Resources
Electronic collections and databases, searchable.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
Primary source documents on European and colonial frontier regions, 1650-1920.
Gale Primary Sources: Newspapers
Historical newspaper archive search tool.
Hansard Online
Full text of UK members’ debates, 1803 to the present. Includes both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Growing collection of digitized texts from a consortium of American research universities.
Historical Topographic Map Digitization Project: Full Collection
Maps of Ontario locations from early to mid-20th century.
History Commons
Archive of magazine, newspaper and book content from the 1600s onwards.
History of Feminism
Primary and secondary source material on feminism in the 19th century.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Manuscripts, artwork and rare print material on native North American history and European settlement.
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Collection of primary source documents on the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Keesing's World News Archives
Summaries of world events from more than 1,000 daily news reports.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Full-text poetry, prose and drama by writers in the U.S.
Literature Online
Full text of more than 355,000 works in English, American and Canadian literature.
LLMC Digital Open Access
An international collection of key historic legal texts and executive, legislative and judicial government documents.
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries
Collection of personal writings by American women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Market Research & American Business, 1935-1965
Market research reports and supporting documents regarding the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century.
Mass Observation Online
Papers from the archive of a pioneering British social research organization.
Medical Services and Warfare
Hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts of the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line.
Medieval Family Life
Medieval documents on the topics of family, business, the law, violence, etc.
Medieval Travel Writing
Important manuscripts by European travellers.
Migration to new worlds
Collection of primary sources on the movement of people from Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Scans of British newspapers published from 1800 to 1900.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Full-text personal narratives of immigrants to the United States and Canada.
North American Indian Drama: Second Edition
Collection of plays by Indigenous playwrights of Turtle Island from the twentieth century.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
Full-text biographies, autobiographies, diaries, letters, personal narratives and speeches.
North American Women's Drama
Full-text plays, chiefly American with some Canadian content.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
Thousands of pages of diaries and letters from hundreds of women in North America.
NRCan Open S&T Repository (OSTR)
Bibliographic database for scientific and technical publications of the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada.
Oral History Online
Full-text oral histories in English, including an index to freely available histories on the Web.
Our Ontario: Newspapers
Over 200 years of community newspapers from across Ontario.
Past Masters
Full-text authoritative works by seminal figures in the Humanities.