ProQuest Historical Newspapers (HNP):
- The American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger, 1903-2922
- The American Israelite, 1874-2000
- The Jewish Advocate, 1909-1990
- The Jewish Exponent, 1914-1990
- Dayton Daily News, 1898-1922
- Indianapolis Star, 1907-1922
- The Arizona Republican, 1890-1922
Literary Print Culture : the Stationers' Company Archive, 1554-2007
Sourced from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, located at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London, this resource allows access to a vast and unique collection of primary source documents. The collection is widely regarded as one of the most important primary sources for studying the history of the book as well as publishing history, the history of copyright and the workings of an early London Livery Company. The collection includes the Entry Book of Copies, which were used to establish copyright belonging to publishers, booksellers and eventually authors until the introduction of automatic copyright n 1912. After the passing of the Statute of Anne in 1710, the registers became the official record of copyright and legal deposit.
Socialism on Film: the Cold War and International Propaganda
Socialism on Film is a collection of documentaries, newsreels and features films by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British, and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s. Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI) archives, this project makes available the superb ETV-Plato Films collection put together by the British communist Stanley Forman in the years after the Second World War. This is a collection of films produced almost exclusively in the communist world and then versioned into English for distribution in the West. All the films in this collection have been digitized from the original 16mm and 35mm film reels. Module I of the collection, Wars & Propaganda, is now available; modules II & III, Newsreels & Cinemagazines and Culture & Society, will be published in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Australasian Video Online is an online streaming database of documentary and educational videos from many of Australasia's top video publishers. The collection brings together the region's most-studied and respected films and includes key video published from the mid-20th century to present day. Films highlight regional perspectives on anthropology, environmental studies, business, economics, health, media studies, the arts, and other important disciplines. Films come from Australasia's most trusted content partners, including the National Film and Sound Archive's Film Australia Collection, SBS Television, George Andrews Productions, Beamafilms, and Electric Pictures. Also includes detailed teaching guides produced by The Australian Teachers of Media Association. Content is specifically designed for integration into today's undergraduate curriculum. Each item in the collection has a record in the catalog; the collection consists of 772 videos.
African American Biographical Database (AABD)
A collection of African American history which brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other online reference source. The biographical sketches have been assembled from biographical dictionaries, yearbooks, directories, histories, personal accounts and other published sources including the full text of almost 300 rare books. The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, church and missionary leaders, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person – living and working in the United States from 1790 to 1950. The content reproduces, in digital format, the acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950 created by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
American Periodicals Series Online
A database containing periodicals published between 1740 and 1940 including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children’s and women’s magazines. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Notable sub-collections are comprised of colonial and revolutionary-period publications, as well as of periodicals published during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The resource includes full colour scans of original documents. Of interest to researchers of history, literature, law, politics and gender studies. The collection was produced from the archives of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
A full archive (1897 – 2005) of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine Country Life that chronicled affairs of interest to the United Kingdom’s upper classes, focusing on art and architecture, country houses, and rural living. Of interest to researchers of 20th century British history, art, architecture, and landscape design. The magazine serves as an important record of the changing ownership of the United Kingdom’s great houses, sometimes serving as the only source for restoration of early 20th-century structures. With significant coverage of not only art and art history, but also pursuits relevant to its audience, such as equestrian news, landscaping, hunting, and shooting. The publication was image-rich, and the archive provides historical records of buildings’ interior designs – often the only surviving records. Every page is fully searchable, and reproduced in full colour and high resolution.
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
Exploring complete runs of Foreign Office files, this collection reveals the UK’s exhaustive interest in the Middle East during the 1970s. Withdrawing from the Gulf in 1971, the UK maintained a vested interest in the oil affairs of states such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as a continued presence in conflicts in Oman and Yemen. The newly acquired Module 3 is predominantly focused on conflicts in Iran, with extensive coverage of events surrounding the revolution, the hostage crisis at the United States Embassy, and the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War. The full collection contains complete runs of Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from the Arabian and Middle East Department (FCO 8), the Southern European Department (FCO 9), the Eastern Department (FCO 17), the North and East African Department (FCO 39), the Commodities and Oil Department (FCO 67) and the Near East and North Africa Department (FCO 93) that are relevant to the time period, and is augmented by selections from the Prime Minister’s Office files (PREM) and Defence Intelligence files (DEFE).
East India Company: Module I: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947
This digital collection consists of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, the resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent from 1600 to 1947. Module 2: Factory Records and Module 3: Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East will be released in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict.
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. The collection includes over 100 hours of audio recordings, photographs, scrapbooks, and case studies. The collection also includes a number of secondary features such as maps, a data association tool, an interactive chronology, and video interviews with scholars who are specialists in the history of the Department.
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900)
Based on A.G. Ellis’s catalogue of the British Library’s collection, Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library includes examples from over 400 years of books printed in Arabic script as well as translations into European and Asian languages from the period. Scholars can search on the full text of items in Arabic, English, French, German, Latin, Italian, Dutch, and Spanish while also being able to discover content in Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Syriac, and seventeen other languages. Full-text searching capabilities created with newly developed optical character recognition software (OCR) for early Arabic printed script ensures that scholars in Arabic-speaking countries and those engaged in Arabic studies across the world can equally cross-search Arabic-language materials and research this extensive range of texts. Features a complete and selectable Arabic interface with right-to-left text and navigation. Over 4,000 item-level MARC records for texts within this collection have been loaded to the catalogue. Full-text items can be downloaded as PDFs.
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive presents more than a thousand hours of both edited and original (unedited) footage from Banyan Productions, the first Caribbean enterprise to produce original TV content. Founded in 1974 in Trinidad & Tobago, Banyan Productions produced innovative and entertaining programmes – including documentary, performance, current events, public information, music, and dance – for and about the Caribbean people and culture. Includes extensive interviews with cultural personalities and indigenous peoples, including edited and raw footage of interviews with important Caribbean artists, musicians, and writers such as Derek Walcott, C.L.R. James, Errol Jones, Pat Castagne, Jackie Hinkson, Slade Hopkinson, and many others.
Food Studies Online is a multi-format online resource that includes archival content, visual ephemera (e.g. advertisements), text, and video covering the topic of food from social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political perspectives. Examples of topics covered in the collection: Organic Farming/Small Farms, School lunch programs, Childhood nutrition, Marketing and advertising, Packaging, Food industry, Environmental impact of GMOs, US food programs during WWI/WWII, Food security, Famine, Vegetarianism, Labor practices, Food safety, Wine making, Obesity, Gender roles through history, Food habits around the world, and more.
New Oxford Shakespeare: Critical Reference Edition, via Oxford Scholarly Editions Online.
The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. The Critical Reference Edition is created to facilitate scholarly research, with a particular emphasis on book history and the documentary origins of each text. It collects the same versions of the same works found in the Modern Critical Edition, keyed to the same line-numbering - whilst preserving the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, typographical contrasts, and ambiguities of the early documents. Introductions focus on early modern manuscript and print culture, setting each text within the material circumstances of its production, transmission, and early reception.
Volume 1 (works published in Shakespeare’s lifetime)
Volume 2 (works published posthumously):
Authorship Companion (essays on questions of authorship and chronology across the Shakespearean canon)
Historical Statistical Abstracts of the US
Published from 1878 to 2012 by the U.S. Federal government, compiling data on economic trends, social climate and the demographic makeup of the United States. In the spring of 2011, the Census Bureau announced that the edition that year would be the last one produced at government expense. Despite protests from librarians and journalists and despite petitions to Congress, the Census Bureau unit that published the Statistical Abstract was eliminated. Its elimination resulted not from a decline in the popularity or perceived value of statistical compilations, but from the need to reduce agency spending while supporting new and existing data collection efforts. ProQuest has now taken on responsibility for updating and releasing this publication, the “most used statistical reference tool in U.S. libraries.” In print, the Statistical Abstract of the United States was a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Online it is 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browseable.
A database of archival materials including digitized letters, papers, photographs, financial records and more, taken from the collections of University Publications of America. Users can search across all collections or within subject collections. Subject collections include:
• Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle – records of the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE and federal records on the black freedom struggle.
• Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War – petitions concerning race and slavery, Southern plantation records and Civil War records
• American Indians and the American west – records on American Indians and the American West from the 19th and 20th centuries
• American Politics and Society – Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administration records as well as Thomas Edison papers and immigration records
• International Relations – formerly confidential reports of U.S. diplomats and military officers from 1911-1975
• Women’s Studies – Collections from the Schlesinger Library and records of National Woman’s Party, Woman Action Alliance
• Workers and Labor Unions – Collections on American workers in the 20th century with a focus on the interaction between the U.S. federal government and American workers.