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November Events
November 25, 2008
SI Library Workshop: Using eReserves >
12:30 PM
December 04, 2008
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History
African-American Texts from the Modern English Collection
From the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. Books (some with illustrations), letters, narratives, and court cases.
AmDocs: Documents For The Study Of American History
From the 15th Century to the present, covering all major wars and time periods, including the 80's and 90's. (University of Kansas)
American Memory Historical Collections
Over 60 multimedia, digital collections from the Library of Congress than encompass a variety of subjects and time periods.
Archives of the West
Memoirs, letters, reports, journals, images, and other documents on the history of the American West.
Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars
From the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. See also
Julius Caesar
Center of Military History
Historical books and documents by the U.S. Army.
Documenting the American South
Over 360 books and manuscripts from 5 major projects on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the beginning of the 20th century. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Early Canadiana Online
Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. Focus is on literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations relating to Western Europe (Brigham Young University).
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Books and other documents on a broad range of historical subject matter. (Fordam University)
Making of America
Primary sources of American social history from antebellum through reconstruction period, with an emphasis on education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Contains approx. 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles.
Napoleonic Era Literature (Gaslight)
Includes a timeline of Napoleon's career, correlated with links to fiction and non-fiction of the period.
NYPL Digital Schomburg: African American Women Writers in the 19thC
Includes full-text fiction, poetry, essays, biographies, and autobiographies.
Texts about the American Civil War
From the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson Online Resources
Electronic texts of more than 1,700 items, mostly letters, by or to Thomas Jefferson, plus other special collection items (University of Virginia).