North America
America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922 This link opens in a new window
Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, based on the Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers series.
Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S. [ProQuest]
Historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
Early American Imprints, 1639-1820 This link opens in a new window
Books, pamphlets, and broadsides on every aspect of American life, based on Charles Evan's American Bibliography and the continuation by Shaw-Shoemaker.
HistoryMakers This link opens in a new window
Streaming oral history archive, documenting African American contributions to American life, culture, social movements & organizations. Subject coverage includes the arts, business, civics, education, entertainment, law, media, medicine, the military, politics, religion, science, sports & style.
Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents [ProQuest] This link opens in a new window
Digitized versions of Sanger's personal papers, outgoing correspondence, and records; coverage includes the birth control movement, women's rights, suffrage, feminism, reform & social work, arts, and middle-class family life.
History Vault: Revolutionary War and Early America: Collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society 1721-1860 This link opens in a new window
Primary source collection featuring collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Sabin Americana [Gale] 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window Smith Digital Collections This link opens in a new window Women's Studies Archive [Gale] This link opens in a new window
Africa, Asia, England & Europe
British Periodicals Collection [ProQuest] 1680s to 1930s This link opens in a new window
Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.
Confidential Print: Africa [AM Digital] 1834-1966 This link opens in a new window
Letters, telegrams, reports, treaties, etc. generated by the British Foreign & Colonial offices. Topics range from coastal trading in the 19th c. through the Scramble for Africa, World War II, colonial independence movements, to Apartheid.
Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 [AM Digital] This link opens in a new window
Letters, telegrams, reports, treaties, etc. generated by the British Foreign and Colonial offices. Topics include colonization, border disputes & wars, education, finance & commerce, political movements, economy & resources, relations with indigenous peoples & the slave trade.
Confidential Print: Middle East [AM Digital] 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window
Letters, telegrams, reports, treaties, etc. generated by the British Foreign and Colonial offices. Topics include the 19th century Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha; the Middle East Conference of 1921; the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia; the Suez Crisis in 1956; the partition of Palestine; post-Suez Western foreign policy; the Arab-Israeli conflict; etc.
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 [AM Digital] This link opens in a new window
Letters, telegrams, reports, treaties, etc. generated by the British Foreign and Colonial offices. US materials: Prohibition, World War II, Lend Lease, Communism, the Ku Klux Klan, desegration, etc. Canadian materials: Railroads, fisheries, border disputes, the Hudson’s Bay Company, Native Americans, etc. Caribbean materials: Slavery, trade, agiculture, boundary disputes, health & disease, etc.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1475-1700 This link opens in a new window
Over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Includes Text Creation Partnership titles, which are fully searchable SGML/XML texts. Help.
Early European Books [ProQuest] 1450-1700 This link opens in a new window
Digitized collection of rare books & incunabula; includes works from the national libraries of France, Florence & the Netherlands; the Wellcome Library (London); the Royal Library, Denmark, with more libraries set to join the program.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [Gale] 1701-1800 This link opens in a new window
Includes every significant English- and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Empire Online [AM Digital] This link opens in a new window
Primary sources related to colonial history, politics, culture and society, from Columbus to debates on American Imperialism, in thematic sections: Cultural Contacts; the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion; and Race, Class & Imperialism.
Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive, 1544-2007 [AM Digital] This link opens in a new window
Documents the early book trade; the printing & publishing community; the legal underpinnings of copyright provisions; the history of bookbinding.
The Making of the Modern World [Gale] 1450-1945 This link opens in a new window
Covers social history, early commerce, trade, colonization, industry, political systems, revolutions, slavery, exploration, philosophy, and more.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online [Gale] This link opens in a new window
19th century primary source collections, including books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, etc. covering civilization, commerce, culture, diplomacy, literature, medicine, music, politics, popular culture, science, theater, and technology in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Multi-country Archives
Archives Unbound [Gale] This link opens in a new window
Digital primary source collections on a wide variety of topics, countries, and time periods, from women's history and feminism, to civil rights, foreign policy, missionary societies, the Federal Writers' Project, etc.
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonials This link opens in a new window
Testimonies from individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel. To view videos, you will need to create an account with your Smith email address. Instructions here.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) [ProQuest] 1665-1995 (subscription ends 08/01/2024) This link opens in a new window
Index to thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Full text of selected titles can be found in Periodicals Archive Online database.
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) [ProQuest] 1802 to 1995 This link opens in a new window
Full text archive of hundreds of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. For complete indexing use the Periodicals Index Online.
Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
Began as the major video repository for Holocaust testimonies; now includes eye-witness accounts from the Armenian Genocide; 1937 Nanjing Massacre; Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979); Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1983); 1994 genocide in Rwanda; plus ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic & South Sudan. Also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews. Fully searchable.
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