Electronic primary resources at KU
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926An online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana covers a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Eighteenth Century collections onlineEighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Parts I and II, comprises over 200,000 printed volumes. It includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas produced in the 18th century.
Spanish language diccionaries
- Diccionario de AutoridadesThe Diccionario, published between 1726 and 1739, was the first dictionary edited by the Royal Spanish Academy.
- Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (Dictionary of the Spanish Language)Published in 1611, this is the first general monolingual Spanish dictionary.
Online primary resources
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesA large-scale digital library project, hosted and maintained by the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain. It comprises the largest open-access repository of digitised Spanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world. (Humbul, 2006)
- The Humboldt Digital LibraryA virtual research environment on the works of Alexander von Humboldt. A project by the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg and University of Kansas
- The World Digital LibraryThe World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
- Biblioteca Digital Hispanica -Colección Historia de AméricaWorks selected by D. Carlos Malamud regarding the history and colonization of Iberoamerica. It includes key recompilations manuscripts from Columbus diaries, Hernan Cortes, works of Bartolome de las Casas, the manuscript of Diego Duran, the chronicles of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo and Alexander von Humboldt.
- Biblioteca Digital Hispanica -Colección Mapas de AméricaThe collection is composed of blue prints, sailing charts, maps of geographical discoveries, first settlements or the creation of infrastructure (railways, telegraph…) between the XVI and XIX centuries.
- The John Carter Brown LibraryThe purpose of the John Carter Brown Library is to preserve and collect books and other recorded information on the discovery and settlement of the Western hemisphere.
- Early Americas Digital ArchiveThe Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is a published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), at the University of Maryland.
- The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791This site contains the entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows BrothersCompany, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume. The original work has facing pages in the original French, Latin or Italian, depending on the author.
- A Treasury of Primary DocumentsA collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals. This collection includes items like literature and documents most relevant to the colonists' lives in America.
- Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820Vistas brings the visual culture of Spanish America online, offering a unique collection of paintings, sculptures, architectural monuments and objects from daily life. Spanish America once covered much of the Americas, from California to Chile. Its visual culture was forged in urban centers, religious and frontier communities, and indigenous towns.
- Hispanic Reading Room: Exhibits and Digital CollectionsThe Hispanic Reading Room is the primary access point for research related to the Caribbean, Latin America, Spain and Portugal; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage, including Latinos in the U.S. and peoples of Portuguese or Spanish heritage in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
- Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital CollectionsRecovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage ("Recovery") is an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960. The program has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and ephemera produced by Latinos. The holdings available at the project include thousands of original books, manuscripts, archival items and ephemera, a microfilm collection of approximately 1,400 historical newspapers, hundreds of thousands of microfilmed and digitized items, a vast collection of photographs, an extensive authority list, and personal papers.
- PARES Portal de Archivos EspañolesA portal and database created by Spain's Ministerio de Cultura containing more than twenty million documents and digital images from the principal Spanish archives, including the Archive of the Indies and Archive of the Spanish Civil War.
- David Rumsey Map CollectionThe David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.