Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets brings together over 80,000 pages of pamphlets covering Brazilian and Portuguese history, politics, technology, social happenings, and culture from 1800 to the late twentieth century.
Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide, is a primary source archive focusing on individual women and organizations around the world who have broken new paths in society through business, social reform, popular culture, health care, and more.
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part I: 1912-1990
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part I: 1912-1990, spans most of the 20th century. it focuses on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. The relevance of the collection to today’s curriculum and to current debates at both national and local levels serve many research needs.
Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America
Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America centers around groups considered to be on the right of the political spectrum, with a particular focus on white supremacist and nationalist groups in the United States.
"Invaluable for teaching equity, diversity, and inclusion"—Erica England, Washington State University, CCAdvisor (composite score 4.75 out of 5)
Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence An Intelligence Empire
Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence, An Intelligence Empire brings together files from five government departments to provide researchers with access to detailed, previously classified documents from the communications compiled by Britain and its Empire throughout the twentieth century.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
A comprehensive road map to US and British law, this resource opens up a wealth of hidden or previously inaccessible sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to scholars and students. It covers a watershed period of legal development and is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature
This collection includes receipts and archives from the Drury Lane Theatre, Royal Philharmonic Society music manuscripts, and the largely forgotten Wandering Minstrels archive, which opens a rare glimpse into the decades of Gilbert and Sullivan. The archive enables scholars to explore primary sources covering such topics as Victorian popular culture, street literature, social history, music, bloods and penny dreadfuls, professional acting on the London stage, the Royal Literary Fund, British dramatic works, and many others.
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896–2016*
This collection offers access to more than 100 years of this major UK national newspaper, viewable in full digital facsimile form, with copious advertisements, news stories, and images that capture twentieth-century culture and society, providing an important alternative perspective to other newspapers such as the Times (London).
Part IV completes the State Papers of the Stuart period and contains volumes of documents from, to, and about all the countries of Europe. Many of these countries have lost their own collections from this period, increasing the rarity and value of these British State Papers. All the great international themes of the seventeenth century play out in document after document, making them an essential resource for not only British but European history: marriage alliances, revolutions, wars and treaties, trade and commerce, and religion.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
When first launched in 1842, the Illustrated London News marked a revolution in journalism and news reporting. It provided an unprecedented visual tour of the triumphs, tragedies, daily life, and monumental events of the world and the modern British Empire. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 is an invaluable asset to students and researchers of subjects including social history, fashion, drama, media, literature, advertising, graphic design, and politics, as well as to the general public, particularly those interested in genealogy.
British Literary Manuscripts Online: c. 1660-1900
The first installment in this series provides intimate glimpses into the lives and works of famous and lesser-known British authors from a significant two hundred-year literary period. It includes thousands of pages of poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other manuscripts from the Restoration through the Victorian era.
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues, and Periodicals is a full-text searchable archive of early Arabic printed books from a range of genres that provide additional background and multiple points of entry into the study of the cultural, intellectual, and social lives of the people of the Middle East.
This archive collection of courts of appeals documents provides a comprehensive review of trial history, including depositions, transcripts, and arguments. Addressing historical issues beyond legal theory and precedent, this collection unlocks material that was once mostly inaccessible to researchers
The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive, 1910–2000
Discover nine decades of unmatched insight from the world’s longest-running printed authority on education, the Times Educational Supplement (TES). Student and faculty researchers will find a trove of articles not only on education in the UK, but a repository of noteworthy opinions, reviews, reports, and reportage on matters related to and often beyond pedagogy, educational reform, and social policy.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive
This collection brings together Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine for the first time in a combined and fully-searchable digital archive. Together, the complete history of both of these premier publications represent decades of in-depth and expert coverage of high-demand topics and unique insights into aviation, space, innovation, science, technology, the arts, and culture, all of which is accessible in an integrated, intuitive display.
State Papers Online Colonial Asia, Part I: Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei
The first part of this major new digitization program brings British Colonial Office files (CO series), many of which were once confidential, to a global research audience. These records bear witness to the two very different sides of the colonial relationship: a British government whose main priority was the acquisition of commodities, wealth, and labor; and the local people living under imperial rule and British-style institutions for law, health, education, policing, defense, agriculture, and industry.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991
This collection sketches the "story behind the story" of man's desire to fly, including early flight, inventions, air races, the fighter pilot, the evolution of aerial weaponry, Germany's WWII jet program, the Cold War aviation race, and other flight-related developments and events critical to the history of science and technology and the military.
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
During the peak of the radio age, the BBC set a global standard in reporting and commentary. The network published transcripts of its broadcasts in an innovative weekly called the Listener. This magazine expanded upon the intellectual coverage of the week and offered original content that shed light on timely political and cultural issues. This collection provides rare access to the content of many early broadcasts and the BBC's perspective on the twentieth century.
Associated Press Collections Online: Middle East Bureaus
Middle East Bureaus offers access to records from some of the Associated Press’s (AP) most active international bureaus – Jerusalem, Ankara, and Beirut, as well as their surrounding areas – delivering the exclusive stories behind the headlines from 1967 to 2005.
Associated Press Collections Online: Washington, DC Bureau, Part I
This collection provides access to Associated Press (AP) records documenting the administrations of eleven US presidents (1938-2009), including an extensive assortment of wire copy covering press conferences, travel, speeches, campaigns, and messages to Congress.