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America: History & Life (EBSCOhost)
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
C19 : the nineteenth century index (ProQuest)
"C19: The Nineteenth Century Index – the most comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives."

C19 has moved to the ProQuest platform. The Chadwyck Healey platform is no longer available.
"C19 Index is the bibliographic spine of 19th century research, providing integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives. Users of C19 Index can query its 14 collections simultaneously, or can conduct more detailed research using collection-specific search screens. C19 Index is a dynamic and growing resource, currently containing over 24 million bibliographic records for a full range of 19th century source material. The links below provide more detail on the 14 collections available in C19 Index."
- American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL)
- American Periodicals Series (full text)
- Archive Finder
- Bookman Directory of Booksellers, Publishers & Authors
- British Periodicals
- Cotgreave's Index
- Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- Niles' Register Cumulative Index, 1811-1849
- Nineteenth Century
- Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC)
- Palmer's Index to The [London] Times
- Periodicals Index Online / Periodicals Archive Online
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- Stead's Index to Periodicals
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
- U.S. Serial Set (1789-1901)
Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1943+) (EBSCOhost)
Iter Bibliography is comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
JSTOR
Full text of research journals and eBooks from numerous publishers. For most of the journal content, we can access all but the 3 to 5 most recent years of the journal.
includes 337 History journals with the earliest publication dates back to 1665

History Databases

Primary Sources -- Archives & Documents

African American Communities (Adam Matthew)
"Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity."
Age of Exploration (Adam Matthew)
"showcases a range of digitized primary source material relating to the history of European – particularly British, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish – exploration from Europe across the world.

Students and researchers can delve into a wealth of documents relating to exploration from the early fifteenth century to the early twentieth century. The material within this collection provides a unique insight into early exploration of North and South America, the tensions between these European empires and their efforts at colonization, the search for Terra Australis and eventual mapping of Australasia by major European explorers, as well as the search for the Northwest Passage and the effects of this upon global trade, and the race for the north and south poles.

These histories are presented through correspondence, diaries and journals, rare manuscript and printed books, scientific and government papers, ships’ logbooks, and charts and maps"
American History, 1493-1945 (Adam Matthew)
"brings to life American History from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the finest archives available for the study of American history. Its quantity and quality offers a wonderful overview of American history alongside some deep research strands. It is divided into two modules: Module 1 Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 and Module 2 Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945."
-Over 60,000 primary source documents split across two modules, including correspondence, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork and maps
-Majority of the collection is unique manuscript
-Extensive cataloguing to aid search
-Translations and transcriptions for many manuscripts
-Secondary resources include chronology, essays, video lectures and interactive features
-Features from partner organizations Mount Vernon and the Gettysburg Foundation
American History in Video (Alexander Street) "allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries."
American State Papers (NewsBank/Readex) (1789-1838) Primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838.
Includes Congressional and Executive Department materials related to: Foreign Relations, Indian Affairs, Finance, Commerce and Navigation, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-office Department, Public Lands, Claims, and Various Other Topics.
American West (Adam Matthew)
"From early topographical sketches and pioneers’ accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his ‘Wild West’ stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more."
"A diverse range of subjects can be explored through American West, including:

- Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters, including items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon
- Accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape of Canada and the Pacific Northwest
- The evolution of Western towns through materials such as prospectuses and city directories
- The growth of railway and road networks through maps and through records of key railroad companies
- Emigrants guides, manuscript travel journals, store catalogues, illustrations and maps to enable a better understanding of the phenomenon of Westward expansion
- The agricultural transformation of the West, accounts of ranches and of the prairie lands
- Texas, Mexico and the South
- Literary and historical works – as well as contemporary newspapers and posters - for a better understanding of the real and mythic West, with first-hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws
- Native American history and culture"
AP Images (EBSCOhost) Photographs from as early as 1840's and other graphics spanning over 160 years of history. Includes a small selection of recent sound clips.
Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 (Adam Matthew)
"makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980.

The launch of apartheid policies by the National Party in 1948 heralded 40 years of legally entrenched white dominance over South African politics, society and business. Punitive restrictions placed on travel, education, work and political activism instigated the formation of organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), saw support increase for the Communist Party and fuelled the growth of international anti-apartheid organisations.

These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation."
Includes:
-British diplomatic dispatches between London and Pretoria and between London and British posts across Africa
-Biographies of prominent political figures, activists, detainees and victims of apartheid
-Cuttings, transcriptions and translations of press reports, including many from Afrikaans newspapers
-Reports detailing visits to South Africa from UK and US politicians and vice versa
-Letters and telegrams from government departments and officials and from private individuals
-Minutes of ministerial meetings
-Annual reports detailing events in South Africa and neighboring countries during the previous year
-Political, economic and military analyses
-Statistical tables
-Police and embassy investigation reports
-Published booklets, leaflets, propaganda etc.
-Maps, including regional and tribal authority areas, mineral-production areas (including gold) and Bantustans
ArchiveGrid (OCLC) "ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies."
Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 (EBSCOhost) (1610+) The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project” – from which the collections draws its content, is the largest national project ever to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960.
Black Abolitionist Papers (ProQuest)
"Included in the collection are such types of primary documents as:

-- Correspondence of major African American leaders
-- Speeches, sermons, and lectures
-- Articles, essays, editorials, and other major writings from more than 200 newspapers: African American, abolitionist, and reform newspapers
--Receipts, poems, and other miscellaneous documents"

Available on the ProQuest platform. The Chadwyck Healey platform is no longer available.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) An international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries.
Central Florida Memory A unique digital collection of material contributed by partner institutions.
China : Culture and Society (Adam Matthew) (1750-1929)
"The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University. Mostly in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929, and amounting to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes, these rare pamphlets form part of one of the deepest and most extensive collections of literature on China and the Chinese in the Western world and constitute a rich resource for scholars and teachers in numerous disciplines.

The pamphlets have all been digitized in color and are full-text searchable. Many are illustrated and feature lavish cover art."
Types of material in the collection include:

Addresses and speeches
Annual reports
Assessments
Catalogues
Essays
Examinations
Guides and manuals
Inquiries and studies
Journals
Lecture notes
Letters
Magazine articles
Minutes of meetings
Notes and records
China, America and the Pacific : Trade & Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew)
"explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images, objects and maps from international libraries and archives document this fascinating history."
Covers the following themes:
-Old China Trade (roughly 1783-1844)
-Early commercial development of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Providence,
Baltimore
-Maritime routes between East and West Coasts (before overland trails)
-Development of Hawaii as key American trading post before annexation
-Chinese-American cultural exchange (including 19th century Chinese immigration)
-Commodities of the China trade
-Fur Trade in Northwest Pacific
-Diplomacy and politics of America and the Far East
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew)
"With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.

Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service – from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze – are accessible and searchable alongside original reports of the Amherst and Macartney embassies. There are letters relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War and tantalising glimpses of life in China from the collected diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family. Significant sources describing the lives and work of missionaries in China from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable runs of missionary periodicals are also featured."
"Highlights:
- Substantial papers of Bowra, Hart, Maze and others in the Chinese Maritime Customs service
- Records of major diplomatic envoys to China ranging from the late 18th and early 19th century missions of Macartney and Amherst to those of Nixon and Heath in the 20th century
- Papers of missionaries active in all regions of China from Canton and Macau to Shanghai and Peking and an extensive run of the Chinese Recorder, 1867-1941
- Full text search across printed and typescript documents
- An array of maps, colour paintings, photographs and drawings alongside interactive mapping tools

Key Features:
- English-language sources relating to China and the West
- Extensive runs of ‘The Chinese Recorder’, ‘Light and Life Magazine’ and ‘The Land of Sinim: the North China Mission Quarterly Paper’
- 400 colour paintings, maps and drawings
- Map Gallery
- Image Slideshow
- Biographies (courtesy of Dr Catherine Ladds, University of Bristol)
- Contextual Essays"
Colonial America (Adam Matthew) (1606-1822)
"Colonial America will consist of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them. This unique collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is an invaluable one for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world."
- Early Settlement, Expansion & Rivalries
- Towards Revolution
- The American Revolution
- Legislation & Politics in the Colonies
- Growth, Trade & Development
"Covering the period 1606 to 1822, CO 5 constitutes the original correspondence of the the colonial governments with 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."
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 (Adam Matthew)
"The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research.

The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.

The documents in Confidential Print: Africa begin with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa. They then follow the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. Together they cover the whole of the modern period of European colonisation of the continent from the British Government’s perspective."
Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 (Adam Matthew)
"This collection begins in the aftermath of independence for the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies of Latin America, addressing the politics of state-building and the Latin American nations’ establishment of their place in the fast-expanding global economy.

Topics covered include revolutions, wars and territorial changes, relations with indigenous peoples, the fitful progress of democracy, the influence of foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), slavery, immigration from Europe and the rise of political ideologies such as fascism and communism, amongst many other topics."
Highlights:
- The nine-year siege of Montevideo (1843-52)
- British emigration to Argentina and Brazil (1860s-90s)
- British filibustering expeditions against Cuba (1884-5)
- Protestant schools in the Mosquito Indian Reserve (1900)
- The building of the Panama Canal (1900s)
- Proposals for a confederation of Central American states (1907)
- The dictatorships of Getúlio Vargas (1930-45) in Brazil and Juan Perón (1946-55) in Argentina

Key Features:
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform
- Full-text searchable
- Map Gallery
- Pre-populated searches for key people, places and topics
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 (Adam Matthew)
"From the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post- Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict these government documents inform the volatile situation in the region today.

Taking in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan, we include materials from the various committees on Mesopotamia and Palestine, on Transjordan and the military base at Aden, on Syria and the Lebanon, and on the Passfield Report of 1930 and the early phases of the Arab League after 1945."
"Highlights:
- Axis influence in Afghanistan
- The importance of the Suez Canal to British imperial policy
- The Mahdist Wars in Sudan
- Egyptian politics during the Second World War
- The ambitions of Atatürk’s Turkey
- Views of Mossadeq’s government in Iran after the oil nationalisations
- European diplomatic manoeuvrings during the First Balkan War

Key Features:
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform
- Full-text searchable
- Map Gallery
- Pre-populated searches for key people, places and topics"
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 (Adam Matthew)
"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."
"Highlights:
- The birth of the railways and industry, the Hudson’s Bay Company, trade, economy and agriculture, sheries and shipping
- Native Americans, border disputes, slavery and apprenticeship, the Morant Bay rebellion
- Prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi activities in Chile, McCarthyism
- The League of Nations, US financial position, Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the USA into the World War II
- Spheres of influence in Latin America, nuclear policy and US-Canadian relationships

Key Features:
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform
- Full-text searchable
- Map Gallery
- Pre-populated searches for key people, places and topics"
East India Company (Adam Matthew) (1599-1947)
UCF has access to the first two modules:
- India Office Records A-D: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947
- India Office Records, G: Factory Records for South Asia and South-East Asia, 1595-1830

"East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947."
Empire Online (Adam Matthew)
"With primary source material from American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. Documents from Africa, India and North America are also featured.

Students and researchers of colonial history, society, trade and travel, politics and culture are encouraged to explore a diverse range of topics and subjects from ship’s logs to missionaries in Africa.

The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire."
"Highlights:
- Tens of thousands of pages of unique primary source material including maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books
- Material spans five centuries with content selected by an editorial board of leading academics from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA
- To enhance teaching and research a range of learning tools, including interactive maps, historiography, searching aids and biographies of individuals who shaped the course of Empire are featured to contextualise the source material

Key Features:
- Highly indexed manuscript and full text printed material, with a broad range of document types.
- Detailed indexing of metadata enables the sources to be explored in a variety of ways (by period, by date, by person and subject).
- Interactive chronology and data maps charting the histories and the spread of empires across the globe.
- An extensive image gallery showcasing the people, places and events important to the history of empire studies.
- Essays by consultant editors introducing the material and suggesting possible pathways for research and teaching."
Everyday Life and Women In America, c1800-1920 (Adam Matthew)
"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."
"Highlights:
- Fully-searchable access to 75 rare periodicals ranging from Echoes of the South (Florida) and the Household Magazine (North Carolina), to Lucifer the Lightbearer (Chicago), The Heathen Woman's Friend (Boston) and Women's Work (Georgia)
- A full run of Town Topics: The Journal of Society from the New York Public Library, 1887-1923, an essential source of articles and commentary on art, music, literature, society, gossip and scandal
- Strong coverage of prescriptive literature and manuals for domestic management, telling us much about the organisation of the American home
- A rich collection of rare pamphlets
- Hundreds of monographs illuminating all aspects of family life

Key Features:
- Thematic Areas showcasing some of the collection’s highlights
- Introductory guide to Town Topics; the periodical Town Topics chronicled the New York social world during the height of the Gilded Age
- Contextual essays written by leading academics and collection specialists
- An interactive chronology charting key dates in nineteenth and early twentieth century American history
- Subject search directories providing key subjects found within the documents"
Executive Branch Documents (EBD) (ProQuest) (1789-1952)
First World War (Adam Matthew)
"The First World War portal makes available invaluable primary sources for the study of the Great War, brought together in four thematic modules. From personal collections and rare printed material to military files, artwork and audio-visual files, content highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict that shook the world."
- Personal Experiences
- Propaganda & Recruitment
- Visual Perspectives & Narratives
- A Global Conflict
"Key Features:
- Eye-catching and innovative interactive maps, included animated maps of different theatres of war and key battles
- Digitised artefacts such as medical items, weaponry, uniforms and personal items viewable in a 360° format
- Virtual walk-through and 360° panoramas of the Sanctuary Wood Trench System in Ypres Salient
- Oral histories with accompanying transcriptions
- Extensive visual galleries and artwork feature
- Thought-provoking ‘Memory Wall’ of personal narratives
- Great War Glossary
- Contextual essays, written by academics and collection specialists
- Illustrated chronology
- Case studies
- Directories of key search terms in several European languages, including French, German and Italian"
Florida Documents Index (FLVC) (1967+) Identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The UCF Libraries are likely to have the same publications.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew)
"Featuring diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, political pamphlets, reports of court cases and other materials, this collection represents a constant exchange of information between London and the British embassies and consulates. Due to the unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China, these formerly restricted first-hand accounts provide unprecedented levels of detail into a turbulent period in Chinese history.

The documents allow students and researchers intimate access to eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and analyses, economic assessments, synopses on Chinese personalities, and more."
"Highlights:
- The anti-imperialist May 4th Movement, which grew out of student demonstrations against the Treaty of Versailles
- The Long March, beginning in Jiangxi province in October 1934 and continuing to 1937, when the Second Sino-Japanese War forced a temporary cessation of hostilities between the CCP and KMT
- General Joseph Stilwell’s mission to coordinate US aid to the KMT after December 1941
- Accounts of the civil war years, the fall of Nanjing, the fate of HMS Amethyst on the Yangtze River and the repercussions for international companies with a strong presence in China, through to Mao Zedong’s first attempts to implement a Soviet-style command economy
- Many files focus on industrial and economic development, the Great Leap Forward campaign and the Socialist Education Movement
- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

Key Features:
- Full-text searchable English-language materials
- Documents from the UK government's official archive
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform"
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 (Adam Matthew)
"This is an outstanding resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period, featuring essential content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions.

Files look at the impact on UK, US and European trade, industrial policy, education and the media through a vast array of material including diplomatic dispatches, inward and outward telegrams, newspaper cuttings and transcripts, maps, photographs, political and economic reports, accounts of visits and tours, minutes of meetings, conference proceedings, letters, leaflets and more."
"Highlights:
- The birth and development of the Indian and Pakistani states, the problems of partition and the tensions over Kashmir
- Material on the government of Indira Gandhi – increasingly dictatorial, she jailed hundreds of opponents and declared a state of emergency in 1975.
- The internal political situation in India, Pakistan, Bhutan and Ceylon
- The political implications of Nehru’s death and the succession crisis in the Congress Party

Key Features:
- Full-text searchable English-language materials
- Documents from the UK government's official archive
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform"
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1931-1952 (Adam Matthew)
UCF has access to two modules in this collection:
-Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945
-Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952

"Documenting Japan’s journey to modernity, the files discuss a period in which the country took on an increasingly bold imperialist agenda. Strong relations following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles were tested then ultimately destroyed, and by December 1941, Japan and the United Kingdom were on opposing sides of the Second World War."
These Foreign Office files cover British concerns over colonial-held territory in the Far East, as well as Japanese relations with China, Russia, Germany and the United States. Following surrender at the end of the Second World War, Japan was occupied by foreign forces for the first time in its history. The occupation resulted in disarmament, liberalization and a new constitution as the country was transformed into a parliamentary democracy. Japan emerged once again as a player on the world stage.

Consisting of diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events and diverse other material, this collection from the rich FO 371 and FO 262 series unites formerly restricted Japan-centric documents, and is enhanced by the addition of a selection of FO 371 Western and American Department and Far Eastern sub papers.
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 (Adam Matthew)
"Exploring complete runs of Foreign Office files, this collection reveals the UK’s exhaustive interest in the Middle East during the 1970s. Withdrawing from the Gulf in 1971, the UK maintained a vested interest in the oil affairs of states such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as a continued presence in conflicts in Oman and Yemen.

The UK monitored the military activities of Egypt and Israel in the run up to the Arab-Israeli War in 1973 and played a substantial part in the UN negotiations for a settlement. The files continuously assess the affect such events were having on domestic energy prices with the oil crisis of 1973. The UK was instrumental during peace talks between Greece and Turkey after the coup in Cyprus by General Grivas in 1974, and monitored unfolding events during the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War in the second half of the decade.

As well as covering important conflicts, these files examine the politics, economies and significant events of every nation in the Middle East, such as the consolidation of Qaddafi’s regime in Libya, the economic situation in Kuwait, workers’ strikes in Iran and Saddam Hussein’s formal appointment as president of Iraq."
Frontier Life (Adam Matthew)
"Frontier Life brings together documents from sixteen archives and libraries around the world. This geographical spread of material allows users to take a comparative approach or focus on a particular region, making it ideal for teaching and student projects, as well as more in-depth scholarly research.

The vast majority of the collection is never-before published, making it a vital resource for scholars and students of colonialism and imperialism, global history, historical geography, Indigenous studies, the American West, migration, borderlands and economic history."
"Highlights:
- Records of expeditions allowing for comparison of exploration in North America, Africa and Australia
- Letters of application of the 1820 settlers to the Cape Colony
- Abel Janney’s captivity narrative after his imprisonment by the Shawnee Indians
- Gold rush and mining material relating to Klondike, Victoria, California, and the Transvaal
- Documents on the long and complicated history of Mexico-Texas relations
- Dispatches from Arthur Phillip, first Governor of New South Wales, relating to the settlement of Australia and first encounters with Aboriginal peoples
- The Journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition"
Government Resources at UCF Provides links and information about government resources, many of which are freely accessible via the Web.
Grand Tour (Adam Matthew)
"Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe from c.1550 to 1850, exploring the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy.

This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections.

The Grand Tour includes the travel writings and works of some of Britain’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travellers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer a vivid insight into the experience and practicalities of travel across the centuries."
"Highlights:
- Opportunity to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections
- Daily life in the eighteenth century, including everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, food and drink, health and sex
- European political and religious life, British diplomacy; life at court, and social customs on the Continent, and is an invaluable resource for the study of Europe’s urban spaces
- A wealth of detail about cities such as Paris, Rome, Florence and Geneva, including written accounts and visual representations of street life, architecture and urban planning
- Manuscripts of many prominent figures, including Sir William Hamilton, Sir Thomas Hoby, Richard Lassels, Sir Philip Sidney, John Evelyn, Charles Burney and Joseph Spence are featured
- Accounts from female travellers, including Lady Hester Stanhope and Elizabeth Craven
- Rare printed sources, including travel accounts, guide books, histories and accounts of religious and political life. Authors include Henry Swinburne, Mariana Starke, J. Fenimore Cooper, Tobias Smollett and Henry Matthews
- Paintings and sketches of Italy and the Continent, as well as portraits of Grand Tourists, by artists including: JMW Turner, Pompeo Batoni, Richard Wilson, William Pars, Thomas Rowlandson and Joseph Wright of Derby

Key Features:
- A searchable, full-text version of John Ingamell’s landmark Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800. This remarkable work identifies over 6000 individual Grand Tourists, providing biographies and details of their tours. It also functions as a database of Grand Tour manuscripts not included in the resource.
- A selection of digitised source material from the Brinsley Ford Archive at the Paul Mellon Centre, London. This incomparable research collection contains the notes, clippings and research gathered by Sir Brinsley Ford, from which John Ingamells compiled the Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800.
- An indexed collection of hundreds of quality, modern photographs of Italy, providing a detailed visual source of all the historical sites, palaces and streets visited by tourists, to accompany the written accounts.
- Exclusive essays by leading scholars from Art History, History, and Urban Studies"
Historic Documents Series (SAGE) Content from 1972 onward covering the most significant events of the year. Documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. Previously part of the CQ Electronic Library.
Print version -- UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- E839.5.H57 (1972+) (Latest 5 YEARS in REFERENCE)
Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge) (1600-2000) a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources includes over 37,000 data series.
Population: Population Characteristics, Vital Statistics, Internal Migration, International Migration, Family & Household Composition, Cohorts, American Indians
Work & Welfare: Labor, Slavery, Education, Health, Economic Inequality & Poverty, Social Insurance & Public Assistance, Nonprofit, Voluntary & Religious Entities
Economic Structure & Performance: National Income & Product, Business Fluctuations & Cycles, Prices, Consumer Expenditures, Saving, Capital & Wealth, Geography & the Environment, Science, Technology & Productivity, Business Organization, Financial Markets & Institutions
Economic Sectors: Agriculture, Natural Resource Industries, Construction, Housing & Mortgages, Manufacturing, Distribution, Transportation, Communications, Services & Utilities
Governance & International Relations: Government Finance & Employment, Elections & Politics, Crime, Law Enforcement & Justice, National Defense, Wars, Armed Forces & Veterans, International Trade & Exchange Rates, Outlying Areas, Colonial Statistics, Confederate States of America
India, Raj and Empire (Adam Matthew)
"The wonderfully rich and diverse South Asian manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland are extremely varied, ranging from the papers of key East India Company representatives and colonial officials to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras.

This collection weaves the story of India and Empire through the writings of Governor-Generals, Commander-in-Chiefs, Indian Princes, soldiers, traders, missionaries, explorers, historians and authors of literary works, indigo farmers and tea and coffee planters.

Especially strong for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this collection will be of particular interest to historians studying: British Indian Empire; government, administration and politics, the relationship between Britain and the British Indian Empire, the role of the Scots in India, the Indian Uprising and trade and agriculture."
"Highlights:
- Papers of Henry Dundas including extensive correspondence with Marquis Wellesley and Lord Cornwallis, governor-generals of India
- Accounts of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, Madras and other areas
- A diary of a trip down the Ganges in 1826
- An account of life in the Madras army, 1768-1777
- Records of the Mahratta wars, the Sikh wars, the war against Tipu Sultan, the Burmese war and other conflicts
- Papers of an official of the East India Company
- Records of Arbuthnot & Co, traders in Madras
- The diary of a hunting expedition
- An account of a duel, court martials and of the murder of a servant
- Papers of Andrew Hunter, coffee planter, 1860-1870
- Illustrated accounts of tea-planting in India, 1780-1855
- Reminiscences of an indigo farmer
- Discussions of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s

Key Features:
- An image gallery displaying the many paintings, illustrations and sketches in the collection
- A detailed chronology dating from 1600 and the granting of the Royal Charter to the East India Company through to 1947, independence and partition.
- An advanced search page incorporating Boolean functionality for more detailed and refined searching
- An external links page with links to relevant websites to facilitate further research
- Biographies of key figures featured in the documents"
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America (Adam Matthew)
Primary resources relating to Native Americans and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the ongoing repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century.

Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 (Adam Matthew)
"Based on a rich variety of original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this indispensable resource offers captivating insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries. Charting the Jewish Diaspora from the earliest settlements through to the mass European influx of the early twentieth century, Jewish Life in America will appeal to researchers of all aspects of this diverse and extensive cultural heritage.

The collection is based on a rich variety of original manuscript documents ranging from a peddler’s certificate signed by Benjamin Franklin, to records of organisations such as the Baron de Hirsch fund, which supported Jewish entrepreneurship all across America from 1819 to the 1980s."
"Highlights:
- The evolution of early Jewish Settlements in areas such as New York, Rhode Island and Philadelphia
- The immigration process and structures of support for those arriving from the Old World – the differing experiences of immigrants and, from the late 19th century, strategies adopted at Ellis Island and in Galveston
- The role of Jews in the American War of Independence and the Civil War
- The role of the synagogue as a focal point for Jewish communities
- The development of Jewish schools and charitable institutions
- Westward expansion and the attempts to establish Jewish farms
- The Jewish Diaspora – the influx of Jews from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and other places around the world and their dispersal across America
- The garment industry, peddling, general stores, finance and diversification into other industries
- The development of differing strands of Judaism in America – Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionism and Orthodoxy – and the roots of this in patterns of immigration and in societal changes
- Reaching out to Jewish communities around the world – especially to Russia, Romania, Germany and Eastern Europe
- American Jewish involvement in the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II
- Involvement in Civil Rights and Minority Rights issues.

Key Features:
- Interactive maps displaying rare historical census data showing the distribution and settlement patterns of the Jewish population across the United States and the world
- Interactive chronology
- Biographies of many prominent Jews
- All images are full text searchable and digitized in full colour"
Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture : The History of Tourism (Adam Matthew) (1850-1980s)
"This resource presents a multi-national journey through well-known, little-known and far-flung destinations unlocked for the average traveller between 1850 and the 1980s. Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals provide unique 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."
Key themes:
-The evolution of educational travel, particularly in relation to the Polytechnic Touring Association (later Lunn Poly)
-The popularity of outdoor activities, wilderness travel and the environmental impacts of tourism
-The role of travel agencies, including Thomas Cook, Raymond Whitcomb Travel and the Anspach Travel Bureau
-Portrayals of race, particularly within the American south
-The technological advances which played an integral part in the growth of the tourism industry.
London Low Life (Adam Matthew)
"An extraordinary digital collection bringing to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, and inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city.

London Low Life is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld.

This collection, drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, will be of interest to 19th century scholars researching: working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, ‘slumming’, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social reform, Toynbee Hall, police and criminality."
"Highlights:
Using the intuitive interactive map, users can:
- Overlay Victorian cartography over a modern, searchable base map, allowing comparison of the Victorian city with present-day London
- Visualise core data about Victorian London, including the boundaries of local government; population size, density and growth; and crime and poverty data
- Locate and read about key institutions relating to the social history of Victorian London: Workhouses, orphanages, asylums, prisons, university settlements, women’s refuges and religious missions
- See images of Victorian additions to the city including engineering feats such as the Thames Embankment and the London Underground, and tourist attractions including the Crystal Palace and the South Kensington Museum
- ‘Walk’ through London’s main streets, using our 3D versions of the remarkable Tallis Street Views

Key Features:
- Interactive map
- Visual gallery
- Online exhibitions
- Chronology
- Dictionary of Slang
- Academic Essays"
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 (Adam Matthew)
"This digital collection casts new light on Britain's relationship with the EEC, Anglo-American ties, the Cold War, Decolonisation, and issues of Public and Political Morality.

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.

The Cabinet conclusions are taken by the secretary of the Cabinet or one of their assistants and consist of summaries of all discussions in Cabinet, together with a note of decisions reached. Cabinet memoranda consist of all papers circulated to members of the Cabinet and to other ministers for information or as a basis for discussion. These classes provide a distillation of the work of all the other departments of government, ranging in subject matter from agricultural policy and trade to nuclear policy and issues of international diplomacy.

This collection also includes 165 files from the Prime Minister's Private Office. These provide an important supplement to the Cabinet records and cover all aspects of policymaking."
"Highlights:
- The aftermath of Suez and a new Middle East policy, 1957-1963
- The foundation of the EEC by the Treaty of Rome, 1957
- The 1957 Defence White Paper, a landmark in British defence policy
- The Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality and Prostitution, 1957
- West Indian Independence, 1958
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961, including the building of the Berlin Wall
- The Antarctica Treaty of 1959
- The political and military situation in Laos and South East Asia, 1959-1963
- Independence for Cyprus and Malta, 1959- 1963
- The launch of Britain's first nuclear submarine
- The ‘Wind of Change’ Speech, February 1960
- Independence for Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Zanzibar
- The Sharpeville Massacre, March 1960, and apartheid in South Africa
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
- The Commonwealth Immigration Act, 1962
- The Nassau Agreement of December 1962, and Macmillan's relations with President Kennedy
- The uprising in Brunei, 1962
- The Pilkington Report on Broadcasting, 1962
- de Gaulle's veto of Britain's application to join the EEC, January 1963
- The foundation of the Organisation of African Unity, 1963
- The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963
- The Profumo Scandal, June 1963

Key Features:
- Complete coverage of Cabinet Conclusion Minutes (CAB 128) and Memoranda (CAB 129) as well as selected files from Prime Minister's Private Office (PREM 11)
- Documents from the UK government's official archive
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform"
Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) Currently, the database contains more than 5000 items, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, full issues of rare periodicals, sheet music, lobby cards and movie star ephemera. The database also includes complete copies of more than 450 Academy publications, dating back to the founding of the organization in 1927.
- Academy Awards Collection
- Academy Publications
- American Society of Cinematographers Collection
- Janus Barfoed Collection
- Tom B'hend and Preston Kaufmann Collection
- Bison Archives Photographs Collected by Marc Wanamaker
- George Cukor Papers
- Cecil B. DeMille Photographs
- Glass Slides Collection
- Alfred Hitchcock Papers
- Hollywood Portraits
- Irene scrapbooks
- Movie Star Ephemera
- Paramount Pictures Photographs
- Periodicals, Books, and Pamphlets
- Mary Pickford Papers
- RKO Radio Pictures Photographs
- William Selig Papers
- Mack Sennett Papers
- Sheet Music Collection
- George Stevens Papers
- Studio Publications
- Fred Zinnemann Papers
- Adolph Zukor Correspondence
Medical Services and Warfare (Adam Matthew)
"Tells the story of medical advances during warfare from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the influenza epidemic in 1918 and the discovery of penicillin in 1927. The wealth of documents cover multiple conflicts as well as interwar developments from a range of perspectives. Material has been sourced from across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to enable comparisons on key areas of systematic reform, improvements to sanitation and the treatment of disease, rehabilitation, nursing care, surgical techniques and wound treatment."
"The three conflicts robustly represented are the Crimean War, the American Civil War and the First World War. Many other conflicts also have relevant documents and can be discovered via keyword searching, including the Boer Wars and the Spanish-American War. No conflicts within the date range were explicitly excluded, but material was selected based on its contribution to the thematic scope of the project."
Medieval Family Life (Adam Matthew)
"The Paston Family Papers have long been a subject of both literary and historical interest. They are Britain’s first surviving records of private correspondence, describing everyday life in East Anglia during the Wars of the Roses.

In addition, we include four other valuable collections relating to medieval families in Essex, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Warwickshire, c1400-1490.

This resource contains full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions."
"Highlights:
- Only five major family letter collections from this period survive and all are included here; Paston Family Papers, Cely Family Papers, Plumpton Correspondence, Stonor Correspondence and Amburgh Family Papers
- Original images are directly linked to full-text transcriptions of all the manuscript material
- Double-keyed secondary sources help to contextualise the material
- Visual content illustrates everyday life in the medieval period

Key Features:
- Chronology
- Visual gallery
- Interactive map
- Glossary
- Family trees"
Medieval Travel Writing (Adam Matthew)
"Explore this magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with a focus on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.

These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. Topics covered include: pilgrimage, the origins of global trade, travels to the Holy Land, the Silk Road, and the representation of the 'East' and the 'Other' in the Middle Ages.

The project combines multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville, with translations, route maps and introductory essays."
"Highlights:
Featured people include ambassadors, missionaries, merchants, fantasists and literary creations, including:
- Prester John
- John of Plano Carpini
- Ascelin
- William of Rubruck
- Marco Polo
- Ricoldo de Montecroce
- Jordanus of Severac
- Haiton of Armenia
- Oderic of Pordenone
- Sir John Mandeville
- Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo
- Hans (Johann) Schiltberger
- Johannes Witte de Hesse
- John Capgrave

Key Features:
- Multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville
- Translations and supporting materials (all of which are fully searchable)
- Maps showing the routes of the travellers
- Introductory essays by leading scholars"
Meiji Japan (Adam Matthew)
"Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925).

Edward S Morse (1838-1925) was a great polymath – notable for his work in natural history, ethnography and art history – but, perhaps most famous for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together.

Morse was one of the first Americans to live in Japan – teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo – and he devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization. In addition to preserving the household records of a samurai family and many accounts of the tea ceremony, Morse made notes on subjects as diverse as shop signs, fireworks, hairpins, agricultural tools, artists’ studios, music, games, printing, carpentry, the Ainu, gardens, household construction, art and architecture.

The Edward S Morse papers document the numerous and valuable contributions made by Morse to the areas of malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history."
"Highlights:
- Original Japan diaries, which run to over 3,000 pages and contain over 1,300 sketches
- Journals of visits to England, France and Germany in the 1880s showing the interest of Europeans in gaining authentic insights into ordinary life in Japan and China
- Correspondence including exchanges with Alexander and Louis Agassiz, William Sturgis Bigelow, Charles Darwin, Ernest Fenollosa, Yukichi Fukuzawa, Isabella Stewart Gardner, John M Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Ingersoll, Hiroyuki Kato, Percival Lowell, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Charles Eliot Norton, Frederick Putnam, Hideo Takamine, Seiichi Tejima, Charles Townsend, Charles Weld and Yu Kil-chun
- Scrapbooks with a wealth of rare and ephemeral material on a myriad of subjects
- Records of his publications and lectures reveal his interests in archaeology, art, astronomy, ethnology, religion and zoology, as well as his desire to encourage an American audience to appreciate Asian society and culture

Key Features:
- Visual gallery
- Maps
- Chronology
- Introductory essay
- Biographies
- Popular searches"
Migration to New Worlds (Adam Matthew)
"explores the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia. Split across two modules, and including collections from 26 archives, libraries and museums, Migration to New Worlds brings together the movement and memories of millions across two centuries of mass migration."
"Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration concentrates on the period 1800 to 1924 and covers all aspects of the migration experience, from motives and departures to arrival and permanent settlement....Migration to New Worlds: The Modern Era begins with the activities of the New Zealand Company during the 1840s and presents thousands of unique original sources focusing on the growth of colonization companies during the nineteenth century, the activities of immigration and welfare societies, and the plight of refugees and displaced persons throughout the twentieth century as migrants fled their homelands to escape global conflict."
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) - Asia & the West: Diplomacy & Cultural Exchange - British Politics & Society - British Theatre, Music, & Literature: High & Popular Culture - Europe & Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization & Conquest - European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection - Photography: The World through the Lens - Science, Technology & Medicine, 1780-1925 - Women: Transnational Networks
Nixon Years, 1969-1974 (Adam Matthew)
"Review top level Anglo American discussions and briefing papers, and research social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and the environment.

These files allow scholars and researchers the opportunity to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation.

FCO and British Embassy analyses of US policy decisions, White House staff appointments and UN discussions, views on Europe, the deployment of F111 aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over funding from Congress, visits to the US by both Wilson and Heath, files on the internal situation in the US and domestic reform are core subjects of this digital collection. There are also detailed assessments of all the changes brought about by the Presidential Elections of 1972."
"Highlights:
- The Vietnam War and Paris Peace Talks
- China - Nixon's 1972 visit ended 25 years of isolation between the US and the People's Republic of China and resulted in the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979
- The Middle East – massive aid for Israel, reorientation of US policy, developing relations with moderate Arab regimes culminating in Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s expulsion of Soviet advisors in 1972 and Nixon’s Middle East tour of 1974
- The regularization of relations with the Soviet Union, including Annual Summits
Anti-Ballistic Missile and Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties
- The return of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty
- Relations with specific countries in Latin America
- The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency
- The extension of the Voting Rights Act and liberal action on Civil Rights

Key Features:
- Available within the cross-searchable Archives Direct platform
- Full-text searchable
- Map Gallery
- Pre-populated searches for key people, places and topics"
PALMM (FCLA) Publication of Archival, Library, & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship relevant to the students, research community
Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700 (Adam Matthew)
"This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama.

One of the key attractions of the resource is that it brings together little-known material from widely scattered locations. This resource includes over two hundred and thirty manuscripts from fifteen libraries and archives in the UK and North America.

The manuscripts are remarkably varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this an invaluable resource. There are contextual essays from academics working in the field, as well as biographical and bibliographical resources."
"Highlights:
Featured women include:
- Esther Inglis
- Sarah Cowper
- Margaret Cunningham
- Mary Evelyn
- Lucy Hutchinson
- Lady Elizabeth Lowther
- Katherine Philips

Key Features:
- Physical description of each document – including information on layout, binding, foliation and provenance.
- Additional information – including details of the repository that holds the item.
- Item description - containing information such as, names responsible, title, genre within document, folio details, overview, first line, last line, summary and bibliographic reference. Where this item information is available the user is able to jump straight to the relevant portion of the manuscript.
- The advanced search options provided in the searching aid enables users to generate complex searches."
Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century (1900-2010s)
"The Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda from the John Hay Library at Brown University, features extremist literature ranging from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s - the most heated days of the civil rights movement. Publications in this collection represent a cross-section of extremist opinion towards integration and civil rights activism, but it also contains materials on American anti-Semitism, Christian Identity theology, neo-Nazi groups, and white supremacy movements.

The American Radicalism Collection from Michigan State University is a collection of ephemera on radical political groups across a range of extremist and radical movements, including those involved in religion, race, gender, the environment, and equal rights. The materials represent a large variety of viewpoints, from the far-right to the far-left, on political, social, cultural, sexual, and economic issues in the United States from 1970 to the present.

The Searchlight Archive, held at the University of Northampton in the UK, consists of documents from Searchlight Associates, an information service founded in 1962 that aimed to investigate racist and fascist groups in Britain and abroad and publicise their activities by publishing exposes in their Searchlight magazine. The collections consist of various ephemera accumulated as part of their investigations as well as the complete run of Searchlight magazine (1965-present). Most distinctively, the archive also includes the Searchlight Oral Histories Collection, which consists of interviews (available to researchers as both audio files and transcripts) with anti-fascist activists active from 1940s-1990s.

The National Archives at Kew in the UK, is the source archive for digitised secret service and home office documents relating to inter- and post-war British fascist and communist movements. This includes the Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files series containing selected files from the First and Second World War periods and the inter-war years on suspected spies, renegades, communist sympathisers, right-wing extremists, and other groups in which the British Security Service took an interest, including pacifist and anti-conscription groups. It also contains Home Office papers pertaining to the detention of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, during the Second World War as well as a number of other suspected Nazi sympathisers who were members of far-right groups, such as the Imperial Fascist League, the Nordic League, and the Right Club.

Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century provides an excellent compilation of primary sources for the study of extremism in the twentieth century. It will be valuable to researchers in international and European history, politics, international relations, and government studies, as well as a much wider application to African American studies, gender studies, sociology, psychology, and religious studies."
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 (Adam Matthew)
"From the austerity of the 1950s to the excess of the 1970s, discover the period through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips.

Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture – the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women’s liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority.

By focusing on substantial collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, this digital resource provides primary sources to enable students and scholars to examine these issues in detail."
"Highlights:
- The renowned Social Protest Collection from University of California, Berkeley
- Underground magazines including OZ, IT and Gandalf’s Garden; as well as an impressive collection of fanzines and alternative press titles from Bowling Green State University
- Thousands of indexed photographs depicting the people and events of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
- Video clips that bring the sights and sounds of the period to life
- Student Activism across Europe and the US, including the disturbances in France in Mai‘68
- The Vietnam conflict
- The fight for civil rights
- Women’s liberation
- Fashion, youth culture and the music scene

Key Features:
- Original video footage
- Extensive chronology with embedded articles and images
- The complete run of Gandalf’s Garden magazine
- Visual Gallery
- Online Exhibitions
- Essays, Dictionary and Music Features"
Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 (Adam Matthew)
"documents the history of ‘popular’ remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America, through primary source materials drawn from the extensive collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The material covers popular trends such as phrenology, herbal medicine and hydrotherapy, and documents the rise of widespread advertising by commercial manufacturers of medical aids."
Race Relations in America (Adam Matthew)
"Explore three pivotal decades in the struggle for civil rights in America through the eyes and work of sociologists, activists, psychologists, teachers, ministers, students and housewives...Sourced from the records of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, this resource provides access to a wealth of documents highlighting different responses to the challenges of overcoming prejudice, segregation and racial tensions. These range from survey material, including interviews and statistics, to educational pamphlets, administrative correspondence, and photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes"

Includes audio, video, primary source documents and photographs, maps, and more.
Key themes covered include:
-Desegregation of schools, industries and public transport
-Migration of African Americans from the rural South to urban centers
-The role of the Church in the Civil Rights Movement
-Race riots and other racial tensions
-Activities of the Civil Rights Movement
RICHES Mosaic Interface (Regional Initiative for Collecting the History, Experiences, & Stories)
"The RICHES™ (Regional Initiative for Collecting the History, Experiences, and Stories) of Central Florida project has been in operation since Fall 2010."
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice (Adam Matthew) (1490-2007)
"This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today."
"There is extensive coverage of topics such as the African coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); spiritualism and religion; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement; legislation; education; the legacy of slavery and slavery today."
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History (Adam Matthew)
"This world history resource offers students and researchers a window to the past and transports them across continents. From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women.

The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry."
"Highlights:
- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz’s scientific and cultural explorations of Brazil in the 1860s
- Lillian Schoedler’s remarkable world travels between 1927 and 1963
- Travel to countries within the British, French, Chinese and American empires and discussion of empire and nationalism, as well as the post-colonial world
- A variety of modes of transport, including sea voyages, road trips, wagon trains and air travel
- Motivations for travel including tourism, work, exploration, missionary work and pilgrimages
- Documents range from the first trip of a young student abroad to the spiritual journey of a retired woman seeking enlightenment

Key Features:
- Interactive maps showing the major destinations of all the travellers
- Detailed case studies of several of the travellers showing their routes
- Visual material including photographs and postcards
- Essays by leading historians and the curators of the collections"
U.S. Congressional Serial Set (NewsBank/Readex) (1817-1980) Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, constituting a rich source of primary material on all aspects of American history.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set (ProQuest) (1789-2003)
Victorian Popular Culture (Adam Matthew)
"This innovative portal invites readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances.

The Victorian Popular Culture portal is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This resource contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. As well as fascinating primary source material in the form of objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills, the resource includes a number of tools to support teaching and research."
- Spiritualism, Sensation & Magic
- Circuses, Sideshows & Freaks
- Music Hall, Theatre & Popular Entertainment
- Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments & the Advent of Cinema
"Highlights:
- Rare books; periodicals aimed at industry and fans; hundreds of titles from the scarce popular series ‘Dicks’ Standard Plays’; posters and playbills; visual ephemera; and the marvellous archives of May Moore Duprez, the American music hall star who topped international bills with her ‘Jolly Little Dutch Girl’ act
- Strongly visual in focus, featuring hundreds of posters, postcards, photographs, cabinet cards and illustrations. There are also handbills, pamphlets, manuscripts, printed ephemera and memorabilia. Rare books, children’s literature and memoirs of celebrity showpeople complete the wide-ranging selection
- Remarkable video clips of original archive footage from the earliest days of cinema, from the renowned archival collections of the BFI National Archive
- Material from the unique Harry Houdini Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, comprising a number of his fascinating scrapbooks, packed with details concerning the stagecraft of performers such as Houdin, Maskelyne and Dr Merlin, as well as providing insights into his disputes with Arthur Conan Doyle and leading spiritualists

Key Features:
- Contextual essays
- Interactive chronology
- Biographies and venues glossaries
- Image gallery that can be personalised for teaching and presentations"
Virginia Company Archives (Adam Matthew)
"This resource documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas and provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America.

There is valuable evidence on the ethnic and gender composition of Virginia and new evidence of tensions among the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans. This is also a crucial source for London’s economic history and will be welcomed by religious and social historians of Early Modern England."
"Highlights:
- Previously unpublished transcripts by Dr David Ransome of around 500 documents from the Virginia Company Archives
- A searchable text of The Records of the Virginia Company of London (4 vols, Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1906-1933).
- The complete Ferrar Papers from Magdalene College, Cambridge
- An extensive contextual introduction to the Ferrar papers, family trees, and items on the life of Nicholas Ferrar

Key Features:
- Contextual introduction by David Ransome, describing the papers
- Settlement maps
- Gallery of illustrations
- Slideshow viewer
- Bibliography
- Chronology"
Women in The National Archives (Adam Matthew)
"The finding aid which makes up a part of Women in The National Archives enables researchers to quickly locate details of documents held at The National Archives, UK relating to women. This finding aid is far more detailed and extensive than anything available elsewhere online and has the benefit of ranging across all of the classes held at the archive.

The original primary source documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962. The addition of four significant HO 45 files on the suffrage question plus an extended chronology further enhance the collection."
"Highlights:
- The campaign for women's suffrage in Britain and the British Empire
- Biographical information on individual suffragettes
- The 'Cat and Mouse' campaign
- Police surveillance
- Prison conditions
- Parliamentary debates and committee reports

Key Features:
- Full-text-searchable English-language materials
- Documents from the UK government's official archive
- Cross-searchable with other Archives Direct titles"
World's Fairs (Adam Matthew)
"From the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle to the invention of television, chewing gum and hot dogs, world’s fairs have shaped our world. This resource digitises primary source material from hundreds of fairs – a vital collection for students of globalisation, imperialism, anthropology, mass communication, design and more.

This digital resource offers a unique insight into the phenomenon of international expositions. Over 200 world’s fairs and exhibitions, spanning 1829-2015, are represented through a range of primary sources. From planning committees to public reception and the legacy that remains, the impact of these global events can be examined in a comprehensive context.

World’s Fairs is a vital resource for students, teachers and researchers of a huge range of subjects including imperialism, race relations, gender studies, science and technology, consumer culture, architecture, design and more."
"Highlights:
- Documents from more than 200 fairs including the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 and the Milan Expo 2015
- Case studies of nine of the most significant fairs offer in-depth analysis of their impact and legacy, including the 1851 Great Exhibition, London, 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition and 1939/40 New York World’s Fair
- A wealth of visual material including souvenir objects, photographs, posters and plans

Key Features:
- Essays from consultant academics provide pathways into the collections
- Interactive site plans
- Oral histories
- 3D artefacts
- In-depth guide to key exhibits"

Primary Sources
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Primary Sources -- Articles & Books

America's Historical Imprints (NewsBank/Readex) (1639-1922)
- American Broadsides & Ephemera, Series I
- American Civil War Collection 1860-1922
- American Pamphlets, Series I, 1820-1922
- American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement, 1670-1800
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement, 1801-1819
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection (1684-1912)
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) has documented the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. This collection provides digital access to a substantial collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
American Periodicals (ProQuest) (1741-1940)
This database contains full text copies of periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
The Annual Register: A Record of World Events (1758- )
"The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758. This classic reference work provides historians and students with information on the major and minor events of the past 250+ years, with historical context and perspective and a mass of biographical information. The Annual Register also provides the student, teacher, and researcher with key insights into contemporary 18th and 19th century attitudes towards the political and social events, issues, developments, and trials of the time."
Church Missionary Society Periodicals (Adam Matthew) (1804-2009)
"features publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009."
- Global Missions & Contemporary Encounters, 1804-2009
- Medical Journals, Asian Missions & The Historical Record, 1816-1986
"Forming a prominent feature of British religious philanthropy from the late eighteenth century onwards, missionary societies served as employer and community to missionaries far from home. Service came with considerable sacrifice and sometimes high risk, so society publications became crucial for keeping those at home in touch with the activities of the society and its individuals, as well as promoting and funding its work."
Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest)
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Available on the ProQuest platform. The Chadwyck Healey platform is no longer available.
Eighteenth Century Journals (Adam Matthew)
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.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
"This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide."
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era Reconstruction I & II (1857-1912)
The 56 years of Harper’s Weekly provide a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912.
- Civil War Era: 1857-1865
- Reconstruction: 1866-1871 & 1872-1877
- Gilded Age: 1878-1912
Indigenous Newspapers in North America (Adam Matthew) (1828-2016)
Newspapers and journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. Incorporates 45 unique titles, including bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

Key Topics
• Community news
• Public health and welfare
• Education
• Cultural promotion and language revitalisation
• Consumerism and commercial enterprises
• Activism and protest
• American Indian Movement
• Natural resources and environmentalism
• Tribal laws, process and elections
• Sovereignty
• Land cession, property and land rights
• Media representation
• Conflict, war and conscription
Sabin Americana Digital Archive (1500-1926) (Gale)
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 is drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed nineteenth century bibliography Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Book relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. This digital collection offers a perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late fifteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. Covering more than 400 years and more than 65,000 volumes in North, Central, and South America and the West Indies, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions, and momentous events of the time through sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature, and more.
Vogue Archive (ProQuest) (1892+)
"The full contents of Vogue magazine (US edition) in full color page image, from the first issue in 1892 to the present, with monthly updates for new issues."

Primary Sources -- Newspapers

Florida Alligator (FCLA) Indexes the University of Florida student newspaper from 1984-1991.

Florida News Identifies Florida newspapers for which the UCF Libraries have access.

Florida News Sources (Access World News) (1883+)
Over 300 English & Spanish news sources, including newspapers, college newspapers, blogs, magazines, newswires, TV transcripts, & web-only sources
Coverage for most newspapers begins in 1982 or later, but four titles have archival coverage: Florida Times-Union (1883+), Miami Herald (1911+), Palm Beach Post (1916+) and Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1925+)
Includes:
- Bradenton Herald (1989+)(images 2018+)
- Central Florida Future (UCF) (2009-2016)
- Daytona Beach News-Journal (1996+) (images 2020+)
- Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (1883+) (images 2019+)
- Gainesville Sun (1995+) (images 2019+)
- Ledger (Lakeland) (1994+) (images 2020+)
- Miami Herald (1911+) (images 2017+)
- El Nuevo Herald (Miami) (1982+) (images 2019+)
- Ocala Star-Banner (1991+) (images 2018+)
- Orlando Sentinel (1985+)
- Orlando Weekly (2005-2013)
- Palm Beach Post (1916+) (images 2019+)
- Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1925+)
- El Sentinel (Orlando) (2001-2022)
- Tampa Bay Times (1987+) (images 2018+)
- Tampa Tribune (1990-2016)
- Valencia Voice (2011+)
Florida Newspaper Database (Gale) Indexing to news resources from around the state. Includes some full text.
Full Text Coverage:
- Destin Log (2006+)
- Florida Bar Journal (1996+)
- Florida Bar News (1999+)
- Florida Newswire (2008+)
- Florida Sportsman (2009+)
- Florida Times Union (1996+)
- Florida Trend (1985+)
- Southeast Farm Press (2005+)
- St. Petersburg Times (1998-2011)
- Tampa Bay Times (1996+)
- Tampa Tribune (1996-2011)
Florida Times-Union Historical, 1883-current (Access World News)
includes full text images (1883-1996; 2019-current) and text (1996-current)
- Florida Times-Union (1883-current)
- Jacksonville Journal (1901-1988)
Florida Times-Union Index (FCLA) (1986-1997) Indexing is limited to Jacksonville and other Northeast Florida regional news.
Index to The Times (FCLA) (1906-1980)
Short index entries from the 296 printed volumes of the Official Index to the London Times which covers the years 1906-1980 inclusive.
Printed Index - UCF ARC MAIN General Collection AI 21 .T46 (1929+)
See also the London Times research guide
Indigenous Newspapers in North America (Adam Matthew) (1828-2016)
Newspapers and journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. Incorporates 45 unique titles, including bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

Key Topics
• Community news
• Public health and welfare
• Education
• Cultural promotion and language revitalisation
• Consumerism and commercial enterprises
• Activism and protest
• American Indian Movement
• Natural resources and environmentalism
• Tribal laws, process and elections
• Sovereignty
• Land cession, property and land rights
• Media representation
• Conflict, war and conscription
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest) (1985+) Full-text articles from the Los Angeles Times.
Miami Herald Historical, 1911-current (Access World News)
"Founded when Miami’s population was less than 5,500, The Miami Herald evolved with the south Florida city, offering detailed coverage of the development of Bayfront Park and the East Coast Railway to the Keys, as well as the Everglades Reclamation Project and the rise of the aviation industry. The Herald quickly became one of the most respected newspapers in the region. By the 1920s, Miami was growing faster than any other city in America, and the Herald covered all of the elements that fueled its growth – notably, the expansion of tourism, industry and agriculture."
New York Times, Historical (ProQuest) (1851-2021)
Complete text and images of the New York Times.
See also:
- New York Times (ProQuest) (1980+)
News & Newspapers identifies online and microfilm news resources for the UCF Libraries
Orlando Sentinel (ProQuest Southeast News Stream) (1985+) Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Classifieds and advertisements are excluded. Click for earlier content from the Sentinel and other area newspapers.
Palm Beach Post Historical, 1916-current (Access World News)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Journal Constitution (1868-1985)
"As the only major daily newspaper in the Atlanta area, the Atlanta Journal Constitution provides a fascinating glimpse into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of the southeastern United States from Reconstruction through the late 20th century. The Atlanta Journal Constitution is vital for history, business, literature, and culture research into topics such as: • Post-Civil War reconstruction • The voting rights of slaves • Civil Rights Movement • Racial desegregation • Industrial and economic development in the New South • The history of the Coca-Cola Company • The rise of the city as a convention center • The origin of Uncle Remus stories • Launch of CNN • The premiere of “Gone with the Wind”"
The Constitution (1868-1869); The Atlanta Constitution (1869-1875); The Atlanta Daily Constitution (1875); The Constitution (1875-1876); The Daily Constitution (1876-1881); The Atlanta Constitution (1881-1945); The Atlanta Constitution (1946- ); The Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution (1950-1968)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-2010)
"Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr. when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy’s daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper’s contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal employment rights, urged African-American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks. In the 1930s, The Afro-American launched “The Clean Block” campaign, which is still in existence today, to clean up inner-city neighborhoods and fight crime. It stationed correspondents in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, providing first-hand reports to readers. In the 1950s, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the newspaper’s efforts contributed to the outlawing of public school segregation."
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-2010)
"The Chicago Defender has been a leading voice of the black community well beyond the Windy City, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. The newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919 and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military. This newspaper also supported the aviation career of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot, and promoted the writing of Langston Hughes, a poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance, and Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois."
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-2015)
"The Chicago Tribune, known as the “The Trib” to Midwest natives, is best known for its prize-winning investigative and public service journalism providing historical coverage of people and events critical to the evolution of the Midwest and the United States. As the largest newspaper in the Midwest, the Chicago Tribune is a critcial source of local, regional and national primary source information and insights such as: • The Great Fire of 1871 • Chicago’s Jubilee in 1893 and 1909 • The Progressive Movement of the 1920’s • The works of Nobel Peace Prize-winning social reformer Jane Addams • Expositions on the activities of mobsters like Al Capone • Editorial cartoons from Pulitzer Prize-winning John T. McCutcheon’s • The city’s long history of Democratic machine politics • Immigration reform movements • The election of President Barack Obama, former Illinois senator from Chicago"
Chicago Daily Tribune (1849-1858); Chicago Press and Tribune (1858-1860); Chicago Tribune (1860-1872); Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1922); Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963); Chicago Tribune (1963-1996); Chicago Tribune (1997- )
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor (1908-2011)
"After being provoked by Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World newspaper for her unconventional religious ideas, 87-year-old Mary Baker Eddy founded The Christian Science Monitor. In contrast to the yellow journalism of the day, this newspaper’s directive was to “injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” Over the decades, her newspaper has earned many awards for journalistic excellence — including, ironically, several “Pulitzer” Prizes. With the exception of publishing one religious article each day at the request of the pioneering Mrs. Eddy, The Christian Science Monitor provides secular, balanced coverage of international news and events, as a public service. For more than 100 years, its staff writers and correspondents around the world have reported on wars, scientific discoveries, human rights abuses, political campaigns, the arts, the environment, and people trying to make a positive difference."
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Florida Collection (1884+)
Access image-based newspaper titles from Orlando and 12 other Florida communities plus the USA Today, browsing each edition as it was printed – including articles, photos, advertisements, obituaries, editorial cartoons and so much more.
Cocoa (1917- ); Ft. Lauderdale (1925- ); Ft. Myers (1884- ); Ft. Pierce (2021- ); Miami (1904-1988); Naples (1970- ); Orlando (1913- ); Pensacola (1889- ); St. Petersburg (1901- ); Stuart (1913- ); Tallahassee (1913- ); Tampa (1887- ); Vero Beach (1919- ); United States (2009-)
- Cocoa (1917- ) : Cocoa Tribune, Evening Tribune; Today; Florida Today
- Ft. Lauderdale (1925- ) : Evening Sentinel; Ft. Lauderdale Daily News & Evening Sentinel; Ft. Lauderdale News & Sentinel; Ft. Lauderdale News; Sun Sentinel; South Florida Sun Sentinel
- Ft. Myers (1884- ) : Ft. Myers Press; Ft. Myers Press Consolidated with the Tropical News; Weekly Ft. Myers Press; Weekly Press; Ft. Myers Weekly Press; Ft. Myers News-Press
- Ft. Pierce (2021- ) : Port St. Lucie News Tribune
- Miami (1904-1988) : Daily Metropolis; Miami Metropolis; Miami News-Metropolis; Miami Daily Metropolis; Miami Daily News; Miami News
- Naples (1970- ) : Naples Daily News
- Orlando (1913- ) : Daily Sentinel; Morning Sentinel; Orlando Morning Sentinel; Orlando Sentinel; Sentinel Star
- Pensacola (1889- ) : Daily News; Pensacola Journal; Pensacola News; Pensacola News Journal
- St. Petersburg (1901- ) : St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times
- Stuart (1913- ) : Stuart Times; Stuart Messenger; Stuart Daily News & Stuart Messenger; Stuart Daily News; Stuart News
- Tallahassee (1913- ) : Daily Democrat; Tallahassee Democrat
- Tampa (1887- ) : Tampa Tribune; Morning Tribune; Weekly Tribune; Tampa Morning Tribune; Tampa Bay Times
- Vero Beach (1919- ) : Vero Press; Vero Beach Press; Vero Beach Journal; Vero Beach Press Journal; Indian River Press Journal
- United States (2009- ) : USA Today
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-2013)
"Online researchers have access to more than 100 years of The Wall Street Journal’s accurate reporting, exclusive analysis, agenda- setting editorials, and controversial opinions. In addition to the printed stories, researchers also can study the charts, stock tables, graphics, and illustrations featured in the publication."
Sarasota Herald Tribune Historical, 1925-current (Access World News)
Times-Picayune Historical, 1837-current (Access World News)
"Established as The Picayune in 1837, the paper’s initial price was one picayune—a Spanish coin equivalent to about six cents. During the 19th century, The Picayune became one of America’s most quoted newspapers, and its archives are a valuable source of information on the Mexican War, the impact of railroads, catastrophic floods, New Orleans’ growth as a commercial center, the Civil War and Reconstruction and much more. By the late 1800s, under the leadership of Eliza Jane Poitevent, the first female publisher of a major metropolitan daily, the paper had introduced a number of journalistic innovations such as society reporting, children’s pages and the first women’s advice column. The Picayune merged with the Times-Democrat, its fierce competitor, in 1914 to become The Times-Picayune. A rich resource for 20th-century culture and history, its archives chronicle issues and events of local and national importance. Topics covered include New Orleans’ lingering francophone influence, the Yellow Fever scare of 1905, destructive hurricanes, state governor Huey P. Long’s tumultuous career, the construction of levees to protect low-lying areas and the election of the city’s first African American mayor in 1978."
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) (1984+) Financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance.
Washington Post (ProQuest) (1987+) Full-text articles from the Washington Post.

Other News & Newspaper Databases

Secondary Sources -- Articles & Books

C.R.I.S. : the combined retrospective index set to journals in history, 1838-1974
UCF Main Library Reference -- D1 .C6
v. 1-4. World history. 4 v.--v. 5-9. United States history. 5 v.--v. 10-11. Author index. 2 v.
ch4ck availability
EBSCO eBooks A collection of ebooks in full text, including both current and classic works. For many of the eBooks in this collection only one person can view the book at a time
Browse by category:
- Children's & Young Adult Fiction
- Children's & Young Adult Nonfiction
- Arts & Architecture
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Economics
- Computer Science
- Education
- Engineering & Technology
- Fiction
- General Nonfiction
- Health & Medicine
- History
- Law
- Literature & Criticism
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Reference
- Religion
- Sciences
- Self-Help & Family
- Social Sciences
- Study Aids & Language Learning
Gutenberg-e (Columbia U) Full text of a small collection of scholarly books in history and social studies.
History of Science, Technology & Medicine (EBSCOhost) (1572+) History of Science, Technology and Medicine integrates four bibliographies—the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. With an interdisciplinary focus, the database covers topics on the role of scientific discovery in society and culture, as well as the historiography of scientific disciplines from prehistory to the present. It includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials.
"History of Science, Technology and Medicine integrates four bibliographies—the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology [HTE], the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza [BISS Italian Bibliography of the History of Science] and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine."
Humanities Source (EBSCOhost) Humanities Source is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
See also the print indexes, Reference Collection AI 3 .R493 (1907-2004) - International Index to Periodicals / Social Sciences & Humanities Index / Humanities Index -- and the online version: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984)
formerly Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (1983+)
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1943+) (EBSCOhost) Iter Bibliography is comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
JSTOR Full text of research journals and eBooks from numerous publishers. For most of the journal content, we can access all but the 3 to 5 most recent years of the journal.
Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University) a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300+ high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
Research Areas:
- Area & Ethnic Studies
- Art & Architecture
- Creative Writing
- Education
- Film, Theater, & Performing Arts
- History
- Language & Linguistics
- Library Science & Publishing
- Literature
- Medicine & Health
- Music
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Science, Technology, & Mathematics
- Social Sciences
- Studies by Time Period
- Women's Studies, Gender, & Sexuality
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (1965+) a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
Social Sciences Index (H.W. Wilson) (1974-2004) [online access cancelled due to budget cuts] paper index available: UCF ARC Main General Collection -- AI3.R492 "Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and much more."
"includes full text of articles from some 215 journals dating as far back as 1995 and indexing and abstracts of over 625 periodicals dating as far back as 1983, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences."
See also the print indexes, General Collection AI 3 .R492 (1907-2004) - International Index to Periodicals / Social Sciences & Humanities Index / Social Sciences Index -- and the online version: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984)

Secondary Sources -- Biography

African American Biographical Database CEASED CEASED and access discontinued as of summer 2023. Absorbed into Black Studies. Biographies of over 30,000 African-Americans from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) UCF ARC Main General Collection -- CT 213 .B53 Identifies 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 current and retrospective reference books, covering contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
"indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.... BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual. Sources...are of several types:
- Biographical dictionaries and who's whos, which supply information on a number of individuals.
- Subject encyclopedias, which include some biographical entries.
- Volumes of literary criticism, which may contain only a limited amount of biographical information but give critical surveys of a writer's works.
- Indexes, which refer the user to a body of information found elsewhere."
Biography (Gale In Context) combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands images, and links to vetted websites.
People included are from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Search by name, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
- List of Sources included, such as the Dictionary of American Biography is available on the Gale Support - Title Lists for the database "Gale in Context: Biography"
Biography Index (H.W. Wilson) (1946-2010) [online access cancelled due to budget cuts] Print volumes UCF Main Library Reference CT 100.B48 "cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles...some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books." Biography & Genealogy Master Index identifies entries in Biography Index from the first print volume in 1946 forward.
"Besides biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities."

Other Biography Databases

Secondary Sources -- Other

Credo Reference
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, books of lists, and subject-specific eBooks and videos covering many topics, plus "research quick tips."
Subjects: Art, Business; Food & Beverage; General Reference (Bilinguals, Biography, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Quotations); Geography; History; Language; Law; Literature; Medicine; Music; Philosophy; Psychology; Religion; Science; Social Sciences; Technology
HistoryNet "HistoryNet.com is brought to you by the world’s largest publisher of history magazines. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines."
From the magazines:
- American History
- America's Civil War
- Aviation History
- Civil War Times
- Military History
- MHQ
- Vietnam
- Wild West
- World War II
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+) "Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses." For abstracts from 1938-1980 see the print volumes of Dissertation Abstracts International
"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."
World History in Video (Alexander Street) A collection of documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century
WorldCat (FirstSearch) Catalog of library collections from the U.S. and around the world. The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of records for books, periodicals, and other materials in 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Includes RLIN catalogs and the Union List of Periodicals.