Library Research Guides: HIST 233: In Search of the Enlightenment: Home

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Browse the links on these pages to find resources for your assignments in this course.

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Digitized Books Online

HathiTrust
digital library by major research institutions & libraries, with freely searchable content as well as some "sneak-peek" (copyrighted) content.

Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
All material fully searchable because in the public domain; texts, audio, video, photographs. Amazing source.

Google Books
mostly "sneak-peek" viewing of books in copyright, but some pre-1923 material in the public domain that is fully viewable. Use peek to identify what you need to borrow.

Primary Sources

(Mostly) British Sources

Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th century, with full-text searching. Includes foreign-language material.
Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
EEBO contains searchable and browsable page images of virtually every work printed in the English-speaking world from 1473 to 1700, as well as some items printed after 1700.
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) This link opens in a new window
Full text of journals published from 1665-1995. Note: includes British journals.
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Searchable facsimiles of the literary, philosophical, political and scientific journals and magazines of the era. Read what the Enlightenment thinkers were reading!
Times Digital Archive, 1765-2010 This link opens in a new window
Full text of the Times of London, 1765-2007. More conservative than the Guardian/Observer.
Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003 This link opens in a new window
Digitized full-text of the British newspaper The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003). More working-class focused than the Times of London.

17th-19th Century British Religious, Political & Legal Tracts
20,000+ pamphlets digitized by the University of Missouri
EuroDocs
Rich array of digitized material organized by country, then chronologically
The Enlightenment: Modern History Sourcebook
Wonderful portal to primary source Enlightenment documents online, arranged by topic. Fordham University
Gallica
French national digital library, includes French and Francophone African newspapers
The Super-Enlightenment Project
Database of 36 important French Enlightenment texts IN FRENCH - browse by topic or search. Stanford University Libraries project.

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