that can be searched by author or title. Content is free in the United States because its copyright has expired. You can download 30,000+ free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
A searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped.
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major collections from our museums, archives, libraries, and research units.
This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.
John Carter Brown Library Digital Collections - Provides digital access to an internationally renowned, constantly growing collection of primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825.