Empire OnLine
"Empire Online includes approximately 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed materials covering the period 1492-1962. It is organized into the following five sections, each of which combines both images of original documents and essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies:

• Section I: Cultural Contacts
• Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire
• Section III: The Visible Empire
• Section IV: Religion and Empire
• Section V: Race, Class, and Colonialism

Empire Online also provides biographies of the individuals mentioned in the source material, a detailed chronology of the period covered, and both keyword and controlled vocabulary searching."