Collections Spotlight: World History & Culture
World Geography & Cultures
- World Spotlight: Country Primary Source Collections
- World Digital Library collection
- Primary Source Set: World Cultures
- Primary Source Set: Maps From The World Digital Library
- Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection: Travel and World Geography
- Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
- Country Profiles
- Country Studies
- Nations: Government Resources from the Library Guide to Law Online
- Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
- Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective
- North Pole & Arctic Circle primary source collections
Africa
- Africana Collections: Illustrated Guide
- Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
- Abdul-Hamid II Collection: Photographs from the Ottoman Empire 1880-1893
- Ancient Manuscripts: From the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
- Islamic Manuscripts from Mali: Traditional Landscape
- Timbuktu – an Islamic Cultural Center
- Timbuktu in Space and Time – Maps
- Ethiopia primary source collections
- Gambia primary source collections
- Kenya primary source collections
- Liberia primary source collections
- Mauritania primary source collections
- Morocco primary source collections
- Senegal primary source collections
- Sudan primary source collections
Middle East
- Near East Collections: Illustrated Guide
- Hebraic Collections: Illustrated Guide
- The American Colony in Jerusalem
- Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection
- Historical Images of the Middle East
- Iran primary source collections
- Israel primary source collections
- Palestine primary source collections
- Suez Canal primary source collections
- Syria primary source collections
Asia & South Pacific
- Asian Collections
- South Asian Digital Collection
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
- Japanese Woodblock Prints and Drawings, Pre-1915
- Japanese Fine Arts Prints 2003-05 (thumbnail images only)
- On the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints
- Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
- Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images
- Pacific Encounters in 19th Century Japan
- South Asian Digital Collection
- The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
- Sikkim (India, Himalaya Mountains) Photographs
- Warp and Weft of Yap’s Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia
- Afghanistan primary source collections
- Australia primary source collections
- Burma/Myanmar primary source collections
- Cambodia primary source collections
- China primary source collections
- India primary source collections
- Japan primary source collections
- Macau primary source collections
- New Zealand primary source collections
- Pakistan primary source collections
- Sri Lanka (Ceylon) primary source collections
- Thailand (Siam) primary source collections
- Vietnam primary source collections
Europe
- European Collections: Illustrated Guide
- John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations
- Churchill and the Great Republic
- For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
- Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale
- France In America
- The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
- Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library
- Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
- Leonardo’s Study for the Adoration of the Magi
- The Empire That Was Russia: Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
- Prokudin-Gorskii Collection: Color Photographs of the Russian Empire 1905-15
- Brumfield Collection: Architectural Heritage of Pre-Soviet Russia
- A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929
- Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Records of Soviet Rule
- Reflections: Russian Photographs, 1992-2002
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books to 1600
- Belgium primary source collections
- Germany primary source collections
- Great Britain & the United Kingdom primary source collections
- Greece primary source collections
- Finland primary source collections
- France primary source collections
- Italy primary source collections
- Norway primary source collections
- Romania primary source collections
- Russia & the former Soviet Union primary source collections
- Serbia primary source collections
- Spain primary source collections
- Sweden primary source collections
- Switzerland primary source collections
- Ukraine primary source collections
- Wales primary source collections
- Yugoslavia primary source collections
The Americas
- Exploring the Early Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection
- The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers Comparing Cultures
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age 19th and Early 20th Century Perspectives
- Today in History: Spanish-American War
- Learning from the Source: Perspectives on U.S. Expansion
- Today in History: Panama Canal
- Today in History: Guantánamo Bay
- Argentina primary source collections
- The Bahamas primary source collections
- Brazil primary source collections
- Canada primary source collections
- Chile primary source collections
- Cuba primary source collections
- Dominican Republic primary collections
- Guatemala primary source collections
- Haiti primary source collections
- Jamaica primary source collections
- Mexico primary source collections
- Nicaragua primary source collections
- Panama primary source collections
- Peru primary source collections
- Puerto Rico primary source collections
- U.S. Virgin Islands primary source collections
- Montreal primary source collections
Exploring World Conflict & Compromise
- Learning from the Source: Crimea, Ukraine, Russia-Then & Now
- Learning from the Source: Shifting Perspectives of Iran
- For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
- Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
- Witness and Response: September 11
- Voices from Afghanistan
- Materials Related to Genocide from the Congressional Record
- Congressional Bills Related to Genocide
- Atrocities Images
- Historic Armenian Images
- Crisis in Darfur, Sudan 2006 Web Archive
- United Nations Structure
- United Nations: Photographs from the Library Collections
- Moral Conscience of the World: United Nations & Palestine in 1947 (streaming webcast)
- UNESCO’s Role in Building Bridges to Cultural Peace: Case Studies of Somalia, Burundi and Ethiopia (streaming webcast)
- Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda (streaming webcast)
- Stories from Afghanistan (streaming webcast)
- The Iraqi Revolution: Why is it Relevant to Modern Iraq? (streaming webcast)
- Islam, Science and Cultural Values (streaming webcast)
- Peace: Songs related to Peace from the Library Collections (streaming audio)