Many of the periodicals in this archive have been scanned for the first time, including oversized publications that were previously too large for digitization. It also includes many publications that have been recently acquired by the American Antiquarian Society, which have never been available online. While the content is largely English language, there are some non-English publications that show the diversity of the American people, and the potential similarities and differences in the experience of America in the late nineteenth century. 

This archive gives researchers a resource that presents the history of the American people through the eyes of those who lived it. Continuing to expand one of the most complete records of American history of this time period, it aims to offer researchers an additional alternative to the official historical record by unearthing unconventional and underrepresented voices alongside the typically followed ones, and to show the range of outcomes of history for all walks of life.

They document national and regional events, helping researchers analyze the immediate and long-term impact of those events among a diverse range of audiences and perspectives. It also offers the opportunity for comparative analysis at a broad historical level, as well as focused studies on specific coverage for targeted audiences. The periodicals offer content aimed at various levels of society, a wide range of interests, and a diverse range of beliefs and opinions, making it a valuable tool to expand research on this period of American society.
 

Civil Rights and Social Activism in the South - James A. Dombrowski and the Southern Conference Educational Fund

• Source: Wisconsin Historical Society
• Period: 1916-1975
• Content: 17,000

James Dombrowski was a southern white Methodist minister and intellectual who was active in the African American civil rights movement from the 1940s through 1960s. This collection consists of his correspondence and papers as leader of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1941-1948, and executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1948-1966. These interracial civil rights organizations were instrumental in laying the groundwork for the success of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Included are letters from colleagues at Emory University and Union Theological Seminary, exchanges with Reinhold Niebuhr, and drafts of Dombrowski's dissertation and other written works. Prominent correspondents include Albert Einstein, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Aubrey Williams. Also included are materials collected by Frank Adams for an unpublished biography of Dombrowski, including additional correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, notes, and diaries.

This collection consists of four series: Biographical Information, Correspondence, Subject Files, and The Frank Adams Files.

The George W. Ball Papers

• Source: Princeton University, Mudd Library
• Period: 1916-1994
• Content: 140,000

This collection documents the private and public life of American lawyer and diplomat George W. Ball. Ball served as counsel in the Lend-Lease Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration from 1942 to 1944. In 1961, he became Under Secretay of State for Economic Affairs. Ball then served as Under Secretary of State from 1961 to 1966 under both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His tenure as Under Secretary of State is most noted for his opposition to the Vietnam War. This is an outstanding collection for research in diplomatic history and foreign policy.

Archives of the Work Projects Administration and Predecessors, 1933-1943, Final State Reports, 1943

• Source: National Archives and Records Administration
• Period: 1933-1943
• Content: 13,000 (Part 1 = 6,000, Part 2 = 7,000)

The WPA (Works Progress Administration until 1^st July 1939, thereafter Work Projects Administration) was the agency responsible for the work relief program of the New Deal Administration.  The WPA was a constructive alternative to a straightforward Social Welfare system.  It set out to put to work the millions of Americans who were unemployed as a result of the Stock Market crash of October 1929, and the tragic economic depression which followed.  It did not discriminate in favor of manual or skilled workers.  Instead, the WPA set up separate projects to give employment to construction workers, engineers, farmers, doctors, educators, writers, musicians, artists, and almost every other kind of working person.  The WPA restored pride to ordinary working people and achieved some remarkable results in constructing highways, municipal buildings, bridges, and factories, as well as works of art, the “living newspaper”, and new American music.

Part 2: Final State Reports for the Federal Music Program, the Federal Art Program, the Federal Crafts Program, the Museum and Visual Aids Program, the Federal Theater Program and the Federal Writers Program

• Content: 6,000

There are also individual Project Reports for each state.  These describe for instance, the Music Program, the Writers’ Project, the Adult Education Program, the Workers Service Program, the Feeding Program, the Health Program, and other programs within a given state. This is the first comprehensive publication of the papers of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). It illustrates the remarkable breadth of issues tackled in the arts, professional activities and public administration. The Final State Reports are indispensable to an understanding of the way in which the New Deal moved into areas previously considered to be outside the role of the Federal Government.

Home Intelligence Reports, 1940-1944

• Source: The Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
• Period: 1940-1944
• Content: 4,000

Between 1940 and 1944, the Ministry of Information in Britain carried out regular and detailed investigations into opinions, morale and feelings of the British people on the home front.  The strength of these reports -- a key primary source -- lies in the fact that they were compiled from a great diversity of independent sources, notably the 13 different regional headquarters of the ministry, as well as panels of civilians and officials. The subjects covered include reactions to the presentation of the war by politicians, the press and the British Broadcasting Corporation and opinions about evacuation, housing, rationing and strikes.  (PRO Class INF1, Boxes 264 and 292)

Although there were fewer restrictions, and they were not subject to the Stamp Acts, the growth of Irish newspapers was slow compared to England throughout the eighteenth century. Many of the earliest publications originated in Dublin, and a provincial press was slower to emerge. From the early 1730s, the Irish press began to develop its own tone as it moved away from adapting and reproducing news from outside of Ireland, and by 1760 there were more than 160 newspapers, dominated by Dublin. This archive begins at the point where the Irish press had started to become ‘Irish’, rather than an extension of the English press; and when provincial and politically motivated publications began to increase in quantity and prominence.

The social and legal structures of eighteenth-century Ireland meant that the press was dominated by Protestant businesses until the early nineteenth century when a ‘Catholic press’ emerged. As a result, there was “a limitation on the circulation possibilities of the newspapers, and [Protestant dominance] tended to dictate an editorial content that stressed exclusivity and conservatism”.¹ As the press expanded, a greater variety of newspapers reached the market, bringing a greater variety of voices and perspectives. These included publications that resulted from the emergent social, economic, political, and religious attitudes that formed the underlying allegiances and divisions in Ireland through the nineteenth- and early-twentieth centuries.

(¹ Foster, R. F.: Modern Ireland, 1600-1972. Penguin Books (London, 1989), pp. 183.)

Researchers can use this archive to explore:

• The ‘Protestant Ascendency’ and the ‘hidden Ireland’
• Unionism and Catholic emancipation
• The experience and consequences of famines
• The Irish Diaspora, and the issues resulting from mass emigration
• The emergence of Nationalism, and other movements including Fenians and Parnellism
• The social, legal, and economic ramifications of the Land Wars, and the Irish National Land League
• The debates around Home Rule and the ‘Irish Question’
• Major socio-political upheavals of the early twentieth century, including the 1916 Easter Rising, Irish Independence, partition, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and Civil War
• Radicalism
• The Irish Literary Revival
• The impact of the First World War, and emergent ideologies and arguments such as Redmondism
• Sport and leisure

The Times Educational Supplement is one of the world’s best-known education newspapers. It has a long-established history as a leading publication in its focus on primary and secondary education. However, it also serves as a repository of important opinions, reviews, reports, and reportage on matters that both relate to--and often range beyond--pedagogy, educational reform, and social policy. Containing every issue of this weekly publication, this collection includes articles that often--through the lens of education--offer researchers critical historical information in such disciplines and fields of study as public policy, women’s studies, developmental psychology, the history of education, and international news.

Researchers can use this archive to research:

• Teacher training, pay (and disputes)
• School funding
• Education and social class
• Gender performance gap
• League tables and school rankings
• Behavioural issues
• Child psychology
• The role of intelligence testing and IQ scoring
• Special needs / accessibility / DEI
• Compulsory versus non-compulsory education
• Examination methods and streaming at key stages
• School education movements and ideas
• Legislative History of Education

This archive provides a near-complete record of the efforts of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights.  This collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence; organizational records; printed material (including early pamphlets and publications both by the Indian Rights Association and other American Indian and Indian-related organizations); Indian Rights Association annual reports; draft legislation; administrative files, the papers of Indian Rights Association founder Herbert Welsh, photographs (often from Western field trips), materials from the Council on Indian Affairs, and manuscripts and research notes regarding social and cultural Indian traditions. 

Founded in 1882, The Indian Rights Association became one of the best-known nongovernmental organizations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to support American Indians. Founded by White philanthropists, the Indian Rights Association exemplifies the troubling history and the transformation over time of White-Indian alliances over the course of the twentieth century.  Like other White-led organizations, the Indian Rights Association adopted the paternalistic, assimilationist views current at the turn of the century, advocating for detribalization as the most effective means of improving the economic and social status of American Indians in the United States. At the same time, the Association also served as one of the first watchdog organizations to report on and expose the abuses of civil servants assigned by the federal government to work with American Indian communities. In time, the Indian Rights Association would relinquish its assimilationist views, ally itself with new, sometimes Indian-run, organizations such as the Society of American Indians, the National Indian Defense Association, and the Association on American Indian Affairs. 
 
The Indian Rights Association would gain recognition among non-Indian audiences and legislators in Washington, D.C., as a key source of information on American Indians affairs. Although the organization in its early years advocated policies that ultimately had adverse impacts on American Indian communities, it also regularly combated myths and half-truths that regularly formed the basis of legislation and policy affecting American Indians. The Indian Rights Association sought to remedy this lack of reliable information among U.S. government officials and the general population through pamphlets, newsletters, reports, and much else.

The organization began by employing its own agents to tour Indian reservations, where they record information on local conditions that served as background material for legislation as well as a source of the independent evaluation of the work of employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Over the century of its existence, the activities of the Indian Rights Association included:

• monitoring congressional legislation and the policies and actions of the Board of Indian Commissioners, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the Department of the Interior
• lobbying on behalf of Indian tribes and nations
• supporting the emergence of multiple organizations, both Indian and non-Indian, devoted to helping and supporting Native communities
• cooperating with other pro-Indian social organizations in order to consolidate legal efforts in state and federal courts
• supporting efforts to raise awareness of Indian issues through the development of curriculum for schools and universities
• assisting tribes and reservations in the building of health clinics
• formulating guidelines for tribes to operate under federal policy effectively
• mediating on behalf of tribes with the federal government to restore recognition statutes
• providing testimony and position papers defending the right of American Indians to hold their own political processes
• enlisting experts to produce authoritative documentation on specific issues affecting American Indians
• collecting subject files, legal briefs, literature, and material related to issues in which the association took a specific interest, from representing land claims by Seneca, Wampanoag, Narragansett and other regional tribes to mediating Navajo-Hopi land disputes.
   

The collection features briefs (appellants’, appellees’, reply, amicus), appendices, memoranda, petitions, transcripts, and more from all Courts of Appeals, including these major circuits:

• Second Circuit, New York—one of the most influential, often cited in business and copyright law rulings
• District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C.—especially relevant to cases on constitutional and administrative law
• Ninth Circuit, California—regarded as the most liberal of circuit courts

The circuits/collections are the same for Part I and Part II, since there are only 10 circuits plus the District of Columbia circuit. All new content has been added to the existing circuits/collections.

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Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790–1920

Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896–2016

International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887–2013

Mirror Historical Archive, 1903–2000

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890–1970

Punch Historical Archive, 1841–1992

Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II

Religions of America

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855–2016

The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2019