Digital collection of pamphlets from the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University Library. Covers the period 1750-1929.
Category: New Resources
India, Raj, and Empire
Digital collection of diaries, journals, official papers, letters, sketches, paintings, histories and literary works documenting the British presence in India.
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Digitized collection of archival material from the Browne Popular Culture Library (Bowling Green State University), the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the British National Archives, the University of Sussex Library, and the Rock Source Archive.
The American West: Sources from the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library
Digital collection of travel narratives, manuscripts, personal papers, printed books, maps, city directories, store catalogs, newspapers, company records, and ephemera (e.g. trade cards, posters, photos, claim certificates, city prospectuses, and more) that document the American west in its frontier period.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910
Digital collection of ephemera, pamphlets, college records, exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, pedagogical treatises, government documents, anatomy books, midwifery texts, manuscript journals, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, travel writing, and conduct and advice literature.Comprises five sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice
Digital collection of manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps covering the period 1490 to 2007.
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Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920
Digital collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides.
Perdita Manuscripts
Over 230 manuscripts, authored by women, that document life in Early Modern England.
Meiji Japan
Digitized collection of documents (diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks and manuscripts) from the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library.
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Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954
Letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies, notebooks and other materials from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City.