Full-text ebooks on a wide variety of topics. Search by title or browse by category.

Subjects covered, include American History, Current Events and Issues, Literature, Military History and Studies, Multicultural and Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Science, Technology and the Environment, and World History.

Featured Series titles include: Daily Life Through History; Family Like in the Middle Ages; Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers; American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography; Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries.

The three major types of documents in this database are monographs of books and pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers and periodicals. A sample of the type of collections in Archives Unbound:

East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
Global Missions and Theology
JFK Foreign Affairs and International Crises, 1961-1963
Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
The Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations
Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China relations, 1989-1993
Witchcraft in Europe and America
U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents arranged by collections and categories. Subjects covered include Africana, American History, American Literature, Asian Studies, British History, Economic History, European History, International Affairs, Irish History, Judaism, Labor and Social Welfare, Latin America, Middle East, Native Americans, Religion, Science/Medicine, Women/Gender, World History, and more.
Coverage: 1500-present

C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 18.9 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index – a comprehensive source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
Alternate Name:
Nineteenth century Short Title Catalogue: NSTC
Coverage: 19th Century

Includes seven reference titles from CQ Press: Congress and the Nation; Historic Documents Series; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; Supreme Court Yearbook; Vital Statistics on American Politics; and the Washington Information Directory.

Covers nearly 60 years of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency; the most important primary source documents from the last three decades; current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries; unbiased profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress, including key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information; sixteen years of expert coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court, including case summaries of every opinion during each court term; over 10,000 current contacts in federal, congressional, and state government offices, nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, and foundations; and key data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more.

Coverage: 1945-present

It includes over 3 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips.

Part of the ABC-CLIO eBook Collection, each Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers in this collection provides author background; character, plot, theme analysis, and a complete bibliography of books, selected reviews, and criticism.

Each Critical Companion provides insight into more than 400 titles by 46 of today’s most widely read contemporary authors.

Alternate Name: ABC-Clio eBook Collection
Coverage: 1990's-present

Scholarly essays on 26 different cultures from ancient Greeks and Romans to Chaucer's England and Colonial America.

This is part of the ABC-Clio eBook Collection. Daily Life Through History gives a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history.

Alternate Name: ABC-Clio eBook Collection
Coverage: From the acient world to the present

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, Early American Imprints consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides.

Information about every aspect of life in 17th and 18th-century America, from agriculture and bankruptcy through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable.

Coverage: 1639-1800

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Included in the collection are 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

Coverage: 1473-1700

Included are many ebooks from small and academic presses. Almost all of them can be checked out and downloaded.The easiest way to view EBSCO eBooks is to read them online.

A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera—with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.

History, Geography, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, Science and Technology, Philosophy.

Coverage: 1700-1799

Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias, covering the arts, business, education, the environment, history, law, literature, medicine, nations, religion, sciences, and social sciences.

HeritageQuest includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses (over 140 million names), more than 20,000 book titles, including over 24,000 family and local histories, and the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), a widely recognized resource guide, updated annually, that covers more than 6,300 genealogy and history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. Other collections include the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank Records, and the U.S. Serial Set.

Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

Coverage: 1700's-present

Provides access to scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Includes cross searching with Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online and Something About the Author Online.

Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Comprehensive coverage of much-studied topics like Modernism, Romanticism, Gay and Lesbian Literature, the Holocaust, Magic Realism and hundreds more.

Coverage: 1400-present

Titles in the series: The Adventures of Huck Finn; Black Boy; Catcher in the Rye; The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; The Great Gatsby; Hamlet; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Julius Caesar; Literature of World War II; Lord of the Flies; Macbeth; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony; The Pearl; Othello; Pride and Prejudice; Romeo and Juliet; The Scarlet Letter; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Things Fall Apart; and To Kill a Mockingbird.

This is part of the ABC-CLIO eBook Collection. The Literature in Context series is a collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.

Coverage: 2005-present

Oxford Digital Reference provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences.

Each handbook from Oxford University Press takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.

Oxford Handbooks are available in four subject modules: Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

Coverage: 2000-present

Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to over 4,200 Oxford eBooks in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion and Social Work.

Downloadable chapters (pdf) for off-line viewing.

Coverage: 2000-present

This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents, with over 6 million pages from 29,000 works. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography.

Includes original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, and much more.

Coverage: 1500-1926

A collection of over 300 subject encyclopedias and handbooks from Sage Publications.