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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part III: The Institution of Slavery
Further expanding the depth of coverage of the topic, Part III of this series explores, in vivid detail, the inner workings of slavery from 1492 to 1888. Through legal documents, plantation records, first-person accounts, newspapers, government records, and other primary sources, this collection reveals how enslaved people struggled against the institution. These rare works explore slavery as a legal and labor system, the relationship between slavery and religion, freed slaves, the Shong Massacre, the Dememara insurrection, and many other aspects and events.
China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759–1972
A compilation of 39 series of mostly British Foreign Office (FO) files, China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759–1972 includes general correspondence and registers composed by the British legation in Beijing as well as British consulates based in more than 20 Chinese coastal and inland treaty ports. Also included are the private and semiofficial correspondence of Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John N. Jordan, and Lord Edmund Hammond as well as the records and photographs of the British concession in Tianjin.
Offers elementary children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore a broad range of subjects like animals, geography, science and more—all in one place.
Supports U.S. history studies and provides an overview of our nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part I
The largest single collection of English news media from these two centuries, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection provides rare and often unique content for scholarly research into a wide range of political, educational, economic, or journalistic study.
Explore the development of American literature in a changing culture through novels, short stories, romance, fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.
Help your library customers understand common legal procedures through access to thousands of authentic, professional legal documents. From filing patents and trademarks to creating leases, drafting bills of sale, delegating power of attorney, and more, these resources are especially valuable for business owners.
Gale Presents: Miss Humblebee’s Academy
Offer a fun, inviting, and safe environment to help parents and caregivers prepare children ages three to six for kindergarten proficiency. Miss Humblebee’s Academy includes thousands of online and offline activities, including printables and practice worksheets, to support kindergarten readiness and introduce young learners to key academic concepts.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Covering all major areas of starting and operating a business, offer authoritative periodical and reference content and nearly 1,000 sample business plans developed by real-life entrepreneurs. The online resource is organized into four key business stages: plan, fund, start, and manage to help users find the content they need on financing, operations, marketing, and more.
The firsthand perspectives in this cross-disciplinary collection illustrate decolonization as a historical process by which over 70 previously colonized nations shifted from imposed structures to independent systems. Chronicling events primarily after World War II, these documents highlight local and Indigenous narratives from non-Western primary sources—and meet urgent needs for less Eurocentric areas of historical and political study.
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
This archive consists of over 1.3 million pages of archival material covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
U.S. Declassified Documents Online offers unique insights into the inner workings of the U.S. government. The collection links the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single, easily searchable database. This collection provides access to a broad range of declassified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, this collection presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice.
Gale Entrepreneurship Business Collection
View an extensive collection of amateur publications that were written, edited, and published primarily by young people, aged 12-20, during the second half of the 19th century. This one-of-a-kind archive features tens of thousands of issues, and includes editorials, original short fiction, essays, poetry, and more.
Give patrons 24/7 access to a guide on everything from changing their car’s spark plugs to knowing if a mechanic’s estimated hours are on track. Continuously updated, this online resource offers users the detailed information they need to tackle preventive vehicle maintenance and repairs.
Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
With standardized test prep, college planning, career exploration, and job search tools, this resource offers everything your patrons need to take the next step in their education or career. Users can access practice tests, financial aid info, a resumé builder, and more.
Help budding entrepreneurs, small business owners, financial planners, and others explore and understand complex national and international business topics. Users will find reference content, full-text business periodicals, detailed company profiles with financial data, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with today’s ever-evolving business landscape.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Literature Resource Center is a research-focused, one-stop literary destination, providing students, academics, and researchers authoritative and relevant results on demand.
The American Civil War: The International Context
The American Civil War: The International Context demonstrates the involvement of European nations in the American Civil War, including their internal discussions, reactions to approaches from Unionists and Confederates, the challenges and advantages the American conflict brought, and its impact on politics and society.