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History Commons

Landmark collections of primary sources delivered on an award-winning, next-generation platform

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Step into the stories that shaped our world

History Commons presents a curated universe of landmark primary-source collections presented on Coherent Digital’s award-winning, next-generation platform. 

From protest movements to political revolutions, events covered in the collections open doors to deeply human narratives and untold truths. Whether you're diving into the Social Justice and Culture Series, exploring North American histories, or uncovering the layers of European transformations, this is where researchers, students, and educators engage with history in vibrant, searchable, unforgettable ways.

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LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture
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Social Justice and Culture Series

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Exclusive and previously undigitized files on a next-generation platform

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Seamlessly scroll, rotate, adjust aspect ratios, and zoom to an astonishing one thousand percent for a closer examination. It’s almost like holding the physical document.

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Our accessible, modern, mobile-responsive platform works on all browsers, with most documents loading in under a second. Advanced search features include Boolean operators, NEAR proximity searches, and wildcard truncation.

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Upload your own content for free

Upload your content or links to other digital resources. We'll enrich, index, and publish your item with a permanent identifier in seconds. Thanks to our partnership with Google Scholar, your content will be discoverable to millions of researchers.

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"It is a fantastic system...by far the best digital archive I have used."

David Kaufman, Lecturer in International History & Co-Programme Director, The University of Edinburgh

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African American Newspapers in the South
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African American Newspapers
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American County Histories
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Women's Magazines and Newspapers
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World War I: Military Camp Newspapers
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Frank Leslie's Weekly
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American Inventor
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The Civil War Collection
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Colonial Newspapers
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"What you have is one of the most important developments in early American research since microfilm."

Dr. James Whittenburg, Dept. of History, College of William and Mary

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The Charlestown Gazette rekeyed to 99% accuracy

Manually rekeyed for accuracy and accessibility

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a valuable tool for digitizing newspapers and other printed materials. However, older materials with nonstandard fonts can pose challenges for OCR technology.

Our North American collections are manually rekeyed to ensure 99% accuracy. This meticulous approach not only makes the content easy to read but also meets accessibility standards for the visually impaired. Also, we've structured the articles to enable richer text and data mining and to make citing easier.

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Cold War Eastern Europe
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Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War
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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–1939
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British Society 1939–1951
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Matthew Jones, the London School of Economics and Political Science

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