Scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes.

Over 150 primary source collections grouped under African American Studies, American Studies and Native American Studies, covering U.S. political, social, and military history at national and regional levels.

Transcripts of oral recollections of a number of major players in the Civil War interviewed between 1997 and 2001.

Significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945.

Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Images of original manuscripts and printed material from 1492. Includes thematic essays covering such topics as cultural contacts, trade, religion, race and colonialism.

Rare books, periodicals, pamphlets tracts. Insight into American political and social issues, religion, family life, medicine, education.

The lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living in the frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Covers 1650-1920.

Archive of detailed summaries of the world's political, social, and economic events beginning in 1931.

Digital images of legal treaties on US and British law published between 1800 and 1926.

Records of the ACLU focusing on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Post-war British and American popular culture. Includes manuscript sources, visual ,material, and video clips. Covers topics such as student activism and civil rights.

Original manuscrpts, rare printed material, and contextual essays on trans-Atlantic slavery,,slave resistance,and revolts, slave testimony, abolitionism, etc.

Facsimile of "The Moving Picture World" - influential trade magazine for the American film industry from 1907 to 1927. News, reviews, feature articles..

Records of the Virginia Company of London and Ferrar papers. Covers trade between Britain and America, and religious and social history of early modern England.