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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.
Documents the ACLU’s legal battle to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in thirteen Southern states. Consists of case files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, etc. and offers a primary source perspective on civil rights issues from voting rights to the dismantling of the Jim Crow system. The papers of the ACLU's Southern Regional Office offer researchers a unique view of the inner workings of the ACLU's regional offices and the organizations with which the ACLU collaborated such as the NAACP.
Provides access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.
Provides a window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers. With 1.8 million pages available, the collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Major newspapers stand alongside those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.
Examines the history of public health and the policy debates that ensued in the delivery of services at the national, state, and local levels during pivotal times in history.
Chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950, bringing together over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.
Includes hundreds of case studies of real social research, specially commissioned and designed to support teaching and learning in research methods. Trial ends February 12, 2021. Please send feedback to Neyda Gilman.
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Supports students of all levels through a range of video types. Video can be shown within a class—faculty can create custom clips and embed video in their course management systems Students access video to review what has been covered in class or to find another view Trial ends February 12, 2021 Please send feedback to Neyda Gilman.
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Contains major historic texts dating from from 300 to 800 A.D. translated into English. The collection is organized into topical volumes.
The original languages include Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish. Geographically, the collection includes texts from Syria, Arabia, Armenia, Georgia and Egypt; North Africa; major cities of the Roman Empire (Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople); and Spain, Gaul, Italy, Britain and Ireland.
Connects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focuses on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.
