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MMW Primary Sources pdf
Created by UCSD Soc Sci & Humanities Lib to help out with the challenging primary source! It's a 22 page clickable PDF.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets and other texts on historical epidemics from Havard University Library, the social impact of diseases and epidemics, public health policy and the history of medicine. Including the cholera epidemic of the 19th century, the great plague of london, and the spanish influenza of 1918-1919.

Daily Life Through World History in Primary Documents

Internet Africa History Sourcebook: European Imeperialism
Includes the full-text of primary sources that relate to the British, French, Belgium, and German in Africa.

Internet Indian History Sourcebook: Western Intrusion
Includes full-text primary and secondary sources about European imperialism in India.

Internet Library of Early Journals (Bodleian)
Includes the full-text of several eigtheenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals, including The Annual Register (1758-78), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-63), The Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50), and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77).

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
This is a great starting point to research topics like the Enlightenment, nationalism, 1848 revolution, etc. It links to primary and secondary sources.

London Times Historical
The Times is a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785. This digital archive contains articles written from 1785-1985.

Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850
Digital images of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. It's a great source for material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

New York Times Historical
Daily newspaper published in New York City since 1851. This digital archive contains articles written from 1851-2004.

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848This collection is comprised of over 100 pamphlets and periodicals from France from 1848 to 1851 (needless to say-- they're in French!)

Parliamentary Papers, British House of Commons: the Nineteenth Century. Official documents from the British government on the United Kingdom, its colonies and the wider world.

Russian Revolution Resources
Includes some full-text sources by Lenin and Trotsky.

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Includes the full-text of Jefferson's correspondence, public papers and addresses.

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