Research Databases A-Z
Most subscription databases are only accessible from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation computers.
Filter databases:
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities & Social Sciences Collection | Search a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the humanities and social sciences. The database includes bibliographic citations for nearly 2.5 million works, with about 1.25 million of these available in full text. |
| Revolutionary War and Early America: ProQuest History Vault | Search primary source material from the Massachusetts Historical Society, including Revere Family Papers, Hancock Family Papers, French and Indian War Orderly Books, and Revolutionary War Orderly Books. |
| Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection | Search the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets that form the Bodleian Library's Nichols newspaper collection. Covering the period 1672-1737, the collection charts the development of the press in England. |
| Slavery And Anti-Slavery Digital Archive, Parts II and III | Search primary sources related to the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the 19th century. Part II charts the inception of slavery and its rise as perpetuated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Part III explores in detail the inner workings of the institution of slavery from 1492 to 1888. |
| Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice | Search primary sources from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world related to slavery, abolition, and social justice. |
| Sources in U.S. History Online: The American Revolution | Search primary documents from the time of the American Revolution, including official correspondence, personal letters, collected writings of key figures, speeches, memoirs and narratives of soldiers and civilians, histories, and biographies. |
| Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War: ProQuest History Vault | Search primary source material focusing on the experience of enslaved individuals in the Antebellum South. The collection includes material from the important microfilm collection "Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution to the Civil War" as well as material exploring the experience of enslaved individuals in a variety of industrial enterprises. |
| Virginia Company Archives | Search the "Ferrar Papers," 1590–1790, and The Records of the Virginia Company. |
| Washington Papers Digital Edition | A landmark in historical scholarship, The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers the full content of 75 letterpress volumes in a single online publication. |