Primary Sources - World History Digital Collections

Links to digitized primary sources, including photographs, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, and online exhibitions.

Declassified materials found in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, including books, reports, manuals, and other documents.

UN documents from the British Mandate and the 1947 partition through later wars, occupation, and peace efforts.

Recorded interviews and transcripts documenting the personal experiences of Iranians who witnessed major political and social events during the twentieth century.

Digitized manuscripts, maps, and printed texts that illustrate the intellectual and cultural history of the Islamic world from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries.

Translated primary texts on the history, culture, and religion of the Islamic world from the time of Muhammad through the modern era.

Gathers key primary sources, including treaties, UN resolutions, agreements, and official statements, on the modern Middle East.

Primary documents and key links on Israel and Palestine, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Iran, and the Kurds, including items like the Balfour Declaration, UN resolutions, and major speeches.

A searchable compilation of declassified documents and briefing books on US-Iraq relations, weapons programs, alleged war crimes, and the Gulf War, drawing on US and UK records released through FOIA.

Offers searchable texts, historical maps, and images that document Western travel to the Middle East, especially Egypt, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.