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Configure web access to the New York Times. Includes the full web and app version of the NYT for the current Rowan community, including The Athletic, Wirecutter, Games, and Food sections.
Audiobook collection including popular nonfiction and fiction, overlooked books, U.S. Literature, U.S. Literature: Authors of Color, and British Literature. You can borrow up to 3 audiobooks at a time, for up to 21 days.
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Examines the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day. The entire Acta Sanctorum is available, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices along with Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers.
Presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Focuses predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.
A multi-archive collection of primary sources dedicated to the history of exploration including journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, and conflict over territories and trade routes.
Agricultural science related full text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, and a range of bibliographic records.
Diaries, letters, memoirs, and biographies from the American Civil War.
Primary source materials documenting American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century.
Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Modules include:
A collection exploring the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Includes printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.
A primary source database of fieldwork from ethnographies of the early 20th century, demonstrating the historical development of anthropology from a global perspective.
A wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior across the world.
Includes previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events with regard to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime.
A full text archive of magazines comprising research material in the fields of art and architecture dating from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. Modules include:
The backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events/trends.
Plays by Asian American playwrights with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Dramatic masterpieces and contemporary plays from the archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company, the L.A. Theatre Works. This collection includes Volumes I and II
A collection of HD videos providing a view into our natural world, including series like Planet Earth and Blue Planet.
Provides historical background to over thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand. Themes include the migrant crisis, refugee camps, human trafficking, women and children migrants.
Primary sources including diaries and letters highlighting the experiences of British and Irish women, spanning more than 300 years.
Periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Topics include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. Includes Volumes I-IV.
A bibliographic record of 19th century research, providing integrated access to finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material.
Twentieth century serials covering children's lives and interests. Titles focus on education, entertainment/literature, news, and religion/moral development.These titles shed light on the history of childhood and family life during this period and provide alternative perspectives in the study of 20th-century advertising/marketing, popular culture, education, media, and print culture.
Access to an extensive range of archival material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Includes manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps.
Contains rare pamphlets and secondary sources providing an insight into a wide variety of topics concerning Chinese culture, history, religion, everyday life and foreign involvement in the country spanning three centuries (c.1750-1929).
This collection encompasses events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, giving insight into the changes in China during this period.
Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this collection includes news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters.
Primary sources covering a vast range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement, the 600,000 casualties, and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves.
Primary source materials covering correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies between 1606 and 1822.
Periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies. Offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century to the 21st.
Covers Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, the Caribbean and Atlantic world, American history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.
Primary source materials covering the United Kingdom's Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices' confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966.
Primary sources materials from the British Government covering all countries of mainland South and Central America, plus Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba between 1833 and 1969.
Primary source materials from the British Government regarding the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan between 1839 and 1969.
Primary source materials from the British Government regarding the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America, between 1824 and 1961.
Archival and textual material relating to archaeological excavations, methods, and practices performed in the late 20th century to present day. Provides insights into the lives, cultures, and societies of ancient and not-so-distant past through the analysis of material remains and artifacts.
Examines contemporary theatre and drama from a global context, including recently produced world premieres, previously unpublished works, etc. from every continent.
Offers the backfile of this historical British magazine from its first issue in 1897 to 2005, spanning more than a century of art, architecture, crafts, material life, property, traditions, lifestyle, culture and history of the English rural life, including hunting, shooting, farming, equestrian news and gardening.
An archive of Daily News Record, with coverage from 1917 until its final issue in 2008.
British primary sources from the fifteenth to early twentieth century covering correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera and government documents regarding traditional models and contemporary perceptions of gender.
Delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities across a century of change.
Primary and secondary source materials in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, and the context of disability in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
This history database contains tens of thousands of U.K. government documents relating to Britain’s international relations, including foreign policy instructions, letters and memos, business reports, and more.
Primary sources documenting the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
Provides unlimited access to thousands of pre-1701 books and rare incunabula printed in Europe. Coverage includes Collections 1-24.
Primary sources providing a personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the 19th century.
A full text interdisciplinary resource of scholarly and learned material with a particular focus on geoscience, meteorology, climatology, aquatic science, and related disciplines.
A collection of primary source materials from the British Library containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types. Charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.
Detailed coverage of political, economic and commercial developments worldwide from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s historical Country Reports (previously Quarterly Economic Reviews), covering all countries from 1952 to 1995.
This collection provides access to ERIC, the leading index for education research, in combination with the full-text Education Database. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including full-text from hundreds of leading education journals.
Access to both ERIC and EBSCO Education Source, which are education databases containing over one million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books.
Provides digital access to the archives of leading education trade magazines of the 20th century, covering multiple aspects of the history of education of this period, with magazines devoted to a range of educational levels, topics, and audiences.
An archive of almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the the plays.
A collection of journals between 1685 and 1835, with topics including colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.
Key engineering failures and case studies.
A collection of titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, and more, covering technological and engineering innovations going back to 1966.
Uses text, archival primary sources, and video to address major past and ongoing environmental issues—water challenges, air pollution, biodiversity, climate change, energy issues, consumption and waste issues, and land issues—in comparative, historical, global, and interdisciplinary ways.
Combines specialist topic resources from engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
Contains previously unpublished historic audio recordings and their supporting field materials, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s.
A collection of videos and segments curated to support the teaching of introductory anthropology courses. Each video and segment within this collection is accompanied by a teaching guide providing background information, lesson plans, and classroom exercises and activities. There are a variety of teaching themes, including family and kinship, gender, identity, belief, archaeology, and primate behavior.
Primary source materials for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A collection of accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays. American Film Scripts: Volume I contains hundreds of titles from classic American cinema, while Film Scripts Online: Volume II focuses more on contemporary and international films.
Primary sources highlighting the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of World War I.
A database of content about food studies and its place in the study of culture, economics, business, politics, and the process of globalization.
This archive offers access to nearly 80 years of industry news, reporting, and analysis, allowing users to analyze historical trends and gain unique insights into the evolution of the footwear industry.
Primary sources from the British government regarding its affairs with India, Pakistan, and Aghanistan from 1947-1980.
Primary sources from the British government regarding its affairs with China from 1919-1980, consisting of diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, maps, reports of court cases, biographies of leading personalities, summaries of events and diverse other materials.
Primary sources from the British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952, consisting of diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events and diverse other material.
Primary sources from the British government documenting events in the Middle East during the 1970s.
Primary sources about the lives of settlers and Indigenous peoples from various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia.
Primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present.
A database providing cross-cultural information on women's history.
Primary sources covering the Gilded Age, with topics including immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment.
A library news product providing timely access to newswire content available from around the globe.
A collection of primary and secondary sources, artworks, photographs, and maps, c. 1550-1850, which highlights the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature, and philosophy.
Provides access to the backfiles of several major US and UK consumer magazines, with the earliest coverage starting from 1950.
Newspapers documenting Jewish immigration, genealogy, and history. Titles include:
Primary source content and editorial perspectives of African American newspapers in the U.S., dating back to the 18th Century. Titles include:
English-language Chinese historical newspapers, including critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. Titles include:
Communist Party newspapers exploring topics including workers’ rights, social issues, national and international politics, culture and Party activity. Titles include:
Full access to authoritative accounts of international history, including coverage from as far back as 1700s through to current day, for some titles. Titles include:
Newspapers covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory, and practice, spanning the 20th century from 1900-2010. Titles include:
Several collections focusing on the interaction between American Indians and the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th centuries. Modules include:
Several collections encompassing a wide range of 19th and 20th-century material. Modules include:
Collections in the International Relations and Military Conflicts category span from 1911-1975, offering a detailed view of U.S. foreign relations during the period from the years immediately before the outbreak of World War I through to the end of the Vietnam War. Modules include:
Collections covering Latino History, social movements, and issues of race and ethnicity. Modules include:
Collections focusing on voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights. Modules include:
Features collections on American workers and labor from the late 19th through 20th centuries, and records of the Socialist Party of America. Modules include:
A research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide.
Primary sources documenting the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the end of British rule in 1947.
Compiled histories providing researchers with the opportunity to understand and analyze Native American migration and resettlement throughout U.S. history in the context of U.S. Government Indian removal policies and subsequent actions to address Native American claims.
Contains manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from early European colonization up to photographs and Indigenous newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.
Contains nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada, with newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era.
Bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951, focused on four primary subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
Documents the history, operation, policies and accomplishments of one of the world's largest and oldest advertising firms. These primacy sources reveal many aspects of twentieth-century cultural, social, business, marketing, consumer and economic history.
Provides direct access to rare primary source materials and evidence of Britain’s cultural, social, industrial, and technological heritage.
An archive of two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional and the Daily English-language Latin File. These episodes focus on Latinx issues related to politics, sociology, human rights, the arts and more including interviews with key figures and coverage of important historical events, all reported by a new generation of Latino/a journalists at the time.
Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs, and personal travel journals provide insight into the expansion, accessibility, and affordability of tourism for the masses and the evolution of some of the most successful travel agencies in the world.
Covers LGBTQ+ history and culture through over 40 influential magazines dating back to the 1950s, covering activism, lifestyle, and more. Includes Collections 1-2.
Key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day.
Full text access to top publications in library and information science, covering a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals.
Abstracts covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
Victorian manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg collection of The New York Public Library.
17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
Primary sources demonstrating the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provision, and the history of bookbinding.
Primary sources including rare books, ephemera, maps, and other materials relating to 18th, 19th, and early 20th century London.
Provides complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) and memoranda of Harold Macmillan’s government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees.
Personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, revealing the details of the authors’ daily lives, their activities and concerns, and their attitudes towards the people and world around them.
Market research reports providing insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century.
Provides context to both crucial global trends in mass incarceration, and the detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries. It examines prison populations and their relationship to major prison labor systems; how correctional facilities may serve as central service providers for those with mental health issues; the use of the death penalty; the history of correctional institutions for juvenile offenders; internment camps; prison gangs and riots; and the loss of rights for prisoners.
Access to the original Mass Observation project, the bulk of which was carried out from 1937 until the mid-1950s, documenting everyday life in Britain during these transformative years.
Full text access to journals and other sources covering topics that include metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and biomaterials and deal with areas such as corrosion, molding and casting, treatment, recycling, testing, finishing, welding, and forming.
Primary source materials from 1850-1949 that demonstrate the history of illness, treatment, and disease on the international front lines.
Medival manuscripts covering topics including trade, warfare, arranging advantageous marriages, arguments between parents and children, matters of inheritance, births and deaths, estate management, legal disputes, domestic finances, women and their role in the family, and everyday social and domestic life.
Manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period, focusing on journeys to central Asia and the Far East.
Access to the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925), an American polymath notable for his work in natural history, ethnography, archaeology and art history. Morse was invited to teach at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1870s and travelled extensively in Japan, recording his experiences in great detail and maintaining a deep interest in the country and its culture for the remainder of his life.
This archive offers digital access to the backfiles of six major US and UK men’s-interest consumer magazines. Coverage is from the first issues and extends from the mid-19th century to the 21st. The archive offers researchers insights into contemporary issues and trends in history and society, masculinity, sex roles, literature, sports, fashion, popular culture/entertainment, and more.
Primary sources documenting British, European and Asian migration.
Covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control.
Configure web access to the New York Times. Includes the full web and app version of the NYT for the current Rowan community, including The Athletic, Wirecutter, Games, and Food sections.
An archive of consumer magazines in the fields of news, policy, and politics.
Primary source materials from the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency, spanning his handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, and his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers, which culminated in Watergate and resignation.
This collection brings together full text plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.
This collection integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files to respresent historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them.
A rich collection of 19th-century melodramas exploring topics from domestic entrapment to life on the frontier to the Underground Railroad. Covers the campaign for voting rights, including propaganda plays, as well as the growing crusade for women’s access to higher education and inclusion in various professions.
A collection of women's diaries and correspondence spanning more than 300 years.
Audiobook collection including popular nonfiction and fiction, overlooked books, U.S. Literature, U.S. Literature: Authors of Color, and British Literature. You can borrow up to 3 audiobooks at a time, for up to 21 days.
Follow these steps to use Overdrive (Audiobooks) on your mobile device:
A collection of philosophical and theological writings covering the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
International collection covering all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.
A digital archive of leading international journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, spanning more than two centuries. Includes Collections 1-10.
Traces the development from 1950s austerity to the excess of the 1970s through a range of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera, and video footage.
This collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals.
A comprehensive collection of congressional documents from 1789 to the present.
Full text from publicly available scholarly content from thousands sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals, journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.
Reproduces every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria's journals as high-resolution color images along with separate photographs of the many illustrations and inserts within the pages.
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.
This collection showcases the speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department’s staff and participants of its annual Institute, including Charles S. Johnson and Thurgood Marshall.
An archive of magazines devoted to religious topics, spanning 19th-21st centuries. These publications span a wide variety of religions/denominations and offer insights into myriad aspects of the history of religion and society.
A collection examining how revolutions, protests, resistance, and social movements have shaped and transformed the human experience globally from the 18th to 21st century.
Provides access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.
High-quality recordings of modern productions featuring the world’s best Shakespearean actors and directors. Recordings are accompanied by production images, teacher packs, and study notes to enhance student understanding of these important plays.
This database provides historical context and resources on key past and present global crises with a focus on pivotal threats including terrorism, cybersecurity, and intelligence.
A collection of wartime publications that brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas.
A collection of prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
Primary sources documenting the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America.
Primary source documents from on the subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice from archives and libraries across North America and the UK.
A multimedia resource that combines video with relevant text content to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
This collection offers access to serials encompassing a wide spectrum of movements and ideologies on the political left, from Marxism and socialism to communism, social democracy, and Fabianism.
A digitized, complete and detailed chronicle of events from 1758 to the current day. Every year, a new volume is published describing the past year's events.
A collection of documents gathered by William Cecil (1520-1598), Lord Burghley and his son Robert Cecil (1563-1612), First Earl of Salisbury. This collection includes many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century state papers, grants from the Crown, legal documents, treaties, correspondences, and political memoranda.
Archival coverage to the Far Eastern Economic Review, which allows users to take a historical approach to understanding contemporary political economy in Asian states and to trace the major financial, commercial, political, and social developments from 1946 to 2009.
Spans the full run of the U.S. edition of GQ magazine, from the first issue in 1931 to the present (with new issues added on an ongoing basis).
Includes the backfiles of the US and UK editions of Harper’s Bazaar, with content from 1867 to the present.
Consists of the full run of House Beautiful magazine, a leading voice of U.S. domestic life, from 1896 to present day. It documents the history of art, architecture, design, and domesticity, as well as offering valuable insights into social trends and consumer technology.
This archive offers digital access the full run of the US edition of Newsweek, from its launch in 1933 to 2012.
Covers Rolling Stone magazine from its launch in 1967 to the present.
Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
This archive contains the complete run of Vogue Italia from its launch in 1964 to present.
Examines trade policies, financial crises, emerging markets and technological innovations that unite the world in an ever-changing system of trade.
Primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends between 1850-1950.
Accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, covering a variety of topics including architecture, art, the British Empire, climate, customs, exploration, family life, housing, industry, language, monuments, mountains, natural history, politics and diplomacy, race, religion, science, shopping and war.
A digitized collection of magazines written and illustrated by and for servicemen and women.
Plays from the United States and Canada. In addition to providing a comprehensive full text resource for students in the performing arts, the collection offers a unique window into the economic, historical, social, and political psyche of two countries.
Covers leading religious thinkers and writers, offering selections of foundational writings, contextual monographs, and archival content to scholars of interreligious studies. Access includes Volumes I-IV.
A database containing the complete file of 18th to 20th century Parliamentary Papers to support research, teaching and learning of historical and contemporary issues in the U.K. and British empire. Modules include:
Primary source materials covering popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe, c1779 to 1930.
A comprehensive record of the history of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, documenting the founding and economic development of the Virginia colony, relations between colonists and indigenous peoples, and early trade between Britain and America.
This database consists of sources demonstrating the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present.
A collection of original documents pertaining to the question of suffrage in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories.
Archival runs of leading women’s consumer magazines of the twentieth century. Users can find everything from canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles to fascinating glimpses into the homes, politics, careers and goals of women. Contains collections 1-3.
Access to the entire archive of Women's Wear Daily, allowing users to explore influences on the fashion and beauty industry.
Records, monographs, publicity, artwork, and artifacts regarding the phenomenon of world's fairs from the Crystal Palace in 1851 and the proliferation of North American exhibitions, to fairs around the world and twenty-first century expos.
Provides access to the backfiles of 13 magazines originally published for a teen/pre-teen audience. Coverage spans the years 1940-2020 and sheds light on a host of trends and topics in the history of youth culture, including fashion, rock and roll, sports, sexuality, and dating, as well the media portrayal of youth.