Archival Research Catalog (ARC) Galleries of online content through the National Archives and Records Administration (United States).
Licensed collections
The following collections of primary source material are licensed by UBC Library. For information on connecting from home, please see https://guides.library.ubc.ca/connect/openathens
Will ultimately comprise over 50,000 primary source documents supported by a range of secondary resources including chronologies, essays, and video lectures.
From the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library - includes papers of early pioneers & explorers; original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon; evolution of Western towns & growth of railway & road networks
Topically-focused collections of historical documents in digital format. Five NEW collections including Intelligence Reports from the NSCâs Vietnam Information Group and more.
Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.
Includes a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.
110 source documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century supported by introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.
The DNSA is the most comprehensive collection of primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 94,000 declassified documents - more than 650,000 pages - are included.
The complete British Foreign Office Files for the period concerning China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)Permitted Uses Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Printed Course Packs? No.
The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men between c1550 and c1850: a phenomenon which influenced British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.
Drawing upon the wonderfully rich and diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this collection looks at History of South Asia.
Street culture and the underworld of Victorian London during the nineteenth century from primary sources housed in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Full-colour images of medieval manuscripts from the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers. Includes, where available, searchable full-text transcripts from the principal printed editions.
An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.
Papers from the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem. Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925) was one of the first Americans to live in Japan.
USA. Original historical documents (18th - 20th century): treaties, ratified treaties, related correspondence, chronological list of treaties. Indexes place, tribe. Photos from 1898 Indian Congress by Frank A. Rinehart.
An important portal for slavery and abolition studies. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, social justice issues and the continued existence of slavery today.
Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)Permitted Uses Research or Private Study? Yes Linking? Yes Learning Management System? Yes Printed Course Packs? Yes.
A collection of primary sources, together with interpretive essays, describing popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930.
Documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, and other sources.
Documents from the Colonial Office and the Dominions Office relating to i) the status of native colonial women and ii) the debate over universal suffrage throughout the British empire.