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Filed under: Archives

Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Church history -- Sources

Analecta Sacra Spicilegio Solesmensi Parata (7 volumes (1-6 and 8; v7 never published); in Latin, Greek, and French, with titles varying somewhat; 1876-1891), ed. by J. B. Pitra, contrib. by Saint Hildegard
Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History (London: P.S. King and Son, 1905), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Diplomatics

Die Älteren Papsturkunden des Erzbistums Hamburg: Eine Diplomatische Untersuchung (in German; Hamburg and Leipzig: L. Voss, 1909), by F. Curschmann
- page images at Harvard
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: History, Ancient -- Sources

De l'Histoire Profane dans les Actes Grecs des Bollandistes: Extraits Grecs, Traduction Française, Notes, avec les Fragments Laissés Inédis par les Bollandistes (in French; Paris: F. Didot, 1874), ed. by A. Tougard (page images at HathiTrust)
Records of the Past: Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (new series, 6 volumes; London: S. Bagster and Sons, ca. 1888-1892), ed. by A. H. Sayce
Records of the Past: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, Published Under the Sanction of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (12 volumes; London: S. Bagster and Sons, ca. 1873-1881), ed. by Samuel Birch

Filed under: World history -- Sources

Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History (London: P.S. King and Son, 1905), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes -- History -- Sources

Cartulaire des Abbayes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (cartulary in Latin, with introduction and notes in French; Le Mans: Typ. E. Monnoyer, 1881), ed. by Congrégation de France (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: African Americans -- History -- Sources

Basic Documents on the Black Struggle (documents from 1939 and 1948 reprinted ca. 1970), ed. by C. L. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Angola -- History -- Revolution, 1961-1975 -- Sources

The Decision to Stay: The Prime Minister's Reply to the Tribute Paid to Him by the Province of Angola on 13 April 1966 (Lisbon: Secretariado Nacional da Informacao, 1966), by António de Oliveira Salazar (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Angouleme (France) -- History -- Sources

Les Comtes Héréditaires d'Angoulême de Vougrin Ier a Audoin II (869-1032) (in French; Angouleme: L. Coquemard et Co., 1905), by J. Depoin (PDF at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)

Filed under: Antisemitism -- History -- Sources

Anti-Semitism (Organized Anti-Jewish Sentiment): A World-Survey (Los Angeles, CA: American Nationalist Publications, 1934), by Ingram Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Arab countries -- History -- Sources

Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications (Document collection #2; New York: Arab Information Center, 1958), ed. by Arab Information Center (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Argentina -- History -- 1535-1617 -- Sources

Gobernación del Tucumán: Correspondencia de los Cabildos en el Siglo XVI: Documentos del Archivo de Indias (in Spanish; Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1918), by Tucumán (Argentina : Gobernación), ed. by Roberto Levillier, contrib. by Antonio Rodríguez del Busto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Argentina -- History -- 1776-1810 -- Sources

Archivo General de la República Argentina (second series, 14 volumes in Spanish: Buenos Aires: G. Kraft, 1894-1899), ed. by Adolfo P. Carranza

Filed under: Argentina -- History -- English Invasions, 1806-1807 -- Sources

Archivo General de la República Argentina (second series, 14 volumes in Spanish: Buenos Aires: G. Kraft, 1894-1899), ed. by Adolfo P. Carranza

Filed under: Argentina -- History -- To 1810 -- Sources

La Audiencia de Charcas: Correspondencia de Presidentes y Oidores; Documentos del Archivo de Indias (3 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: Impr. de J. Pueyo, 1918-1922), by Charcas (Audiencia), ed. by Roberto Levillier, contrib. by Adolfo Bonilla y San Martín and Enrique Ruíz Guiñazú (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Argentina -- History -- War of Independence, 1810-1817 -- Sources

Archivo General de la República Argentina (second series, 14 volumes in Spanish: Buenos Aires: G. Kraft, 1894-1899), ed. by Adolfo P. Carranza
Documentos del Archivo de San Martín (12 volumes in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Impr. de Coni Hermanos, 1910-1911), ed. by Museo Mitre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Armenia -- History -- 1901- -- Sources

Armenians in Ottoman Documents, 1915-1920, by Turkey General Directorate of Ottoman Archives (HTML at loc.gov)

Filed under: Armenia -- History -- 428-640 -- Sources

John Mamikonean's History of Taron, by John Mamikonean, trans. by Robert Bedrosian (HTML at attalus.org)

Filed under: Asia -- History -- Sources

Records of the Past: Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (new series, 6 volumes; London: S. Bagster and Sons, ca. 1888-1892), ed. by A. H. Sayce

Filed under: Asia, Central -- History -- Sources

Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule, by H. B. Paksoy
- HTML in Italy
- text files with commentary at Euronet

Filed under: Assyria -- History -- Sources

Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (2 volumes: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926-1927), by Daniel David Luckenbill
- Volume I (Historical Records of Assyria From the Earliest Times to Sargon): PDF at Chicago
- Volume II (Historical Records of Assyria From Sargon to the End): PDF at Chicago
Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study (1916), by A. T. Olmstead (Gutenberg text)
Annals of the Kings of Assyria, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge and L. W. King (page images at Chicago)
Records of the Past: Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, Published Under the Sanction of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (12 volumes; London: S. Bagster and Sons, ca. 1873-1881), ed. by Samuel Birch
Une Relation de la Huitième Campagne de Sargon (714 av. J.-C.) (in French; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1912), ed. by F. Thureau-Dangin
- PDF at ETANA
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: Athens (Greece) -- History -- Sources

Marmor Sandvicense, Cum Commentario et Notis (in Latin and Greek; Cambridge, UK: I. Bentham, 1743), ed. by John Taylor
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Augusta County (Va.) -- History -- Sources

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800 (3 volumes: Rosslyn, VA: Commonwealth Printing Co., c1912), by Lyman Chalkley (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Autodesk, Inc. -- History -- Sources

The Autodesk File (4th Edition), ed. by John Walker (HTML at Fourmilab)

Filed under: Babylonia -- History -- Sources

Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings: Including Records of the Early History of the Kassites and the Country of the Sea (2 volumes; London: Luzac and Co., 1907), ed. by L. W. King
The Royal Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad (New York: Pub. for the American Oriental Society by the Yale University Press; et al., 1929), by George A. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Abu Habba Cylinder of Nabuna'id (V Rawlinson Pl. 64) (inscription in Akkadian, notes in English; Leiden: Late E. J. Brill, 1905), by King of Babylonia Nabonidus, contrib. by Robert J. Lau and John Dyneley Prince
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Historical Fragments (1922), by Leon Legrain (PDF at ETANA)

Filed under: Balkan Peninsula -- History -- Sources

Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of South-Eastern Europe (Turkey #1; Printed for H.M.S.O. by Harrison and Sons, 1903), ed. by Great Britain Foreign Office
Monumenta Historica Slavorum Meridionalium Vicinorumque Populorum (2 volumes, in Latin and other languages; 1874-1882), by Vikentīĭ Makushev
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only

Filed under: Bergama (Turkey) -- History -- Sources

Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period: A Study in Greek Epigraphy (New Haven: Yale University Press; et al., 1934), by C. Bradford Welles (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Bolivia -- History -- To 1809 -- Sources

La Audiencia de Charcas: Correspondencia de Presidentes y Oidores; Documentos del Archivo de Indias (3 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: Impr. de J. Pueyo, 1918-1922), by Charcas (Audiencia), ed. by Roberto Levillier, contrib. by Adolfo Bonilla y San Martín and Enrique Ruíz Guiñazú (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Sources

A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources

A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Boston Public Library -- History -- Sources

Upon the Objects to be Attained by the Establishment of a Public Library: Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1852, by Boston Public Library (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: British -- India -- History -- Sources

Diary and Consultation Book, by Madras (India : Presidency) (partial serial archives)

Filed under: British -- Japan -- History -- 17th century -- Sources

Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623; With Other Documents on the English Trading Settlement in Japan in the Seventeenth Century (Tokyo: The Sankosha, 1900), ed. by Naojirō Murakami and Kengo Murakawa, contrib. by William Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Buddhism -- Thailand -- History -- Sources

An Account of King Kirti Sri's Embassy to Siam in Saka 1672 (1750 A.D.) (Bangkok: Siam Observer Office, 1908), trans. by P. E. Pieris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Buffalo (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources

The Book of the Museum (Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society v25; 1921), ed. by Frank H. Severance (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Bury St. Edmunds (England) -- History -- Sources

The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds, and Great Grimsby Corporations; and of the Deand and Chapters of Worcester and Lichfield, &c. (HMC 14th report appendix, part 8; London: HMSO, 1895), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
- multiple formats at archive.org
- transcription, with notes on 20th-century document locations: HTML at British History Online

Filed under: California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Sources

Three Years in California, by Walter Colton
- PDF and XML at loc.gov
- page images at MOA
McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
Sketch of a Three Years Travell in South America, California and Mexico, by Eugene Ring (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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