CBC Subscription Databases

CBC History Discovery Service - searches hundreds of thousands of books, journals, magazines and newspapers from EBSCOhost, JSTOR, ACLS and other databases. Results published within the time period studied are themselves primary sources; search for collections of primary sources using keywords and subjects such as: sources or documents; correspondence or letters; memoir or autobiography; diary or journal; speeches.

ProQuest History Study Center - Primary and secondary sources for the study of history. Primary sources are derived from 14 collections as well as items selected for Study Units.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Global Issues in Context - thousands of primary source images and documents may be found arranged by topic or using an advanced search.

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Digital Book Index - "provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free." Massive subject index provides access to numerous history-related titles with publication dates starting in the 1400s.

European History Primary Sources - "a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. It is also part of the WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue [which maintains an index of Primary Sources] that is hosted at the EUI."

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - visit the main site for more resources or go directly to:

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
A "classroom usable" sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Ancient history and civilization courses.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
This is an online source book of copy-permitted, although not necessarily copyright-free, source material for Medieval Studies. It is the largest online resource of medieval and Byzantine textual sources.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Now with almost as many online texts as the Medieval Sourcebook, this also constitutes a "classroom usable" sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Modern European history and Modern Civilization courses. North American and Latin American documents are located within its structure.

Google Books - hundreds of thousands of digitized public domain books. Use Advanced Search to limit your search to 'Google eBooks Only' published within the time period of your topic. Alternately search using the Internet Archive, which uploads titles and adds subject headings and text searching capability.

HathiTrust - digitized books and journal content. Considerable overlap with Google Books as they import any content that meets their rights determination process. Search capability combines full text searching with author, title, and Library of Congress subject heading.

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