History

This collection consists of periodicals from Part I: New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour, and Leisure/Sport and Part II: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary, and Colonia. Articles cover British life in the Victorian age with an emphasis on women's writing, popular sports and hobbies, and the role Britain played as an imperial power in the 19th century. Titles include: The Northern Star, The Satirist, British Women's Temperance Journal, and Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sport. Part II contains materials from the National Library of Scotland, India, Canada, and more.

Includes manuscripts, monographs, periodicals, and photographs relating to the nineteenth century. Materials are in the following languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Subject areas include history, politics, law, religion, and social movements.

Includes primary source material such as maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings, and rare books on colonial history, politics, culture, and society.

Focuses on the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe, and Asia to the New World and Australasia during the 19th and 20th centuries. Late 18th century documents also provide context on the early stages of migration. Canadian resources from the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, the Glenbow Museum, and Libraries and Archives Canada are included.

Includes rare monographs, serials, political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and a wide range of ephemera from Parts I and II of this resource. Includes information on world trade, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism. Approximately 30% of the content is in non-English languages. Covers the following subject areas: political science, economics, women's studies, and legal and religious history, with special collections on transportation, banking, finance, and manufacturing.

Consists of primary source documents written from 1650 to 1920. Includes the colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia. Documents contain information on the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers in these areas.

Documents Canadian history from European contact to the first half of the 20th century.Includes monographs, serials, and government publications. The collection is primarily composed of Canadian materials published before 1921.

This collection features U.S. newspapers from the 1800s, from major publications to small-press ones by Indigenous, African-American, women's rights, and labour groups. Subjects covered include history, political science, gender studies, and sociology.

Provides researchers with first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of historical New England and the United States.

Contains the complete archive of the Calgary Herald newspaper.

Provides researchers with first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, history, architecture, art, society, and events of historical Chicago and the American Midwest.

Includes pages from regular issues of the Daily Mail newspaper (1896 to 2004), plus the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition (1923 to 1931), viewable in full digital facsimile form. Major subject areas covered by this British newspaper archive include the First World War, women and gender, home and lifestyles, popular politics, and crime. It also contains advertising.

Contains the complete weekly issues of The Economist from 1843-2014. Includes advertising, full-color images, and multiple search indexes, along with the ability to browse through each issue. Users can search for cartoons, charts and graphs, drawings, and photographs, and supplements are also included. Covers political, economic, business, scientific, technological and cultural topics.

Provides access to the archive of the Edmonton Journal newspaper for the years 1903 to 2010. It includes articles, advertisements, obituaries, classified ads and editorial cartoons.

Contains the historical daily issues of the London edition of The Financial Times newspaper. Includes coverage of international business and finance issues, including industry, energy, and politics. Later issues include topics such as management, personal finance, and the arts.

Contains historical, digitized and full-image content, minus the last three years, from the Globe and Mail newspaper. Includes news stories, photographs, maps, advertisements, classified ads, political cartoons, and birth and death notices.

Provides researchers with first-hand accounts and opinions about significant political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past two centuries.

Includes all issues of the Illustrated London News. Covers topics such as the arts, discovery and exploration, fashion, industry and trade, military history, politics, sciences and medicine, social history, sport, transportation, and travel.

Contains the archive of the Canadian news and general interest magazine MacLean's. Provides a perspective on national and international affairs, and opinion and analysis on politics, economy and business, science and technology, society, arts and culture, education, and work. Includes indexing for articles and cover pages, with fully searchable advertisements.

Contains the complete archive of the Montreal Gazette from 1785 to 2010.

Provides first-hand accounts of the politics, society, and events on matters concerning New York City, the United States, and the world.

Comprised of digital reproductions of Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Contains the digital archive of the newspaper, The Telegraph, from the United Kingdom.

Contains the digitized, full-image version of the complete content of The Times newspaper since its inception in 1785. Includes every news story, photograph, map, advertisement, classified ad, political cartoon, and birth and death notice that ever appeared in The Times.

Provides first-hand accounts of the politics, society, and events on matters concerning the United States and the world, with a business focus.

Provides first-hand accounts of the politics, society, and events on matters concerning the United States and the world.