ENGL105: Researching Historian's Film Review: 1) Finding Primary Sources

A major tool for genealogical and biographical research, particularly for the United States, providing access to vital records, census and voter lists, immigration records, military records, directories, tax, criminal, land, and will records, and more.

Includes America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, African American Newspapers 1872 - 1998, and Afro-American Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1538 -1922.
Off-campus access limited to UNC students, faculty, and staff.

A collection of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures are included, with coverage from 1700 forward.
Off-campus access is limited to UNC students, faculty, and staff.

Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries. From the bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement. Published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society.

Features material drawn from UNC Libraries as well as collections that are the result of collaborations with UNC faculty members and partner libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. The digital collections emphasize North Carolina and the American South. Topics include the experience of African Americans, the Civil War, the arts, economics, and politics.

Reproduces images of over 125,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England and her colonies in any language between 1475 and 1700, and in English worldwide for this period.

Covers the origins of Western culture beginning with the earliest print resources from continental Europe to 1700.

"Provides remote access to 33 million full-text images and text-searchable pages of nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800."

A large, deep, and rich collection of primary sources documenting the 'long 19th Century.' Materials include books, newspapers, periodicals, diaries, photographs, pamphlets, maps, and more.

More than 66,000 titles from the period 1450-1914. The most comprehensive collection in existence for the study of early economic, political, business and social history.

Covers 500 years of the rise and fall of empires.

"This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict."

Offers rich English-language sources relating to China and the West for the period of 1793-1980. Based on sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London, the database includes disparate sources from visual images to papers of missionaries to records of diplomatic envoys that reflect Chinese history during the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power.

Huge collection of links to digitized Western European documents and images dating from prehistoric times to the present. Arranged by country and then chronologically.