Classic Brazilian Cinema Online, 1913–1974
A unique collection of digitized historical film magazines from the 1910s to the 1960s, providing students and researchers with easy access to rare an previously dispersed sources documenting the cinematographic history of the biggest country in Latin America, Brazil. – Publisher
In addition to parts 1 and 2, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to parts 3 and 4 of Southern Life and African American History, 1775–1915, Plantation Records.
Part 3 consists of collections selected from the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These collections represent rice, cotton, and sugar plantations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Major collections include Cameron Family Papers, and Pettigrew Family Papers. The Cameron Family Papers chart the rise of a plantation family beginning in 1770, when the family ran a country store along an Indian trail in central North Carolina. The Cameron Family Papers document plantation management by women during the men’s absences. The Pettigrew Family Papers recount the history of an influential coastal North Carolina family of planters, ministers, intellectuals, military officers, and politicians. The candor of the Pettigrew letters on slavery has been of value to historians for many years. Part 3 also includes several collections of cotton factors’ records, notably the records of Maunsell White from Louisiana, and the Gordon family from Savannah, Georgia. As the financial fulcrum of the cotton trade, the factor served as the planters’ banker, supplier and sales agent. Records from Mississippi plantations include a number of diaries documenting daily life. Other topics covered in Part 3 are the lives of the enslaved people, Southern politics, and the settlement of the Southern frontier in Arkansas and Mississippi. – Publisher
Part 4 focuses on plantations in North Carolina and Virginia while also covering Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. Major series of records in this module document tobacco and cotton plantations in the Tidewater, Coastal Plains, and Piedmont regions of North Carolina. Throughout these collections, the lives of enslaved people and the work performed by them is documented in extensive lists of enslaved people, purchase of and sale agreements for enslaved people, plantation diaries, account books, correspondence, and financial and legal papers. Many of the collections also include records of plantation overseers. One of the major collections in this module is the Papers of the Hairston and Wilson families, related families of tobacco planters and merchants from Southside Virginia and Piedmont North Carolina. The records in this module on Tennessee and Kentucky focus on cotton, tobacco, and mixed farming enterprises, while Alabama records focus on the Mobile area and include records of plantations as well as commission merchants. – Publisher
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, 2023 edition
Northwestern University Libraries now have access to the 2023 content of Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000.
“Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000′ is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors.”–Publisher’s description
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Kansas City Call
The Kansas City Call is a Black weekly newspaper founded in 1919 to provide leadership for the Black community. It quickly became one of the most successful Black newspapers in the U.S. covering civil rights issues and fighting segregation, discrimination, and other important issues of the African American community. The paper has a strong history of encouraging African Americans to register and vote and of covering many key Black issues including school segregation and urban development.
Targeting Iraq, Part II: War and Occupation, 2004-2011
Targeting Iraq, Part II: War and Occupation, 2004-2011 is composed of 2,190 documents and over 75,000 pages concerning U.S. policy toward Iraq from July 2004 through December 2011. It begins with the closure of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the administrative structure set up by the U.S. to govern Iraq after the 2003 invasion and overthrow of the government headed by Saddam Hussein and ends with the withdrawal of all American combat troops, as required by a U.S.-Iraq agreement signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. – Publisher
Journals from University of Illinois Press
Northwestern University Libraries now have access to journal titles from the University of Illinois Press. Individual title access is available through NUsearch.
With more than 40 journal titles, including publications representing over 19 scholarly societies, the University of Illinois Press is one of the leading publishers of humanities and social sciences journals in the country. Our publication program covers a wide range of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, Black studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, music, immigration, and more, and maps onto many of the scholarly commitments of our books division. – Publisher
Titles include:
The American Journal of Psychology
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy
American Literary Realism
American Music
American Philosophical Quarterly
Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
Connecticut History Review
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association
Ethnomusicology
History of Philosophy Quarterly
Illinois Classical Studies
Italian Americana
Italian American Review
Jazz and Culture
Journal of Aesthetic Education
Journal of American Ethnic History
Journal of American Folklore
Journal of Animal Ethics
Journal of Appalachian Studies
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Journal of Civil and Human Rights
The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Journal of Film and Video
Journal of Finnish Studies
Journal of Mormon History
Journal of Olympic Studies
Journal of Sport History
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
Mormon Studies Review
Music and the Moving Image
The Pluralist
Polish American Studies
The Polish Review
Process Studies
Public Affairs Quarterly
Scandinavian Studies
Utah Historical Quarterly
Visual Arts Research
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Colonial Caribbean: Module 3, Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870
In addition to modules 1 and 2, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to Module 3: Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870 of Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office files for the Caribbean.
Module 3 of Colonial Caribbean covers the period 1850-1870 and charts the economic decline in the region as a result of the turbulent end to the apprenticeship scheme and the introduction of indentured labour. This period also witnessed a series of fierce uprisings, most notably the Morant Bay Rebellion amongst emancipated Jamaicans in 1865.
This module features volumes from 21 CO series held at The National Archives, UK. The contents include government enquiries into the treatment of immigrants, the management of epidemics and diseases such as yellow fever and cholera, reports and testimonies of uprisings and resistance movements such as the Morant Bay Rebellion, petitions from formerly enslaved Africans, and plans for newly established hospitals, asylums and jails. – Publisher
Corporate Counsel Profiler (part of Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw legal research platform) is a comprehensive database for North America’s in-house legal departments. Search and browse information on 22,000+ corporate counsel, and acquire company details from thousands of corporations. Search options and filters include: company and attorney name, company city and state, practice areas, bar jurisdictions and more.
Chinese Periodical Database (1911-1949), Series 12
In addition to series 1 through 11, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to series 12 of the Chinese Periodical Database (1911-1949).
Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) Series 12 adds over 2000 new titles of Chinese periodicals published during 1911-1949, making the database the most complete collection of periodicals of this period.
The database covers around 10,000,000 pieces of literature in about 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published between 1911 and 1949. As an important part of the historical archive, this database has significant academic and historical values. It not only helps reproduce the unique historical features of the period from 1911 to 1949 and restore the historical memory, but also enriches the digital resources of periodicals so as to facilitate users to conduct academic research on the history of this period. – Publisher
Late Qing Dynasty Database (1833-1911): Supplements 1 & 2
Northwestern University Libraries now have access to supplements 1 and 2 of the Late Qing Dynasty Database (1833-1911).
The Late Qing Dynasty Database covers over 600,000 pieces of historical documents from 600 periodicals published during 1816~1911. The extensive collection has covered almost all the periodicals published during such critical periods later known as the Opium Wars, Westernization Movement, Reform Movement of 1898 and Revolution of 1911. It contains the Women’s Periodicals that advocated women’s liberation and mental enlightenment, the Four Major Late Qing Dynasty Novel Journals as emerged during the great flourishing period of novels of the late Qing Dynasty, the Vernacular Chinese Periodicals founded to explore the people’s mind and spread new knowledge, and the Science and Technology Periodicals which introduced new technologies and spread scientific knowledge. – Publisher
Chinese and English Newspaper of Modern China – Comprehensive Collection (1874-1949)
As an important form of media that “details omissions, fills in gaps, and corrects bias” within historical records, newspapers bear witness to the ups and downs of modern China. Newspapers are a treasure trove of historical material, covering a myriad of topics including but not limited to politics, social news, economic trade, cultural customs, anecdotes, disasters and epidemics. As a result, newspapers constitute a highly valuable source when studying the history of modern China.
CNBKSY has extensively explored and carefully selected nearly 3,000 titles of newspapers with certain influence across China or in a certain region from the abundant collection of modern Chinese newspapers in Shanghai Library, and compiled them into Chinese and English Newspaper of Modern China – Comprehensive Collection. – Publisher
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