ProQuest Executive Branch Documents Great Series and Reports: Part 1 and 2 ProQuest Executive Branch Documents (EBD) Great Series and Reports offers curated sets of executive branch documents that focus on complete series of document and reports plus monographs relevant to issues of today. EBD Great Series and Reports are released in parts annually with
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LGBTQ+ Life in America: The Experience and Impact of LGBTQ+ Americans as Recorded by the News Media This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of American history exploring the lives, the contributions, and the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived LBGTQ+ individuals. The content in this database is sourced from
The CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA This ProQuest Digital National Security Archive collection explores the Central Intelligence Agency’s foray into behavioral and mind control experiments in the 1950s and 1960s. Most commonly known as Project MKULTRA, which refers to the research carried out by the CIA and affiliated institutions
Religions in America Gale Religions of America explores America’s religious history through a cross-section of primary sources notable for their diversity and rarity. Like America’s own birth as a modern nation from religious dissent, this archive considers first and foremost those religious traditions born in and reshaped by the unique character of the American experience.
World Cities & Local Governments Millions of rare and hard-to-find reports, surveys, and research reports from cities and local urban agencies around the world. Major cities are larger than some countries. City governments are addressing urgent societal issues that transcend regional boundaries—homelessness, urbanization, climate change, income inequality, and transport. But lack of discoverability and impermanence
LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture LGBTQ+ Social Justice & Culture safeguards community histories and personal narratives by giving them a permanent home. It indexes the full text of openly available and underground content from sources around the world, giving easy access to previously hidden material. The project creates copies (permissioned) to preserve items for future
Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914 Africa and the New Imperialism documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the
American Indian Wars, 1830-1898 The military interactions with Native Americans were recorded scrupulously, as were the administrative functions carried out by the military acting as a quasi-governing body. One such function was receiving and advancing, or not, the many memorials and petitions made by Native Americans. These primary source documents provide the perspectives of military
Asian Life in America, Series 3, 2018-today In addition to series 1 and 2, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to Asian Life in America, Series 3, 2018-today. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Asian American history and daily life – as well as the ways popular culture has portrayed
Hispanic Life in America, Series 3, 2010-today This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Hispanic American history, culture, and daily life – as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of Hispanic descent. The content in this database is sourced from more than 17,000 American and
Black Life in America: The Experience and Impact of African Americans as Recorded by the News Media, Series 3 In addition to series 1 and 2, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to Black Life in America, Series 3, 1976-today. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture
Indigenous Life in America: The experience and impact of Indigenous Americans as recorded by the news media. Comprehensive coverage of the Indigenous American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 18916 American and global newspapers from 1690 to the present, including over 53 Indigenous American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access
