Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the periodicals include news, journals and reports on global missions and cultural encounters.
Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.
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.
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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
This digital archive includes primary source material related to the history of women’s international social movements.
Users of the database may read, print, and use for research and teaching all the documents in the database. To reprint, quote in a publication, or post on the internet any copyrighted documents from the database, they will need to contact the copyright holders directly and secure permission for such use.
The Associated Press Images Collection™ is a primary source database of photographs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily.
Photographs and graphics from AP Images cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
The HathiTrust Digital Library collection is a digital repository of books, selected periodicals, and other materials digitized by a partnership of research libraries.
As a member of HathiTrust, Davidson College has digital full-text access to public domain titles and full-text searching of additional titles in copyright.
To log in for full access to HathiTrust, select the yellow login button in the top-right corner, select Davidson College from the drop-down menu, and enter your single sign-on credentials when prompted.
To find books that you can view cover-to-cover, be sure to limit to "full view only."
A collection of digitized books. Books published from 1800 to 1923 are fully keyword-searchable and can be viewed and downloaded in a variety of formats.
In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: * An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; * A new selection of maps and visual documents; * Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship.
Contains diverse global, local, regional, and national newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, videos, periodicals, and web-only content.
Includes electronic access to the Charlotte Observer (1886-present), in addition to many local North Carolina newspapers.
The Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource is a collaborative effort of the UBC Library, the Museum of Anthropology, the Centre for Japanese Research, the Department of History, and the Department of Asian Studies to promote the study of Japanese history and culture using digital materials from UBC collections.
The scenery of Japan has been greatly transformed as a result of modernization from the Meiji era onward, natural disasters, war damage, postwar reconstruction, and redevelopment of the country. In many regions, there are no longer any remnants of the past scenery and nothing in the modern scenery which evokes or recalls the former appearance. However, the Meiji and Taisho materials held by the National Diet Library include a large number of photos of scenery from that point in time as well as of buildings and other features which still exist and are familiar today.
This exhibition presents portrait photographs of approximately 850 politician government officials, military officers, Businessperson, scholars and artists, who had an impact on building modern Japanese society.
Of particular relevance to this class is the collection title “Epoch-making Japanese
Female Authors.”
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The National Diet Library Digital Collection is a service that allows you to view digital materials collected by the National Diet Library. We collect and make available digitized materials in the same form as when they were published, as well as publications on the Internet. Some materials that cannot be made available on the Internet due to copyright status can be viewed through personal transmission, library transmission, or remote copying services.
These primary sources present stories of Japanese (diasporic) sex workers who were involved in the transnational and interracial sex trade in the inter-imperial and settler colonial contexts of the mid-19th century through early 20th-century transpacific world. These portrayals are not necessarily facts, but constructions shaped by a particular set of beliefs, ideologies, experiences, memories, and structural forces, as well as individual styles of the creators, authors, and narrators. Visit “Modules” to learn more about the context, content, and political and cultural meanings of these sources. New sources will be added in the future.
The National Museum of Asian Art Library's collection of illustrated Japanese rare books includes over 1,000 volumes previously owned by Charles Lang Freer. Often filled with color illustrations, many are by famous artists such as Andō Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai. These beautiful woodblock printed works of art were published during the Edo and Meiji periods (1600-1912).
The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides. The EAIC documents the history of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan 台湾, Japan 日本, China 中国, Korea 朝鮮, Manchuria 満洲国, and Indonesia are included.
In March 2002 Leonard A. Lauder donated his collection of more than twenty thousand Japanese postcards to the Museum of Fine Arts. These works largely date from the early twentieth century to the years just before World War Two and represent an astonishing array of subjects and styles.
This page introduces a collaborative database/table created using Airtable that collects English-language digital resources and projects on East Asia into one central location.
The "Database of Images of Modern Japanese Popular Magazines from the Takabatake Kasho Taisho Romankan Collection" consists of metadata such as covers, tables of contents, frontispieces, and back covers, as well as approximately 2,000 IIIF images of 405 popular magazines of 37 types published from the end of the Meiji period to the early Showa period.
A project of Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) is an evolving, collaborative space for citizens, researchers, students, and policy makers, as well as a site of shared memory for those most directly affected by these events. The digital archive is an advanced search engine for archived materials from all over the web, including websites, images, video, audio, news articles, individual testimonials, tweets, and other content, primarily from international partners who are building digital repositories about the disasters.
In 1923, a major earthquake and conflagration devastated Japan’s capital Tokyo and surrounding areas in the Kantō region. Photographs documenting the event, many circulated in the form of postcards, produced a rich and multilayered visual history of the city’s destruction.
Initiated with an exchange of government publications in 1875, the Japanese collection has grown to more than 1.2 million volumes of books and serials as well as extensive microform holdings. The humanities and social sciences are strongly represented and are complemented by a significant collection of scientific and technical journals and Japanese government publications from both national and local levels. Among the wealth of rare items are some 6,000 titles of pre-20th century printed books, scrolls, and manuscripts.
Voices of Early Modern Japan by 
