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A newsmagazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), NewsNet features articles (on particular issues in the field of Russian, Central European, and Eurasian studies, on the teaching of disciplines related to Slavic studies, etc.) and news and information columns including a listing of upcoming conferences and conventions, news on Slavic collections and archives at various academic and institutional libraries as well as new Web sites covering Slavic studies, recent or upcoming publications written, edited, or translated by AAASS members, etc Newsnet offers scholars conducting a large-scale research or survey an opportunity to announce their project to other Slavic scholars and institutions and request input or information. Coverage:
1960-2006
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ABC-CLIO American History helps students build foundational subject knowledge of U.S. history from pre-contact to the present day. With over 20,000 primary and secondary sources presenting a full survey of America's development, this library provides a rich collection of primary sources covering everything from early diaries, ship logs, and slave narratives all the way to FBI surveillance files, as well as thoughtful commentary and academic discussions on topics ranging from early colonial settlement and the witch scare in Massachusetts to the complexities of the 2016 presidential election. Daily updates ensure that this database is accurate and credible as our understanding of American history continues to evolve.
An in-depth survey of American history from pre-contact to the present, providing both foundational understanding for students transitioning to a 4-year university and advanced tools and resources for upper-level researchers, ABC-CLIO American History includes:
More than 20,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, biographies, government and cultural documents, photos, audio/video recordings, and more.
Nearly 3,300 biographies of famous political and military figures such as John Locke, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Douglas MacArthur, and César Chávez, as well as others from across American society, including Jackie Robinson, Andrew Carnegie, Meryl Streep, and Jonas Salk.
More than 100 thesis-driven, scholarly articles addressing questions such as "Was slavery the principal cause of the Civil War?" and "Was immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries beneficial to America?"
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Finding aids and digitized images from the archival art collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Coverage:
Various dates
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This digital collection illuminates specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans and provides an overview of their experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them. The story of the African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 is more diverse and complex than this collection can adequately portray. All we can hope is to provide the researcher with a place to begin.
The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 is a digital collection brought together from a number of individual sources specifically for this project. These sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets. It was our intention to bring together as many diverse sources as possible to provide evidence of the diversity and complexity of African-American culture during this time period and to let those sources tell their own story without interpretation. Coverage:
1850-1920
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The listing of collections on the subject of African Americans in Ohio consists of descriptions and links to the collections and includes:
African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
The Wilbur H. Siebert Collection of serials, photographs, and pamphlets
Other resources on African American topics on Ohio Memory
Ohio History Central, topics on African Americans in Ohio
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The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource. Collections include:
Everyday Islam in Kumas (video interviews with Muslim men and women from Kumasi, Ghana);
Ajami in the Senegambia (handwritten ajami manuscripts produced by West African scholars);
Saint-Louis: Religious Pluralism in the Heart of Senegal (handwritten texts, images and audio interviews about the interactions of Saint Louis's French Catholic communities, Muslim majority, the French administration, and Freemasons in the late 19th and 20th centuries);
West African Online Digital Library (photographs, audio interviews, and documents);
Africa Past & Present (podcast about history, culture, and politics in African diaspora);
African e-Journals Project (full-text articles of 11 humanities and social science journals);
Exploring Africa (curriculum resource for middle and high school);
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy (multimedia online curriculum);
Community Video Education Trust (over 90 hours of video documenting political activities from 1980s and 1990s South Africa);
African Activist Archive (multimedia historical materials and interviews with U.S. activists);
American Black Journal (40-year television show on Detroit Public Television);
South African Film and Video Project (moving images from years of apartheid struggle);
African Media Program (searchable database of films and videos about Africa).
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Use this cross-search interface to browse by subject or search across all of the Library of Congress’ Alexander Street Press collections, including:
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The All-Russian referendum, formally called “All-Russian vote,” to reform and amend the Russian Constitution was held in a week-long vote from June 25-July 1, 2020. Initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in January of the same year, the new amendments were designed to introduce a slew of sweeping changes to the 1993 Constitution (over 200 in total), one of the most important and the most controversial of which was the provision that would allow President Putin to run for additional two 6-year presidential terms at the end of his current term. Other controversial amendments on the ballot were the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, and a mention of a belief in God in the context of Russia’s “thousand-year history, preserving the memory of ancestors who passed on to us ideals and faith in God.” This collection consists of various ephemera (both pro and contra) and official documents disseminated in the months leading up to the vote in July. Coverage:
2020
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Uncover the stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records. This digital resource offers an insight into the personal experiences of those involved in the conflict, both on the United States home front and on deployment overseas in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, China, Burma and India. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Built in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, this full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimiles of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900. Featuring documents produced locally across the country, these rare items vividly capture the daily lives of earlier Americans in a way that no other material can. Many are graphically stunning in contrast to most printed items of the time. Coverage:
1749-1900
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This unique collection of documents brings to life American History from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the finest archives available for the study of American history. Its quantity and quality offers a wonderful overview of American history alongside some deep research strands. It is divided into two modules: Module 1: Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform, 1493-1859; and Module 2: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era, 1860-1945.
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Over 50,000 primary source documents split across two modules, including correspondence, diaries, government documents, business records, books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, photographs, artwork and maps;
Majority of the collection is unique manuscript;
Extensive cataloguing to aid search;
Translations and transcriptions for many manuscripts;
Secondary resources include chronology, essays, video lectures and interactive features;
Features from partner organizations Mount Vernon and the Gettysburg Foundation.
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This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These cultures have occupied, and in some cases still live in parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Maps are available that show traditional territories or reservation boundaries. The essays include bibliographies and links to related text and images as well as study questions that K-12 teachers may use as they develop curricula in their schools. In addition to specific tribes (Alaskan Tlingit and Tsimshian, Coeur d'Alene, Lushootseed, Makah, Nez Perce), cross-cultural topics include Indian Boarding Schools, Chief Seattle and Chief Joseph, Salmon, and Totem Poles. An introductory essay provides an overview of the cultures, this Project, and the other essays. The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855. Secondary sources include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and 23 University of Washington publications in Anthropology. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Database of catalog records describing the holdings of the UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music, a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. Catalog records include digital images of sheet music covers. Browsing indexes include name, title, cover art subject, and date. Advanced search indexes include keyword, title, description, composer or lyricist, and publisher. Coverage:
1790-Present
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This collection makes available for research the records of the Iglesia Presbiteriana-Reformada en Cuba (IPRC) and predecessor Presbyterian churches and missions in Cuba, including a complete run of Heraldo Cristiano, the church’s newsletter, 1919–2010, which provides a framework for the history of the church. Also included are the periodicals Juprecu and Su Voz, early mission records, originally maintained in English and then in Spanish as the congregations took over management of their churches and schools from the mission workers. These include session minutes and membership/baptism/marriage/death records, as well as minutes of men's, women’s, and youth groups, including their mission work in their communities. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution, as it is commonly referred to in the media, was the result of powerful grassroot protests led by journalist turned political prisoner turned to opposition member of the Armenian Parliament Nikol Pashinyan. This database is a digitized assortment of ephemera that was circulated at the ground zero of the Velvet Revolution – Yerevan’s Republic Square. It includes posters, articles of clothing, makeshift placards, pins, etc. offering researchers unique visuals from one of the most consequential political developments in the post-Soviet space. Coverage:
2018
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Provides access to openly available scientific journals from Sumy State University, Ukraine. Titles include: • Business Ethics and Leadership • Socioeconomic Challenges • Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks • Marketing and Management of Innovations • Health Economics and Management Review Coverage:
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Art History Research net (AHR net), formerly known as Arts:Search, consists of five related and linked databases:
ReView Contains the full text of a wide range of International Art and Architecture journals published between the 1860s and the 1930s
Arts + Architecture Profiles Contains biographical data on nearly 45,000 artists, architects, designers and craftspeople
Design Abstracts Retrospective Contains abstracts of articles and an index of images in design journals published between 1900-1986
Research Sources 1: British & Irish Architecture and Decorative and Applied Arts 1850s to the 1930s This is an ongoing project to digitize every book, exhibition catalogue, pamphlet and conference paper, as well as much of the journal literature published in Britain and Ireland during the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century
Research Sources 2: The Poster Contains extensive research data on the history of the Poster
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Contains digital art images, museum reproductions, and photograph collections documenting the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Images are international in scope and coverage includes a wide variety of civilizations, time-periods and media. The images are drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. The database is updated with new images on a regular basis. Coverage:
Various Dates
Network restrictions at LC limit access to some images.
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This databasel contains 13 million articles and advertisements published by the Asahi newspaper since its first issue in 1879. The database also includes regional versions of the Asahi newspaper, two weekly magazines (AERA and Weekly Asahi), a pictorial magazine (Asahi Graph), and a contemporary Japanese dictionary (知恵蔵 - Chiezo) which has been published annually. Also includes a Japanese version of Who's Who and an historical photo archive. More than 1,000 articles are added to the database on a daily basis. In May 2020, Hokkaido branch headquarters edition (1991-1999) has been added to Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition, and Chiezo Keyword DatabaseChiezo has been updated to the 2020 edition. User Guide: http://database.asahi.com/library2e/main/help/help.html Coverage:
1879 to present
The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays. Click LOGIN to enter the database; username and password are not necessary.
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AskART is an online database containing information on over 270,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists--painters, sculptors and illustrators--from the early 16th century through the present. However in January of 2007, the database expanded to include international artists' auction records along with book and periodical references and images. Artist entries include a biography, information about museums that display their work, a bibliography of books and periodicals about the artist, and a superb color image gallery. Over 7,400 museums and dealers are also referenced and can be accessed through a name keyword search, an alphabetically arranged artist index, or by category on a more selective basis (e.g., California Artists, Hudson River School). AskArt also provides directories of museums, dealers, auction houses, and professional organizations, as well as a glossary of art terms. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Associated Press Online Archive is a vast archive of primarily 20th-century news materials that provide original perspectives on historical events around the world from a distinguished news reporting organization. The AP Press Collections feature six AP archives:
European Bureaus Collection, 1937-2003 From Vienna, its chief listening post, and also from Prague and Warsaw, the AP covered Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Reporters rotated in and out of the Eastern bloc, writing about the declining influence of the Soviet Union, the last days of the Iron Curtain, and the political and economic re-structuring of the former Soviet satellites. These collections are composed almost entirely of wire copy, which was saved by the bureaus. The Vienna bureau files include copy documenting events in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and the former Yugoslavia in the years 1952 to 2000 (date spans vary by country). News releases from government news agencies are often interfiled. Subject areas include the Austrian Independence Treaty (1955), the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the IAEA, United Nations, Kurt Waldheim, Tito and the SALT talks. The Prague Bureau contains reporting on the Prague Spring (1968) and ensuing Soviet invasion, the Solidarity movement which emerged from the 1980 shipyard strikes in Gdansk, the rise of Lech Walesa, pro-democracy leader and first democratically elected president of Poland, and Czechoslovakia’s "Velvet revolution", the name given the peaceful end of communist rule in 1989. There is also copy on the Croatian and Bosnian conflicts of the 1990s, and political and economic development of Eastern Europe in the post-Soviet period. Wire copy from the Geneva Bureau covers a range of European topics including the arms race during the Cold War. The Europe Disorders film collection provides coverage of Europe during WWII and beyond.
Middle East Bureaus Collection, 1967-2008 Spanning the decades between 1967 and 2005 (dates vary by bureau) the Middle East Bureaus Collection contains wire copy (original news reports) in both English and Arabic and includes information on conflicts in the area, particluarly the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (The Six Day War) and the U.S. war in Iraq (2003). Additional subjects include Islam, the Persian Gulf War (1991), Kurds, elections and International Relations.
News Features & Internal Communications highlights the interpretive and analytic side of journalism and tells the story of The Associated Press itself. The news features, dating from 1940, include news analysis, human interest stories, and entertainment and sports reporting. Users have rare access to an array of internal AP publications dating from the turn of the century. The AP World and other in-house serial publications cover staff news, company news, technological innovations, bureau histories, news policies, and weekly tallies of the AP's top stories. Non-serial publications include a wide variety of informational and promotional brochures, AP style manuals, handbooks for correspondents, and technical manuals. Also included are unpublished histories and personal papers of AP staff members. Sixteen collections are included: AP Directories; AP Inter-Office and the AP World; AP Logs, comprised of the AP Log, State Logs, International; AP Stylebook; Angus M. Thuermer Papers, 1938-1947; Conrad C. Fink Papers, 1957-1967; George Bria Papers, 1945-2002; Haldore Hanson Papers, 1934-1944; Miscellaneous Publications; Moses Sperry Beach Papers, 1848-1914; News Department Circular Letters; News Features, 1944-1993; News in Pictures; Serial Publications, Miscellaneous; The Service Bulletin; and Writings About the Associated Press.
U.S. City Bureaus Collection, 1931-2004 Primarily a post-World War II collection, these bureau records—consisting primarily of wire copy, as well as correspondence and newsletters—cover a broad segment of American political and social history. Major subjects include the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Cuba, the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, the My Lai massacre trial of Lt. William Calley Jr., and the U.S. presidency. Presidents including George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and John F. Kennedy are all represented in the files.
The Dallas bureau led the coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and both Dallas and Austin wrote about subsequent events, from the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald to the trial of Jack Ruby to the Warren Commission report. Highlights from the San Francisco bureau include the growth of the counterculture movement and radical politics, as well as the gay rights movement. The Birmingham, Atlanta, and New Orleans bureaus were on the front lines of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, covering the Birmingham bombings, events in Selma from 1963 to 1966, the Freedom Rides, desegregation, and the Black Panthers. The Miami bureau devoted considerable copy to Cuba, including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Cuban refugees. The Chicago bureau boasted an especially active crime beat. The bureaus extensively covered education, environmental issues, immigration, crime, urban affairs, sports, and politics.
The Washington D.C. Bureau Collection 1938-2009 documents the administrations of seven U.S. presidents. It provides access to bureau records containing an extensive trove of wire copy and includes coverage of press conferences, travel, speeches, campaigns, and messages to Congress. The copy reflects the major events of each presidency, including the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the Nixon impeachment hearings. This collection also includes biographical files maintained for the purpose of writing obituaries—files on statesmen, entertainers, scientists, politicians, and other prominent people ranging from Indira Gandhi to John Lennon to Cesar Chavez. In addition, the collection offers extensive coverage of US elections and campaigns.
The Washington D.C. Bureau Collection 1915-1930 comprises the AP's Washington Bureau donation to the Library of Congress in 1944. This material, typescript on onion skin, contains the only significant news reporting on World War I. In America in 1915, the war in Europe was far away, but Americans scoured newspapers looking for the latest news from the "war front." The AP saw an opportunity and stepped-in to fill the need for more in-depth reporting on the war and later during the peace. The AP reported on more than just government and politics, but also on the Jazz Age and the Roaring 20's. Topics include: the Armenian massacre in Turkey (1915); Rockefeller Foundation activities against typhus and cholera in Serbia (1915); Mexican Revolution (1915); Bolshevik Revolution (1917); Tokyo Earthquake (1923); Black Thursday on Wall Street (1929); and many more.
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The Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 component of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP) provides web access to digital copies of Australian serials first published between 1840 and 1845. Coverage:
1840-1845
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Baltic Heritage Network is a multilingual electronic portal to information on the cultural heritage of the Baltic diaspora. Included on the website is: information on collecting and preserving Baltic cultural heritage material and the institutions involved; and databases, websites, electronic publications, bibliographies, online exhibitions, news about events, grants, and training programs, and a photo gallery. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Bancroft Libraryfrom
The Regents of the University of California
FREE ACCESS
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The Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States, Bancroft supports major research and instructional activities and plays a leading role in the development of the University's research collections. Bancroft's holdings include:
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The September 11, 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Belarus were held in a combination of a challenging economic, security and foreign relations environment. The continuing conflict in neighboring Ukraine, the vexing relations with Russia and the criticism by Western countries for its multiple human rights violations have contributed to a situation in Belarus that can be described as politically stable but also unpredictable, reflecting perhaps the political character of its leader Alexander Lukashenko. As a result the assessment of the international observers on the process and the outcome of the elections were largely mixed. The observers noted significant progress over previous years in terms of the efficiency of the electoral process and the increase in the overall number of candidates and candidates from the opposition. Although a welcome sign and perhaps a sign of things to come, many of these candidates lacked visibility in the public sphere depriving voters the opportunity to make informed choices. Moreover, according to the OSCE/ODIHR final report on the elections, “Voting, counting and tabulation lack procedural safeguards and were marred by a significant number of irregularities and a lack of transparency.” The present collection of ephemera is composed of material handed out by candidates and their campaigns in a bid to raise their public profiles and inform voters of their political positions and election prerogatives. They were collected throughout Minsk and other Belarusian cities by East View researchers at the height of the election campaign. Coverage:
2016
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The November 17, 2019 parliamentary elections in Belarus were not unlike elections to the National Assembly. They have consistently served two principal aims – to consolidate the power of the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and further marginalize opposition voices that challenge his rule. And as in previous elections opposition candidates found it hard to make into the parliament, which is not to say that the opposition did not try. Standing in their way, however, was a formidable set of obstacles set up by Lukashenko loyalists whose total control over the economy and a wide array of business interests has translated into a countrywide control of the airways, the print media, and the general political discourse rendering any challenge of Lukashenko as a doomed enterprise. The last time opposition candidates had won any seats in the parliament since Lukashenko’s coming to power in 1994, were during the 2016 parliamentary elections when two candidates eked out wins in their respective districts. In 2019 their political luck ran out and the National Assembly had been restored to its opposition-less equilibrium. Consistent have been also Western election observers whose assessment of the elections has been largely negative and largely inconsequential, although it has served to highlight the inherent deficiencies of Belarus’ one-man political culture.
The present database contains a large selection of print ephemera produced by various parties and party-nominated candidates during the lead-up to the elections. They contain leaflets, posters, flyers, election programs, and various other related materials used to shape and/or control the election-time political discourse. As such the collection is a highly useful research tool for researchers interested in understanding the internal political dynamic in Belarus and in authoritarian states generally. Coverage:
2019
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2015 Presidential Elections in Belarus were politically less charged than in previous elections, and yet their integrity was once again under question particularly by international observers who noted various irregularities especially during the final vote and tabulation of election results. Although some improvements were noted, they were not the newsworthy developments one would usually expect come election season in the post-Soviet space. Rather that honor went to the pardon and the subsequent release of six opposition politicians by President Lukashenko immediately prior to the elections. Despite the fact that the move was welcomed in European capitals and in Brussels in particular, the results of the elections were a foregone conclusion since no other candidate was able to mount a serious challenge to the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko who would win the elections having garnered over 83% of all votes cast. The present database represents ephemera collected during the elections and includes hundreds of pages of scanned and digitized print materials collected by East View researchers in Minsk and elsewhere. As such it represents a valuable resource for researchers and analysts in their attempt to better understand election politics in that country. Coverage:
2015
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The August 9, 2020 Belarusian presidential elections were perhaps the most hotly contested elections in the country's modern history with much at stake both in its domestic political dimension and in the country's foreign policy orientation. From the very outset the election campaign was marred by irregularities and the heavy reliance by the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko on the use of administrative resources to curtail or otherwise derail inconvenient candidacies. However, Mr. Lukashenko's fiercest challenge appeared from a most unexpected place. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the diminutive English language teacher and human rights activist, was an unlikely candidate to take up the mantle of the Belarusian opposition to Lukashenko's rule. Relatively unknown before the elections, with a husband arrested for human rights activism, she quickly gained following and popularity among some of the most active opposition groups in the country.
Although Tsikhanouskaya and her followers came close to achieving their wish, (she would subsequently claim a win by a popular vote), Lukashenko's repressive tactics made sure their wish would remain just that. Even before the official results were announced the opposition staged massive protests in Minsk and throughout Belarus in anticipation of electoral foul play. The ensuing months-long political crisis would see the self-exile of Tsikhanouskaya to Lithuania from where she continues to oppose Lukashenko's rule.
The present collection is comprised of hundreds of pages of official documents and a variety of ephemera and photographs produced by the Belarusian opposition as it strove to challenge Lukashenko's decades-long rule. Coverage:
2020
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The Black Press Research Collective (BPRC) is an interdisciplinary group of scholars committed to generating digital scholarship about the historical and contemporary role of black newspapers in Africa and the African Diasporas. Although the BPRC has made a conscious effort to include the African continent in theirunderstanding of Diaspora, the BPRC focuses its scholarship on newspapers published or written by individuals living outside of Africa who have been dispersed, either through choice or through force, and now live elsewhere. The BPRC strives to avoid homogenizing newspapers of the Diaspora but to explore how they operate in specific periods and settings. At the same time, the BPRC is interested in generating new methodologies that explore the concept of an African Diasporic press in the formation of global communities of people of African descent.
The BPRC also serves as a repository/archive for the storage, analysis, digitization and distribution of material on the study of a global black press, and it provides documentation of materials about black newspapers that are difficult to identify and locate with more traditional research methodology. Finally, BPRC is dedicated to encouraging and training new generations of scholars in the study of black newspapers and their significance in African Diasporic communities.
Because of the distinctive nature and role of newspapers in the Diaspora, the Collective’s work primarily focuses on these publications but does offer some resources and scholarship on magazines. BPRC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Black Sea German Research database consists of over 2 million names and has a research repository with over 225 research documents that is growing daily. It is a compilation of family trees submitted by Black Sea German researchers. It also includes data from original records, like church records or obituaries, that have been extracted from those records by a volunteer. Each tree is identified by a title and includes the name and email address of the person who submitted the tree. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Black Studies in Video is an award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Provides cutting-edge scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. It offers an expanding range of authoritative reference and book content, alongside a rich selection of museum object images, which are fully searchable and underpinned by an intuitive taxonomy for seamless navigation. The ideal research and learning tool for design and visual arts, it will support both students and academics by allowing them to explore the history and context of influential design schools, people, periods, places, and disciplines. Coverage:
1500 BCE to present day
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Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world to create a rich educational resource. The Library subscribes to these collections:
Berg Fashion Library Informed by prestigious academic and library advisors, and anchored by the ten-volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (July 2010), the Berg Fashion Library is the first online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. The Berg Fashion Library offers users cross-searchable access to an expanding range of essential resources in this discipline of growing importance and relevance including a specially-created taxonomy, an e-book collection, the Fashion Photography Archive and extensive color image bank. It will be of use to anyone working in, researching, or studying fashion, anthropology, art history, history, museum studies, and cultural studies.
Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive With more than 750,000 high-quality runway, backstage, and street style images, the Fashion Photography Archive advances knowledge of recent fashion history and gives inspiration for fashion design students. Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele says the collection provides an “incredible way to... remind yourself of all the amazing fashions and visual fashion moments there were … how incredibly rich the whole history of contemporary fashion is.”
Accompanying the wealth of images in the Archive are more than 200 articles specially commissioned for the site. The last 30 years of fashion history are diverse and fascinating. These articles cover a range of topics, and they give detailed overviews of the fashion cities, catwalk shows, textiles, and beyond. More than 100 biographies are available for all Bloomsbury Fashion Central users and provide the perfect starting point for any fashion topic.
The career of Niall McInerney, the photographer of the Fashion Photography Archive, crossed four decades. The giant selection of images in the Fashion Photography Archive reflects the variety of shows, designers, supermodels, and celebrities that he captured during this time. In a series of short videos, Steele interviews him about what it was like to photograph catwalk shows, back stage, and street style – and asks him for his insight into the shows of some of the world’s best known designers.
Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive In partnership with YOOX-NET-A-PORTER, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive exhibits almost 3,000 spectacular fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan by 460 international designers, and covers the period 1979 to 2003. Each video features extensive indexing and captioning to enable search, browse, and enhanced discoverability. Coverage:
various dates
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With more than 750,000 high-quality runway, backstage, and street style images, the Fashion Photography Archive advances knowledge of recent fashion history and gives inspiration for fashion design students. Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele says the collection provides an “incredible way to... remind yourself of all the amazing fashions and visual fashion moments there were … how incredibly rich the whole history of contemporary fashion is.”
Accompanying the wealth of images in the Archive are more than 200 articles specially commissioned for the site. The last 30 years of fashion history are diverse and fascinating. These articles cover a range of topics, and they give detailed overviews of the fashion cities, catwalk shows, textiles, and beyond. More than 100 biographies are available for all Bloomsbury Fashion Central users and provide the perfect starting point for any fashion topic.
The career of Niall McInerney, the photographer of the Fashion Photography Archive, crossed four decades. The giant selection of images in the Fashion Photography Archive reflects the variety of shows, designers, supermodels, and celebrities that he captured during this time. In a series of short videos, Steele interviews him about what it was like to photograph catwalk shows, back stage, and street style – and asks him for his insight into the shows of some of the world’s best known designers. Coverage:
Various Dates
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In partnership with YOOX-NET-A-PORTER, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive exhibits almost 3,000 spectacular fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan by 460 international designers, and covers the period 1979 to 2003. Each video features extensive indexing and captioning to enable search, browse, and enhanced discoverability. Coverage:
1979-2003
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Bourgeon is a project of the nonprofit Day Eight, with a mission to increase participation in and improve access to the arts. Initially a print publication, the magazine was started in 2005 by Robert Bettmann, but moved online in 2008 to reduce expenses. Over the last dozen years, Bourgeon has published several hundred articles by artists, most of them about the art that that particular artist is (or was) at that moment making. Bourgeon was created to fill the void left by declining traditional coverage of the arts. Its aim is to help project the voices of individual art makers, assisting them in documenting their work, and encouraging readers toward personal understanding of arts’ issues and art forms. Bourgeon ls now a record of the D.C. arts community, and more broadly, the art making process. Since the first printed issue, the magazine has included poetry. Since 2016 Bourgeon has increasingly became a literary magazine. Coverage:
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Box Office Mojo is a free Web site that provides extensive data on movie box office grosses and production budgets. Researchers can access historical data and rankings for specific genres, such as science fiction films or comedies. All of the data can be adjusted for ticket inflation. Box Office Mojo stands far above competing Web sites for providing free, in-depth access to comprehensive box office data for motion pictures. Most users will find that Box Office Mojo’s interface will allow them to easily browse movie rankings by a variety of criteria and search for specific films. Coverage:
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The Briscoe Center strives to provide online access to its historical documentation. Through this page, the public can discover documents, photographs, illustrations, book excerpts, moving images, sound recordings, and even artifacts digitized by the Briscoe Center’s staff. The public can also learn more about born-digital resources acquired by the Briscoe Center. Digitized collections include:
Bexar Archives Online: Selections of original documents and translations, with document descriptions search and other access enhancements
Rich Media: Moving images and sound recordings enriched with access tools such as cartographic data, transcripts, and indexes synchronized to audio/visual content
Sanborn Maps: Digitized and hosted by UT Libraries, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection, 1877-1951, details the built environment of some 426 Texas cities and towns
UT Digital Repository: Born-digital content migrated from the Briscoe Center's holdings to UT Libraries-hosted repository; access to some content restricted to Briscoe Center's reading room
Documents, Newspapers, & Images: Digitized and hosted by the Portal to Texas History, UNT Libraries
Robert Runyon Collection: A unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s
Photojournalism and the American Presidency: Photography exhibit that examines the powerful relationship between the almighty camera lens and the office of the president
Study of the Spanish-Speaking People of Texas: Digitized photographs taken by Russell Lee between April and July 1949 in Corpus Christi, San Angelo, San Antonio, and El Paso Coverage:
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Original Sources is the reliable fact-checking reference of history-makers’ greatest accomplishments—from the dawn of civilization to the present. This vast collection provides primary sources and personal accounts of humankind’s social, political, legal, and religious development, as well as some of the greatest discoveries, insights, and literary achievements in the words of the actual authors, discoverers, and knowledge-seekers. Find primary sources across twelve subject areas: World History, U.S. History, Political Science, Law, Literature, Science, Mathematics, Social Science, Philosophy, Religion, Language, and Language Arts. Coverage:
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Annals of America History was retired in 2022. Britannica offers this product in its place.
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A digital collection of catalogues raisonnés featuring primarily American and European modern and contemporary artists. Individual works listed in the catalogues include provenance, exhibition history, publication history and notes. Users can search for a specific work or browse by medium, date range, subject matter or style. Coverage:
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The Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL) is supported by the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), a cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. CNDL continues to add historical and current newspapers through ongoing digitization and born-digital curation, expanding the geographic, temporal, political and linguistic variety of the newspapers. Coverage:
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The Cervantes Project is composed of: the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO); the Cervantes Digital Library (CDL); and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI). The CIBO is a comprehensive bibliography of studies, editions, and translations of Cervantes's works. The CDL contains several electronic editions of Cervantes's complete works, including flexible interfaces and search engines with multiple options for searching and displaying results. Copies of his comedies, plays, and other related works are located in the CDL. The CDAI aims to develop a digital archive of photographic images on Cervantes's times and works suitable for teaching and research purposes. Coverage:
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The explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat is considered one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, especially if one is to consider its economic and environmental consequences. Affected were not only the areas in the NPP's immediate vicinity but also large parts of what was then Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Belorussia, and many countries in Europe. Much has been written on the accident, the structural shortcomings of the disaster management operations and the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet authorities, and recently Belorussian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster where she painstakingly documents the fallout and its effects on ordinary Ukrainian and Belarusians. Yet 30 years after the disaster, a definitive account of the Chernobyl tragedy seems to be lacking, if only because many of the government documents and other relevant material had been classified and were out of the reach of academics. The recently declassified documents, now available through East View Information Services, makes fresh research into the causes and the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster not only possible but urgent allowing researchers, policy-makers, environmentalists and nuclear industry insiders unprecedented insight into the Ukrainian and Soviet decision-making process. The importance of such insights cannot be overestimated, since among other things it can serve as a valuable learning resource.
The collection includes more than 70 maps of the area, reports prepared for and by a variety of Soviet and Ukrainian government agencies, such as the KGB, documenting and detailing the most important developments in the wake of the disaster, but also internal reports and investigations on the its various causes. These include the problems with the design of the NPP, and the extent of the Soviet and Ukrainian government knowledge on many of the shortcomings that made the Chernobyl meltdown not only possible but in a sense inevitable. Some of the most fascinating items from the collection are internal reports, communiques, and correspondences between various heads of local and regional KGB officials long before the tragedy. Some reports going as far back as the beginning phase of the construction of the plant provide solid documentary evidence of criminal neglect in the building process, the unwillingness of the authorities to address the issues raised by the KGB and its vast network of informants, and the subsequent attempts at cover-up. One such report provides a painstakingly detailed description of the use of subpar building materials offering up a particularly spectacular microcosm of corruption, theft, and neglect that underlined Soviet central planning. The collection also contains documents relating to the less known September 9, 1982 partial meltdown of the reactor Block no. 1, the subsequent mishandling of which was perhaps the first indication of the inevitability of the 1986 accident. All in all, the collection contains materials going as far back as 1971 and up to 1991 offering a unique window into the entire spectrum of the secret information circulating within the Soviet and Ukrainian governmental structures. Coverage:
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This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper. Most of the photographs were taken in Chicago, Illinois, or in nearby towns, parks, or athletic fields. In addition to many Chicagoans, the images include politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came to Chicago. Also included are photographs illustrating the operations of the Chicago Daily News itself and pictures taken on occasional out-of-town trips by the Daily News's photographers to important events, such as the inauguration of presidents in Washington, D.C Coverage:
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Explore a stunning collection of rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that reveals the socio-cultural history of these times. Showcasing innovative new publishing methods characteristic of the golden age of children’s literature, from mass-produced chapbooks to richly illustrated ‘book-beautifuls’, this resource examines the way in which new concepts were introduced to young readers, encouraging an engagement with the imagination which went on to fundamentally shape established notions of childhood. Coverage:
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China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images, objects and maps from international libraries and archives document this fascinating history. The project covers the following themes:
Old China Trade (roughly 1783-1844);
Early commercial development of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Providence, Baltimore;
Maritime routes between East and West Coasts (before overland trails);
Development of Hawaii as key American trading post before annexation;
Chinese-American cultural exchange (including 19th century Chinese immigration);
Commodities of the China trade;
Fur trade in Northwest Pacific;
Diplomacy and politics of America and the Far East.
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This online resource provides access to the following journals:
Qiushi - Qiushi Journal is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). It is the most influential and authoritative magazine devoted to policy-making and theoretical studies. By selecting and translating important articles from the Chinese edition of Qiushi Journal and its affiliated publication Red Flag Manuscript, and abstracts of theoretical articles from other important Chinese periodicals , the English edition of Qiushi Journal aims to promote the CPC and Chinese exchanges with foreign political parties and countries, and function as a platform for authoritative interpretations of the principles and strategies with which the CPC and the Chinese government run the country, as a top communication channel for publicizing China’s development theory, path and model and as an important window for political and academic circles and the people of foreign countries to learn about and study Chinese affairs.
Beijing Review - Beijing Review is China's only national news magazine in English. It is published every week in Beijing, by the China International Publishing Group(CIPG). Launched in March 1958, Beijing Review reports and comments on the country's social, political, economic end cultural affairs, policy changes and latest developments. It also offers in-depth analysis on major regional and international events, and provides consulting and information services.
China Pictorial - China Pictorial launched in 1950 and was designed as a vehicle for presenting captivating photographs alongside informative and interesting articles. China Pictorial became the first comprehensive publication conceived after the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. For more than 50 years, China Pictorial has been devoted to covering major domestic and international events, reporting on those issues most important to people, reflecting dramatic reforms of society and bearing full witness to the rapid development of China.
People's China - People's China launched in 1953 with the care of national leaders. It is the earliest publicity magazine of China and the only magazine in Japanese which is published both in China and Japan at present. People's China has been devoted to culture propagation, the idea of it is authoritativ reliable and practical reporting to introduce China to readers in a true and comprehensive way. People's China promotes the exchange of culture and trade between China and Japan.
China Today - China Today is an important journal, especially for people who work, study and travel in China, to comprehend the development of China's society and national living. It has introduced the development of economic and cultural issues, national living of the new China with specific facts and visual reports, focused on the new achievements and opening-up since Chinese reform.
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This site tells the story of nearly 12,000 conscientious objectors to war who chose Civilian Public Service in World War II. At the heart of the site rest the names of those men, the communities from which they entered, and the camps in which they served. The site features a database of names and a listing of the more than 150 camps which users can search to learn more about this effort to protect the rights of conscience during WWII. The site was launched on May 15, 2011, the 70th anniversary of the opening of the first CPS Camp in 1941, but it remains a work in progress. The personal stories of the men and women who were conscientious objectors will continue to be collected and developed in Part Four: The Story Continues, giving voice to those who today choose to live peace in time of continuous wars. Coverage:
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