The collection includes over 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and Global Lens. There are also some 50 award winning short films.

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This digital resource brings to life the reality of the First World War for the men and women who experienced it firsthand. Containing digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources, this resource provides a rich seam of information on personal experiences of war. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond.

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The Learning Commons will be a tech-infused comfortable study space and one-stop academic help center...with good coffee!  The project is a collaboration of the Provosts Office, UI Libraries and ITS to create an intellectual hub for undergrads at UI. For more information about the Learning  Commons go to the Learning Commons website, or view our recent blog posts.

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Global Commodities: The story of 15 different commodities, from chocolate to oil to wine, is told in this new database by Adam Matthew. Each commodity is documented through a wide range of manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, ephemera, objects and rare books so that the student can explore the origins of the commodity, their first uses, the trade that developed and the ways in which these items were marketed and consumed. The project touches on themes of exploration and discovery; imperialism and attempts at monopoly; trade Wars; translocation and economic geography; slavery; mass production; luxury; taste; and the evolution of global branding.

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Created from the Library Company’s acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection—an accumulation that began with Benjamin Franklin and steadily increased throughout its entire history—this unique online resource will provide researchers with more than 12,000 printed works. These essential books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, hold an unparalleled record of African American history, literature and culture.

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NCCO provides literally millions of pages of primary resource material, as well as a collection of European literature, from the "long" 19th century, roughly 1790-1918. The first four (of a projected 12) archives are: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and, European Literature 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection. The latter contains 9,000+ titles by popular and obscure writers, especially some lesser-known women writers.

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Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 covers the whole of modern British involvement in North Africa and the Middle East: from the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.

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Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 covers the whole of the modern period of European colonization of Africa: from coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.

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Volumes in the Cambridge Companions series are collections of essays aimed at providing introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, composers, topics, and periods.

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The HCPP database provides access to millions of pages of historical documents produced in the course of British parliamentary business from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. The eighteenth-century material includes Lords as well as Commons publications, Journals, and Private Acts from 1688 to 1834. In addition to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Commons sessional papers, HCPP includes full text of reports of debates in Lords and Commons published in Hansard from 1803 to 2005 as well as the Parliamentary RegisterM of debates from 1776 to 1805.

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