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The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper.

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Information about and created for the staff of the Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, 1887-1999. Includes photographs, documents, publications, training films, audio recordings, blueprints, and administrative records.

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First World War Portal

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The First World War Portal has three modules, Personal Experiences, Propaganda & Recruitment and Visual Perspectives & Narratives. Items include official and personal photographs, manuscripts, rare printed material, artwork, objects and film, this profound collection presents international perspectives on the conflict, the Home Front, the role of women during the war, and much more. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. This resource is offered by Adam Matthew.

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Sourced from the British Foreign Office files, this resource covers the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period with additional content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions.

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Begun in 1979, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of 4,400 video testimonies with Holocaust survivors and witnesses recorded as a result of 37 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel. Instructions for access can be found here: https://web.library.yale.edu/testimonies/research/findandrequest

Note: USC access to the Archive is restricted to USC library computers only.

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Salem Press

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University of Southern California's Collection of Salem Press Titles.

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Developed by the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the Scripta Sinica database 漢籍電子文獻資料庫 contains almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history. Click on "授權使用" button to access the database.

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Shiryo Sanshu

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Full text searches in modern-style Japanese script (reprint) are possible for this indispensable, major collection of research into Japanese history and culture.

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State Archives of Assyria Online (SAAo) is an open-access web resource that aims to make the rich Neo-Assyrian materials found in the royal archives of Nineveh, and elsewhere, more widely accessible.

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State Papers Online

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(1509-1782) This collection of English State Papers covers the reigns of the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Hannovers (up to George III's rule in 1782). Provided by Gale-Cengage.

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Declassified Documents Index provides full text access to formerly U.S. government classified documents that Primary Source Media obtains as they are declassified.

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The Department of Special Collections at the University of Southern California oversees rare books, manuscripts, archives, and historic photographs. It contains more than 200,000 volumes, more than 1000 archival collections, and more than 2 million photographs.

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Presents nearly 55,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar, the Cambodian Genocide, the Central African Republic Conflict, contemporary antisemitism, the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Guatemalan Genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre. The interviews were conducted in 65 countries and 43 languages.

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