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The following are being evaulated for the Libraries' collections, or have been recently added. Feedback is appreciated. All trials are for on-campus use only unless indicated otherwise.
This collection contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs, including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor. Also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.
This collection encompasses approximately 121,000 images featuring a broad array of examples of the built environment including architecture, gardens and parks, public spaces, and cities from North America, Europe, and Asia. Created and curated by photographer/ architect Scott Gilchrist, this collection is available through ARTstor and JSTOR Forum. Users must create an individual account to download/ save images. Images are licensed for academic use from Archivision. For assistance, contact Colleen Hailey, James Galbraith or Marcia Focht, Curator of Visual Resources, at mfocht@binghamton.edu.
A collection of seventeen English-language periodicals published in or about China over 130 years from 1817 until 1949 when the People’s Republic of China was founded.
This period corresponds to the late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era (1911-1949), when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic with modern approaches to politics, literature, education, public morality, and intellectual life.
Diaolong is an ultra-large database consisting of 12 sub-databases. It includes over 20,000 ancient books and covers Chinese and Japanese original works in history, politics, economy, religion, philosophy, literature, etc. Trial ends June 30, 2021. Please send all feedback to Julie Wang
Includes films from the following suppliers: California Newsreel, Green Planet Films, Intelecom Learning, Davidson Films, PBS, and New Day Films, HBO Documentaries, First Run, FilmRise, MVD, Roadshow, 1091 Media, Strand Releasing, Music Box, A24, and Global Low ROI
** For mediated titles, submit a Title Request form.
Excluded collections: Samuel Goldwyn Films (selected titles left open per instructions), Transmission, AVON and Breaking Glass.
LexiQamus is a website that aims to help researchers in deciphering illegible words in Ottoman manuscripts. Based on the legible letters and the symbols for illegible letters entered into the boxes, LexiQamus's special algorithm provides a list of possible words matching the given restrictions.
Archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. Some publications may contain explicit content.
Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive which was the leading African American news publication before World War I. With more than half of its circulation outside of its home base in Chicago, the Defender covered many significant events in American history that received only cursory attention from other newspapers. Also searchable through the Black Studies Center database.
During World War I, the Defender successfully urged African-Americans to leave the segregated South to work in the industrial North. It covered the Red Summer Riots of 1919, editorialized for anti-lynching legislation, and published Walter White and Langston Hughes, as well as early works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Searchable full-text and page images from the Chicago Tribune archive, Provided in-depth coverage during the Civil War period and includes many special editions such as the Lincoln Centenary Issue. Delivers cover-to-cover full-images in PDF and searchable ASCII text.
Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. This collection also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 states and the District of Columbia. The petitions document the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level and with amazing candor.
Primary source documents of records and correspondence of southern plantations during the Antebellum period of U.S. History. These documents reflect the business and operation of plantations, including slavery records. Part of ProQuest's History Vault.
Primary source documents of records and correspondence of southern plantations during the Antebellum period of U.S. History. These documents reflect the business and operation of plantations, including slavery records. Part of ProQuest's History Vault.
The Soviet Woman digital archive contains all obtainable published issues from the very first issue, comprising more than 500 issues and over 7,500 articles. The Soviet Woman digital archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other East. Archive spans1945-1991.
