Global Collections

Ancient Documents (4000bce) to 21st Century arranged Chronologically

90,000 Historic Clips, 1890s- 2011. Cinemagazines, Documentaries, Newsreels. Categories: Entertainment & Humour; Fashion & Music; Historical Figures & Celebrities; Lifestyle & Culture; Religion & Politics; Science & Technology; Sport & Leisure; Trade & Industry; Travel & Exploration; War & Revolution.

The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1700 to 1950s.

Browse Digital Repositories (by Nation); Browse Portals

Prehistoric & Ancient Europe; Medieval & Renaissance Europe; Europe as a Supranational Region; Also search by Nation

Books, manuscripts, maps, images, periodicals, sound recordings, scores, children's books. Limit to English if necessary. With National Library of France.

Electronic History Resources. Basically A-Z for articles in html and open source ebooks. Online for over 23 years. Not easy to use but you can find some treasures. Loads of links as well.

Human Origins; Mesopotamia; Egypt; Persia; Israel; Greece; Hellenistic World' Rome; Late Antiquity; Christian Origins

Archive of Animation & Cartoons; Arts & Music; Community Video; Computers & Technology; Cultural & Academic Films; Ephemeral Films; Movies; News & Public Affairs; Prelinger Archives; Spirituality & Religion

End of Rome; Byzantium; Islam; Roman Church; Early Germans; Celtic World; Carolingians; 10 C Collapse; Economic Life; Crusades; Empire & Papacy; France; England; Celtic States; Iberia; Italy; Intellectual Life; Medieval Church; Jewish Life; Social History; Sex & Gender; States & Society; Renaissance; Reformation; Exploration

This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download

All areas, all times

Over 200,000 original prints, ranging from woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs and screen prints to digital prints, and covers the history of the art in the West from the 15th century to the present and Japanese prints from the 10th century to the presentThe Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Over 5,000 sources. By State/Province, by Country, by Continent

Access to 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries

Major themes: Cold War, Korea, Nuclear Proliferation

8000 BCE - 2014 CE. With the U.S. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

With the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Alexander Street Press

Newspapers--worldwide, local, regional, state, & national, three as far back as the 1750s.

U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Georgetown University