...reconnecting the first global social network!

Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century reconstructing one of the world's great historical conversations.

A subscription to EE will give you immediate access to 67,875 historical documents. Listen in on the first global social network as 8,331 historical figures discuss everything from religious tolerance to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, economic modelling to celebrity culture.

All documents and biographies now have a registered DOI.

Now over 67,800 items of correspondence! Our latest update adds over 3,300 documents from six major collections centered on:

With over 500 additions and revisions our Biographical Dictionary now has over 8,300 entries!

For an overview of the update please read the latest News-sheet.

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