Databases

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First World War
The primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents along with a range of contextual secondary... Connect
Frontier Life
Frontier Life is a digital resource designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. With a vast array of primary source... Connect
Gale Databases
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. Connect
Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection is a source for the study of women's history in the world,... Connect
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange
Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.... Connect
Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada
(For enriched Hansard Debates see LiPaD) These Historical Debates represent a free searchable database of digitized versions of the debates of the Senate and the House of Commons of all debates from Parliament 1,... Connect
Indigenous Peoples: North America
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... Connect
Intelex Past Masters
An interdisciplinary resource comprised of humanities and social science databases.A comprehensive resource that is comprised of humanities databases—in both original language and English translation—of... Connect
ITER: Bibliography
Access the ITER Bibliography through the ITER Gateway portal.  This unique bibliography contains over 1.1 million citations for secondary source material from over 400 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Users... Connect
John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera
Scanned documents from the 18th through 20th centuries pertaining to crimes, advertising, booktrade, and more.This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed... Connect
JSTOR
Over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs, primary sources and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always... Connect
JSTOR: 19th Century British Pamphlets
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by... Connect
Liberty Magazine 1924-50
A record of the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America through its three most significant decades. Liberty represents the USA's growing involvement in world affairs during a time when... Connect
London Low Life
Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and... Connect
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
The personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts. Semantically Indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely... Connect
Mass Observation Online: British Social History 1937-1972
Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. This collection covers the end of the 'Hungry Thirties... Connect
Medieval Travel Writing
A collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Featured authors include Ambassadors,... Connect
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
A collection of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. It includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible,... Connect
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives,... Connect
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
This collection includes the immediate experiences of numerous women and contains many pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly... Connect
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