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182 Databases Found for:Primary Sources

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Alternate Name(s):History Commons

Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications, including The Liberator 1831-1865, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1889, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, and The South Carolina Gazette.
** On August 30, 2024, Accessible Archives moved to the History Commons platform **

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This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal and foreign affairs contain a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats.
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Covers 270 newspapers from every region of the United States, including 7 from Washington DC.

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Full text access to seven 19th century African American newspapers.

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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

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Alternate Name(s):African; African diaspora; African migration; African immigration; African migrants; African immigrants

This database is a global (non-U.S.) collection for international study of black history and culture. The contributions, struggles, and identities of the African Diaspora are presented through personal accounts, video, and primary sources with a focus on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. The collection includes digitized primary source documents, including books, government documents, personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

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Declassified FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The collection also includes surveillance on a variety of other antiwar groups and individuals, with an emphasis on student groups and communist organizations. Covers the period 1967 to 1975.

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Among the topics covered are educational methods, expenses, Indian customs, treaties with the government, and the Indians' reactions to denying their heritage - often a condition of accepting new faith.

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Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.

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Includes two collections, American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL), that contain digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the middle of the 20th century.

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The American Digital Research Archive (AUDRA) houses digitized and born-digital selections from American University Library’s Archives and Special Collections and the Humanities Truck. AUDRA includes correspondence, artworks, oral histories, audio, video, documents, publications, and images detailing university history and other manuscript and ephemeral collections.
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This collection of photographs documents the early history of American University and its campus in northwest Washington D.C., near Ward Circle, at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues.

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A selection of documents dating from the 1890s to 1920 relating to the development of American University.

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Papers from the renowned and outspoken poet, playwright, and critic, born LeRoi Jones, who was a key member of the Beat Generation and the Black Power movement.

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Coverage: 1300 to present. Updated: Weekly, often daily.
A large collection of census records, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Russia, eastern Europe, and China. From Ancestry.com.
The U.S. collections contain census records; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.

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AP Images: Over 3.5 million news photographs from the 1840s through today. Also includes maps, timelines, logos and graphs. AP Interactives: A collection of multimedia content from the archives of the Associated Press. Interactives are fully-licensed for educational use.

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The AP Newsroom collection features more than 3.5 million historical and contemporary images to help your audiences connect with the story.

Alternate Name(s):ArchivesUSA, NIDS UK/Ireland

Archive Finder is an index of over 206,000 manuscript collections as well as a directory of primary source repositories in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Researchers can use it to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work. Archive Finder is comprised of ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland).

ArchiveGrid is a database of archival finding aids from libraries, museums, and archives. It helps identify archival materials such as historical documents, personal papers, and family histories and where they are.

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Database’s scope focuses on LGBTQ history, culture, and the study of sex and sexuality from the 1600 to present. A primary source database, Archives of Sexuality and Gender supports research in queer history and activism, human rights, gender studies, and erotic literature as well as related fields including psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, medicine, biology, anthropology, law, the classics, and art. These fully searchable collections include rare and unique content from newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources. Additionally includes primary source materials of underrepresented and often excluded groups even within the LGBTQ communities. Includes LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Parts I & II; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.

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Historical documents covering a broad range of topics. Strengths include U.S. foreign policy, U.S. civil rights, gender, sexuality, and women's studies, the Holocaust, and modern history of Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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A collection of digitized French language texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, ranging from classic works of French literature to journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy

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This three part collection includes News Features & internal communications from 1848-2000, Washington, D.C. Bureau records from 1938-2009, and U.S. City Bureaus from 1931-2004).
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A digitized version of the complete Atlanta Constitution newspaper starting in 1868 and running to 1945. Every year three additional years of content will be added.

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The Atlanta Daily World offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It examines major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explores everyday life. 
Contains full-text and full-image articles as well as digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue in downloadable PDF files, including news stories, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.

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Complete issues, from 1893 to 1988, of one of the most widely-circulated African American newspapers.

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Access to the Baltimore Sun from 1837-1994. This resource was made possible through the Class of '32 Library Fund. endowment smart growth graphic

Contains more than 15 million citations covering nearly 5 million people. Contains names, birth/death dates and bibliographic references.

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Alternate Name(s):Slavery, Colonial, Colonial America, Civil War, Abolition, Slave, Black History, History, American History, African American
This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves.
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1,700+ full text plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.

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A news media digital archive on the African American experience.

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Scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays, and historical indexes. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index, and more.

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Collection comprises approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history, and includes letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts in addition to familiar works.

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Contains full runs of 48 newspapers representing nineteenth century Britain, including national and regional newspapers, as well as those from country, university, and industrial towns in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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Hundreds of periodicals, both popular and scholarly, published from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.

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A collection of poetry, drama, and fiction produced by writers of the greater Caribbean region. It includes works in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.
Also includes several creole dictionaries.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
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A digitized version of a leading African American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. This database contains the complete run of the Chicago Defender from 1910 to 2010.

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A digitized version of the complete Chicago Tribune newspaper starting from 1849 to 1990.

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Declassified by the State Department, the Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955, provide valuable insight into numerous domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period.
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Provides historical, personal, and professional information about the inhabitants of major cities within select states and information about civic, social, religious, and commercial organizations. Coverage ranges from the late 18th century through 1929.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest History Vault

This collection of primary source materials documents the struggle for Black civil rights in the United States during the 20th century. In addition to NAACP papers, there are federal government records, organzational records, and personal papers of civil rights activists and leaders.

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Newspaper founded by Garrett Morgan, inventor of the gas mask and traffic light. Contributors included noted journalists Charles H. Loeb and John Fuster. The newspaper is well known for its support of the Scottsboro trial defendants with letters, clothing, stamps, and donations to the defense fund. Coverage from 1934 to 1991.

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Alternate Name(s):African Blue Books

Primary source materials related to the British administration of its colonies in Africa.

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Consisting of documents from The National Archives, UK, this database has the complete volumes of all British Government Confidential Print for Africa, from the Colonial, Dominion, Foreign and War Offices covering 1834 to 1966. It includes diplomatic dispatches, statistical charts and tables, accounts of tours, correspondence, maps, minutes of meetings and conferences, texts of treaties as well as profiles of leading political, military and economic figures.

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Alternate Name(s):CQ Plus, CQ Roll Call

CQ provides comprehensive news and updates from the United States Congress alongside official congressional documents. Homepage changes daily with updated content. Browse by topic, committee, or member name.
**Access limited to 5 concurrent users.**
Request an account to sign up for newsletters, alerts of legislative updates, transcripts, legislator/committee activity, etc.

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Alternate Name(s):CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions
CQ Press books: Politics in America (2000 to 2018); Washington Information Directory; Congress and the Nation (1945 to present); Political Handbook of the World (2005 to present); Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 to present); Vital Statistics on American Politics; and Historic Documents (1972 to present).
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The Center for Research in Security Prices US Stock database provides access to daily and monthly trading data back to December 31, 1925 for stocks trading on the NYSE, AMEX (July 2, 1962 - October 1, 2008), NASDAQ (from December 14, 1972), and ARCA (from March 8, 2006). Includes closing price, shares outstanding, and return for the stock. Also includes index level data.
Access is provided by Wharton Research Data Services.
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This database contains primary source documents from the Casa de las Americas in Havana, an institution devoted to preserving and promoting the arts and culture of Cuba since it was founded immediately after the Cuban Revolution.

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Alternate Name(s):Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Current Digest of the Soviet Press

English translations of news articles published in the Soviet Union and Russia from 1949 to 2010. Includes translations of Soviet government documents, laws and treaties, five-year plans and reports of their implementation, as well as speeches by leaders.
Note that we do not have access to The Current Digest of the Russian Press, 2011-present.

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Declassified documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Documents include presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, emails, confidential letters, and other secret materials.

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Alternate Name(s):disability, ability
At completion, Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
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Coverage: UK government documents from 1898 to 1950s. Updated: Regularly.
A collection of over 50,000 U.K. government documents from 1898 to 1950s relating to Britain's international relations, including foreign policy instructions, letters and memos, business reports, and more. They have been selected by the official historians of Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office and many were formerly classified. The British equivalent to the U.S. Foreign Relations of the United States.

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English-language drama from the late thirteenth century through to the early twenty-first century. Includes a selection of related ephemera, including posters, playbills, and photos.

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The collection presented here consists of Pearson's syndicated Washington Merry-Go-Round column published between 1932 and 1969. American University Library Special Collections Unit holds the typescript copies for the column that the syndicate sent to Pearson's office at the same time the typescripts were distributed to newspapers around the country.

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Korean studies collection comprised of 8 databases in English and Korean. Offerings cover all academic disciplines, including arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, and physical education. E-books, e-journals, dissertations, classical literature, video lectures, and newspapers are included. North Korean academic journals are also available.
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A complete digitized copy of American University's undergraduate student newspaper, The Eagle, from 1925 to June 2009.
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This primary source collection contains digitized images of nearly every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819. Series I is based on a definitive work called the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and covers 1639-1800. Series II, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, covers 1801-1819.

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This resource contains digitized images of nearly every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800. Early American Imprints consists of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images; it is an important resource for information about every aspect of life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century America.

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Full images of over 36,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the U.S. in the early 19th century covering all aspects of American life. Based on the "American Bibliography 1801-1819" by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
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Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.

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A collection of over 125,000 titles, from the first book published in English, through 1700. Disciplines covered include literature, history, philosophy, theology, music, and the sciences.

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U.S. Department of State records relating to the internal affairs of East Germany
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Alternate Name(s):African American; Black; Black culture; Black history

Provides facsimile editions of a key 20th century publication covering African-American business, history, politics, entertainment, fashion and culture. Ebony's editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. Coverage: 1945-2014

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Digitized version of the complete British weekly news magazine from inception in 1843 to 2020. The Economic Financial indicator tables from May 1983 to December 2020 are available for exporting into a spreadsheet format.

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Includes the complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio of 1623, and a range of theater adaptations, including one by Dryden.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) features the digitized format of 150,000 printed works -- nearly every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

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The collection contains documents related to collaborations, correspondences, AIDS/HIV-related correspondences, newspaper coverage, events, meeting minutes, board records, newsletters, promotional materials, finances, and founding documents between 1987-1995 from ENLACE, the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Latino Lesbian and Gay Coalition, was the first organization in the DC area to center the experiences of lesbian and gay Latinas/os.

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Digital archive of facsimile editions of major trade and consumer magazines related to film, theater, music, television, and general entertainment industry. 
Includes 15 trade and popular magazines covering all aspects of the music industry, theatre and broadcast radio in the US and UK covering the period 1880-2000; 10 long-running and highly influential magazines which document all aspects of cinema going, the film industry and the evolution of television and popular culture between 1905 and 2000; and 12 further major consumer and trade publications from the US and the UK on film and television, from 1907 to 2015.
Provides complete runs of magazines from their inception to 2000, including Variety, Billboard, and Broadcasting & Cable, and the Hollywood Reporter to 2015.

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A collection of current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies, and historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

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Citations to more than 32,000 printed material about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. This database is the online version of the 6 volumes "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750," edited by John Alden and Dennis Landis (New York: Readex Books, 1980-1988).

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The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church includes information on the establishment of indigenous churches, educational facilities, hospitals, orphanages, and seminaries. Includes correspondence, sermons, diary accounts, receipts of sale, and field accounts.

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FBI files on radical U.S. figures and organizations. Documents cover 1956 to 1971.

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Contains files of the FBI Counterintelligence Program (CONTELPRO) from 1956 to 1971 on prominent black Americans and their organizations.

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Alternate Name(s):FBI; Federal Bureau of Investigation; independence movement; Puerto Rico

This collection highlights the FBI's efforts to disrupt the activities of the largest of the Puerto Rican independence parties, Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, and compromise their effectiveness. In addition, these documents provide documentary history and analysis of why independence was the second-largest political movement in the island, (after support for commonwealth status), and a real alternative.

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A collection of Cuban documents, most of which are in Spanish, of works by feminists about feminists and their causes, of works by men on the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that illustrate or discuss the condition of women. Includes personal letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, and memoirs from women's congresses.

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The Financial Times provides international business, finance, economic and political news, commentary and analysis. This archive is a complete, fully searchable facsimile edition of the FT. It offers the complete run of the London edition of the newspaper, from its first issue to the end of 2021.
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Includes 2,500 back issues of Forbes Magazine, from 1917 to 2000. Entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.
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The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports are U.S. government transcriptions and translations of radio broadcasts from foreign countries. Annexes comprise an additional 7,000 transcripts to the Daily Reports. The modern successor to the FBIS Daily Reports is the World News Connection.

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This collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues. It sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries. In the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are represented. This collection includes cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.

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Fortune is an American multinational business magazine. Fortune regularly publishes ranked lists, including the Fortune 500, a ranking of companies by revenue that it has published annually since 1955.The magazine is also known for its annual Fortune Investor's Guide. This archive Includes 1,200 back issues from 1930 to 2000. Provides access to entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.

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This collection documents the broad range of 19th century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the U.S. by reproducing pivotal personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries, and churches. Includes missionary activities among Native Americans, African Americans, Africa, Fiji and the Sandwich Islands, India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Hawaii.

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Compiles CRS reports, US Supreme Court briefs, legislative histories, and other related materials on the topic of firearm regulation in America. Accessed on the HeinOnline platform.

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Alternate Name(s):HarpWeek

An interactive database of Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War Era through the Gilded Age.
Coverage: 1857-1912

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Alternate Name(s):Women's Studies Manuscripts from the Schlesinger Library; Struggle for Women's Rights 1880-1990; Margaret Sanger Papers; Women at Work during WW II; ProQuest History Vault

Primary source documents from women's organizations in the 19th and 20th Centuries that chronicle the struggles for voting rights and reproductive rights.

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An African-American oral history collection, featuring interviews with thousands of individuals from the worlds of art, business, entertainment, politics, religion, science, and sports.

Collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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Collection of Department of State and CIA documents concerning South and North Vietnam.
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This is a collection of British and American magazines from 1786 to 1993 that were aimed at a female audience. Some of the titles were conceived and published by women, for women. There are 103,870 page images. This database is part of Gale's Archives Unbound collection of primary sources.

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A collection of images collected by Jack Child, alumnus and former faculty member at American University. Child was a specialist in Latin America and Latin American culture, with an emphasis on Antarctica, Chile and the Falkland / Malvinas Islands.

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A collection of stamps, first day covers, stamp covers, and stamp albums collected by Jack Child, alumnus and former faculty member at American University. Child was a specialist in Latin America and Latin American culture, with an emphasis on Antarctica, Chile and the Falkland / Malvinas Islands.

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Collection of U.S. diplomatic and consular documents concerning Japan during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Digitized selections from American University's collection of ukiyo-e and Japanese woodblock prints, illustrated books, and manuscripts. Populated with selections from the Charles Nelson Spinks Collection, the Dorothy A. and Charles A. Moore Jr. Japanese Woodblock Print Collection, and purchased prints.

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This is a collection of 25 newspapers in Japanese-American internment camps run by the War Relocation Authority from 1942 to 1945. Most of the articles are in English, but many are in Japanese. Many of the titles are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted.

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Jet Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

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Full-text access to an information source serving the Jewish community in the United States from 1905 through 2020.

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Full-text access to an award-winning Jewish newspaper, from 1887 to 1990.

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Documents of the Kennedy Administration (1961 to 1963) taken from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library related to international affairs. The documents span from 1958 to 1964.

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The John R. Hickman Collection consists of more than 10,000 broadcast quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programs, from the 1920s through the 1970s.

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Alternate Name(s):Civil rights; African American; Black; African American Culture

Founded in 1919, The Call played a crucial role in providing leadership for the Black community. Over the course of its 102-year history, it has emerged as one of the most successful Black newspapers in the United States, consistently covering civil rights issues and fighting against segregation, discrimination, and other important issues facing African Americans. The paper has a long-standing history of encouraging African Americans to register and vote,
Coverage: 1919-2010 with some exceptions

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde (1944-2000)

Considered one of the newspapers of record for France and one of the best-known and most influential publications in the world, this French-language newspaper was created at the request of General Charles de Gaulle as the German army was vacating Paris during World War II.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals

English-language newspapers and magazines from 1900-2010 covering Communist, Marxist, and Socialist thought, theory and practice.

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Alternate Name(s):transgender, gay, bisexual, lesbian, gender, sexuality
An online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment
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Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party; this collection provides two unique views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles.

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Life was one of the most popular general interest magazines in the United States from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, particularly known for its high quality photography. The Archive covers 1936 to 2000.
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Archives from the Federal Writers' Project, a component of the Work Projects Administration of Roosevelt's New Deal.

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A digital collection of Greek and Latin works of history, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, religion, the sciences, and theater, translated into English.

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The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S. Coverage 1934-2005.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times

Access to the Los Angeles times from 1881 through 2012.

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Alternate Name(s):African American; African American Culture; Black Culture

The Louisville Defender is a weekly newspaper and has been one of the main Black newspapers in the local Louisville area. It is an excellent source for coverage on issues affecting African Americans. The newspaper played an integral role in the fight for integration in the 1960s. Coverage is for 1951-2010.

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A digital collection of more than 10,000 titles and around two million pages of printed material on U.S. trials from 1600 to 1925. Includes unofficially published accounts of trials, official trial documents, briefs and arguments, and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitration. It is comprised primarily of holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries, as well as the Library of the Bar of the City of New York.

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Digitized images of 22,000 British and American legal treatises from 1800 to 1926. They include books, casebooks, practice books, pamphlets, letters, speeches, essays and other works about the making of law, but not the transcript of actual laws or actual cases.

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A digital archive of cases, statutes and regulations in America's history. Among the materials included are: significant codes and code-like compilations from all states up to 1926; documents from significant constitutional conventions from all states up to 1926; enacted and proposed city charters and ordinances as well as official documents relating to them; all the major American law dictionaries up to 1926; digests or indexes to reported cases arranged by subject; and a collection of more than 60 printed titles with the records and documents that detail the legislation and court proceedings of the American colonies. Most of the material in this database is derived from the collections of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University.

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Images from 61,000 works of literature on economics and business published from 1450-1945.
Part I, Goldsmith-Kress Collection 1450-1850; Part II, 1851-1914; Part III, 1890-1945; Part IV, 1800-1980.

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A collection of streaming video from the March of Time newsreel series, produced by Time, Inc. from 1935-1967. The newsreels include reporting, location shots, and dramatic reenactment of events, and have a subjective point of view. Videos are fully transcribed and cross-searchable by subject, historical event, people, and more.

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The Media History Digital Library contains digital scans of hundreds of thousands of magazine pages from thousands of issues from 1904 to 1963. This open-access collection is a rich resource for the study of the early years of film and radio, including practitioner and fan-oriented publications.
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Alternate Name(s):labor; unions; strikes; farm workers; National Farm Worker Ministry

This collection reproduces correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes; included are materials relating to the farm workers, poverty programs, Public Law 78, Braceros, labor camps, the United Farm Workers Union and the Delano Grape Strike.

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Includes diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers are complemented by accounts of the development of farming and mining communities, family histories, and folklore.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest History Vault

Digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This archive examines the realities of segregation and coverage spans from 1909 to 1972. Includes nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries from the association's offices throughout the United States.

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The archive encapsulates the history and development of natural science, technology and modern biomedical sciences, and documents anti-intellectualist sentiments towards scientists. The archive includes chronicles of efforts by governments and corporations to influence research into the exploitation of natural resources, labor conditions, and the environmental and economic impacts of mining, drilling, industrial waste and pollution.
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The leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance. Coverage from 1922 to 1993.

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Alternate Name(s):New York Tribune, Historical newspapers

The Tribune, founded by Horace Greeley, contained influential editorials on abolition, and other major issues such as the settlement of the West. In addition to politics and reform, this newspaper also reported on the arts, New York society, sports, business and finance, and is useful for researching key events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Access to the New York Times from 1851 to 2017.

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This collection of French-language newspapers comprises the British Library's holdings of newspapers and periodical titles published in France from 1848 to 1852. Includes publications from the 1848 Revolution through the coup d'etat in 1851 to the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.

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Newspapers.com is a large online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 7,500+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond.

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The only black newspaper to provide on-the-scene, day-to-day coverage of the Scottsboro trial, and was one of the best researched and well written black newspapers of its time. Coverage from 1916 to 2003.

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Alternate Name(s):Native American, North America
This database brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.
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A collection of digitized Hebrew texts encompassing religion, philosophy, ancient and modern scholarship on Jewish history.
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Transcript-synchronized audio of United States Supreme Court oral arguments from October 1955-present. Includes full-text opinions and plain-English case summaries.

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Coverage: 1941-1961.
Updated: None. Includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from prior to World War II through his presidency. The documents, many previously classified, were selected from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. This is the online version of the 21-volume The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.

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The Peace Corps Community Archive consists of materials created and acquired by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers during their service such as correspondence, diaries, films, photographs, reports, scrapbooks, and sound recordings.

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Transcribed text of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a prominent early American newspaper.

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An international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup. It brings together books, periodicals, archival material, and instructional videos, to cover design concepts for a range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
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The oldest continuously published black newspaper, is dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation. Coverage from 1912-2001.

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Photographic collection from former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University, Economist Herbert E. Striner.
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This collection contains the documents of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first U.S. lesbian rights organization, and its founders, Phillis Lyon and Del Martin. Covering the 1950s to 1980s, it also includes materials related to homophile and gay liberation organizations, lesbian mothers, and violence against women. The magazines The Ladder and Sisters are also included.

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One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Pittsburgh Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. Coverage from 1911 to 2010.

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Alternate Name(s):Political Extremism and Radicalism in the 20th Century

An archive of far-right and far-left movements in the United States, Europe and Australia.

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Pravda ("Truth") was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991. Founded in 1912, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper and became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.

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Project Syndicate provides access to original commentaries by prominent political leaders, policy makers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world to readers everywhere.
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Searches over 500 publications (with full text of 400) either about or authored by the US Government. Though the primary focus is the military, topics covered include many that intersect with security from aeronautics to climate change to international relations. Dates vary by publication with almost all going back to at least 1990-present.

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Emphasis on 20th-century historic newspapers. Coverage includes major American newspapers and prominent publications from underrepresented voices such as African American news, Jewish news, and publications covering gender issues.

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Searches several Newsstream databases containing US, Canadian, and international newspapers from the 1980s to the present. Full-text articles from over 1,200 newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. Also includes 85 newspapers from the company Gannett.
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An index to 369 U.S. popular magazines and journals published from 1890 to 1982. This is the online version of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.

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Digital archive of French newspapers from the collections of the Biblioteque Nationale de France. Date coverage is 1630 to 1951. You can search the entire collection (in French) or visit one of the curated collections on popular topics, for example, King Tut or the Modern Woman.

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Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present day from over 44 news sources. Includes original text and translations of articles. Provides perspectives outside of mainstream Russian media.

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The Burney Newspapers Collection is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

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Streaming video testimonials from survivors of genocides, including the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, the Nanjing Massacre, and other atrocities.

SITE monitors the internet for jihadi news, providing translations in English.

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Alternate Name(s):Slavery and Antislavery Age of emancipation

Beginning in 1788 with Lord Dunmore's offer of emancipation and ending in 1896 with Plessy v. Ferguson, Part IV: Age of Emancipation includes a range of rare documents related to the emancipation of slaves in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world. Emancipation was a long-sought dream that eventually became a political and moral expectation.

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This comprehensive streaming audio collection of world music includes the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which is considered an encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest History Vault: Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War

Plantation Records are both business records and personal papers because the plantation was both the business and the home for plantation owners. Business records include ledger books, payroll books, cotton ginning books, work rules, account books, and receipts. Personal papers include family correspondence, diaries, and wills. As business owners, the commodities produced by plantation owners--rice, cotton, sugar, tobacco, hemp, and others--accounted for more than half of the nation's exports.

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ProQuest Supreme Court insight provides full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, with dockets, joint appendices, amicus briefs and transcripts of oral arguments 1975-present, as well as certiorari denied 1997-present.
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Alternate Name(s):Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978

A digital collection of more than 240,000 documents on more than 100,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases. It is a valuable database of primary source documents, as well as material presenting the background and context of the cases. This collection covers the Supreme Court from the final years of the fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first ten years of the court's 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger.

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Features drama texts from diverse playwrights, stage performance videos, documentaries, interviews, audio plays, contextual reference material, and production design archival content.
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Digitized version of Moving Picture World (1907-1927), a major resource for cinema history.
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Alternate Name(s):protests, demonstrations

This digital collection reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China's human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990.

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Major American news magazine based in New York City. The archive covers the first issue in 1923 up to 2000.

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The complete London Times newspaper with coverage from 1785 and rolling forward one year each year from 2019.
Note: This resource does not include the Sunday Times, a publication separate from the London Times.
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The TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Historical Archive includes over 300,000 reviews, poems, letters, and other articles - The complete run from 1902 to 2006. A major cultural resource.
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Widely read English language newspaper from India, purported to be the largest-selling English language daily in the world. The Archive includes preceding titles, the Bombay times and Journal of Commerce and The Bombay Times and Standard. Coverage from 1838 to 2010.

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A free Internet Archive service,TV News Search searches the closed captions of news programs collected since 2009 from national U.S. networks and stations, and then allows viewing of the associated news clips. Special collections on popular topics, visualizations of top news searches, fact checks, and trending stories are also included.

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Alternate Name(s):Declassified Documents Reference System

The DDRS contains about 700,000 declassified documents from 1900 to 2008. These documents are from the U.S. presidential libraries and the National Archives, and deal with nearly every major foreign and domestic event.
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Collection of adult comic books and graphic novels from pre-comics code era works to modern sequential releases from artists the world over. Includes 200,000 pages of original material alongside interviews, commentary, criticism, and other supporting materials.
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An index of U.S. television news broadcasts beginning in 1968. NBC broadcasts from 1968 and CNN broadcasts from 1995 are available for viewing online. ABC and CBS broadcasts from 1968 and Fox News broadcasts from 2004 are available through video loan, for which Vanderbilt University charges a fee to recover costs. There are no transcripts or captioning provided.

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Complete run of Vogue from 1892 to the present, with high resolution page images.

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The is the complete French newspapers holdings of the British Library from 1939 to 1945. They were acquired through intelligence, clandestine and neutral sources. This collection constitutes the sum of the French press that reached Britain during the German Occupation of France from 1940 to 1944.

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The digitized version of the complete Wall Street Journal, with global coverage of business and financial news, starting from 1889. Coverage through 2011. For more recent and current coverage, please find the Wall Street Journal in our list of databases.

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Consists of letters to and from the War Department. Includes speeches to Native Americans, proceedings of conferences in Washington, licenses of traders, passports for Indian Country, and instructions to officials.

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The Washington College of Law Historical Collection from the Pence Law Library contains class schedules, correspondence, newspapers, programs, scrapbooks, and yearbooks documenting its history from 1851-1960.
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Access to the Washington Post from 1877 through 2007.

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Declassified FBI files on the group of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South in 1961 to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia.

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The earliest texts in this comprehensive collection on witchcraft date from the 15th century and the latest are from the early 20th century.
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Contains documents from The National Archives, Kew on the Suffrage Question in Britain, the Empire, and Colonial Territories, dating from 1904 to 1962. Includes a finding aid to all sources related to women housed at the archive of the government of the UK.
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Documents of Patricia Lindh's and Jeanne Holm's liaison activities with women's groups and their advocacy within the White House during the Ford Administration on issues of special interest to women. Includes material accumulated by presidential counselor Anne Armstrong and Office of Women's Programs Director Karen Keesling.

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Alternate Name(s):gender

The Women's Studies Archive is an examination of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.
 

Abstracts of articles from over 2,000 journals and magazines in the areas of Women's Studies and feminist research. Also covers books, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, reports and proceedings. Coverage dates from the 19th c. to present. Includes the Women Studies Abstracts (1972 to present) and other bibliographies.

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News from non-U.S. news sources from 1995 to 2013 in English or translated into English by the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center (OSC). It is the continuation of the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

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A collection of digitized newspapers from Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers are in English or other European languages.

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A collection of digitized newspapers from Latin America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers are in Spanish or English, with a few in Portuguese.

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A collection of newspapers from Latin America, mostly from the nineteenth century. The papers are in Spanish or English with a few in Portuguese.

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A collection of digitized newspapers from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Papers are mostly in English with a few in Bengali and one in Gujarati.

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