British Colonial Files
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of the Middle East including Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Persia, Sudan, Suez Canal, Syria, and Turkey. Covers 1812 - 1969. - Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Africa. Covers 1834 - 1966.
- South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)Contains historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of India Office publications, books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.
- Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through full text and subject indexing)
Collection of House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports of Committees and Commissioners, House of Lords, Public Petitions from 18th Century through today. Visit the Collection Guide for more information.
Newspapers
- Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes the collections: Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994; international newspapers and translated broadcasts in FBIS & JPRS; and African and South Asian newspapers in the World Newspaper Archive.
- Readex Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994Translated journals, newspapers, scientific reports, and radio and television broadcasts from 19 countries in North Africa and the Middle East covering cultural, economic and political developments within the regions.
- Global Press Archive -- Middle East and North African NewspapersHistorical Newspapers. Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, both World Wars, and the establishment of the state of Israel.
- CRL Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
A collection including foreign newspapers on microfilm, on paper, and digital. Filmed material may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan. - Access World News This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
A comprehensive current news database, contains hundreds of local, regional, national, and international news sources (including the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minneapolis Star Tribune). - World News Connection This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and the full text)
Translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources from around the world. Covers 1995-2013. - MideastWire.com This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
An archive of concise, translated briefs covering key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab Diaspora. Covers 2005 - current.
Manuscript Collections (many in original language)
- Digital Library of the Middle East This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by an engineering team from CLIR and Stanford Libraries, the platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world.
- Islamic Heritage Project
- This link opens in a new window
A collection of digitized Islamic primary sources from Harvard University.
- Arcadian Library Online This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Primary sources reflecting the shared cultural heritage of the Middle East and the West. Includes: Europe and the Ottoman World and History of Science and Medicine. - CRL: Center For Research Libraries This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan. - Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Contains texts, sound recordings, still and moving images, maps, and sheet music from the Library of Congress that document American History.
NOTE: The Library of Congress has migrated all collections from the American Memory Project into this new platform.
