World History & Culture Resources

• World Spotlight: Country Primary Source Collections
• World Digital Library
• 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

Middle East

• Near East Collections: Illustrated Guide
• Hebraic Collections: Illustrated Guide
• The American Colony in Jerusalem
• Historical Images of the Middle East
• Iran primary source collections
• Israel primary source collections
• Suez Canal primary source collections
• Syria primary source collections

Asia & South Pacific

• Asian Collections: Illustrated Guide
• 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
• The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
• Sikkim (India, Himalaya Mountains) Photographs
• Voices from Afghanistan
• 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
• New Zealand 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
• 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
• 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
• Haiti primary source collections
• Jamaica primary source collections
• Mexico primary source collections
• Nicaragua primary source collections
• Panama 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)