American Civil War: Letters and Diaries

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100,000 pages of Civil War personal accounts from 2,000+ writers -- Union and Confederate soldiers, nurses, enslaved people, politicians, generals, and spies. Many manuscripts published for the first time. Searchable by gender, race, allegiance, military rank, and more.

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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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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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