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Documents relating to American Indian history in the US, Canada and Mexico, including treaties, speeches and diaries, historic maps and travel journals, and artwork.

Primary source collections from Adam Matthew Digital spanning the 15th to 21st centuries. Collection themes include area studies, cultural studies, empire and globalism, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality, history, literature, politics, theatre, and war and conflict.

British government files spanning 1948–1980 including previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events from the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime.

International economic transactions data and International Investment Position, 1960-present.

United States government publications, 1976–present.

Historical documents including correspondence, intelligence reports, agents’ diaries, minutes, maps and newspaper excerpts offering insights into the impact of Great Power politics on the region, as well as the region’s peoples, cultures and societies.

Covering 1606 to 1822, this collection consists of the original correspondence of the American colonial governments with the British government, and addresses 17th- and 18th-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.

Covering the history of Caribbean territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870, this resource includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, and details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries, and the growing concern of absentee landlords.

These papers range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties, covering the modern period of European colonisation of the African continent from the British Government’s perspective.

Documents from the British government for Central and South America and the Caribbean. Topics include slavery, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars, fall of the Brazilian monarchy, business, industry, the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist rulers.

Formerly confidential government documents issued by the UK's Foreign & Colonial Office concerning its colonial holdings in the Middle East from 1839-1969.

Documents from the British government for United States, Canada, and English-speaking Caribbean. Topics include slavery, Prohibition, the World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, League of Nations, McCarthyism and the nuclear bomb.

CRS reports provide Congress with research and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational duties. Reports are nonpartisan and cover the full breadth of topics of interest to Congress.

An extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data. Datasets cover a wide range of subjects — including business, finance, banking, economics, sociology, political science, demography, agriculture, education, international studies, criminal justice, housing and construction, labor and employment, energy resources and industries, and more.

More than 93,000 declassified records documenting historic U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.

Provides figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners as well as area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world.

Collection of India Office Records from the British Library, containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.

Material in the collection spans across the globe and over five centuries, from the explorations of Columbus and other Europeans, through to de-colonisation in the second half of the 20th century and debates over American Imperialism.

Learn about America's communities through Census Bureau data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts. For each, topics covered include education, employment, health, housing, and more.

This resource is comprised of primary source documents in four thematic modules: "Personal Experiences," "Propaganda and Recruitment," "Visual Perspectives and Narratives," and "A Global Conflict."

British government files on events and issues dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, beginning with the overthrow of the millennia-old imperial system, heralding decades of turmoil in the region.

British government files on events and issues in South Asia (including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Maldives), from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980.

Formerly restricted British government files on events and issues dealing with Anglo-Japanese ties during a time of shifting alliances, incorporating the Taishō to the Shōwa periods.

British government files, following the establishment of an independent Malaysia, on the Cold War in the Pacific, trade relations, economic development, and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia.

Documents from the UK government cover the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of Middle East powers during the 1970s.

Personal papers, as well as government, business and legal documents, ranging from 17th century to the mid-point of the 20th century, documenting existence and consequences on the various frontiers that arose from the movements of Europeans to Africa, Australasia and North America.

Broad range of materials exploring the history of fifteen major commodities, examining how they have changed the world: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.

Provides detailed annual statistical data on revenue, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries.

Final versions of official federal publications from all three branches. From the Government Printing Office, Govinfo is the successor to the Federal Digital System (FDsys).

HathiTrust is a preservation archive with more than 17 million digitized items.

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Several legal and government collections including Law Journals; Federal Legislative Histories; the Foreign Relations of the United States; the Congressional Record; Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S.; Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law; LGBTQ+ Rights; and the History of Supreme Court Nominations, among others.

U.S. statistics (mostly at the national level) from over a thousand sources, with downloadable tables in .csv and .xls formats and the ability to create customized tables and spreadsheets.

Homeland security related documents from federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies.

Database providing access to case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.

Diaries, official and private papers, letters, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works concerning the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

Time series data for GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, payments balances, exports, imports, external debt, capital flows, commodity prices.

The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, including texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.

Complete coverage of Cabinet minutes and memoranda of UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s government.

Current news on all branches of the military and government, with cover-to-cover full text of nearly 300 journals and many historical documents. Dates of coverage vary

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides access to thousands of news, legal and business sources, including access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives.

UK government papers, primarily top-level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers during the period. Also material on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and the environment.

Compilation of hundreds of thousands of public opinion survey questions and responses, at the local, state, national, or international level, 1986 to present.

U.S. bills, laws, regulations and some Congressional hearing testimony, 1988 to present.

Searchable collection of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys collected by the major polling firms in the U.S. since 1935, with downloadable datasets.

Easy-to-use social and demographic data for all 50 U.S. states for the past 15 years that can be mapped, graphed, or exported to Excel.

Search 55 million data points from across the UN system, covering economic, social, financial and development data, 1945 to present.

This project presents the more than 3,000 items of the Ferrar Papers, relating to the Virginia Company of London's establishment of colonial settlements in North America during the 17th century.

US and foreign newspapers, 1980s to present (dates of coverage vary). Also includes legal encyclopedias & legal analysis, federal and state court cases and statutes, and law reviews, 1789 to present.

Over 550 development indicators (people, economy, environment, global, states and markets), time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups, 1960 to present.