Early Modern Studies Research
For additional assistance contact: Jen Tellman
Primary Sources
UA Library Catalog
On the keyword search page, type your major search topic into the top line. On the second line, change "Any Field" to "Subject."
Type any of the following into the Search Box:
Sources, Interviews, Personal Narratives, statistics, diaries, correspondence, biography, archives, biography
You can search more than one of these by putting "or" between words.
e.g. sources or personal narratives or diaries
ARTFL: Trésor de la langue française
A textual database of texts from the 17th-20th centuries in literature, philosophy, arts and sciences, including French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century and a searchable Diderot’s Encyclopédie
This is an archive of FTP texts at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
Includes the House of Commons Journal, House of Commons Debates by Grey, House of Lords Journal, and other Parliamentary documents.
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service.
British official publications from the period of 1688-1995. http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
The letters and diaries of 91 women. Biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography are included, 1500 -1900. Collection continues to grow.
Documentary Relations of the Southwest: Spanish Colonial Documents on Microfilm (DRSW)
A computerized guide to collections of Spanish colonial documents. The guide has been compiled and analyzed from microfilm copies of documents which are indexed and cross-referenced to a precise document and the location of the original.
A digitized collection of American newspapers 1690-1876.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Letters, dairies, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, 1650-1700. Focus on encounters throughout North American and the Caribbean.
EEBO Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Full digitization of books and other publications in English 1700-1800 and also every significant monograph in any language printed in the British Empire during this period, (few American publications- see Evans Digital Edition for American Imprints)
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe. Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
Evans Digital Edition - 1639-1800
A searchable bibliography with full text of all American publications for the 17th and 18th centuries, based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans.
France in America /France en Amérique
A bilingual digital library which explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. It contains manuscripts, books and maps. Colonial and Revolutionary War documents.
Gallica: La Biliothèque Numérique
A digital collection of texts, audio and images from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It includes very well recognized editions of works, illuminated manuscripts and dictionaries and newspapers. It also includes classic francophone works. You can search (Recherche) or Browse by going to: Découverte
- Under Découverte, you can browse by Theme, Chronologies, Images, Dictionaries, Texts
- Under Recherche, lower right, you’ll get a listing of “types of texts” – among other things, listed there are the “sound documents” and illuminated manuscripts (Manuscrits enluminés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France).
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online - 1543-1945 [ TIPS]
A full text database containing a wide range of unique materials about women and their lives from an international perspective. Focuses primarily on the US, British Isles, and Western Europe. Some material in languages other than English.
English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
Upon completion, IWW will include authors from the late 12th and 13th centuries up to authors born in 1945.
Full versions of Latin, Early English, Middle English, French, Italian, and Spanish and Iberian texts.
Index to full text of over 200,000 works of English and American Literature. Some of the databases included are: Early English Prose Fiction(1500-1700), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780), English Drama (1280-1915), English Poetry(600-1900), .Also provides access to secondary sources including journal articles and books(some full text).
"Bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest."
Mesoamerican Codices: A Facsimile Exhibit
Contains manuscripts from before and after the Spanish Conquest. These manuscripts are from three cultural areas, Mixtec, Mayan, and Aztec covering from A.D. 629 to 1642.
Microfilm Collections of Primary Documents at the University of Arizona Library
18th and 19th Century U.S. History, European History and Mexican history.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
A wide array of primary source material for the period of 500-1500 for areas which experienced strong Germanic influence. (Owned by the UA library, search this by Title - Monumenta Germaniae in the catalog)
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
A bilingual digital library that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Past Masters Full-text Humanities Databases
Provides full text databases and electronic scholarly editions in philosphy, politics, and humanties. Few “mistresses” included in this database.
"Fine Literature Digitally Re-published" Public domain full-text items in ASCII format searchable by author, subject and broad Library of Congress Subject Classification.
A listing of over 5000 international websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
WESS Medieval and Renaissance Web
Scholarly resources for the Western Middle Ages and Renaissance. Created and maintained by the Western European Studies Section, Association of College & Research Libraries.
For Further Assistance Contact:
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Jen Tellman
History Librarian
307-2780