Primary sources from the 15th-21st centuries, including the social sciences, humanities, global history, popular culture, history of media, gender and sexuality, trade history, borders and migrations, and war and conflict.

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Search across newspapers and digitized collections of primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, including ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, The Times of London, The Illustrated London News, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, and many more. Covers 1604 - present (varying by source).

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This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan.

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Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes historical newspapers, government documents, books, ephemera, and the like. Includes content of: Propaganda and the Chinese Press collection; and American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam collection.

A centralized means for discovery and access to Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, books, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, reference material and dictionaries, dissertations, patents, and more.

Historical newspapers. Contents include: Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (1912-1949).

China Academic Journals and Century Journal Project of CNKI provides full text and full images of Chinese-language journals.

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A collection including foreign newspapers on microfilm, on paper, and digital. Filmed material may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.

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HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and digitally accessible. A major source of digitized books and other documents. Some of the collection if available for free to all, and additional content is available to Carleton faculty, staff, and students.

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Full-text and full-image articles for major newspapers from the United States (including Historical Black Newspapers); plus ABC (Spain), Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post (formerly the Palestine Post), The Korea Times, London Evening Standard‎, South China Morning Post, and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1827.

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Haldore Hanson, Carleton College class of 1934, worked as a freelance war correspondent when Japanese troops invaded China in 1937. This is the collection of photographs he took while working in China between 1937 and 1938.

Contains monthly and annual socioeconomic statistics at the national, province, county, and city-levels from China. Includes annual statistical yearbooks and industrial statistics. Carleton access is limited to the "China Statistics" portion only. Covers 1949 - current.

China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS, project was launched in January 2001 at Harvard University to establish a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.