Primary Sources - HIST 732 & 741, Enlightenment and Revolution in the Atlantic World, c. 1600 - c. 1830 (Brown) - LibGuides at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Age of Exploration
1420-1920
Primary sources like manuscripts, maps and illustrated documents, diaries and ship logs recording the experiences of Europeans as they explored trade routes, colonized the Americas and Australasia, and raced to the North and South Poles.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
1400-1950s
Primary sources for American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books from pre-contact through the mid-20th century.
Colonial America
1606-1822
British government documents from the CO 5 series about administering the American colonies.
Part of Americana combined search portal
Colonial Caribbean
1624-1832
Colonial Office files from the National Archive U.K. about British governance of 25 islands in the Caribbean from 1624-1872 trace the rise and decline of trade in enslaved peoples, from transportation through trade and shipping to the rise of the abolition movement.
East India Company
1599-1947
British government records from the India Office chart the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond.
Empire Online
1492-1969
Primary sources about British colonies in Africa, North and South America, Australia, and South Asia, 1492-1969.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters
1650-1920
Primary sources like expedition records, letters, diaries and government records from Europeans creating colonies in North America, Africa, and Australasia.
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
1500-present
Primary source materials that tell the story of global trade in chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Migration to New Worlds
1800-1924
Primary sources like personal accounts, correspondence, maps, plans and photos documenting the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
1490-2007
Case studies documenting slavery in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba, along with material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.
Territorial Papers of the United States
1764-1953
Archival records of each territory of the United States before statehood. Includes Native American negotiations and treaties, correspondence with federal agencies, military records, judicial proceedings, population details, financial statistics, land records, and more.
Official documents include correspondence between territorial officials and federal agencies, details of tribal treaties, accounts of battles and troop movements, petitions for statehood, and records of agricultural and industrial production. Collections also contain firsthand accounts of frontier life via letters and financial documents.
Virginia Company Archives
- Good for: Researching the Atlantic world and early Colonial period.
- Contains: Archival collection (Ferrar Papers).
- Dates covered: 1590-1790.
Part of Americana combined search portal
War Department and Indian Affairs
1800-1824
Handwritten correspondence from Indian superintendents and agents, factors of trading posts, Territorial and State governors, and others.

Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Resources

Collections of several types of primary sources curated around a topic or theme.

Gale Primary Sources
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.

French Revolution Digital Archive
Includes the Archives parlementaires and a corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
French Political Pamphlets
The collection of French Political Pamphlets in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University features more than 2,100 pamphlets published between 1547 and 1626.
French Revolution Pamphlets
The French Revolution Pamphlets digital collection consists of pamphlets produced from 1779 to 1815. Although the French Revolution happened in the decade ranging from 1789 to 1799, this collection of pamphlets documents the time leading up to the revolution through the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).
Links to principal documents of the French Revolution
Marxists Internet Archive: History Archive: France: French Revolution
Digital Facsimiles from the Lafayette Collection (Cornell)
Digital Facsimiles Family and Private Life | The American Revolution | His Friendship with America | His Guiana Plantation and Emancipation The French Revolution (1789-1799) | French Politics (1800-1834) | Lafayette and Political & Social Causes
Digital Facsimiles from The La Forte Collection (Cornell)
Selected Images from the LaForte Collection
Napoleonic Digital Library
Newberry French Revolution Collection
Digitized subset of larger collection indexed by author and title (U Chicago)
Newberry Library digitized French revolutionary pamphlets
Archive.org interface to Newberry Library collections: material published between 1780 and 1810 from the French Revolution Collection (FRC), the Louis XVI Trial and Execution Collection, and several smaller collections
Napoleonica
Napoleonic primary sources

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
1400-1950s
Primary sources for American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books from pre-contact through the mid-20th century.
Empire Online
1492-1969
Primary sources about British colonies in Africa, North and South America, Australia, and South Asia, 1492-1969.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters
1650-1920
Primary sources like expedition records, letters, diaries and government records from Europeans creating colonies in North America, Africa, and Australasia.
ARTFL
Classic works of French and Italian literature, non-fiction prose and technical writing.

Use the date range limit to narrow your search to a relevant time period.

Mercure de France, 1672-1810

Search for articles published in popular magazines and journals from different times in history.

Gale Primary Sources
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.
American Periodicals Series
1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
British Periodicals
1681-1920
Popular British periodicals mostly from the 19th century.
Eighteenth Century Journals
1685-1835
Literary, satirical, political, religious and theatrical magazines and newspapers from Britain, Ireland, Scotland, India and the Caribbean.

French revolutionary material, Maclure collection, University of Pennsylvania
Use with print guide: The Maclure collection of French revolutionary materials.
UNLV Microforms, 2nd Floor Z 2179 .P4; reel index is at Micro DC141 .F76 1966
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Resources in French.
Histoire parlementaire de la révolution française ou, Journal des assemblées nationales, depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1815 : contenant le narration des événements ... précédée d'une introduction sur l'histoire de France jusqu'à la convocation des États-généraux
200 microfiche, call number DC141 .B8 1834a

These collections reprint letters and diary entries that have been previously published in books. Use the Browse Indexes to find references to specific historical or life events.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
1500-1900.
Searchable collection of women's letters and diaries.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
1770-1950
Diaries, journals, and letters written by famous and not-so-famous North American women.

Souvenirs d'Amérique et de France, par une créole

Digitized collections of books published during different time periods.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
1701-1800
Books on all subjects published in English between 1701 and 1800.
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas
Good for: Finding primary source materials on exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.
Contains: Historical books, pamphlets, serials and other documents about North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Dates covered: 1500-1926
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
1639-1800
Complete books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America before 1800.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
1475-1700
Books on all subjects published in England between 1475 and 1700.
Hathi Trust
- Good for: Searching books and periodicals, including full text access to those in the public domain and limited search for those still under copyright.
- Contains: Scanned books and periodicals

Gallica digital library (Bibliotheque nationale de France)
Wide variety of digitized French language historical resources.
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in French

about books of this era

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
Maps the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794. As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, their archives can be considered a representative source for studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment.

Official government publications, including laws, treaties, and records of legislative proceedings.

Congressional Publications (ProQuest Congressional)
1789-
U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Includes the U.S. Serial Set.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Additionally, searchers can retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws. Contains an index of congressional publications from 1789 to the present and locate information about members and committees. Statutes at Large and Congressional Indexes from 1789-1969 are included.
Digital U.S. Bills and Resolutions 1789-2016
1789-present
Contains searchable full text of all U.S. bills and resolutions from 1789 to the present.
Individual bills may be directly accessed or searched via a composite bill profile page that links out to its various versions.
HeinOnline Law Journal Library
Online law journals and full text federal legal materials.
HeinOnline is an image-based, fully searchable database made up primarily of law journals. Newer content is not added until the end of a volume year so the most recent issues are likely a year old. Coverage varies by title, but most sources go back to volume one. In addition to journals, it also contains treaties, the federal register, some classic treatises and some federal legislative materials. Subscription to HeinOnline is sponsored by the Wiener-Rogers Law Library.
Making of Modern Law (MOML)
1600-1926
Cross-search five Making of Modern Law databases: Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-1926, Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources 1620-1926, Making of Modern Law: Treatises, 1800-1926, and Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926.
Routledge English Historical Documents
476 -1914
Primary sources with editorial commentary representing significant British historical documents, like treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings and more.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers
1801-2000
Bills, reports, correspondence and command papers all highlight Britain's role in the political, social, economic and foreign policy arenas.

Digitized photos and art images.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Images held by the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress.
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations.
ARTstor
Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.

Getty Search Gateway
Search digitized images from the Getty collection
Napoleonic Satires
Print caricatures and satires with a Napoleonic theme.

These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.

Gale Primary Sources
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.
Historical U.S. Newspapers from ProQuest
1841-2000 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest U.S. historical newspaper collections simultaneously.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune‎ (1849 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor‎ (1908 - 2003)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times‎ (1881 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2013)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune‎ (1841 - 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post‎ (1877 - 2000)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. West, including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009)
Historical Periodicals from ProQuest
1740-1940 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest historical periodical collections simultaneously.
American Periodicals‎ (1740 - 1940)
British Periodicals‎ (1681 - 1939)
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 - 2000)
The Harper's Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 - current)
Periodicals Archive Online‎
The Vogue Archive‎
Women's Magazine Archive‎ (1846 - 2005)
The Women's Wear Daily Archive‎
Readex AllSearch
1639-1922
Combined search of American historical newspapers (1690-1922), printed books (1639-1819), and pamphlets and ephemera (1749-1922).
Search all collections of historical primary sources from Readex simultaneously: America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera; American Pamphlets; Early American Imprints (Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker).

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