50 Features of Special Collections: Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center

45 of 50 Michael Harrison (1897-2005), a private book collector of Western Americana, and Margaret B. Harrison (1911-1980), a hand bookbinder, built the Michael and Margaret B. Harrison…

50 Features of Special Collections: Chocolate – it’ll make you feel better

38/50 With Easter coming up tomorrow, what better way to celebrate than by shining a spotlight on chocolate? Our 39th feature is Madrid physician Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma’s…

World War I Document Archive

This site includes the full text of dozens of World War One-related documets. These include treaties, speeches and diaries. There are also extensive collections of texts pertaining to the War…

Zhongguo fan you yun dong shu ju ku, 1957- Chinese anti-rightist campaign database, 1957-

Database covers sources on Chinese political movements between 1955-1958. Included are more than 10,000 government documents and files, speeches, bulletins and articles labeled “Rightist” at the time. Searchable in both…

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 [via Alexander Street Press]

This database includes searchable full text historical documents, a number of document projects based around key questions, teaching tools, plus book, film and website reviews.

Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture

This is a list of image collections in architecture,the fine arts, cartography, history and more–all freely available. Representative collections include: The Museum and Online Archive of California; The Estate Project…