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 Northwestern
Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students,
and staff)
- ARTFL,
Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the
French Language (University of Chicago)
Includes numerous projects, such as a full-text
version of Diderot's Encyclopedie, and a set of digitized Pamphlets
and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848, done in collaboration
with the University of Chicago and the Center for Research Libraries.
- Avalon Project (Yale
Law School)
Includes full-text of selected documents
in history, law, and diplomacy, ranging from pre-18th through the 20th
centuries.
- British History
Online
Digital library of core medieval and early modern sources, from the Institute
of Historical Research (University of London) and the History of Parliament Trust.
- ECCO:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
A comprehensive
digital edition of The Eighteenth Century,
the world's largest microfilm library of
the printed book. ECCO, when complete, will
include digital versions of nearly 150,000
English-language titles and editions published
between 1701 and 1800; it will ultimately
allow full-text searching of over 33 million
pages of English-language and foreign-language
titles printed in the United Kingdom, along
with thousands of important works from the
Americas.
- Encyclopedia of
Diderot and D'Alembert
Based at the University of Michigan
Library, contributors to this project are creating an online version
of the Encyclopedia translated into English, with links to the
original French versions.
- EuroDocs.
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
- French Revolution Research Collection
The library owns Parts 5,
9, and 12 of the microfiche set of this name, and the printed guides
to sections 1-9, and 11-12 (guides available in Newspaper/Periodical
room, L 944.04
F873). The collection has now been digitized, and is
available via Gallica. To search the digital collection, go to http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Under "recherche libre", type in "French Revolution
Research Collection," or you can search by a specific document
title.
- Gallica
Digital
Library from the Bibliotheque Nationale
de France.
- Iberian
History, Digital Archives
Portal to numerous sources, including docuemnts, data files, primary and secondary
literature. Includes new links to Spanish Digital Archives.
- Intute (formerly Humbul Humanities Web)
Provides access to web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners.
- Papers of Sir Joseph Banks
Selections from the explorer Joseph Banks' papers are available in digital
form from the State Library of
New South Wales and from the National
Library of Australia.
- Voice of the Shuttle
Listings of resources in a variety of disciplines
- WESSWeb
Hosted by the Western European Subject Specialists (WESS) group of the American Library Association, this site provide links to outstanding resources for the study of Western European countries, both past and present. Includes, but is not limited to:
- British Studies Web
- French Studies Web
- German Studies Web
- Iberian Studies Web
- Italian Studies Web
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
Research Guides A-Z -> Directory of Subject Specialists
Last updated: 10/03/07
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