Nypl world history in context

Welcome to the UB Research Guide for World History. On the current tab, Starting Points, you can find some excellent points of departure for historical research in our library's collections as well as resources from across the Internet. To explore reference works (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.) on specific topics, eras, or problems in history, click on the Topical Overviews tab. Under the tab Primary Sources, you can uncover original historical source material in multiple media, including texts, images, audio, video, maps, and statistics. The links listed under Tools for Researchers connect you to vital additional software and tools for more effective research in history, including citation indices, book reviews, repositories, dissertations and theses, citation management software, and guides to academic research and writing.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections is a vast database of material primarily, but not exclusively, documenting 19th- and 20th-century life in the U.S. The collections are composed principally of visual sources, and include digitized versions of such material as rare prints and photographs, scanned images from books, sound files, and moving images.

The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to over 755,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, illustrated books, and printed ephemera. The topic index lists 2772 results treating subjects related to children and over 1000 links to topics treating girls; both demonstrating enormous spatial, temporal, and subject breadth. Entries vary from street photographs from 1936 New York City to a 1778 engraving of a Patagonian woman and boy to illustrations from an American anti-slavery tract from 1836. 

The NYPL Digital Gallery is also organized into separate collections concentrated on topics related to children, including: Children’s Book Illustrations and the and the Cigarette Card collection.  In t