Historical Books: Overview

"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom."

A digital library of over 10,000 primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

This collection follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth — the driving force behind many of the major historical events during the period (1450-1850). With full-text search capabilities on an abundance of rare books and primary source materials, this resource provides unparalleled access to more than 61,000 books and 466 serials — more than 12 million pages in all — many of which are the only known copy of the work in the world.

Book digitization project including mainly public domain works held by major library systems around the world. The great majority of works available in full text were published before 1923.

Similar to Google Books. Smaller but with higher quality images and some items not available elsewhere online.

An effort to index every book ever published. It includes publication, author and date information as well as links to full text versions provided by the Internet Archive and some other sources.

like Google Books, but supported by contributing research libraries. Texts published before 1923 are in the public domain and freely available for reading and downloading.

Digital book collection of over 1,000,000 mostly out of copyright books, including books written in many languages but focusing on Chinese language, Indian language and English language works.

Legal treatises, trials, government documents, abolitionist works, historic home economics literature, and much more.

Encompasses prose fiction written by Americans from colonial times to the early twentieth century. Includes nearly all of the works found in Lyle H. Wright’s American Fiction: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography.

This collection follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth — the driving force behind many of the major historical events during the period (1450-1850). With full-text search capabilities on an abundance of rare books and primary source materials, this resource provides unparalleled access to more than 61,000 books and 466 serials — more than 12 million pages in all — many of which are the only known copy of the work in the world.

Includes Legal Treatises, American Fiction, Nineteenth Century British Culture and Society, and other works