(1834-1966) British Government documents, including diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, investigative reports, treaties, and more, dating from the initial period of British colonization through the first years of African national independence. "Confidential prints" are British government documents generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, marked "confidential," and circulated to other Foreign Office officials as well as to the Cabinet and heads of British missions abroad. Useful for research on historical, political, social, and economic topics.
Part of Archives Direct.
For help using this collection, see the short (1 min.) videos on searching and filtering results.
Diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, investigative reports, treaties, and more; useful for research on a wide variety of historical, political, social, and economic topics.
Archives
For people and organizations only.
Use one or more of the following terms to find primary sources in the Davidson Library Catalog and other library catalogs:
Cross-database, full-text search tool for all Adam Matthew collections of British Government Documents. Each collection can also be searched individually.
A multi-disciplinary resource, this is a set of collections that cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.
Primary sources, unpublished historical documents from private and governmental collections.
An integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets. Includes digital facsimiles of books, manuscripts, some newspapers, photographs, and more.
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
(c.1940-1980) A collection of over 700,000 full-text, declassified U.S. government documents and significant materials highlighting the political, social, and economic development and forces in post-World War II America. Materials include State Department political analyses, White House confidential file materials, National Security Council policy statements, CIA intelligence memoranda, and much more.
Gale's U.S. Declassified Documents Online (USDDO) had its origins in a microfiche collection called Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS).
Growing collection of online exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, and streaming audio and video related to the history and culture of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora. From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
A primary source collection of digitized maps, manuscripts, books, pamphlets and paintings related to exploration, imperialism, and decolonization from archives around the world.
Generously funded for by the Mellon Grant.
This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:
Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)
At ProQuest, we believe that knowledge and trusted information can help guide progress and change – and as an EdTech provider, we have a unique responsibility to take action. That’s why we developed this website focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Our intention is to support a wide range of students as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it. By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, we hope this collection imbues the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
(1825-1995) Over 170 periodicals by and about African Americans; includes magazines, academic and political journals, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and more. Beyond offering opinions on issues and events of the day, the rare titles in African American Periodicals capture the voice of African American society and culture.
(c. 1827-1902) Selected full-text, nineteenth-century periodicals.
The library subscribes to: African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, The Liberator, and Godey's Lady's Book.
(1690-1998) Digital facsimiles of over 1,000 newspapers. Includes: African American Newspapers (1827-1998), Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876), Early American Newspapers (1690-1922), Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980)
(1941-1996) The full text of U.S. Government transcriptions and translations of foreign news broadcasts, including clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories; these reports were used by U.S. intelligence services, policy makers, and analysts and are a valuable primary source collection for historical and political science research.
For FBIS reports from 1996 to the present, search World News Connection.
(c. 1700-2009) Search or browse all Gale newspaper and periodical archives simultaneously. Includes the following collections: 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Illustrated London News, Sunday Times, and Times. Also includes archives of the following periodicals:19th Century U.K. Periodicals, The Economist, Liberty Magazine, Listener, and Times Literary Supplement.
(1957-1994) Full-text, English-language translations of foreign language newspaper articles, radio and television broadcasts, journal articles, reports, and monographs. Covers economics, international relations, national politics, military affairs, and science and technology topics from all regions of the world, with a particular emphasis on communist and third-world countries.
Established in 1957, JPRS supplied U.S. federal government agencies with translations of political, scientific and technical literature. In 1995, JPRS publications were merged into the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports.
Nexis Uni features more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. With an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, students can create individual user IDs and passwords to enable the setting of alerts, and saving searches and documents of interest. Collaboration tools make it easy for students to team up on research projects efficiently.
Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
Includes full-text coverage of US newspapers listed below, with the earliest starting in the late 19th century and many continuing through the 20th century.
Davidson has purchased perpetual access to:
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010)
Chicago Defender (1909-2010)
Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832 - 1953)
Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2010)
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
The New York Times with Index (1851-2013)
The Wall Street Journal (1889-1999)
The Washington Post (1877-1999)
Explore more than 86,000 African Heritage site objects including scholarly research, books, historical and recent documents, maps, site plans or diagrams, and photographs and slides. Spatial data includes 3D models and plans of structures and surrounding landscapes, geographic information systems (GIS), ground plans, façade views of structures, stereo and digital images, panorama images, and digital video of African Heritage sites.
(1948-1980) British Government documents from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. Includes letters, diplomatic dispatches, investigative reports, excerpts of press reports, trial papers, activists' biographies and first-hand accounts of events, fliers, leaflets, maps, and more.
Part of Archives Direct.
For help using this collection, see the short (1 min.) videos on searching and filtering results.
(1804-2009) Periodicals from the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the South American Missionary Society (which merged to form the Church Mission Society) in the U.K.; includes the Church Missionary Gleaner, CMS Outlook, CMS
Intelligencer, Ruanda Notes (MAM News), the South American Missionary Magazine, and more. The CMS focused on social reform in England and evangelization in Africa, Asia, South America, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Oceania and was one of the most influential Protestant missionary societies.
(1834-1966) British Government documents, including diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, investigative reports, treaties, and more, dating from the initial period of British colonization through the first years of African national independence. "Confidential prints" are British government documents generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, marked "confidential," and circulated to other Foreign Office officials as well as to the Cabinet and heads of British missions abroad. Useful for research on historical, political, social, and economic topics.
Part of Archives Direct.
For help using this collection, see the short (1 min.) videos on searching and filtering results.
A rich collection of primary sources related to U.S. history and culture; materials are drawn from the Library of Congress and other research libraries. Includes digitized manuscripts, government documents, pamphlets, and books as well as photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, video clips, and sound files. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.
This collection is public domain and are not protected by copyright
The digital Archive of Americana is a family of comprehensive historical collections that allows researchers to discover and explore the United States in unprecedented depth and detail.
This archive searches many historical collections that contain books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over centuries.
Includes:
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
African History and Culture, 1540-1921
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922
America's Historical Imprints
America's Historical Newspapers
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Black Authors, 1556-1922
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817
Senate Executive Journals, 1789 - 1980
The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, 1840-1877
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817 - 1994
A collection of primary sources on Southern history, culture, and literature from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. Includes diaries, first-person narratives, literary works, photographs, and other materials. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(1789 to present) Indexes congressional documents, with the full text of bills and resolutions, congressional hearings, the Congressional Record, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, and more. Search tip: for Boolean operators, use uppercase letters (AND, OR, NOT)
Includes the full text of:
The Congressional Record(1789 to present)
Congressional Hearings (1824 to present), both published and unpublished
Committee reports (1990 to present)
Congressional Research Digital Collection (1830 to present), which contains over 26,000 committee prints and over 32,000 Congressional Research Service reports (1916 to present)
House & Senate documents (1995 to present)
Bills and resolutions, including profiles and tracking (1789 to present)
Public laws (1988 to present)
U.S. Code
Code of Federal Regulations (1981 to present)
Federal Register (1980 to present)
Biographical information & voting records (1988 to present)
Roll Call (1989 to present)
Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations 1789-Present
Only available to Davidson College faculty, staff, and students.
(1900 - 2000) The full text of over 9,000 poems writen by 62 African-American poets of the twentieth century. Includes works by Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Find poems written by African-American authors between 1750-1900.
Langston Hughes : material from the vertical files of the Schomburg Collection, 1926-1967 [microfilm]
WHERE TO FIND: Microfilm cabinet C-32
Collection description: "Biographical information about Hughes' life and activities. Hughes' writings form the largest series in the collection and consist of manuscripts, typescripts, and drafts of books, including "Not Without Laughter," "Famous American Negros,", and "First Book of Jazz;" plays; poems; short stories; songs; and reviews of some of his published works. Material relating to programs, activities, and events in which Hughes participated or was the subject including memorial tributes, personal appearances, radio broadcasts, recordings, speeches, and television broadcasts. Papers related to programs which incorporated a presentation of Hughes' works consisting of news clippings, printed programs, and leaflets announcing or describing the programs. Also, general criticism of Hughes as a writer, and some information on sources of Hughes' material in other institutions in the United States."
