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Primary Source Material Collections Online for Early Modern History
(1500-1800; transcriptions in numerous languages, mostly German)

Including online albums, legal documents, maps, books, oral histories, posters and finding aids.
Combining resources of a number of Jewish societies and institutes.
(17th-20th centuries; German, English and other facsimiles)

Full-text access to German newspapers from the Age of Enlightenment
A joint digitization project of Georg Olms Verlag and the University of Bielefeld
(18th-19th centuries; facsimiles)

Online book and manuscript texts from the University of Mannheim,
particularly strong in history of Mannheim and the "Kurpfalz" [Electoral Palatinate].
(16th -18th centuries; facsimiles)

Digital library of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, offering online access to a number of different collections including books, journals, manuscripts, newspapers and maps.
(17th - early 20th centuries; facsimiles)

Sixteenth- through early eighteenth-century pamphlets digitized by the University of Augsburg.
From the collections of the Oettingen-Wallerstein´sche Bibliothek, in cooperation with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Most anonymous, but some written by famous authors such as Johann Fischart.
(1577-1739; facsimiles)

Digitized volume of European peace treaties, instruments and tracts
from the end of the 30 Years War through 1660.
Great information value, but bogged down by user-unfriendly navigation.
(1663; parallel Latin and German language facsimiles)

Economic Encyclopedia, one of the most comprehensive in German-speaking lands with its 242 volumes .
One of the most important German scholarly sources for the time leading into the industrial revolution.
A digital project of the University of Trier.
(1773 - 1858; transcriptions)

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(18th century; transcriptions and translations)

Memoir from Maximilian Joseph von Montgelas to Duke Maximilian Joseph von Pfalz-Zweibrücken
suggesting reforms that led to the formation of the Bavarian State
(30 September 1796; German translation of the French original)

Documents from the 19th century before unification
(1803 - 1870; German transcriptions)

Including index access to Marx/Engels Collected Works
--With ongoing but incomplete transcriptions of the 50 volumes --
(1837-1895; mostly translations)

edited by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the revolutions of 1848-1849.
(1848-1849; English translations)

Correspondence and writings of Ferdinand Lassalle, important 19th century German labor leader.
Digitized by the Historische Kommission, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
(1840-1865; German-language facsimiles)

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(19th century; transcriptions and translations)

Documents from the Avalon Project
(1785-1847; transcriptions and translations).

Flyers, pamphlets, posters from the German Revolution
A digitization project of the Stadt- und Universitäsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main.
(1848-1849; facsimiles)

German History in Documents and Images: From Vormärz to Prussian Dominance
Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
(1815-1866; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
German History in Documents and Images: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany
Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
(1866-1890; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
German History in Documents and Images: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
(1890-1918; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)

Session Proceedings of the Reichstag. A digitization project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
(1867-1895; German transcriptions)
Note: Die Reichstagsprotokolle 1918-1942 are also available.

The Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection at Colorado State University
Documenting immigration to Colorado in the 19th century.
(19th century; transcripts, audio extracts, photographic facsimiles)

Over 50,000 images from German colonies.
A digitization project of the library of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft of the Stadt- und Universitäsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main.
(19th -20th centuries; photo images searchable by database)

Colonies of the German Empire as represented in contemporary postcards, photos, stamps and textual documents.
(1871-1918; facsimiles and transcriptions)

The German Empire as represented in contemporary postcards, photos, stamps and textual documents.
(1871-1918; facsimiles and transcriptions)

Click on "P" within a given chronology for primary source documents.
(German transcriptions with German and English translations)

Documents from the Second Reich
(1870-1878; German transcriptions)

Includes primary documents in translation from Otto von Bismarck, Heinrich Class,
Gen. Friedrich von Bernhardi, Adolf Hitler, Helmuth von Moltke, Rosa Luxemburg,
Kaiser Wilhelm II; of the Internationale and of a Berliner Illustrierte readers' poll.
(1880-1925; translations)

The final draft of a bill passed by the Reichstag on May 31, 1883, guaranteeing health insurance to workers.
It could be considered one of the earliest developments toward a comprehensive social welfare system in Germany.
(May 29, 1883; facsimile)

A digitization project of the Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Cologne.
(19th century... plus; facsimiles)

A major book digitization project of the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte .
For an overview of subjects, click on "Systematik"
(19th century; facsimiles)

The German Imperial Navy as represented in contemporary postcards, photos, stamps and textual documents.
(1871-1918; facsimiles and transcriptions)

Access to facsimiles of German-Jewish periodicals from the Enlightenment until the Third Reich.
Digitized by various German institutions with support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
(18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries; facsimiles and some explanatory comments)

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