The databases below may have useful primary resources. I recommend that you do an ADVANCED search and use the date filter whenever possible.
This collection depicts early contacts between European settlers and American Indians and the subsequent political, social and cultural effects upon American Indian life.
Manuscripts, artwork, rare printed books, photographs, and newspapers tell both the historical and the personal stories of the colonization of the Americas. Coverage:1500s-1900s.
Digitization of primary source documents and literature, including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, fiction, short prose, dramatic works, and poetry. 1) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, 2) British Politics and Society, 3) British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, 4) Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest, 5) European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection, 6) Photography: The World Through the Lens, 7) Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925, 8) Women: Transnational Networks. Coverage: 1800s
Includes images across the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Related: JSTOR - now includes ARTstor content.