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Term Frequency

Researchers can see the frequency of search terms within sets of content to begin identifying central themes and assessing how individuals, events, and ideas interact and develop over time.

Term Clusters

By grouping commonly occurring themes, this tool reveals hidden connections within search terms—helping to shape research by integrating diverse content with relevant information.

Cross-Search Capability

Search across the content of complementary primary source products in one intuitive environment, enabling innovative new research connections.

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Archives Unbound

Since its inception in 2009 the Archives Unbound program has published more than 230 titles. The roots of the program are in microfilm, and the collection makes targeted collections of interest available to scholars engaged in serious research.

Gale Historical Newspapers

With access to over 15 million digitized, fully searchable facsimile pages, Gale Historical Newspapers offers researchers access to the views, opinions and reactions to over 400 years of major world events. Containing newspapers covering respected national dailies to provincial presses, amateur publications to multinational media agencies, early modern pre-newspapers to contemporary influencers, Gale Historical Newspapers provides the full history of the newspaper and complement many of the newspapers contained in other Gale Primary Sources archives.

American Fiction, 1774-1920

Explore the development of American literature in a changing culture through novels, short stories, romance, fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.

Archives of Sexuality & Gender

Archives of Sexuality & Gender, the largest collection available in support of the study of gender and sexuality, enables scholars to make new connections in LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, health, political science, policy studies, and other related areas of research.

Associated Press Collection Online

For more than 170 years, the Associated Press (AP) has delivered the news when and where it occurs. Together, the AP and Gale, a Cengage company, are making previously unseen news copy and footage available digitally to tell the stories of our past in vivid detail.

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture

Originally the personal library of the Brazilian diplomat, historian, and journalist Manoel de Oliveira Lima, the Oliveira Lima Library has long been regarded as one of the finest collections of the Luso-Brazilian materilas available to scholars. It's now accessible for students, educators, and researchers alike to delve deeper into Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

British Literary Manuscripts Online

This unique collection provides an intimate look into the lives and works of more than one thousand authors and delivers insights into the culture and context surrounding centuries of British literary achievement.

Chatham House Online Archive

Containing close to 90 years of high-level analysis and research on global events and issues from the leader in policy research on international affairs, this searchable online archive brings expert knowledge in international affairs directly to the desktops of researchers and students.

China and the Modern World

Explore unique, first-hand accounts of the cultural interactions and conflicts that gave rise to today’s modern China with essential primary source collections for researchers of China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, this collection presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice. This quintessential resource enhances understanding of the intersection of law and society during a pivotal era of social change.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library supports comparative approaches to the study of the Middle East and the Muslim world and inspires original research on Islamic religion, history, language, literature, and science. It is an essential resource for every major library needing Arabic primary source material for research, teaching, and learning.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind and an essential resource for advanced study of the eighteenth century, this collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800.

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean is an innovative resource for regional studies, combining primary and secondary sources to meet the needs and workflows of students and researchers. It gathers together instructive learning content with high-value, rare research material, giving regional studies an exciting perspective.

Indigenous Peoples: North America

This collection comprehensively covers the history of North American indigenous peoples and supporting organizations, enabling intelligent inquiry into the culture and heritage of more than seventy tribes within the United States and Canada.

The Making of Modern Law

The definitive collection features international and foreign primary sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, plus several hundred classics in European international law since the seventeenth century.

The Making of the Modern World

The Making of Modern World is invaluable for an understanding of the competition for empire and the projection of European power from 1500 to the early twentieth century. Explore the historical underpinnings integral to study of economics and European imperialism.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is transforming the teaching, learning, and research landscape. Heralding a new wave of discovery into the nineteenth century, NCCO includes collections from across the globe with content in multiple languages, richly representing Africa, Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and North America.

Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century

With a range of content focused on political extremism and radical thought in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America, Political Extremism provides a range of documents and audio recordings covering the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Over 600,000 pages of content, it is one of the first digital archives on far-right and left political groups.

Public Health Archives

Archives of the History of Public Health enable scholars to go beyond standard clinical studies while conducting public health research. Access to correspondence, government documents, books, pamphlets, ephemera, maps, and more allow in-depth examination of issues pertinent to both historical understanding and contemporary debate.

Religions of America

Religions of America presents scholars and researchers with more than 660,000 pages of content that follow the development of religions and religious movements born in the U.S. from 1820 to 1990. Derived from numerous collections, most notably the American Religions Collection at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Religions of America traces the history and unique characteristics of movements through manuscripts, pamphlets, newsletters, ephemera, and visuals.

Sabin Americana, 1500-1926

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, this digital archive provides a firsthand account of 450 years of history in the Americas, including discovery and exploration, slavery and European colonization, native peoples, wars of independence, religion and missionary work, social and political reforms, economic development, westward expansion, notable individuals, and much more.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

The most ambitious project of its kind, the content of Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is carefully reviewed by a renowned board of scholars and thematically arranged. It covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery: legal issues, the Caribbean, children and women under slavery, modes of resistance, and much more.

Smithsonian Collections Online

The Smithsonian, America's foremost research and cultural institution, has partnered with Gale, a Cengage company, to launch a series of collections from Smithsonian's vast archives. This partnership has yielded collections covering American history, science, world cultures, and more.

Sources in U.S. History Online

Sources in U.S. History Online is a thematically organized collection providing information surrounding important individuals, influential perspectives, religions, political operations, and warfare from the eras that have shaped the United States.

State Papers Online

Explore the full picture of early modern and 18^th century Britain and Europe: this major resource overcomes the fragmented experience of much historical research by combining papers with fully-searchable Calendars.

U.S. Declassified Documents Online

U.S. Declassified Documents Online offers unique insights into the inner workings of the US government. The collection brings together the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single, easily searchable database. This collection provides access to a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Women's Studies Archive

The Women's Studies Archive is an examination of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers us a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.