Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. The Treasury provides accessible and well-researched biographies of a wide range of figures, from Buddhist masters to artists and political officials; most essays are peer reviewed.
Category: History
History Vault: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America
History Vault: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America The U.S. State Department Central Files are an important source of diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the 20th century. The Central Files in History Vault contain a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats
Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive, 1979-1990 Latinx Thought and Culture: The NPR Archive, 1979-1990 showcases two radio programs: the weekly Spanish-language Enfoque Nacional (1979-1988) and the Daily English-language Latin File (1988-1990), available for the first time in a searchable database as digitized audio with transcripts. They focus on Latinx issues related to politics,
The CNN Video Collection Archive of video segments from Cable News Network (CNN) specials and feature programming on business, economics, technology, environmental studies, health, women’s studies, and human rights. Over 1100 videos currently included.
CBS News Video Archive The CBS News Video Archive is a database of flagship news programming spanning 6 decades of journalistic coverage. Perfect for history, media studies, journalism, and social sciences students and scholars, this unique product provides an unparalleled look at American and World History events, as they were originally reported. – Publisher
Time Magazine Archive The Time Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Published weekly by Time Inc., the magazine has focused on conveying to a broad audience both domestic and international news
AM Search AM Search is a gateway to millions of pages of primary source content. AM’s (formerly known as Adam Matthew) collections provide access to digitized historical materials – manuscripts, government records, rare books, maps and more – across a wide range of disciplines, from History to English Literature, Gender Studies, Sociology, Economics, Area Studies,
Al-Ba’ath Al-Ba’ath was founded in 1948 as an organ of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. Functioning initially as an opposition newspaper to the Nasserist government, Al-Ba’ath became the government organ of Syria following the Ba’athist coup in 1963. Al-Ba’ath propagates the viewpoint of the Ba’ath Party through opinion columns and news coverage, while also including
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
Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, John A. Ryan Papers, 1892-1945 The Francis J. Haas Collection documents Haas’s lifelong dedication to the Catholic Church and workers’ welfare. The collection includes materials from his family, his time as a seminary student in the early 1900s, and his role as an educator and cleric from
Global Census Archive (Russia, Soviet Union, Israel, Palestine, Colombia, Mexico) The Global Census Archive (GCA) is an innovative program to collect official census publications and related materials from around the world. East View’s Global Census Archive contains all available census publications associated with a given census (GCA-PUBS), such as official results, questionnaires, methodological works, public
Zimbabwe Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1897-1980 This collection provides a unique opportunity to explore the British administration in Zimbabwe by looking at annual governmental reports. In the 1880s, Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company started to make inroads into the region that is now known as Zimbabwe. In 1895 the British
