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Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790–1920
With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, this collection presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice. This quintessential resource enhances understanding of the intersection of law and society during a pivotal era of social change.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Nuremburg Laws and Nazi Annulment of Jewish German Nationality
This collection consists of index cards listing the name, date and place of birth, occupation and last address of Jews whose German citizenship was revoked in accordance with the "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935, including Jews from Germany, Austria and Czech Bohemia.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
The Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks collection covers issues of gender and class, igniting nineteenth-century debate in the context of suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health, and many other concerns. Using a wide array of primary source documents, including serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals, this collection focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective.
Occupation and Independence The Austrian Second Republic, 1945-1963
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
With this collection, scholars can research and explore primary sources covering such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure, and many others.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
This collection contains State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, and Ireland together with the Registers (Minutes) of the Privy Council for the sixteenth century. These documents record the relationship between England and the rest of Europe, as well as the relationships among the European states, both Catholic and Protestant.
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Sciences, History, and Geography
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Sciences, History, and Geography is a full-text searchable archive of early Arabic printed books on medicine and physiology, classical sciences, mathematics, astrology, chemistry, natural history, philosophy, logic and ethics, politics, history and genealogy, biography, travel, geography, and much more. This collection presents the range of Arab learning that influenced the scholarship and scientific development in Europe through the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Part II: Empire
Expanding beyond the UK borders, Part II explores Britain's empire-building throughout the nineteenth century through the complete runs of 91 periodicals from its colonies, covering the public response to the abolition of the slave trade, the First Opium War, Queen Victoria's assumption of the title of Empress of India, and the "Scramble for Africa". It is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with British colonial and post-colonial interests.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society examines the influence of both faith and scepticism on the shaping of many aspects of society, including politics, law, economics, and social and radical reform movements.
Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification," 1883-1886
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Smithsonian and Air & Space Magazines, 1970–2010
This collection brings together Air & Space Magazine and Smithsonian Magazine for the first time in a combined and fully-searchable digital archive. Together, the complete history of both of these premier magazines represent decades of in-depth and expert coverage of high-demand topics and unique insights into aviation, space, innovation, science, technology, the arts, and culture, all of which is accessible in an integrated, intuitive display.
Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Military Leaders of World War I Official and Private Papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt
This collection consists of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt's private and official papers consists, in general, of correspondence, reports, diaries, draft articles, newspaper clippings, maps, and some genealogical materials.
The Making of the Modern World: Part IV offers definitive coverage of the “Age of Capital,” the industrial revolution, and the High Victorian Era, when the foundations of modern-day capitalism and global trade were established. The collection includes hard-to-reach formats such as plans and pamphlets. This technically challenging material is now surfacing and offering original study resources to researchers.
Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions, Visions of Tomorrow
With coverage beginning in 1834 and including the pivotal Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in London, this collection allows users to explore key cultural and technological progress that shaped contemporary outlooks on life and reflected national identities.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature & the Merchandizing of Industry
This collection, covering 1820 to 1926, allows researchers to determine the history of companies and industries, discern trends in sectors from furniture to machinery, analyze marketing and management techniques, and examine illustrations of the items used at home and in business. The collection exposes technological advances, architectural advances, societal changes, and business history in a way that reveals vital aspects of American culture, society, and history.
African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933-1947
This collection comprises of the voluminous working files of John P. Davis and successive executive secretaries of the National Negro Congress.
An engaging database of contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 650,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.