Search across all Gale primary source collections.
Includes:
• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• American Fiction, 1774-1920
• Archives Unbound
• Archives of Sexuality & Gender
• Associated Press Collections Online
• Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
• British Library Newspapers
• China from Empire to Republic
• Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture 1790-1920
• Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Indigenous Peoples: North America
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online
• Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
• Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957
• Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
• Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
• Smithsonian Collections Online
• The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012
• The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
• The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
• The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012
• The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
• The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
• The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
• The Making of the Modern World
• The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006
• The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
• The Times Digital Archive, 1822-2021
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Browse the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) resources, available with generous loan periods. Scholars and researchers from CRL member institutions have free and unlimited use of the CRL collections through interlibrary loan. Davidson College is a member of CRL.
A collection of digitized maps, manuscripts, books, pamphlets and paintings related to exploration, imperialism, and decolonization from archives around the world. Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.
The archival collections of members of the Rockefeller family and institutions and organizations founded by Rockefeller family members. Also the archival repository for the records of the Ford Foundation as well as for many other philanthropic and service organizations. Searching for missions to Africa will be most helpful for this course.
A large selection of text and images as well as comprehensive catalogue data from the Basel Mission Archives.The website is an interactive search tool for the public at large and the international scientific community, opening up avenues into a major resource base for 19th and 20th century history.
Explore African Heritage site objects including scholarly research, books, historical and recent documents, maps, site plans or diagrams, and photographs and slides.
The 500 Year Archive (FHYA) is an experimental digital research tool that allows you to dive into the southern African past up to five centuries before colonialism. It convenes diverse selections of materials online including, amongst other things, texts, images, recordings, excavated items and botanical material, as well as early vernacular publications. See the FHYA curation of items derived from the James Stuart Papers at the Killie Campbell Africana library.