Easy access to a wealth of historical primary source materials

Our expanding Archive of Americana—a fully searchable online family of historical materials printed in America between 1639 and 1980—features more than 2,000 newspapers, landmark collections of government publications and more than 100,000 books, broadsides and ephemera.

Our acclaimed digital edition of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports offers online access to the U.S. government's fundamental record of political and historical open source intelligence between 1941 and 1996.

Created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries, our World Newspaper Archive will include historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and East Europe, South Asia and other regions.