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Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845The Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 component of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP) provides web access to digital copies of Australian serials first published between 1840 and 1845. Fiction published during the same period has also been digitised. These titles are available as searchable text from the University of Sydney's SETIS site at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/acdp.html
Australian War Memorial Collection and Biographical DatabasesA collection of databases covering rolls, manuscripts, the catalogue, photographs, sound recordings etc.
CAN: Collections Australia NetworkCollections Australia Network: The Collections Australia Network (CAN) portal, which has superseded AMOL: Australian Museums and Galleries Online, is intended to be the public gateway to collecting institutions across Australia including the small to medium regional institutions.
Primary Source Media: This collection of American government documents comes from various agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others. The major domestic and international events of the post-World War II world are covered in information by and for presidents, senators, and congress members. All were classified. Some were top secret. Every one of them can be searched to see what was removed -- and what was left in.
Digger History : An Unofficial History of the Australian & New Zealand Armed ServicesTed Harris: This site covers all conflicts with details of Australian and New Zealand soldiers as well as enemy soldiers. It includes information about uniforms, medals, posters and signs, badges, armour, military history, colours and flags, planes, tanks, weapons, food, nurses, poetry, and humour.
Documenting a DemocracyCommonwealth of Australia: This website's aim is to trace the development of Australian democracy through the key documents directing the constitutional paths taken so far. The eight State and Territory government archives planned and produced this website in partnership with the support of Australia's National Council for the Centenary of Federation. Collected on this website are the sets of documents which tell the story of Australia's democracy.
Readex and American Antiquarian Society: Covering American history and literature through the colonial period to 1800, this database is a full-text digitisation of the microform set, Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography. For decades, the collection has served as the definitive resource of information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, slavery, temperance, witchcraft and just about any other topic imaginable. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.
Readex: Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.
Readex: Web-based archive of Americana that features images and full-text content from many historical newspapers. Based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, it concentrates primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.
Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineGale Group: This 18th century online collection is divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and fine arts - social sciences; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; reference. It is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800 are available including key works such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Also available on microfilm (reels 1-5600) at mfm 1651 (Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room).
The Library holds a large range of primary and secondary resources relating to the history of Australia. This guide contains selected print works only.
These are selected sites for researching Australian history on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian history resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.
Mura Gadi is an online catalogue of the National Library of Australia's manuscript, pictorial and oral history resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Though it does not list the many books, periodicals and other publications in the Library relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, these materials can be found using the Library's online catalogue at http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/
Ship and passenger records are found throughout the National Library in books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, microform, pictures, maps and electronic media. Material includes information on ships, voyages, shipping companies, shipping and passenger lists and registers, shipwrecks, whaling, shipping arrivals and departures in Australian ports, logs, journals, diaries and voyage narratives, and ships' illustrations.