Aggregators by Subject
GeneralEndangered Archives Programme (British Library) - Links to a large number of online collections from archives around the world 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 amfAR Archives - AIDS archives Resources History of Western Medicine in China, Resources Portal (IUPUI)
CultureGetty 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) 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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