LibGuides: History: By Topic

Economics

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020 This link opens in a new window
The Economist Historical Archive offers an invaluable perspective on the great events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editorials, news, commentary and letters that afford insight into British, European, American, and world affairs
Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new window
'The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1915' provides digital facsimile images on every page of 62,400 titles of literature on the history of economics and business published from 1450 through 1915.

Digital Archive | Wilson Center
The Digital Archive contains declassified documents from various nations pertaining to international relations and diplomacy. It supports three Wilson Center projects on the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation.
National Security Archive Virtual Reading Room (George Washington University)
Declassified government documents.

The Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI)
"The Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI) is an online searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey."
Slave Voyages
Essays, maps, video, timeline and chronology related to the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery: legal issues; the Caribbean; children and women under slavery; modes of resistance; and much more.

Discovering American Women's History Online
"This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s." - From the database homepage

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
'Organized around more than 2,300 documents, more than 800 images and almost 800 links to other websites, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers and scholars to study American History.' --- access limited to the CCNY Community

Women Working, 1800-1930
"Women Working, 1800–1930 is a digital exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented in this online research collection from Harvard University."

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive
This archive contains almost 100,000 original manuscript items (correspondence, journals and reports) that document the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Visitors may search and browse texts and use GIS tagging, interactive maps, and a timeline.