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History: Digital Collections A - Z
What is on this List
This is an A to Z listing of history-related digitized collections of primary sources that are UW-Restricted. These collections include digitized backfiles of single titles (e.g., Seattle Times or Economist) as well as more comprehensive collections (e.g., British Periodicals or the US Congressional Serial Set). Formats include newspapers, magazines, government documents, images, video and manuscript material. English is the predominant language but there are collections in other languages including Spanish and Korean.
These digitized collections -- as well as other collections of primary material including those freely available on the web, in print, and on microfilm -- are linked under the various regional and topical history guides.
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- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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- Afghanistan and the US, 1945-1963: Records of US State Department Classified Files This link opens in a new window
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- Africa Commons: Black South African Magazines This link opens in a new window
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- African American Newspapers of the 19th century This link opens in a new window
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- American Antiquarian Society Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
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- American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 This link opens in a new window
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- American Indians and the American West This link opens in a new window
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- American Literary Periodicals, 1835-1891 This link opens in a new window
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- American State Papers
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- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Parts I - IV This link opens in a new window
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- Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1-2 This link opens in a new window
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- Artstor This link opens in a new window
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- Atlanta Constitution 1868-1984
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- Baltimore Afro American 1893-2010
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- BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts This link opens in a new window
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- Black freedom struggle in the 20th century
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- Bloomberg BusinessWeek Archive 1929-2000
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- Boston Globe 1872-1986
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- Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 This link opens in a new window
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- Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive This link opens in a new window
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- Chicago Defender 1909-2010
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- China Local Gazetteers (Post-1949) 中国地方志数据库 (新方志) This link opens in a new window
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- Chinese Classic Ancient Books 中國基本古籍庫 This link opens in a new window
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- Chinese Newspapers Collection
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- Choson Ilbo Archive 1920-
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- Classic Mexican Cinema
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- Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press 1949-2021
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- Czechoslovakia Crisis; 1968 : The State Department's Crisis Files This link opens in a new window
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- Databases on the history of contemporary Chinese political movements This link opens in a new window
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- Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories This link opens in a new window
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- Docuseek2 Complete Collection: Second Edition This link opens in a new window
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- East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963 This link opens in a new window
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- Economist Historical Archive
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- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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- Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman. This link opens in a new window
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- Food and Drink in History: Module II This link opens in a new window
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- Foreign Broadcast Information Service This link opens in a new window
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- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, 1947-1982 This link opens in a new window
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- Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new window
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- Globe & Mail 1844-2014
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- Guardian 1821-2003 & Observer 1791-2003
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- Hanguk ui chisik kontench Korean database This link opens in a new window
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- Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
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- Hindustan Times
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- History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society; Seventeenth to Twentieth Century This link opens in a new window
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- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
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- Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930 This link opens in a new window
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- India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department This link opens in a new window
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- Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy, 1929-1933
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- Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part 1 & 2 This link opens in a new window
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- Izvestiia Digital Archive 1917-2022
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- Japan Times Archives 1897-2021
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- Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers
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- Korea Times 1956-2016
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- Kyongsong Ilbo 1907-1945
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- Le Monde 1944-2000
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- Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers
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- Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-2010
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- Los Angeles Times 1881-2010
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- Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies This link opens in a new window
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- National Film Board of Canada | L’Office National du Film du Canada This link opens in a new window
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- National Geographic 1888-2015
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- Nature 1869-
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- New York Amsterdam News 1922-2010
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- New York Times 1851-2014
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- News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek) This link opens in a new window
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- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories. This link opens in a new window
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- North American Indian Thought & Culture This link opens in a new window
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- North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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- Patrologia Latina
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- Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800
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- People's Daily Online, 1947-
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- Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981 This link opens in a new window
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- Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2010
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- Policies and Laws of China 中国法律法规数据库 This link opens in a new window
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- Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945 This link opens in a new window
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- Power to the People: Counterculture; Social Movements; and the Alternative Press. This link opens in a new window
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- Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America; 1890-1970 This link opens in a new window
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- Rolling Stone Archive 1967-current
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- Scripta Sinica (Academia Sinica) 中央研究院漢籍電子文獻資料庫 This link opens in a new window
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- Seattle Times 1895-
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1901-
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- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 This link opens in a new window
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- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
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- South Asia Archive
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- South China Morning Post 1903-2001
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- Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers
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- Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa This link opens in a new window
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- Territorial Papers of the United States, 1764-1953: Series 1 This link opens in a new window
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- Times of India, 1838-2003
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- Times of London 1785-2013
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- TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library
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- Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War This link opens in a new window
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- Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex and the Family This link opens in a new window
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- Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new window
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- United Nations Digital Library This link opens in a new window
- Vancouver Sun 1912 - 2010
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- Wall Street Journal 1889-2002
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- Washington Post 1877-2002
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- Wiley Digital Archives: Environmental Science and History This link opens in a new window
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- Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019 This link opens in a new window
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- Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 This link opens in a new window
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- Women and Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new window
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- Women and Social Movements, International This link opens in a new window
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Banner images from the following collections: Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels, Chicago Defender, Human Rights Studies Online, Queen Victoria's Journals, Disability in the Modern World, Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War & Rolling Stone Archive 1967-current.