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Gale Primary Sources brings the thoughts, words, and actions of past centuries into the present for a comprehensive research experience. With authoritative content and powerful search technologies, this platform has been thoughtfully designed to help students and researchers examine literary, political, and social culture of the last 500 years and develop a more meaningful understanding of how history continues to impact the world today. All of the collections on the Gale Primary Sources platform are meticulously indexed to improve discovery, analysis, and workflow for every user who is looking to push past the traditional boundaries of research. Learn more about our curation practices >>
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This unique slice of the American experience, supplied in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society provides a history of the American people and a testament to the growth of the nation from the colonial period to the twentieth century. The periodicals in this release focus on American concerns and include rare, oversized periodicals not previously scanned simply due to their large format. A recent Society acquisition of a substantial corpus of illustrated periodicals is also included. Rounding out the new collection are titles from the society’s own significant periodical holdings.
Key Facts
Date range: 1812–1976
Document type: Periodicals
Source: American Antiquarian Society
Initially focused on the financial and economic issues that were to become the predominant forces of the twentieth century, the Financial Times (FT) now rates as our preeminent international business daily, tirelessly reporting the foundational economic and financial events that have shaped the world for the past 130 years. FT’s unmatched reputation makes it an ideal companion to classroom instruction in a range of multidisciplinary subject areas. Every London edition issue, price and stock index, currency table, supplementary magazine, and special report are collected in this comprehensive folio of peerless business reportage—now with a new update spanning 2017 through December 2021, available for existing customers of the archive.
Key Facts
Date range: 1888-2021
Document types: Newspapers, special reports
Source: Financial Times
This wide-ranging collection forms the first part of State Papers Online Colonial, a digitization of the British Colonial Office’s files (CO series) of documents now housed in The National Archives in the United Kingdom. These documents record Britain’s administration and governance of Asian countries, their international relations across the period, and the changing demographics and daily life of their inhabitants. Colonial history continues to influence these now-independent countries today through chosen strategic alliances, institutional structures, and how they deal with the repercussions of their colonial legacy. These documents, mined with the help of cutting-edge handwritten text recognition (HTR) technology, explores that legacy through a vital new lens.
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Date range: 1570–1967
Document types: Original correspondence, entry books of incoming and outgoing letters, confidential print, maps
Sources: The National Archives, United Kingdom
Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, this collection includes the most comprehensive range of national, regional, and local newspapers printed in Great Britain during this time that has ever been available in a digital program. Ideal for a historical review that supplies a telling counterpoint to purely Anglo-British narratives found in British national dailies, the issues compiled here provide irreplaceable firsthand voices to political, social, and cultural events throughout Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. This collection is comprised of 108 unique titles of various sizes and aimed at supporting the growing number of North American university programs in Irish studies.
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Date range: 1783–1950
Document type: Newspapers
Source: The British Library
Since its first publication in 1910, Times Educational Supplement (TES) has proven to be one of the world’s most trusted and best-known education newspapers. More than a leading publication on primary and secondary education, it serves as a trove of important opinions, reviews, findings, and reportage on matters both related to and often beyond pedagogy, educational reform, and social policy. To complement Gale’s holdings with the Times family of newspapers, the new historical archive will collect the full run of TES through the twentieth century.
Key Facts
Date range: 1910–2000
Document type: Newspapers
Source: Times Educational Supplement
This completely new standalone archive presents political ephemera and organizational material produced in over 70 countries around the world in an effort to demystify decolonization as a historical process. The documents herein help researchers target specifically the changing or adapting of systems from an imposed imperial or colonial structure after 1945 and up to the present day. They also shed light on the politics and processes of national political developments that followed decolonization, as well as the individuals who rose to power in the new systems, through which the former colonies negotiated their own agency and their own futures.
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Date range: 1898–2017
Document types: Pamphlets and ephemera, including political campaign material such as manifestos, press releases, conference documents, reports, letters, and speech transcripts
Sources: Senate House, United Kingdom; Trade Union Congress Library, London Metropolitan University (subject files); and Nuffield College, University of Oxford
The third entry into this award-winning series exhaustively delivers rare, firsthand narratives chronicling communist, socialist, and Far Left groups and figures across the world’s capitalist nations. Explore political ideologies such as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Trotskyism, and anarchism across different countries, as well as the world’s response to the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet Union, and the Red Scare.
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Date range: 1766–2004
Document types: Correspondence, periodicals, manuscripts, books, personal papers, organizational records, letters and newsletters, pamphlets, and ephemera
Sources: University of California, Davis; Senate House Library, University of London; Yale University; Harvard Law School Library; New York University; The British Library; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and independent labor publications
Archives UnboundSince its inception in 2009 the Archives Unbound program has published more than 300 titles. The roots of the program are in microfilm, and the collection makes targeted collections of interest available to scholars engaged in serious research.
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Archives of Sexuality and GenderArchives of Sexuality and 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 OnlineFor 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 CultureOriginally 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 materials 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 OnlineThis 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. |
China and the Modern WorldExplore 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 |
Chatham House Online ArchiveContaining 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 file archive brings expert knowledge in international affairs directly to the desktops of researchers and students. |
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920With 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. |
Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British IntelligenceThis collection brings together files from five UK government departments to provide researchers with access to detailed, previously classified information on the intelligence services of Britain and her Empire throughout the twentieth century. |
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British LibraryEarly 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 OnlineThe 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 Historical NewspapersWith access to 15 million digitized facsimile pages spanning more than 400 years, Gale Historical Newspapers offers an unparalleled window to the past around the world. |
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History Sixteenth to Twentieth CenturyArchives of Latin America and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century consists of over 1.3 million pages of archival material covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. The extensive range of sources included ensures it meets the needs of researchers, postgraduates, and undergraduates with interests in regional studies, history, political science, anthropology, sociology, economics, and international relations. |
Indigenous Peoples of North AmericaThis archive has been crafted with the expert guidance of an international advisory board to support research into the history of native peoples from the sixteenth century into the twentieth century, through a diverse range of document types ranging from newspapers to census records. |
National Geographic Virtual LibraryNational Geographic and Gale, a Cengage company, have partnered to bring vast resources to digital life with National Geographic Virtual Library. Now libraries can offer access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of books, maps, images, and videos. |
Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineNineteenth 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 RadicalismThis series provides insight on unorthodox groups and movements from right and left of the political spectrum through rare material, helping researchers explore governmental and societal systems and the environment that created them, their origins, and their adversaries. |
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970 provides scholars with materials that explore the fight for a national health care plan from the end of the Depression well into the 1960s. Content covers medical economics and sociology, medical care, legislation, and the role of key organizations and individuals. The collection’s documentation of the evolution of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at local and federal levels supports the examination of our past while considering outcomes for our future. |
Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War IIRefugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950 through correspondence, reports, studies, organizational and administrative files, and much more. It is the first multi-sourced digital collection to consider the global scope of the refugee crisis leading up to, through, and after World War II. |
Religions of AmericaReligions 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: History of the Americas, 1500–1926Based 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. |
Smithsonian Collections OnlineThe 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. |
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational ArchiveThe 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. |
Sources in US History OnlineSources 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, 1509-1714State Papers Online, 1509-1714, published in four seamless parts, offers researchers a groundbreaking online resource for understanding two hundred years of British and European history, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne. |
State Papers Online Eighteenth Century, 1714 -1782State Papers Online, Eighteenth Century gives researchers and students unprecedented access to British government records during the Age of Enlightenment. |
The Making of Modern LawThe 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 WorldThe 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. |
Women's Studies ArchiveThe 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. |
U.S. Declassified Documents OnlineU.S. Declassified Documents Online offers unique insights into the inner workings of the U.S. government. The collection links 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 declassified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
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