Points to the Past This link opens in a new windowis a collection of databases that provide access to nearly 200 million pages of primary source content such as maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, sermons, poems, and more. The content collections include: British Newspapers 1600-1900, Indigenous Peoples: North America, Sunday Times Digital Archive, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Slavery and Anti-slavery: A Transnational Archive, State Papers Online, Declassified Documents Reference System, Making of the Modern World, British Literary Manuscripts Online, Gale NewsVault, and more.