EBooks: Humanities eBooks

Books covering subjects within the humanities, including world history, philosophy, musicology, and film and media studies.

Classic works of French literature, prose, and technical writing from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries covering literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

Primary and secondary non-fiction writings, speeches, interviews, trials and other materials by black Americans.

Books, pamphlets, and broadsides from 1639-1800, based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and subsequent bibliographic works by Roger Bristol, James Mooney and Clifford Shipton.

Books, pamphlets, government papers, and more published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Based on the American Bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker

Titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

Books published between 1450-1700 in Europe, including content from collection partners the Danish Royal Library, the National Central Library in Florence, the National Library of France, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Welcome Library in London. Includes page images, lettering, binding, and more.

English language books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more published between 1701 and 1800, covering numerous subjects.

Books in many fields made freely available through a collaboration of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.

The "Kritische Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur" (KLG), or "Critical Encyclopedia to Contemporary German Literature," provides information about German authors after 1945.

Books in Arabic, in many genres, including fiction, scientific treatises, and more.

Korean books including classical texts and reference works in fields such as Korean history, literature, civilization, medicine, architecture, and natural history.

Classic texts in Greek and Latin with English translations on facing pages.

Primary sources from the nineteenth century including monographs, newspapers, and pamphlets.

Classic texts in philosophy.

Collection of early women’s writing in English, from 1400-1850.