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Primary source materials pertaining to Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States including historical experiences, traditions, political status, and more.

Indigenous Peoples: North America provides access to primary sources that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge. Types of primary sources made available include manuscripts, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, images of artwork, and more.

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.  Content covers all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.

Broke key stories of the 20th century such as the thalidomide scandal, Kim Philby as a Soviet double-agent, and the Israeli nuclear programme. 19th-century coverage covers Victorian literature, theatre, and everyday life, with highlights including; a review of the opening night of Macbeth in December 1888, starring Ellen Terry in her famous green beetlewing dress; a letter from Charles Dickens, mediating a dispute between his friend Edmund Yates and William Makepiece Thackeray; and the regular Freemasonry column, outlining the activities at various lodges.

Covering 180 years and nearly 600,000 pages the Sunday Times Magazine was the first newspaper magazine to hit the stands in February 1962 when it made its first appearance inside The Sunday Times. This magazine is entirely contained within the archive.

Primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, and press cuttings are published here for the first time, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form a resource for the study of 20th Century social, political, military, and gender history.

Every page as published from over 200 years of the London newspaper. Coverage runs from 1785-2006 and covers major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War.

Access to reference eBooks across a broad range of disciplines including history, law, medicine, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides an electronic collection of premier reference eBooks across a multitude of disciplines. Available electronic resources include encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. The following subjects are covered by the collection: biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, medicine, nation and world, science, and social science.

Explore all the Gale databases available at the University of Windsor. This includes primary source content from across the ages, and full-text journal and ebook content.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. ECCO is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC).

Millions of articles from a list of Canadian and International journals, magazines and reference content with a Canadian focus. Includes Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers. Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly contains 11,973,520 articles with regular updates. All articles have been published between 1980 to present.

Consists of two collections: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900, which provides an intimate look into the lives and works of Britain’s major writers across two hundred years; the Medieval and Renaissance collection featuring manuscripts dating from roughly 1120 to 1660 offering hundreds of thousands of pages of letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings, and other materials. 

This work has been created from the following microfilm collections: British Library Series I: c. 1500-1700; British Library Series II: c. 1700-1800; Bronte Manuscripts; Charles Dickens Manuscripts; Edward Gibbon Manuscripts; Folger Shakespeare Library, c. 1500-1700; Forster & Dyce Collections, c. 1500-1800; Forster & Dyce Collections, c. 1800-1900; Literary Manuscripts of William Morris from the British Library, London; Literary Manuscripts of William Morris from the Huntington Library, San Marino, California; National Library of Scotland, c. 1300-1882; The Oscar Wilde Collection; The Sir Walter Scott Manuscripts; William Cowper and others.