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The Jewish Question: Records from the Berlin Document Center
This collection comprises documents from a wide variety of sources, including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, businesses, etc., pertaining to Jewish communities. These records are organized into various sub-collections, i.e., Archiv Schumacher, Streicher, Hans Frank, Hauptarchiv der NSDAP, Geschaedigte Juden, etc., and Ordner, or folders, and include newspaper clippings, letters, manuscripts, pamphlets, reports and other documents originating with the Sturmabteilung (SA), Schutzstaffel (SS), Gestapo, Reich Ministry of Justice, and Reichskulturkammer (RKK, Reich Chamber of Culture) from 1920- 1945.
King and the People in Morocco, 1950-1959
Morocco���s strategic location has shaped its history. After gaining independence in 1956, Morocco made great strides toward economic and political liberalization. The sultan Muhammad V, ruling his newly independent nation, proclaimed his intention of turning it into a constitutional monarchy. His first act was to transform himself into a monarch and assume the title of king. The Moroccan government undertook a number of economic, social, and political reforms, including the drafting of a constitution.
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets brings together over 80,000 pages of pamphlets covering Brazilian and Portuguese history, politics, technology, social happenings, and culture from 1800 to the late twentieth century.
British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950
Part of the most comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers published in Britain between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries ever made available in a digital collection, British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950 provides 23 publications (nearly 1.4 million pages) from across the United Kingdom and Ireland to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the times.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I
A unique, fully-searchable collection that brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources, enabling students, educators, and researchers to thoroughly explore and make new connections in subjects such as LGBTQ+ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, gender studies, and more.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part II
Fully searchable periodicals, newsletters, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, an international selection of posters, and other primary source materials for this milestone digital program were selected by an advisory board consisting of leading scholars and librarians in sexuality and gender studies.
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Liberty, a weekly illustrated magazine, charted the course of middle America from 1924 to 1950 with art, stories, and feature articles from some of the twentieth century's greatest authors, celebrities, artists, and politicians. This digital archive features the complete run of the magazine, including more than 17,000 stories and articles ranging from mystery and suspense to autobiography and humor, revealing the attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and desires of America in the first half of the twentieth century.
State Papers Foreign: Low Countries and Germany expands on the domestic papers in Part I and presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I, George II, and George III until 1782, when the State Papers series ends.
This archive contains FBI records on the enigmatic billionaire Howard Hughes (1905-1976). It documents Hughes���s activities in various enterprises including aircraft manufacture and aviation; the motion picture business; Las Vegas real estate; and the Nevada gaming industry. Hughes���s relationship with film stars, reports on his sex life, details on his disappearance in 1970, and Hughes���s contested will are also covered. Of particular interest are letters written by Hughes in his own handwriting. Documents include: ���Congress Probes Ownership of Airlines Which Won Routes��� (July 1945); ���Background into an unnamed racketeer who was employed by Howard Hughes��� (June 1946); ���Report of the allegation that Howard Hughes had invited Bugsy Siegel as a guest for the inaugural flight of the ���Constellation��� from Los Angeles to New York��� (c. 1947); ���Investigation in a forged handwritten will��� (1981); among other fascinating records.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
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.
Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence Monitoring the World
Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence, Monitoring the World brings together documents from the Cabinet Office, UK, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The included archival data files illustrate the worldwide interception and global reach of British secret security agencies throughout the last century and during two world wars.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
As compelling as it is comprehensive, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the nineteenth century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the United States. The collection encompasses the entire nineteenth century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African American culture and history, westward migration, and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.
Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America
Political Extremism and Radicalism: Far-Right Groups in America centers around groups considered to be on the right of the political spectrum, with a particular focus on white supremacist and nationalist groups in the United States.
"Invaluable for teaching equity, diversity, and inclusion"—Erica England, Washington State University, CCAdvisor (composite score 4.75 out of 5)
Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence An Intelligence Empire
Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence, An Intelligence Empire brings together files from five government departments to provide researchers with access to detailed, previously classified documents from the communications compiled by Britain and its Empire throughout the twentieth century.
State Papers Online: State Papers Domestic: Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603–1714
State Papers Domestic for the Stuart era (1603-1714) is the richest primary source archive of its kind to cover national affairs in England in the seventeenth century. The manuscripts and accompanying calendars are vital to any scholar's understanding of this turbulent century of civil strife, revolution, and regicide. Users can explore the nature of monarchy, the details of religious conflict, and the emergence of party politics.
Part IV completes the State Papers of the Stuart period and contains volumes of documents from, to, and about all the countries of Europe. Many of these countries have lost their own collections from this period, increasing the rarity and value of these British State Papers. All the great international themes of the seventeenth century play out in document after document, making them an essential resource for not only British but European history: marriage alliances, revolutions, wars and treaties, trade and commerce, and religion.
State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782: Part III: Western Europe
Papers series relating to France, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples. It also includes the Royal letters and Treaties series. These are the papers written or received by the secretaries of state in their conduct of British diplomacy and intelligence gathering. They document the relationship of the Hanoverian monarchs with the rulers, governments and commerce of Western Europe. Scholars will also find narratives of each country’s history running through the letters and reports as events, debates, discussions, conversations and gossip are relayed back to London.
Records of the U.S. State Department: Congo, Political and Governmental Affairs, February 1963-1966
The Congo (Zaire between 1965 and 1971; presently called Democratic Republic of the Congo) has long been considered significant because of its location, its resources, its potential, and (perhaps paradoxically) because of its weakness. The country has been at the center of a number of crises over the years, most notably following independence, during the Congo crisis of the 1960s, when there was a threat of the Cold War spilling over and heating up in Central Africa.
Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918
This series consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States' diplomatic post in Liberia. The topics covered by these records include all aspects of relations with Liberia, and interactions of American citizens with the Liberian government and people.
This collection consists of selected portions of the records of attorney Vernon Z. Crawford (1919���1986) and the Blacksher, Menefee and Stein law firm whose work represents a significant contribution to the shape of the civil rights movement in 20th century Alabama. Documents include legal documentation, complaints, petitions, requests, depositions, handwritten notes, correspondence, exhibits (maps, plans of school buildings, population diagrams), and surveys relating to cases on the following: discriminatory juror selection, civil rights violations (police harassment and brutality), discrimination in employment, school desegregation, and minority vote dilution.