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History Vault This link opens in a new window
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Primary source archival materials, including letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diariesfrom the University Publications of America (UPA) Collection. Also known as |ProQuest History Vault|.
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Primary source collections in the social sciences and humanities. Collections the University of Alberta Library subscribes to are also listed individually in the database lists.
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Consists of topically-focused digital collections of historical documents from the Middle Ages forward.
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Making of Modern Law (The): Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 This link opens in a new window
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Making of Modern Law (The): Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970 This link opens in a new window
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Also known as: |The Making of the Modern Economy|
Making of Modern Law (The): Primary Sources, 1620-1970 Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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Making of Modern Law (The): Trials 1600-1926 This link opens in a new window
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Examples include trials involving Dred Scott, John Peter Zenger, Susan B. Anthony, Oscar Wilde, the Boston Massacre, Lizzie Borden, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Bounty mutineers, Salem witchcraft, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Aaron Burr, John Brown and Alfred Dreyfus. Includes full text of books and pamphlets and other documents, and subjects covered include adultery, commercial law, conspiracy, constitutional law, crimes against persons, domestic relations, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, libel, military offenses, murder, slavery, theft, torts, treason and wills. In addition to works pertaining to English-speaking jurisdictions such as the United States, Britain, Ireland and Canada, English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions such as France are included. Books encompassing multiple trials are included as well as books about a single trial. Books about general trial procedures, legal doctrines and advocacy methods are excluded, as are books about crimes not resulting in trials.
Making of Modern Law (The): Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832-1978 This link opens in a new window
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Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
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Legacies of British Slave Ownership - University College London

Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
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Colonial America This link opens in a new window
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Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 This link opens in a new window
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China : Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
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