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

Publications from the CMS and the South American Missionary Society 1804-2009. Insights on missiology, cultural encounters, medicine and health, education, gender and families. Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania are strongly represented.

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

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.

Newsreels produced by Time inc between 1935-1967, recording global events and bringing them to big screens and later, to television.

Video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide - the Holocaust, Armenian (1914-23), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Tutsi (1994), Guatemalan (1978-96) and Cambodian (1975-79). Note: you will need to register on the home page.

Collection from encylopedias, periodical articles, historical maps, atlases, and primary documents. Covers antiquity to the present.