LibGuides: Archives and Special Collections: Other MA Archives

Digital Archival Databases (On-Campus or by Proxy)

Gale Primary Resources: Archives of Sexuality & Gender This link opens in a new window
Documentation of LGBTQ history through fully-searchable newsletters, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources.
Gale Primary Resources: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
Gale Primary Resources: Slavery and Anti-slavery: A transnational archive This link opens in a new window
Consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries.
Gale Primary Resources: The Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-2012 This link opens in a new window
Online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2012.
Gale Primary Resources: Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new window
As a comprehensive academic-level archival resource, Women’s Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities will focus on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Washington Post Historical Archive (1877-2007) This link opens in a new window
Full-text historical coverage.
Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (1889-2011) This link opens in a new window
Full image access to the historical archive of the Wall Street Journal.
Boston Globe Historical Archive (1872 - 1991) This link opens in a new window
Full text and full image archive.

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Other Archives in the Area

American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is an independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Worcester Historical Museum
Worcester Historical Museum (WHM) is the only institution devoted to local history. It includes a research library of over 7,000 titles, an archive that houses thousands of documents, and a collection of artifacts, all vital to the study of Worcester history.
Massachusetts Historical Society
Founded in 1791, the Massachusetts Historical Society is an independent research library and an invaluable resource for American history, life, and culture.
Massachusetts Newspapers
Massachusetts Archives Searchable Collections

More Digital Archives

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg has full-text copies of eBooks in the public domain. Some include scans of the original text, although most are in plain text format that can be used on all devices.
Digital Transgender Archive
An online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
Archive.org
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
ArchiveGrid
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 398 billion archived web pages.
National Archives and Records Administration
Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth