Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Full-text Electronic Archives

• American Memory Collection [Library of Congress]

  Selected digitized full text and image files from the Library of Congress collections. Includes selections from Presidential papers, Congressional documents, maps, pamphlets music and photographs from significant social, cultural and political movements.

• Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, & Diplomacy

  Coverage: BCE- current
  The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Coverage includes documents from ancient history to the present.

• British History Online

  Coverage: 11-19th c.
  British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. Includes both free and "premium" fee-based content.

• Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

  The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web. Very much a work in progress, the database will initially provide links to hundreds of manuscripts, which we expect quickly to grow to thousands. Basic information about the manuscripts is fully searchable, and users can also browse through the complete contents of the database. As the project develops, a richer body of information for each manuscript, and the texts in these codices, will be provided, where available.

• CyberCemetery [Archive of government websites that have ceased operation]

  The CyberCemetery is an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report). The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office, as part of the Federal Depository Library Program, created a partnership to provide permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.

• Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland [Queen's University, Belfast]

  Coverage: 1801-1922
  EPPI Project features a comprehensive searchable database of Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland 1801-1922, with bibliographic information, Library of Congress subject descriptors and, for a significant selection of items, abstracts of contents.

• Government Documents A-to-Z Digitization Project [University of North Texas]

  Coverage: pre-1960
  The A-to-Z Digitization Project is an on-going effort to digitize pre-1960 government documents. The project is being done alphabetically, starting with the call number A, which includes agricultural documents.

• Historic Government Publications from World War II: a digital library

  Coverage: 1939-1946
  SMU Central University Libraries, part of GPO's Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), have digitized hundreds of historical World War II publications and photographs and made them available to the public.

• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

  In conjunction with the Thurgood Marshall Law Library's strategic plan to enhance its civil rights collection in support of the School of Law's teaching and research mission, the Library has worked since 2001 to create a complete electronic record of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications held in the Library's collection and available on the USCCR Web site. The publications are made available over the Internet as page image presentations in PDF format.

• In the First Person : An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.

  Coverage: 1550-current
  In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 300,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life.

• Internet Archive

  The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Includes resources from the Palinet Mass digitization Collaborative. Material includes moving images, music, audio, and text files.

• Local History Resource Wiki

  Coverage: current
  A collection of links relating to regional Maryland history with an emphasis on Baltimore. Includes contact and collection information for libraries, museums, historical societies as well as locations of historical newspapers, oral histories, digital images and illustrations, and online documentary projects.

• Maryland State Archives

  The Maryland State Archives is the historical agency for Maryland and serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value. Records date from the founding of the colony in 1634 to the 1990s. Open to the public. Located in Annapolis.

• National Archives Records [on Footnote]

  Coverage: varies
  Digitized records from the National Archives. Collections are varied: Continental Congress, Civil War pensions, FBI documents, Southern Claims Commission, Brady photographs, others. see also http://www.nara.gov/

• Nuremberg Trials Project: A digitial document collection

  Approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity. The first stage of the project presents documents from and relating to the Medical Case, which was Case 1 of the NMT trials. The Medical Case (U.S.A. v. Karl Brandt et al., also known as the Doctors' Trial) was held in 1946-1947 and involved 23 defendants accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other medical procedures inflicted on both civilians and prisoners of war.

• Old Bailey Online: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913

  Coverage: 1674-1913
  A fully searchable edition of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. The project is a collaboration between the Open University, and the Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield.

• Old English Corpus

  Coverage: cumulative
  The Corpus comprises over 3000 different texts (all surviving OE material, excluding some variant texts).

• Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)

  Coverage: N/A
  A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

• Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810

  Coverage: 1740-1810
  Probate records provide valuable information about the lifestyles of people during the colonial and early national periods.Included in the database are 325 inventories of the household items that provide insight into furnishings, dining habits & behavior

• Religious Texts. Compendium of Muslim Texts

  The Compendium of Muslim Texts has been one of the most frequently cited sources of hadith and is the most complete compilation of hadith available to the public. A searchable database of both compilations is available.