Ethnic Diversity Source Ethnic Diversity Source supports the study of African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Multiracial Americans, and Native Americans, among others, with respect to their cultures, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences. Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, historical documents, and biographies are complemented by primary sources, such as
Category: American Studies
Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957 Race against Empire tells the poignant story of a popular movement and its precipitate decline with the onset of the Cold War. Von Eschen documents the efforts of African-American political leaders, intellectuals, and journalists who forcefully promoted anti-colonial politics and critiqued U.S. foreign policy. The eclipse of
Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture
ProQuest History Vault: Americans for Democratic Action Records, 1932-1999 The Americans for Democratic Action Records trace the evolution of the organization as it supported civil rights, the united international control of atomic energy, and global democracy. The collection contains records of campaigns on vital issues such as equal rights, disarmament, the Vietnam War, inflation, and
St. Louis American (1949-2010) The St. Louis American is an important Black newspaper that chronicles the African American community in St. Louis. This newspaper database offers an historical perspective on national and regional news, religion, sports and entertainment.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003) The St. Louis Post Dispatch has a major place in newspaper history. It was created by Joseph Pulitzer when he merged two publications in 1874. Important historical figures who have written for the St. Louis Post Dispatch include Mark Twain, cartoonist Bill Maudlin, and Otto Fuerbringer, later editor of Time Magazine.
The Journal of Emily Shore This digital edition, newly edited by Barbara Timm Gates, incorporates the complete text of the print edition of University of Virginia Press, 1991. It also integrates two additional manuscript volumes found after the original 1991 edition was published.
Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Digital Edition This Rotunda edition of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted reproduces in their entirety the contents of ten volumes from the original letterpress edition published by Johns Hopkins University Press: all nine volumes from the Main Series, and Supplementary Series volume 1. – Publisher
Founders Early Access The Rotunda Founders Early Access project makes available for the first time thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders in a free online resource. Collected over many years by the Founders documentary editions, these letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and
The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Digital Edition Following a brilliant military career that brought him to national attention and set in motion the “Old Hickory” legend, Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828. From the beginning, he stamped the highest office with his wildly individualistic character, feuding bitterly not only with enemies but his own
The Papers of Andrew Johnson: Digital Edition Andrew Johnson’s career is notable for more than his impeachment, with much to tell us about Civil War-era politics and the complexity of Reconstruction, through a trajectory that is one of the most compelling, and strange, in presidential history. This digital edition of Johnson’s papers collects the complete
Correspondence of James K. Polk: Digital Edition This digital edition of Polk’s correspondence includes the complete contents of the print edition’s fourteen volumes, plus an expanded supplementary calendar of documents found only here. It is fully searchable, and is interoperable with other titles in the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction collection. – Publisher
