World History (Gale in Context)
This link opens in a new windowOffers comprehensive reference content on the significant people, events and topics in World history. Topics are arranged by source type, time periods, event types, civilizations and religions. Contextual material is accompanied by biographies of leading figures, source types and related topics.
Defining Documents in American History
This link opens in a new windowPrimary Source collections organized by topic:The 1930'sThe Gun DebateThe Salem Witch TrialsThe Underground RailroadVoter's Rights Watergate Worker's Rights
Databases from the Boston Public Library
Requires a membership at the Boston Public Library
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies (BPL)
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery (BPL)
Primary sources on the transatlantic slave trade and the global abolitionist movement, including contemporary books and periodicals, British, Spanish, and American colonial and legal records, manuscripts, correspondence, the papers of abolitionist organizations, and other materials from the collections of research institutions around the world.
Includes essays, chronologies, reference and biographical articles, and bibliographies to support and contextualize the primary source material.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (BPL)
This resource features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. It is designed to support a wide range of students, as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S.—and the fights against it.
Slavery in America and the World (BPL)
Primary and secondary legal and historical materials on the institution of slavery, primarily in the United States and the English-speaking world.
Includes every relevant colony, state, and federal statute and all reported state and federal cases on slavery, as well as historical and current periodical articles and commentaries, book reviews, and an extensive bibliography of additional print and electronic sources.
Census reports data,in addition to population and housing censuses,. Also provides data on pauperism; the deaf, blind and insane; education; employment and other topics.