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Gale Primary Sources brings the thoughts, words, and actions of past centuries into the present for a comprehensive research experience. Watch the video to see how we develop partnerships for, curate, digitize, index, and optimize Gale Primary Sources.
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.
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American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society provides a history of the American people and a testament to the growth of the nation from the colonial period through to the twentieth century. Offering multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America through the eyes of those who lived it, the collection shows how history affected citizens from all walks of life. The 260 new and gap-fill periodicals in Part VIII cover subject areas such as agriculture, arts and literature, business and commerce, children and young people, entertainment and society, ethnic communities, health and medicine, history, immigration, refugee movements, and religion.
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Date range: 1810–1926
Document types: Periodicals
Source: American Antiquarian Society
These British Colonial Office files, whose scanning benefits from Gale's handwritten text recognition technology document the United Kingdom's administrative history of the region of Singapore and western Malaysia from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s, providing insights into international relations, changing demographics, and the daily life of colonial and native inhabitants. Researchers will find coverage of policing, education, forestry, the rubber industry and Rubber Research Institute, Chinese and Indian immigration health, opium trade, native affairs, political intelligence, and more. These documents also showcase how colonial history continues to influence these now-independent countries through chosen strategic alliances, manners of conduct, and institutional structures today.
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Date range: 1759–1966
Document types: Handwritten and typed manuscripts with some printed documents, maps, and plans
Source: The National Archives, UK
The American Civil War is increasingly considered a major nineteenth century event not just in American history but also in global politics, with ramifications for the future of slavery and ideas of popular, democratic government. The standalone collection The American Civil War: The International Context demonstrates the involvement of European nations in the American Civil War, including their internal discussions, reactions to approaches from Unionists and Confederates, the challenges and advantages the American conflict brought, and its impact on politics and society.
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Date range: 1860–1875
Document types: Correspondence, newspapers, commercial and trade papers, manuscripts and personal papers, legal briefs
Sources: The National Archives, UK; British Library; Library of Congress; Archives Centre, National Museums Liverpool, UK; Somerset Archives, UK; and more
A compilation of 39 series of mostly British Foreign Office (FO) files, this collection includes general correspondence and registers composed by the British legation in Beijing as well as British consulates based in more than 20 Chinese coastal and inland treaty ports. China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1830s–1950s provides a significant compendium of historical documents and forms an ideal complement to Imperial China and the West, Part I and II. Researchers will find valuable insight into Chinese-Western relations primarily from 1830 to 1950, ranging from diplomacy to trade, economy, law, and politics.
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Date range: 1830s–1950s
Document types: Correspondence, deeds, registers, reports, and photographs
Sources: The National Archives, UK
With titles spanning two pivotal centuries, the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757–1817) and digitized in Part I represent the largest single collection of seventeenthand eighteenth-century English news media available anywhere. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part II completes the digitization of the original Burney collection and expands coverage to additional titles and issues contemporaneous with Burney.
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Date range: 17th and 18th centuries
Document types: Newspapers and news pamphlets
Sources: British Library
Covering approximately 180 years of history, this latest module in the British Library Newspapers series consists of 36 newspapers and periodicals digitized from the British Library’s abundant Asia, Pacific, and Africa collections, including 15 titles from Malaysia, 6 from Singapore, 10 from Myanmar, and 5 from Thailand. These newspapers and periodicals offer a multifaceted lens through which to examine the region’s history, providing valuable insights into the colonial and postcolonial experience, local political movements, social changes, and everyday life during a crucial period of Southeast Asia’s development.
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Date range: 1806–1977
Document types: Newspapers and periodicals
Source: British Library
This unique collection covers disaster response and community preparedness in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) network. Records outline relief services to refugees and displaced persons after major conflicts, aid in the wake of natural disasters, public health campaigns and medical services following disease outbreaks and epidemics, and more.
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Date range: 1919–1997
Document types: Mission reports, project details, operational files, internal circulars and bulletins, and journals
Source: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva
For over a century, Chatham House, the official address of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, has been at the heart of international debate. A world-leading think tank offering independent analysis and research on international affairs, it has helped the leading players in international affairs and organizations make informed decisions about national, regional, and global issues. A key component of this archive is the collection of texts, audio recordings, and transcripts of major figures in global politics speaking at Chatham House from 1920 to the present day.
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Date range: 2009–2019
Document types: Speech text and audio and video recordings; expert commentary; the journals International Affairs and The World Today; Chatham House books, reports, briefing papers, and pamphlets
Source: Chatham House, UK
Perspectives on the Chicano Movement is the inaugural collection of the brand-new archive series Latino Social and Political Culture and History. This archive highlights the Chicano/a experience in the United States, focusing on activists such as César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, and other leaders of the Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento. It provides unique insights into important organizations and movements, such as the United Farm Workers, efforts toward land reclamation, and student movements against discrimination in education.
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Date range: 1861–2019
Document types: Organizational papers and records, correspondence, manuscripts and personal papers, letters and newsletters, pamphlets, ephemera
Sources: Denver Public Library; Hagley Library, Wilmington, DE; Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University
Continuing Gale’s relationship with the Royal Archives following State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, this latest installment of State Papers Online includes over 800 files of the official papers of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII on subjects relating to The Sovereign as Head of State, including correspondence with prime ministers and other senior ministers on domestic and foreign affairs from 1837 to 1911. The papers serve many topics of current interest, including Queen Victoria’s influence on colonialism, attitudes about race, and the balance of power
between Britain and Europe as well as King Edward VII’s influence on diplomatic relations and army reform.
Key Facts
Date range: 1837–1911
Document types: Letters and correspondence
Source: Royal Archives, Windsor Castle
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. |
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth TerritoriesCrucial to research related to processes and movements of decolonization are the voices of local players who helped forge their country’s new direction. In this collection of firsthand perspectives, researchers can explore decolonization as a historical process in which over 70 countries and territories emerged from colonial or imperial structures into independence. |
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. |
Environmental HistoryExplore the long history behind these contests that join advocacy to action and pit public policy against human behavior, including the development of environmental protections, disaster response strategies, and international trade rules. Follow the rise of the modern conservation movement in Gale’s Environmental History series. |
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 CenturyThis archive 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. |
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 ResettlementWith nearly 70 million individuals dislocated by war, famine, and environmental disaster, refugee crises have been, and will continue to be, a highly visible part of our global reality. But understanding and addressing what the future holds requires reckoning with the past. In the series Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement, Gale opens a window into the history of refugees and forced migration so that the thousands of scholars and students who will study—and possibly work with—refugee populations may look profitably to the primary source record of the past to help them navigate the present and the future. |
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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