FULL-TEXT FILES: HISTORY

Room 201B, Wilson Library

• American
• European (East)
• European (West)
• General History
• Greek & Roman
• Medieval
• Russian

• AMERICAN:
  
  
  1. African-American Newspapers: 19th Century. (MG)
     This Accessible Archives database is designed to include the complete text of African American newspapers published during the 19th century. At present the CD includes Freedom's Journal (New York, N.Y., 1827-1830); Colored American (New York, N.Y., 1837-1842); North Star (Rochester, N.Y., 1847-1851); National Era (Washington, D.C., 1847-1860). The collection will eventually include more than 50 titles.
     
     
  2. The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective (RT)
     This CD contains the full text of over 11,000 articles (including over 700 graphic images of battlefield maps and illustrations) from over 2500 issues of newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865.
     
     
  3. The Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation (RT)
     A full-text, indexed Folio Infobase on CD-ROM containing annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to July, 1990.
     
     
  4. Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (1969-1973) (RT)
     Multimedia version with over 800 photos and more than 60 minutes of video along with audio narratives, all integrated with the text of the Diary (750,000 words). Every word is indexed and can be instantly searched.
     
     
  5. Harpweek (RT)
     An index to Harper's weekly magazine, presented in an alphabetical, multi-level structure familiar to scholars, reference librarians, and students alike. Also contains browsable full text of Harper's weekly and index to people by occupation or role in society. The U of M currently has access to 1857-1865 only.
     
     
  6. Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1783) (RT)
     Includes the full text of the Pennsylvania Gazette: 1728-1750, 1751-1765, 1766-1783 and 1784-1800. A selected topic index enables readers to search and retrieve text on major subjects. Organized as a series of records; each record is linked to a stored image of the original.
     NOTE: Helpsheet available.
     
     
  7. Presidential Papers (RT)
     A full text, indexed Folio Infobase on CD-ROM containing presidential papers from Washington through Clinton previously published in Messages and Papers of the Presidents and Public Papers of the Presidents.
     
     
  8. Women Writers Project (RT)
     Women's writing in English, 1330-1830. Project at Brown Univ. Access to list of 200 texts (print copies may be ordered; texts not yet available electronically).
     
     
     
• EUROPEAN (EAST):
  
  
  1. Kdo byl kdo v nasich dejinach ve 20. stoleti : multimedialni encyklopedie na CD-ROM (MBR)
     
     
  2. Lest We Forget: a History of the Holocaust (MBR)
     This CD includes archival documentary film footage, over 500 photographs, historical interactive maps and charts, original text with glossary and hypertext links, biographies, audio documents including Nazi speeches from German archives.
     
     
  3. Ottova encyklopedia obecných vedomostí na CD-ROM (MBR)
     Digital reproduction of the 28-volume Ottuv slovník naucný published 1888-1909. A basic encyclopedia for information on Czech and Slovak matters prior to the First World War.
     
     
     
• EUROPEAN (WEST):
  
  
  1. Beethoven Briefe CD-ROM. (LDB)
     Includes "all of Beethoven's known letters (1,789 items ... ), all available letters written to him (370 items ... ) and many documents written on his behalf by third parties (163 items ... ).
     
     
  2. Chancellor Metternich and His Time (LDB/MBR)
     CD-ROM published in collaboration with the Czech Archives Administration in Prague and the State Central Archive. Includes Metternich's extensive Memoranda, with information on significant political events, formation of coalitions, military affairs and peace negotiations during the Napoleonic wars, the origin of the Holy Alliance, the Congress of Aachen, the struggle for Greek independence, the new Spanish colonies, American Indians, naval pirates, activities of the Jesuits, the Jewish question and on the issues of mixed marriages between Catholics and Protestants. Documents, articles, memoirs, correspondence, memos, notes, newspaper clippings, leaflets and pamphlets are mostly written by Metternich himself. Includes 729 documents with 4681 pages and 1627 fully searchable bibliographic records.
     
     
  3. Emblem Manuscripts, 1630-1685: Affixiones of the Brussels Jesuit College in the Royal Library of Belgium (RK)
     Title list and images on CD-ROM of pages from Jesuit College collection of emblem manuscripts at the Royal Library of Belgium.
     
     
  4. French Revolutionary Pamphlets (LDB)
     
     
  5. Image of France Bibliography (LDB)
     Key-word indexing of the record of prints--engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etc.--published in Paris between the fall of 1811 and the end of 1817. Only prints issued separately without accompanying texts are listed; however, all varieties are included: caricatures, art reproductions, political portraits, religious cards, commercial labels, etc.
     
     
  6. Lest We Forget: a History of the Holocaust (LDB)
     This CD includes archival documentary film footage, over 500 photographs, historical interactive maps and charts, original text with glossary and hypertext links, biographies, audio documents including Nazi speeches from German archives.
     
     
  7. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (LDB)
     This CD includes 70 full-text volumes comprising 18,928 bibliographic units. The volumes include the International Military Tribunal, Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression, the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, and the final report to the Secretary of the Army by Telford Taylor.
     NOTE: Helpsheet available
     
     
  8. Women Writers Project (LDB)
     Women's writing in English, 1330-1830. Project at Brown Univ. Access to list of 200 texts (print copies may be ordered; texts not yet available electronically).
     
     
     
• GENERAL HISTORY:
  
  
  1. The Historical Text Archive (RT)
     Begun as an anonymous FTP server for historical documents in 1990. Includes pointers to original historical texts (and secondary materials). Three main areas: Regional or National History (eg Africa or Latin America), Topical History (Native American, War), and Resources (archives, databases, other history servers).
     
     
     
• GREEK & ROMAN:
  
  
  1. The Internet Classics Archive (BF)
     English translations, including Herodotus, Thucydides, and Tacitus.
     
     
     
• MEDIEVAL:
  
  
  1. Ambrosiana Archive (University of Notre Dame) (LDB)
     The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame possesses a photographic copy of the entire manuscript collection (12,000 MS) of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, as well as photographs and negatives of 10,000 drawings and 30,000 manuscript illuminations; and 8,000 color slides of drawings and illuminations.
     
     
  2. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (MP)
     "Presents transcriptions, collations and digitized images of all 58 pre-1500 manuscript and print versions."
     
     
  3. LMLO: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices: Resources for Electronic Research : texts. (CH)
     Written by Andrew Hughes and published by the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, "this unusual book maps new territory in many disciplines. It sets out concise but comprehensive methods for describing and recording liturgical material (nearly 1,500 complete offices are edited); for categorizing late medieval poetry (some 50,000 poems are analyzed); for indexing and comparing plainsongs (several thousand are nearly ready for release); and for making brief inventories of liturgical manuscripts (some 2,000 are in preparation). In addition, it presents a consistent system of sigla for referring to the libraries in which manuscripts are held (manuscripts from more than 400 libraries were used for this project)." Consists of book plus 3 disks.
     
     
  4. Monumenta Germaniae Historica (LDB)
     The Electronic Monumenta Germaniae historica is a "selection of texts from all five divisions of Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates)." This resource supplies primary texts on the Middle Ages and German history to 1517. "It is planned to expand the content of the CD-ROM annually so that the entire body of MGH editions will be available in this format within 10 to 15 years."
     
     
  5. ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: Library Connection: Sources of Primary Documents on the Internet (LDB)
     The full-text section of the ORB--which also includes The ORB Encyclopedia, Resources for Teaching, and The ORB Reference Shelf (Online Bibliographies and General Reference materials).
     
     
  6. Patrologia Latina (CHM or BF)
     Covers works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. Originally published by J.-P. Migne in 221 vols. from 1844 to 1855, with title Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina.
     Note: The print version is available in Wilson Library stacks: WILS Quarto 270.1 M58L; the CD version is available in Wilson Electronic Research Center; and we now have access over the Web to the Univ. of Michigan's online version.
     
     
  7. The Trinity Apocalypse (CHM)
     CD-ROM. Reproduction of 13th century illustrated ms. in Trinity College (Cambridge) of the book of Revelation from the New Testament with text accompaniments.
     
     
     
• RUSSIAN:
  
  
  1. SOVLIT Series II: History (MBR)
     Fully-searchable full text (available momentarily). The disk includes a number of works by Trotskii and others, and also parts of several journals--including Biulleten oppozitsii (1929-1941), Pod znamenem marksizma (1922), and Proletarskaia revoliutsiia (1921).
     
     
  2. Troia CD (MBR)
     "An electronic guide to the publications of the Russian State Historical Library; includes 1,200 articles, 800 color illus., and demo versions of 2 upcoming electronic publications from the library: "Moscow's Monasteries" and "The History of the Old Believers." Also includes material on the War of 1812, the Table of Ranks, and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. CD on order.