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We’re currently testing these databases. Please explore and provide us with your valuable feedback.

We’ll decide which databases to purchase based on need, content, quality, ease of use, costs, and other factors. We can’t promise that these databases will be purchased or, if purchased, that we can continue to provide them, but we welcome and value your input!


  • America in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1635-1928

    This database is a trial which expires May 12, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates globally. From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). This collection contains letters and supplementary materials compiled by its North American branch during the period 1635–1928. The papers provide students, researchers, and educators with a unique insight into the evolution of Christianity in the American colonies, the United States, and Canada. This collection is accompanied by a contextual essay written by Isobel Pridmore, formerly the archivist at the USPG. This institution’s archives are now held at Rhodes House Library in Oxford.

  • Global Politics and US Foreign Policy: The Council on Foreign Relations 1918-2000

    This database is a trial which expires April 19, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and national membership organization dedicated to improving understanding of international affairs by promoting a range of ideas and opinions on United States foreign policy. The archives of the CFR are held at Princeton University Library, and document the history of the organization and its activities from its founding in 1921 through the present.This digital archive brings files from the Studies Department Records of Groups and the Records of Meetings from the establishment of the CFR up to the year 2000. These records document the history of this research organization and its role in underpinning the development of an internationalist tradition in the twentieth century United States, providing insight into the history of the organization itself as well as every aspect of foreign relations since the 1920s.