Cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by UNESCO partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections.
Includes 19th Century primary sources collections covering Europe and Africa, Mapping the World, Photography, and Women.
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
Monographs, manuscripts, and newspapers covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy.
Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
Selections from map repositories of the British Library and the National Archives at Kew representing the nineteenth century.
Photography: The World Through the Lens
Collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically-illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe. Some images are well-known while many have rarely been viewed.
Women: Transnational Networks
Focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late 18th century to the era of suffrage in the early 20th century, through a transnational perspective. The collection contains sources on European and North American movements and collections from other regions.
All works printed in Europe before 1701, and all pre-1701 works in European languages printed elsewhere. Facsimile images are scanned directly from original printed sources.
Bibliographic records to printed works about the Americas written in Europe before 1750, covering the history of European exploration and portrayals of Native American peoples.
Growing consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, and dedicated to building an online national union catalog for manuscripts in US collections.
Complete coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. Includes over 200,000 papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
Primary source documents from 1520-1668, spanning the reigns of Elizabethan I and James I/VI, and covering English domestic politics, overseas occurrences, interactions with other powers, reports of English ambassadors to European courts, and the network of overseas agents.
The Cecil Papers are a privately held archive of approximately 30,000 sixteenth and seventeenth-century manuscripts, consisting principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son Robert, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612). These two men dominated the administration of government during the reign of Elizabeth I and the first eight years under her successor, to the extent that critics suggested that England was becoming a regnum Cecilianum.
La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes se constituye como Centro de Humanidades Digitales en la Universidad de Alicante en 2021. Primary sources in Spanish.
Large archive of the modern Jewish experience; Digital collection features rare books, children’s books, letters, maps, memoirs, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories and more.
Includes recordings dating back as far as 1904, sound files, graphics of record covers and labels, and details of the recordings and their contents. From Dartmouth College.
Please note, this is not a free music download site. If you are not a student at Dartmouth College or at Hebrew College, you will need to register and demonstrate a legitimate scholarly or research purpose. User accounts are good for 6 months and can be renewed if needed.
Official volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States that documents U.S. policy immediately before, during, and after the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Sources on anti-Semitism as an issue in politics, economics, religion, and education. German-language books and pamphlets, principally anti-Semitic and many directly connected with Nazi groups. Most writings date from the 1920s and 1930s. Some writings are on Jehovahs Witnesses, the Jesuits, and the Freemasons.
Digital repository of images from the Center for Jewish Art, a research institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem devoted to the documentation and research of Jewish visual culture.
Traces the history and movement of Jewish books since the inception of printed books. Includes the history of individual copies of books printed between 1450 and 1800. From Columbia University.
Hundreds of newspapers available to read and search through online: Israeli press, Jewish press, Arabic press of Ottoman and mandatory Palestine, children press and daily press.
Documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, organized by A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. From the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
Primary sources collections, including photographs; diaries and letters; documents; testimonies; maps; and images of artifacts and artwork. Part of the larger Yad Vashem website.
The Bodleian's earliest Hebrew manuscripts were received in 1601 with 58 books in Hebrew script and of Venetian origin, where Hebrew printing was then in its prime. The Library acquired a number of large Hebrew collections in the 19th century, most notably the Oppenheimer Library in 1829, which was the property of Chief Rabbi of Prague David ben Abraham Oppenheimer, and thought to be the most important and magnificent Hebraica collection ever accumulated, containing hundreds of uniquely surviving manuscripts in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic. The most recent acquisition of Hebrew manuscripts of major international importance was the purchase of fragments from the Cairo Genizah, beginning in 1890.
Thousands of Yiddish books digitized as a project of the National Yiddish Book Center and the Internet Archive. Browse by turning pages or download as PDF files.
The Yiddish Theater developed as a uniquely American form in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York City and other urban centers during the early twentieth century. These unpublished manuscripts include light comedies and dramas. Manuscripts are in the original Yiddish characters and not transliterated.
Memorial books of communities destroyed in the Holocaust that describe daily life through essays and photographs. Most texts were published 1950s-1970s and are in Hebrew or Yiddish; some with English translations. From New York Public Library collection.
