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Primary Sources
- 19th Century US Newspapers Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowSearch digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers using advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
- Archive.orgContains digitized history collections of primary sources.
- East View Global press Archive:Contains Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese newspapers (currently free to access)
- Google Book Search Many full text books, many that just have excerpts and snippets.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust is a massive full-text digital library comprising more than 10 million volumes contributed by more than 60 major research institutions and libraries.
- Ling Long MagazineHas useful primary sources on middle class lifestyles in the 1930s in Shanghai.
- Marxists' Internet ArchiveContains digitized writings that include Chinese leftists and intellectuals.
- PRC HistoryLinks and resources for studying the history of the PRC.
- Virtual Shanghai PlatformContains digitized images and historical material on Shanghai (esp. before the 1950s).
- YMCA ArchivesUse the "search collections" tool to search for China. These records are provided by the University of Minnesota.
Secondary Scholarly Sources
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBest database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- Google Book Search Many full text books, many that just have excerpts and snippets.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
- WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowWorldCat includes records for books, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books and music, electronic books, sheet music, genealogical references, cultural artifacts, digital objects, Web sites and much more. Contents from Milne Library and other libraries worldwide in over 470 languages.
