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The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 spans most of the 20th century, focusing on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. The relevance of the collection to current debates at both national and local levels serve many research needs.
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part II: Southern Regional Office
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, Part II: Southern Regional Office is comprised of never-before-digitized materials documenting the ACLU’s legal battle to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in thirteen Southern states. This collection is an indispensable resource for understanding the complete history of the civil rights movement.
This archive collection of courts of appeals documents provides a comprehensive review of trial history, including depositions, transcripts, and arguments. Addressing historical issues beyond legal theory and precedent, this collection unlocks material that was once mostly inaccessible to researchers
This unique collection, digitised for the first time ever, brings together records and briefs from 1891–1950 that have most influenced modern writing and thinking about American law and American legal history.
An ideal companion to the 11th and 12th installments of The Making of Modern Law, this 13th collection in the venerable series explores of 500 cases seen by the U.S. Courts of Appeals that were chosen specifically due to their engagement with key issues that occupy today’s American consciousness, such as reproductive rights, immigration policy, the civil rights of women and people of color, and much more.
The Making of the Modern World: Part II: 1851–1914
The Making of the Modern World, Part II: 1851–1914, traces the progress of the rapidly changing economies of the nineteenth century. The breadth and depth of the collection deepens researchers' access to international coverage of nineteenth-century social, economic, and business history as well as political science, technology, industrialization, and the birth of the modern corporation.
The Making of the Modern World: Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450–1850
The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450–1850 is a core resource for scholars and students, both for its successive editions of works by preeminent thinkers and for its wealth of rare source materials covering the experience and consequences of world trade, exploration and colonization of the New World, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, Part II
This resource provides an interpretive analysis with books on codes, focusing on Roman and canon law and covering southern Europe (Italy and Iberia), Latin America, Canada, Australia, India, and other jurisdictions.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
A comprehensive road map to US and British law, this resource opens up a wealth of hidden or previously inaccessible sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to scholars and students. It covers a watershed period of legal development and is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises.
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926
This virtual gold mine of information for researchers of American legal history contains published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, city and state codes, law dictionaries, and other materials.
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Part II, 1763-1970
Composed of US codes, constitutional conventions and compilations, and municipal codes, this collection enhances scholarly access to essential documents in American legal history through the second half of the twentieth century.
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Tracing the details of the courtroom dramas that rocked America, the British Empire, and the world, this archive provides unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions. It is the world's most complete full-text collection of American and British trials.
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Researchers will find coverage of the most-studied cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection provides transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, and other official papers brought before the highest court in the United States. It also includes information from cases that were denied certiorari.
The Making of the Modern World: Part III: 1890–1945
The Making of the Modern World, Part III: 1890–1945 takes The Making of the Modern World series deeper into the twentieth century covering the key events that have shaped the modern world. Beyond the study of economic thought, the collection provides an invaluable resource for the studying of social forces unleashed by the economy.
The Making of the Modern World: Part IV offers definitive coverage of the “Age of Capital,” the industrial revolution, and the High Victorian Era, when the foundations of modern-day capitalism and global trade were established. The collection includes hard-to-reach formats such as plans and pamphlets. This technically challenging material is now surfacing and offering original study resources to researchers.
National Geographic Virtual Library: National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-2015*
With comprehensive, timely articles and legendary photos, the iconic magazine documents life on our planet and beyond. Provide your students with over one hundred years of history through articles on culture, global events, nature, science, technology, and the environment, as well as gripping first-person accounts of epic exploration and discovery.
National Geographic Virtual Library: National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current*
A continuation of National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, its companion archive, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current includes every article of National Geographic magazine from the mid-1990s through current issues. Search the vivid photographs and historic articles as well as engaging videos and detailed maps.
This collection includes receipts and archives from the Drury Lane Theatre, Royal Philharmonic Society music manuscripts, and the largely forgotten Wandering Minstrels archive, which opens a rare glimpse into the decades of Gilbert and Sullivan. The archive enables scholars to explore primary sources covering such topics as Victorian popular culture, street literature, social history, music, bloods and penny dreadfuls, professional acting on the London stage, the Royal Literary Fund, British dramatic works, and many others.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
With this collection, scholars can research and explore primary sources covering such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure, and many others.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature provides geographical images from all areas of the globe. The nineteenth century encompassed tremendous growth in maps and map making as the field of cartography gained visibility and professional standards. Mapping of the world during this time period was driven by massive industrialization and exploration. As people ventured further from traditional population centers, a new market for reliable maps was created. This collection supports studies on the evolution of travel and transportation and spans multiple disciplines, providing insight into societal values, interests, colonialism, and exploration.