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ProQuest Legislative Insight
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Indianapolis Star (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Provides full text access to The Indianapolis Star from 1903 to 2004.
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Political Science Database
Access to political science, public policy, and international relations journals. Also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Early Cold War, 1946-1960
Access to Early Cold War records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the principal group of military advisers to the president of the United States). Covers the early years of the Cold War, focusing on the threat of Soviet expansion, Europe and NATO, the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the beginnings of the nuclear arms race, and the Arab-Israeli conflict and other developments in the Middle East, especially regarding Middle East oil and Iran.
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Politics Collection
Covers international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Includes abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more.
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Slavery and the Law (1775-1867)
Access to petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. Also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
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Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries (1700-1896)
Access to archival collections focused American slavery, with emphasis on the industrial uses of slave labor. The materials selected include company records; business and personal correspondence; documents pertaining to the purchase, hire, medical care, and provisioning of slave laborers; descriptions of production processes; and journals recounting costs and income.
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Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, John A. Ryan Papers, 1892-1945
John A. Ryan was the foremost social justice advocate and theoretician in the Catholic Church during the first half in the 20th century. The John A. Ryan Papers span from 1892 to 1945, with a heavy focus on the last twenty years of his life, 1925 to 1945. Most of the collection consists of Ryan’s correspondence, focusing on the Catholic Church, politics, and Ryan’s writings, speaking engagements, and personal matters. The Ryan Papers also include articles, sermons, reports, pamphlets, lecture notes, scrapbooks, and a personal journal.
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NAACP Papers
Digital access to the NAACP archive. Includes internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. The NAACP Papers document the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th-century fight for freedom.
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Americans for Democratic Action Records, 1932-1999
Digital access to the records of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). The ADA established itself as a national, independent, liberal organization based on American tradition. The 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 unemployment.
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Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army, 1854-1870
Digital access to Confederate Army records. Several previously unpublished collections of records of the Union Army are also included. Documents include papers of spies, scouts, guides and detectives, including a series on Allan Pinkerton; records on military discipline from courts-martial, courts of inquiry and investigations by military commissions.
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Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents
Digital collection of the papers of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), an major figure in the birth control movement. The documents cover every aspect of the movement, including the its changing ideologies, its campaign for legitimacy, and its internal conflicts and organizational growth.
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Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights, 1872-1934
Access to digital collections on the Progressive Movement. The collections cover women's right to vote, the Standard Oil monopoly case, the efforts of journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd, the University Settlement Society of New York City, prohibition, reform of law enforcement, the Teapot Dome bribery case regarding petroleum reserves on government lands, and regulation of food and drugs.
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Progressive Era: Voices of Reform, 1875-1945
Digital access to correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries and photographs of five leading members of the Progressive movement: John R. Commons, Charles R. Van Hise, Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross and Charles McCarthy. Covers the growth of industrialization following the Civil War in areas like employment and child labor, education, taxation, elections, conservation, and regulation of food, public utilities, and corporations.
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Southern Women and their Families in the 19th and 20th Centuries, holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Digital access to records documenting the complex lives of southern women from the antebellum era through the Civil War and into the last 3 decades of the 19th century.
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Thomas A. Edison Papers
Documents the life, work, and vision of Thomas Edison in laboratory notebooks, diaries, business records, correspondence, and related materials. His work laid the foundation for the age of electricity, recorded sound, and motion pictures. In addition, he used team research and development with such great success at his Menlo Park and, West Orange, New Jersey, laboratories that he helped introduce the era of modem industrial research.
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World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence, 1914-1920
Begins with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary in July 1914 and continues through until the armistice between Germany and the Allies in November 1918, and beyond, into 1920. Documents cover a wide variety of topics on World War I as reported by and to the British Foreign Office. The documents include dispatches, reports, and telegrams.
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American Indians and American West, 1809-1971
Digital collections related to American Indians in the 19th and first half of the 20th Century. Includes records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. Also includes selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration. Focuses on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.
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Temperance and Prohibition Movement, 1830-1933
Digital access to records and publications of the principal organizations which sought to reduce and ultimately to eliminate the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. The two largest organizational collections in the module are the Anti-Saloon League of America (A.S.L.A.) and the records of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) The papers of key leaders of the movement are included as well.