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1980s Culture and Society This link opens in a new window Contains a wide variety of material from the US, UK, Australia and Canada. Includes newspapers and zines from grassroots organisations and under-represented groups, newsletters, films, photographs as well as some government papers. The resource aims to show the key social, cultural, and political concerns of the decade.
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Indian Claims Insight This link opens in a new window Covers the history of Indian claims from 1789-present. It includes claims presented to Congress and US Courts, including documentation related to settlements of claims and maps. It can be used to understand Native American migration and resettlement throughout US history, as well as US Government Indian removal policies and subsequent actions to address Native American claims.
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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society This link opens in a new window Covers American women's writing from C18 - C20. Documents are displayed as images and indexed. Drawn entirely from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society, it includes letters, diaries and postcards.
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Men's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window A collection of mainly US men's interest magazine backfiles. Includes some of the earliest publications of this type (National Police Gazette and Argosy) and covers key topics such as fashion, sports, health, and arts/entertainment. Also includes the UK edition of Esquire. Dates vary between titles but the whole collection covers 1845-2015.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Coverage is broadly C18 to C20 with collections focusing on travel, pioneering and daily life for girls as well as covering women's views on family, marriage, travel, religion, disease, and death.
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Queer Pasts This link opens in a new window Queer Pasts is a collection of curated primary source exhibits for students and scholars of queer history and culture. The database uses queer in its broadest and most inclusive sense, to embrace topics that are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender and to include work on sexual and gender formations that are queer but not necessarily LGBT. Each of the document collections include a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources in historical terms and in relationship to previous scholarship.
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Security Issues Online This link opens in a new window Security Issues Online covers conflicts, policies and relationships that have impacted the global arena throughout modern history. Organized around 40+ events and areas, including themes of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, ethnic conflicts and resolution, and nuclear threats.
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Women’s Voices and Life Writing This link opens in a new window Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968 brings together diaries and oral histories for the study of the lives and experiences of less well-known women, told through their own words. Featuring content from both regional and national archives across the UK and Ireland, users can explore the life course of hundreds of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.
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