Over the course of the 2017-2018 academic year, the Woodruff Library acquired over 25 new databases, including a number of digital archives of potential interest to historians. See below for a complete list of new databases purchased between 2015 and 2018. Each of these databases can be accessed via the links below, discoverE, or databases@emory.
New Databases, 2017-2018
Church Missionary Society Periodicals, Adam Matthews Digital (7/2018)
From its roots as an Anglican evangelical movement driven by lay persons, this resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society.
East India Company Company Archives, Adam Matthews Digital (7/2018)
East India Company offers access to a unique collection 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, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1595 to 1947.
Colonial America (7/2018)
Complete CO5 Colonial Office files from The National Archives, UK.
APA Psychology and Sociology E-book Collection (7/2018)
Provides full-text electronic access to dozens of recently released, APA-published scholarly and professional books in psychology and related disciplines for the publication years 2009-2013.
Atlanta Business Chronicle (7/2018)
Political Risk Service (PRS data) (7/2018)
Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Criminology, OUP (6/2018)
AVON (Academic Video Online), Alexander Street Press (5/2018)
Documentary Film Collection that includes titles from the BBC and PBS.
World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers Series 2, Readex (5/2018)
Second series of African newspapers digitized by the Center for Research Libraries and Readex. Delivers 40 additional African newspapers published between 1835 and 1925. Titles from Algeria, Angola, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. The greatest number of papers are South African.
Tibetan Core Collection 15 (5/2018)
Collection of 219 volumes, including works across a broad range of subjects and genres, covering all ten classical subjects of Indian and Tibetan learning (rig pa’i gnes bcu); as well as History, Biography, Medicine and Astrology and etc.
Springer Nature (4/2018)
Nature and Palgrave journal package.
Informed Librarian (4/2018)
Yale’s Electronic Art and Architecture Portal (3/2018)
New Cambridge Histories (3/2018)
Kanopy, First Run Features (2/2018)
News, Policy, and Politics Archive, ProQuest (1/2018)
Collection of fifteen consumer magazines in the fields of news, policy, and politics. Titles include Newsweek, the UN Chronicle, and the UNESCO Courier.
Women’s Magazine Archive, Series 1, ProQuest (1/2018)
The Women’s Magazine Archive 1 provides access to the complete archives of major 19th and 20th century consumer magazines aimed at a female readership such as Better Homes & Gardens (1922-2005), Chatelaine (1928-2005), Good Housekeeping (1885-2005), Ladies’ Home Journal (1883-2005), Parents (1926-2005), and Redbook (1903-2005).
History Vault: Women’s Studies from the Schlesinger Library, Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights, ProQuest (1/2018)
Collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College consist of materials documenting voting rights, national politics and reproductive rights from national, regional and local leaders.
History Vault: American Indians and the West, 1809-1971, ProQuest (1/2018)
Historical documents pertaining to American Indians and the West. Topics include Indian removal, relations between the United States Army and American Indians, the Indian Wars, and the 20th-century Bureau of Indian Affairs.
History Vault: Immigration Records of the INS, ProQuest (1/2018)
Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Topics include Asian immigration, Mexican immigration, and European immigration.
DataPlanet (1/2018)
Tool that provides fast and easy access to data from licensed and public domain datasets.
Past Masters, Intelex (1/2018)
Includes digital works from the following philosophers: William James: Correspondence (complete) Charles Peirce: Writings (The Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition—volumes 1-6 are now available, more on the way), Josiah Royce: Works (The Works of Josiah Royce)
Classical Scores Library, Alexander Street Press (1/2018)
More than 50,000 complete scores, ranging from the middle ages to the present, all of which you can view online or print out for use.
UN iLibrary (1/2018)
Comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations.
Gallop Analytics (1/2018)
Access to respondent-level datasets.
Newspapers for Text Mining, ProQuest (11/17)
Raw data files of 21 ProQuest historical newspaper titles for text mining.
Ethnographic Video Online, Alexander Street Press (11/17)
640 ethnographic titles from around the world including the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Australia, and Europe.
New Databases, 2016-2017
Taylor and Francis Journal Archives (7/2017)
SanFrancisco Chronicle Archive, ProQuest (7/2017)
Guardian and Observer, Gale (7/2017)
The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003) give readers online access to facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about the most significant and fascinating political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past two centuries.
PolicyMap (7/2017)
Easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. Policymap is a good supplement to Social Explorer, to which we already subscribe, and includes a good number of other proprietary data sources.
PRS International Country Risk Guide (7/2017)
PRS’ data on “country risk” are commonly-used measures of the quality of governance in different countries.
Ch’ing Historical Figures and Biographical Packets/ Memorials and Archives of the Grand Council (6/2017)
Information on Ch’ing historical figures includes 3,536 Packets of Biographical Materials and 8,384 Draft Biographies, and 1,270 volumes of Ch’ing Historical Figures, Jing version, a total of over 15,000 valuable pieces of information on important historical figures from Ch’ing. Users need to log in again before any searches.
Oxford Press Neurosurgery Archive (6/2017)
David Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections (6/2017)
A collection of county-level data on election results for 2012 through 2016 for the following elections: presidential elections, Senate elections, House elections, gubernatorial elections, voter registration, and primary elections for Democratic and Republican candidates.
Naxos Digital Library Update (5/2017)
Includes Naxos Music Library; NML Jazz; NML World; Naxos Video Library; Naxos Spoken Word Library; Naxos Works Database.
Oxford Handbooks, Oxford (5/2017)
Updates approved for all ongoing collections.
(London) Times Digital Archive, Gale (5/2017)
Perpetual access and the most recent content.
Anthropological Fieldwork Online, Alexander Street Press (5/2017)
Primary-source database of the field notes, recordings, images, and other documentation behind several of the most important ethnographies of the 20th century. Content includes material from the South Pacific, Africa, South Asia, China, and the USA. In addition to supporting the study of history and methodology in anthropology, this database will be useful for those interested in the history of science, late modern history, US history colonialism, and African studies, among others.
Anthropology Online, Alexander Street Press (5/2017)
Companion database to Anthropological Fieldwork Online. It is a full-text database of published ethnographies, memoirs, archival material, and selected images. T
Digital National Security Archive (Text Mining) (4/2017)
Archives Unbound, Gale (4/2017)
Updates to the collection, which includes the following sub-collections.
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“Through the Camera Lens:” The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927
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“We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:” Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
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19th Century English-Language Journals from the Far East
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African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933-1947
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Allied Propaganda in World War II and the British Political Warfare Executive
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Ambassador Graham Martin and the Saigon Embassy’s Back Channel Communication Files, 1963-1975
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Amerasia Affair, China, and Postwar Anti-Communist Fervor
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America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War
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American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
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Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
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Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
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Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)
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Bush Presidency and Development and Debate Over Civil Rights Policy and Legislation
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Cambodia: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1960-1963
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Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
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Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reduction of Acid Rain, Urban Air Pollution, and Environmental Policy
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Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
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Country Intelligence Reports on Japan
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Country Intelligence Reports on Korea
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Czechoslovakia from Liberation to Communist State, 1945-63: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
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Development of Environmental Health Policy: Pope A. Lawrence Papers 1924-1983
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Dublin Castle Records 1798-1926
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East Germany from Stalinization to the New Economic Policy, 1950-1963
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Colonialism and Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies, 1910-1930
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies in Asia and the Pacific: From Colonialism to Japanese Mandates, 1910-1929
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Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835-1910
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Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activitist, Political Activist, and Woman
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FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC
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Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
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Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
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Federal Surveillance of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
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Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
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German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
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Grassroots Civil Rights & Social Activism: FBI Files on Benjamin J. Davis, Jr
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Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party
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Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
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Hollywood, Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
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Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes
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In Response to the AIDS Crisis: Records of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1983-1994
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India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department
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India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966
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Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920
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Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 1945-1954: Records of the U.S. State Department, Part 1: 1945-1949
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Industrial Mobilization in Britain and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1918
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Integration of Alabama Schools and the U.S. Military, 1963
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Intelligence Reports from the National Security Council’s Vietnam Information Group, 1967-1975
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Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
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James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi
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Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
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Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1950-1959
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Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection
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Journaux de la Révolution de 1848 (Newspapers of the French Revolution 1848)
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Korea: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1963
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La Guerra Civil Española
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Laos: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1963-1966
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Liberation Movement in Africa and African America
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Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918
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Lincoln at the Bar: Extant Case Files from the U.S. District and Circuit Courts, Southern District of Illinois 1855-1861
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Mafia in Florida and Cuba: FBI Surveillance of Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante, Jr
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Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the U.S
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Minutemen, 1963-1969: Evolution of the Militia Movement in America, Part I
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Narcotic Addiction and Mental Health: The Clinical Papers of Lawrence Kolb Sr
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National Security and FBI Surveillance Enemy Aliens
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Nazi Bank and Financial Institutions: U.S. Military Government Investigation Reports and Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945-1949
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Nazism in Poland: The Diary of Governor-General Hans Frank
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Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921-1972 Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration
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Nuremburg Laws and Nazi Annulment of German Jewish Nationality
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Pakistan from Crown Rule to Republic: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1949
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Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
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Papers of Joseph Chamberlain
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Papers of Neville Chamberlain
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Papers of Sir Austen Chamberlain
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Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
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Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
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Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan, 1930-1939: Records of the U.S. State Department
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Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950
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Price Control in the Courts: The U.S. Emergency Court of Appeals, 1941-1961
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Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
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Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
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Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project
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Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Enforcement of Federal Law in the South, 1871-1884
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Records of the Far Eastern Commission, 1945-1952
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Records of the National Council for United States-China Trade 1973-1983
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Records of the U.S. Information Service in China: Chinese Press Reviews and Summaries, 1944-1950
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Reporting on the Coal Industry: The Coal Trade Bulletin, 1901-1918
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Republic of New Afrika
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SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries
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Savings and Loan Crisis: Loss of Public Trust and the Federal Bailout, 1989-1993
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South Vietnam: Records of the Office of the Defense Attaché, 1973-1975
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Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson
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Sukarno and the Army-PKI Rivalry in the Years of Living Dangerously, 1960-1963
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SUR, 1931-1992
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Testaments to the Holocaust. Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London
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The Chinese Recorder and the Protestant Missionary Community in China, 1867-1941
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The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center
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The Observer: News for the American Soldier in Vietnam, 1962-1973
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U.S. Civilian Advisory Effort in Vietnam: U.S. Operations Mission, 1950-1954
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U.S. Civilian Advisory Effort in Vietnam: U.S. Operations Mission, 1954-1957 – Classified & Subject Files of the Executive Office
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U.S. Middle East Peace Policy and America’s Role in the Middle East Peace Process, 1989-1993
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U.S. Military Advisory Effort in Vietnam: Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam, 1950-1964
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U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958: Records of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
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U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
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Economist, 1843-2011 (4/2017)
The Economist Historical Archive (‘EHA’) is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
Illustrated London News, 1842-2003 (4/2017)
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Entirely full-text searchable with new, high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets, it combines information and the power of pictures to provide unique perspective on virtually every aspect of modern life and those who helped shape it over more than 160 years.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest (4/2017)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest delivers monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy to support research in this interdisciplinary area of study of Europe and Africa.
British Literary Manuscripts 1, 1660-1990 (4/2017)
British Literary Manuscripts II, Medieval & Renaissance (4/2017)
American Civil Liberties Union Papers (ACLU), 1912-1990 (4/2017)
The content in the ACLU archive covers the years between 1912 and 1990, with a focus on civil rights, race, children and women’s rights, freedom of speech and due process.
Klapp-Online French Bibliography Index (3/2017)
On the Boards.tv (3/2017)
World History in Video, Alexander Street Press (3/2017)
World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.
Bibliographie de la Litterature Francaise (1/2017)
More than 150,000 detailed notices from 1998 to the present day have been published, including 17,000 summaries, and 72,000 articles based on analyses of collected works (see the ‘commentary’ section of notices in particular).
Grand Secretariat Archives (11/2016)
Database of materials from the Grand Secretariat Storehouse in the Qing Imperial Palace. Covers over four thousand Ming (1368-1644) documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Qing (1644-1911) archival materials.
South Asia Materials Project Open Archive Initiative (11/2016)
Westlaw (11/2016)
Renewal of Westlaw for general library users.
Erudition Chinese Popular Literature (11/2016)
database of pre-modern Chinese popular literature in various genres, including drama, fiction, precious scrolls, morality books, popular encyclopedias etc.
eHRAF Archaeology (10/2016)
Companion to eHRAF World Cultures database.
London Review of Books (10/2016)
NewspaperArchive (9/2016)
Database of local historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other select countries.
Newspapers.com (9/2016)
Database of local and regional historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and other select countries. (9/2016)
Safari E-books Online, Tech Books (9/2016)
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveria Lima Library Parts 1 & 2 (9/2016)
A digital collection of over 3800 monographs 1,000,000 pages of primary source material for Brazilian history– from a unique collection in the United States.
Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (9/2016)
The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), with the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. The purpose of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works in a digital way.
Medici.tv (9/2016)
Performances by well-known musicians, streamed live and subsequently available on demand.
New Databases 2015-2016
Altdutsche TextBibliothek Online (5/2016)
Editions of primary German medieval texts. We have many of these in print, but are missing about 20%. Judith Evans-Grubbs has been making a big push for us to acquire medieval sources in digital format so that multiple students can access the texts online.
People’s Daily, China (5/2016)
With publication started in June 1946 and a current circulation of 3 million, People’s Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China
Docuseek (5/2016)
Streaming video database covering the films by the distributors Bullfrog Films and Icarus Films.
World Bibliographic Information Systems (WBIS) (4/2016)
Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Gale (4/2016)
Approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world.
British Newspapers II, 19th Century (4/2016)
Full-text national and regional newspapers from Victorian Britain, digitized from the collection of the British Library. It is the sister product to 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (1604-1800).
BYU Corpora (3/2016)
The BYU Corpora consist of nine English language corpora (including the Wikipedia Corpus, the TIME Magazine Corpus, and the Corpus of American Soap Operas), one corpus in Spanish, one in Portuguese, and a Google Books (Advanced) interface.
Oxford History of Western Music (3/2016)
Translated Texts for Historians (3/2016)
Historical sources from A.D. 300–800 translated into English.
Index of References Dealing with Talmudic Literature (1/2016)
Databases of discussions and interpretations of Talmudic passages found in both modern academic research and medieval Talmudic scholarship.
Chinese Word Dictionary and the KangXi Dictionary (1/2016)
Cambridge Histories Online (12/2015)
Cambridge Histories Online provides immediate full-text access to more than 300 volumes published since 1960 across 15 subject areas.
Oxford Bibliographies (12/2015)
Black Freedom Struggle, ProQuest (12/2015)
Module three of the Black Freedom Struggle Collections from ProQuest. Includes portions of the SNCC and SCLC papers along with other important Civil Rights organizations. Accessible via ProQuest’s History Vault Collections.
Colonial State Papers, ProQuest (12/2015)
Bibliographic records of CO1 files from the National Archives, UK.
Digital National Security Archive, ProQuest (12/2015)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers, New Additions (12/2015)
Back files of the following newspapers/collections: Chinese Historical Newspaper Collection, New York Tribune/New York Tribune/ Herald, Nashville Tennessean, Austin American Statesman, Detroit Free Press, Baltimore Sun. Search via Proquest Historical.
The State (Columbia, South Carolina), Newspaper (10/2015)
The State is a daily morning newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina. It was founded in 1891 and in 1945, merged with its competitor The Columbia Record.
Film and Television Literature Index(10/2015)
The Film Literature Index (FLI) Online indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
Corpus de la Literature de L’Ocean Indien, Garnier (10/2015)
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) (9/2015)
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) does not include words that are commonly used throughout the United States, but rather focuses on the regional aspects of the American idiom, documenting words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another.
HistoryMakers Digital Archive of African American Oral Histories (9/2015)
Large digital collection of full-length, searchable interviews featuring prominent African American artists, business leaders, scientists, athletes, and intellectuals.
Routledge Politics Handbooks (9/2015)
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Oxford Classical Dictionary
Drama Online
Collection of full text plays from ancient Greece to the present. In addition to the play texts, it includes scholarly annotations and special tools for study and performance such as Character Grids, Words and Speech graphs and Part Books.
Women and Social Movements
American Indians Histories and Cultures, Adam Matthews
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to electronic editions of Oxford Handbooks for various subjects in literature, philosophy and political science. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.