Age of Exploration

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Explore five centuries of global exploration through primary sources -- ship logs, diaries, maps, manuscripts, rare books, correspondence, and early film footage. Covers Columbus to the polar expeditions, with interactive high-resolution maps of historic voyages.

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Explore 26,000 digitized British pamphlets from the 1800s via JSTOR, drawn from seven UK university collections. Covers politics, economics, anti-slavery, colonial policy, and social reform -- over a million pages of primary source material for 19th century British history.

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Acta Sanctorum

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Full-text searchable digital edition of all 68 volumes of Acta Sanctorum -- the definitive collection of Catholic saints' lives, published 1643-1940. Includes original Latin texts, critical apparatus, and commentary organized by feast day. Essential for medieval studies.

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Adam Matthew Digital Collections

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Afghan Serials Collection

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Browse 2,500+ issues of 46 Afghan newspapers and journals from the 1970s-1990s in Persian, Pashto, Arabic, Urdu, and English. Documents every political era from the republic through Soviet occupation to civil war -- a unique window into Afghan media and ideology.

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