July 2009 Archives
Temple University Libraries provide access to an ever-growing number of history databases. Find below a list of history database acquisitions in 2009.
- ArchiveGrid
An online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. ArchiveGrid is a great way for faculty and grad students to track down important archives. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. If you've ever used NUCMC you'll definitely appreciate ArchiveGrid. - Black Historical Newspapers
This database provides full-text, full-page access to six highly influential 20th-century African-American newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-1975), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), and now the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) and the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988). - CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
Contains images of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.
Students, faculty, researchers, museum professionals and library visitors will find CAMIO to be a valuable tool. CAMIO provides images for art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, class projects and research resources. It is a single point of entry to many collections, providing unlimited and powerful, Web-based searching.
The scope of the CAMIO collection ranges from 3000 BC to the present. The content includes about 95,000 works of art - photographs,paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture - plus audio, video and mixed media. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. - Early Republic
The Early Republic currently includes 17 volumes of digitized primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members as collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
With the recent acquisition of ECCO II, this combined database now contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) — in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language book printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of titles printed in America.
The digitized books in ECCO are derived from the English Short-Title Catalog and were scanned from the library holdings of such institutions as the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.. With full-text search capabilities across all content, this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now. The new ECCO II content is primarly material scanned since the initial release of ECCO in 2003. Newly added titles cover the same subject areas as the original collection, with a special emphaisis on Literature, Social Science and Religion. The ECCO I and II databases can be searched separately (click "Advanced Search") or together by default. - Empire Online
A collection of primary-source documents in Empire Studies. Includes thematic essays, written by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies to introduce the material, placing the documents within a broad historical, literary and cultural context. Click on the "i" icon for more information.
Material types represented: exploration journals and logs; letter books and correspondence; periodicals; diaries; official government papers; missionary papers; travel writing; slave papers; memoirs; fiction and folk tales; exhibition catalogues and guides; maps; photographs and illustrations focused on imperialism and colonialism across the globe.
Also includes a chronology of colonialization, as well as information for teaching and classroom use. Covers the period from 1492 to date. - House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP): The 18th and 19th Centuries
The Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the Modern Era. Full-text searchable with detailed subject indexing. Update: Now includes sessional papers from 1715 and supplementary material dating to 1688.
HCPP does not include Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, which are available in printed form from the Library Depository. - New York Times (1851-2003)
Full-text, full-page image access to the most important U.S. newspaper. The NYT is also available full-text, but not full-page image, from our Lexis and Newsbank databases. See the Newspapers Libguide for more information. Update: Now includes the Historical New York Times with Index! The index allows researches to search by location, person, or subject for focused and targeted results. - Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
Online version of the 21 volume print collection of the same name, which includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This collection includes documents, many of them previously classified, from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. - Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974
This database brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. - Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Important resource for slavery and abolition studies, this database brings together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
