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No other resource gives you more insights from more perspectives. Gale Primary Sources allows you to discover original, firsthand content — meticulously cross-referenced to bring facts into focus and information to life in remarkable new ways.
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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Digitized primarily from the British Foreign Office Files FO 17 Series together with several volumes of Law Officers’ reports from the FO 83 series, this archive is a continuation of Imperial China and the West Part I, 1815–1881, providing scholars with valuable insight and detail into every aspect of Chinese-Western relations during 1865–1905, ranging from diplomacy to trade/economy, politics, military, Chinese emigration, law, and translation and language studies.
Key Facts
Date range: 1865-1905
Document types: manuscripts, maps, clippings, etc
Source library: The National Archives, UK. FO17 and FO83 files
Unique for its high-level of centralization and inter-departmental communication, the British intelligence and security services reached every corner of the world during a century of global conflicts, high-stakes diplomacy, and political upheaval. The files contained in Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence, Monitoring the World cover the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Central Intelligence Machinery at the Cabinet Office. The collection places the all-important work of signals intelligence in the Second World War alongside the central machinery of intelligence at the Cabinet Office. This unique archive provides extensive detail on the work of GCHQ, vital for the study of military history, intelligence and security, international politics and diplomacy of the twentieth century, and the global history of the Second World War.
Key Facts
Date range: 1914–1985
Document types: government documents
Source library: The National Archives, Kew
Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882–1986 provides the complete papers of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights. The collection, which is newly digitized, thoughtfully illustrates and contextualizes the story of indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada with a depth and breadth of content that is unprecedented. Because of the source collection’s origins in the late 1800s, a portion of the correspondence was handwritten. Gale’s HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) technology enables full text searching of the early history of The Indian Rights Association.
Key Facts
Date range: 1882–1986
Document types: correspondence, organizational records, pamphlets, legislation drafts, news clippings, photographs, manuscripts, field reports, and more
Source library: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
This unique collection, digitized for the first time ever, brings together records and briefs from 1891–1950 that have most influenced modern writing and thinking about American law and American legal history. The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Part II: 1891–1950 aims to address questions concerning the administration of justice, the adversary process, and the developing relationship between law and the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
Key Facts
Date range: 1890–1950
Document type: depositions, transcripts, arguments, records
Source libraries: New York City Bar Association Library, Yale University Law Library, University of Iowa Law Library
This fourth installment of the Women’s Studies Archive program focuses on female forerunners (both individuals and organizations) who have impacted society through social reform, popular culture, healthcare, and more. Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide highlights contributions of African American women with collections sourced from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Smithsonian Institution, and Amistad Research Center. This archive will cover individual women and organizations around the world who have broken new paths in society through business, social reform, popular culture, healthcare, and more.
Key Facts
Date range: 1741–1986
Document types: personal papers, periodicals, journals, manuscripts, and more
Source libraries: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), Amistad Research Center (Tulane University), Smithsonian Institute, Library of Congress, Mitchell Library (State Library of New South Wales), Senate House Library (University of London), Royal College of Nursing, The National Archives, Kew, London Metropolitan Archives
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 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 Intelligence, An Intelligence EmpireThis 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. |
Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the CaribbeanGale 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 of North AmericaThis 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. |
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 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. |
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