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From the University of Chicago and its Collaborators

• American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776 (Northern Illinois University)
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Black Thought and Culture [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Early Encounters in North America [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 University of Chicago and Filson Historical Society through American Memory
• Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
• Illinois during the Civil War (1861-1865) (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
• Illinois during the Gilded Age (1866-1896) (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
• Lincoln/Net (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
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• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
• Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country 1673-1818 (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
• La Révolution et l'Empire from Bibliopolis (Access Control)

Local Non-Networked Databases

• Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui (BIA) Call number: XXKJA147.B526 2002. The CD-ROM will be available from Regenstein Reserve. You may charge out the CD and use it at home or at USITE.
• Epigraph: A Database of Roman Inscriptions (CIL VI) Call number: CN520.E65 1992. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve. You may charge out the CD and use at the Mac CD-ROM workstation in Regenstein Library, RR4Cla.
• Marx-Engels. Ausgewählte Werke (Digitale Bibliothek). Call number: HX39.5.A121 1998. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve.
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH). Call number: DD3.M8E44. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve. You may charge out the CD and bring it to the CETEDOC workstation in Regenstein Library, RR4Cla, Room 470. Insert the CD into the drive marked "eMGH" and click on the appropriate icon. A helpsheet is available.
• Propyläen Weltgeschichte (Digitale Bibliothek). Call number: D20.P76 1999. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve.

Remotely Available Texts

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
• Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Historical Voices
• History E-book Project [Via UofC Proxy] from ACLS (UofC-Access Only)
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) [Via UofC Proxy] from Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Full-Text
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Full-Text Sources
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Full-Text Sources
• Library of Latin Texts [Via UofC Proxy] (UofC-Access Only)
• Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery (Penal Laws) (University of Minnesota)
• Making of America
• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 [Via UofC Proxy] UofC-Access Only)
• The Making of the Modern Economy: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 [Via UofC Proxy] (UofC-Access Only)
• Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 [Via UofC Proxy] Gale (UofC-Access Only)
• Ut per litteras apostolicas... Lettres Pontificales / Papal Letters [Via UofC Proxy] from Brepols. (UofC-Access Only)
• Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 (University of Minnesota)
• WWW-VL History: Electronic Texts (University of Kansas)

See also the Library's Subject Guide to History