Aggregators by Subject
GeneralEndangered Archives Programme (British Library) - Links to a large number of online collections from archives around the world Institute of Historical Research, Digital Resources World Digital Library - The Library of Congress’s online digital database of digitized books from around the world Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study, Univ. of London) Databases for e-books and open access journal access Internet Archive Book Images on Flickr - Over 2.6 million searchable images taken from books in the public domain Radical online collections and archives (New Historical Express) - communism, socialism, labour, anti-racism, etc. HathiTrust Digital Library - Millions of books online. Especially good on the Americas Internet archive - huge collection of books, films, websites, etc.
Medical DatabasesWorld Health Organization - 1950-present, reports and publications Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - Digital collection from Harvard University Libraries Medical Humanities and History of Medicine (McMaster University) Medical Heritage Library - Images, books, etc. - a fantastic resource Medicine in the Americas - Digital library of texts covering evolution of American medicine, 17th-20th centuries Wellcome Library, Digital Collections - topics include asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse amfAR Archives - AIDS archives Resources History of Western Medicine in China, Resources Portal (IUPUI)
CultureWellcome Library, Recipe books - history of medicine & science Getty Images - Online archive of still and moving images (fee for use in publications) Visualizing Cultures (MIT) - resource for image-driven scholarship and learning
By EraPre-1945Early Modern Resources - A research portal for the period 1500-1800 Harry Ransom Center Digital Collections (University of Texas) - c. 15th-17th centuries Primary source databases relating to World War II, compiled by Daniel Todman (QMUL) Post-1945Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson Center) Cold War International History Project Digital Archive (Woodrow Wilson Center) Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archive Hoover Institution Digital Archive History Lab - Freedom of Information Archive WikiLeaks - A huge, largely unsorted and unread collection of sources for contemporary histories
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