AM Primary Sources: Full List of AM Resources

Primary source collection on European colonial expansion across the African continent, 1870-1914, sourced primarily from British and French archives and libraries. Primary Sources ; AM ; Region - Africa ; Time Period - 19th Century ; Time Period - 20th Century Time Period - 19th Century

This collection focuses on race relations across social, political, cultural, and religious arenas; coverage is predominantly in Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina. It includes pamphlets, periodicals, correspondence, official records and oral histories regarding integration, civil rights, and other subjects.

This collection focuses on European maritime exploration from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus, through the age of discovery, to the eventual discovery of the Northwest and Northeast Passages, and the race for the Poles. Coverage is from 1410-1920 and includes ships' logs and journals, correspondence and travel accounts, and an interactive map with in-depth visualisation of over 50 voyages.

This collection covers the many facets of American involvement in World War Two, from 1939-1949. American military and civilian involvement in all major theatres of operations is represented, and include oral history video interviews, personal letters, diaries, photographs, and military records.

Collection documenting westward expansion in American through books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and other artifacts from the early 18th to the mid 20th century.

Primary source collection from The National Archives, UK for the study of the apartheid, South African politics, trade relations, international opinion and humanitarian issues. Includes diplomatic dispatches, institutional records, biographies of prominent personalities, press reports, correspondence, books, maps, statistics, reports, analyses, and ephemera.

Primary source materials on children’s literature and print culture from the Children’s Literature and Graphic Arts collections held by the American Antiquarian Society. The collection, covering 1810s-1920s, focuses on the output of New York publisher McLoughlin Bros and competitors such as Fisher & Brother and E.P. Dutton, but also includes publications from a selection of European publishers. In addition to books, the collection includes religious tracts, original artwork, photographs, sheet music, exemplars of games and toys, as well as archival materials dealing with the operations of McLoughlin Bros.

The primary source explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Content types collected in the datbase include ship logs, diaries, correspondence, account books, other shipping and commercial company records, catalogs of trade goods, and other records of prices.

This database contains rarely seen pamphlets from the Wason Pamphlet Collection at Cornell University. These pamphlets published between c.1750 and 1929 make up one of the most extensive collections of literature on China and the Chinese in the Western world. Types of material include speeches, annual reports, catalogues, guides, lecture notes, letters, magazine, and more.

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.

Colonial America makes available all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series from The National Archives, UK, covering the period 1606 to 1822. CO 5 consists of the original correspondence of the colonial governments with the British govenment, specifically the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together holding responsibility for the British possessions in mainland North America and the Caribbean.

"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."

This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America, and covers such topics as slavery, Prohibition, the First and Second World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, the League of Nations, McCarthyism and the nuclear bomb. The bulk of the material covers the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

Primary source documents relating to gender from British archives; includes archival documents, essays, biographies and an interactive chronology.

Primary sources materials documenting the lived experience in England from 1500-1700. The material is sourced from the following libraries and archives: the British Library, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Lambeth Palace Library, London Metropolitan Archives, the National Archives UK, the Newberry Library and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Materials range from legal records, to family correspondence, administrative records, wills, inventories, and commonplace books, and also include images of everyday objects used in early modern households.

India Office Records from the British Library, London, containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other primary sources documenting the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947. Includes Factory Records for South Asia, South-East Asia, China, Japan, and the Middle East.

Comprises primary source documents from the collection of John Larpent, the English Inspector of Plays from 1778-1824, including more than 2,500 plays. Also includes the diaries of Anna Larpent, his professional collaborator and wife, recording her criticisms of the plays and insights into the theatrical culture of the time. The companion text The London Stage, 1660-1800, listing every traceable performance, is included as a searchable database, as is A Biographical Dictionary of Actors etc. 1660-1800. Useful for researching such topics as censorship and politics; satire and social commentary; celebrity culture; fashion; the rise of opera in Britain; women and theatre; staging, technology, and performance practice; and the business of theatre.

Bringing together rare journals printed between c.1685 and 1835, this resource illuminates all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.

Covers 500 years of the rise and fall of empires, this features a wide variety of material, including exploration journals & logs; correspondence; periodicals; diaries; government papers; missionary papers; travel writing; slave papers; memoirs; fiction; children's adventure stories; folk tales; exhibition catalogs; maps; marketing posters; photographs; and illustrations, with many in color.

Primary source material from more than sixty collections of field research by prominent ethnomusicologists. The database mostly comprises recordings, but also including field notes, photographs, videos, interviews, and ephemera, digitized by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive. Includes material from Africa; Australia and the Pacific Islands; Central, East, Southeast, and South Asia; Europe; the Middle East; and the Americas.

Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920 comprises thousands of fully searchable images of rare books, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. Material is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasising contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features. The three available modules are: Personal Experiences, Propaganda & Recruitment, and Visual Perspectives and Narratives.

Primary source collection consisting of printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government documents, marketing reports, films and illustrated content from around the globe documenting the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere (1514-1980). Highlights of Module I include the cookbook collections from the University of California San Diego and Michigan State University, with a focus on Mexican, Latin American, Pacific Rim, Chinese early Californian, African and Asian cuisine.

From the British National Archives, this digital collection consists of British Foreign Office (FO) files covering the period 1949-1980. It addresses a crucial period in Chinese history, from the foundation of the Peoples Republic in 1949, to the death of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, the arrest of the Gang of Four, and the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.

These files, combining eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of newspaper articles and conference reports, allow scholars and researchers the opportunity to examine developments in China and to assess US, Soviet, British, European and Commonwealth relations with China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), from 1949 onwards.

Collection of files from Great Britain's Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focusing on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as frontier regions such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir.

British Government documents dealing with Japan in the interwar period, during Word War II and during subsequent American occupation. Sourced from the FO 371 and FO 262 series at The National Archives, UK, in addition to a selection of FO 371 Far Eastern General sub-series, and Western and American Department papers.

Foreign Office files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980, sourced from the following material classes from the National Archives, UK: FO 371, FCO 15, FCO 24, DO 169, DO 187. Highlights include materials on the Cobbold Commission, the end of the Malayan Emergency and tensions between Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as rising animosity towards the perceived threat of communism at this time.

Collection of files from Great Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office providing in-depth analyses, annual reviews, ministerial minutes, personality profiles and correspondence regarding conflicts, arms sales and the UK's commercial interest in the Middle East.

This collection covers settlements across North America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand from 1650-1920. It includes documents on the creation of new states, trade networks, and movements of people alongside the marginalisation and decline of indigenous peoples.Highlights include expedition records, gold rush materials, and the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Primary source materials on gender history from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia from the 19th to the 21st century. Includes feminist pamphlets and ephemera, diaries and correspondence, business and legal records, advice literature and etiquette books, photographs, and ephemera.

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange provides a vast range of visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisations around the world. These original sources will help scholars to explore the history of fifteen major commodities and to examine the ways that these have changed the world.

From the South Asian manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this resource documents the history of South Asia in the 17th-19th centuries through journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents.

American Indian Newspapers offers the publications of a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.

Documents the history, operation, policies and accomplishments of one of the world's largest and oldest advertising firms.

Based on original manuscript collections from the holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York. Covers a wide range of dates and topics related to Jewish history in the US, from Early Jewish Settlements in the US through the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century.

A primary source collection dealing with the evolution of European and American working class tourism between 1850 and 1980s. Includes guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals that provide insight into the expansion, accessibility and affordability of tourism for the masses and the evolution of some of the most successful travel agencies in the world.

19th century manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library.

17th and 18th century manuscripts from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

Sourced from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers (London), this primary source collection offers insight into the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions, and the history of bookbinding, from 1554 to the 21st century.

Primary sources on the social history of 19th century London, sourced from Lilly Library, Indiana University.

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.

Access market research reports and supporting documents for mid-20th century U.S. by consumer analyst Ernest Dichter.

Archive of Mass Observation, the pioneering social research organization that studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain from 1937 to 1950s. Archive includes materials collected by investigators (thematic studies through raw data, surveys, and covert observation) and materials submitted by volunteers (diaries and other personal writing).

The Mass Observation Project, coordinated by the University of Sussex since 1981, is a national life writing project about everyday life in Britain that captures the experiences, thoughts and opinions of everyday people, and serves as one of the major repositories of longitudinal qualitative social data in the UK.

Five major family letter collections from the 15th century England: Paston Family Papers, Cely Family Papers, Plumpton Correspondence, Stonor Correspondence and Amburgh Family Papers.

Provides direct access to a widely scattered collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages.  Included are translations and supporting materials (all of which are fully searchable); maps showing the routes of the travelers; introductory essays by leading scholars.

The database contains manuscripts for the study of Japan Meiji society, culture, ethnology, and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925). The arrangement of the collection consists of fifteen series: Correspondence; Diaries; Scrapbooks; Natural History; Archaeology Field Work; Ethnology; Japanese Pottery; Lectures; Publications; Inventions; Materials Collected by Morse; Financial Records; Noise Abatement; Biographical and Personal; and Miscellaneous.

Primary sources documenting the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries, and dealing with immigration, refugees, labor migration, immigration politics, religious, ethnic and community relations, and responses to emigration from local and indigenous communities. Includes personal accounts, oral histories, correspondence, printed books, pamphlets, leaflets, reports, shipping papers, logbooks and plans, photographs, maps, and ephemera.

Primary source materials from the archive of the John Murray publishing company, held at the National Library of Scotland, from its inception in 1786 through the long nineteenth century. A highlight of the collection are the manuscripts and personal papers of Lord Byron.

Primary sources on social protest, student activism, counterculture, and women's liberation against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam conflict and the growth of the consumer society.

Collection of primary source documents from advertising and other popular press images demonstrating the history of popular remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America; including contemporary trends such as phrenology, herbal medicines, hydrotherapy, other folk medicines, early dentistry, pharmaceutical production and drug sales materials, and more. Images and research drawn from the collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Primary source materials exploring the interactions between government policy and public philanthropy in Victorian and early twentieth-century British society, and demonstrating a shift in welfare reform, and the social tensions surrounding poverty and public welfare. Materials are sourced from the National Archives at Kew, the British Library and Senate House Library.

The Race Relations Department, based at Fisk University, was a highly influential think tank offering a forum for discussion and research on racial topics. The work of the Department highlighted topics such as poverty and inequality, class, housing, employment, education and government policy. Its program attracted many well-known figures in the Civil Rights Movement, including Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Charles Houston, and Marguerite Cartwright.

This resource sheds light on the fascinating work of the Department through the digitization of extensive records from the Department's archives, now held at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.

Manuscript collection of William Wordsworth and other Romantic poets, writers and artists. Includes notebooks, diaries, correspondence, travel journals and autograph books.

This collection contains both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theaters around the world. Publications are included from the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, and countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Both Allied and Axis publications are presented, offering a broad view of the war and the experiences of those on its front lines.

Primary sources (research files, correspondence, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, and ephemera) on sexology and changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender, and sexual behaviors from the Kinsey Institute (1939-1990s). Covers advances in public health, biology, psychology, sociology and other social sciences disciplines.

This resource features the prompt book collection from the Folger Shakespeare Library, covering productions from the 1670s to the 1970s. Includes digitized production scripts for most of Shakespeare’s plays, showcasing personal notes, cues for lighting, illustrations of sets and costume design, and notes on music and acting. Also includes photographs, musical scores, correspondence, and ephemera. Certain historic performances have been selected as case studies including David Garrick’s revised 1772 production of Hamlet, Henry Irving’s famous 1879 production of ¬The Merchant of Venice, and Laurence Olivier’s Academy Award-winning cinema release of Hamlet in 1948.

Documenting over 300 productions from 1997-2016, this digital collection documents architectural plans, costume designs and wardrobe notes, prompt books, photographs, and programs, of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. Includes early modern and contemporary musical scores, oral histories on the genesis of the reconstruction project, materials on marketing, publicity, context, and front-of-the-house responses by audiences. Video interviews and essays from key figures are also included.

Designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, brings together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

Socialism on Film is a collection of documentaries, newsreels and features from Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers, sourced from the British Film Institute, and covering the period from the Russian Revolution to the 1980s. The collection consists of films produced almost exclusively in the communist world and later versioned into English for distribution in the West.

Travel writing, diaires and correspondence by British men and women from their journeys through Europe, 1550-1850.

British and Commonwealth perspectives on the Nixon presidency though FCO 7 and FCO 82 files from The National Archives, UK.

A collection of trade catalogues, cards and marketing ephemera tracing the rise of the ‘American dream’ and evolution of commerce throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1850-1950). The content is sourced from three collections of trade literature in America: the Lawrence B. Romaine collection at UC Santa Barbara, the Hagley Museum and Library and the Winterthur Library.

Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 1835-1976.

A collection of primary sources documenting popular culture in the second half of the 19th century and in the early 20th century, primarily in Great Britain but also in the United States. The four modules of this collection are: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment; Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema.

Papers and records of the Virginia Company of London documenting the development of the Colony of Virginia and colonization of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas, 1890-1790.

A finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives and original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories.

Primary source materials on over 200 World's fairs, from the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations at the Crystal Palace in London (1851) through the 20th century, focusing on Northern European, North American, Australian and East Asian expositions.