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The ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of books in the humanities, selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching.
Journal articles and reports covering aeronautics and Space Sciences during the second half of the 20th century
The material within this collection is relevant for studying the history of key political events, global social change, human rights violations and campaigns with themes including abolition of torture, state violence, political prisoners, minority rights, and more.
Established in 1939, BBC Monitoring gathers open-source intelligence from around the world, monitoring and translating radio, television, telegraph, print and other media from nearly every country and political entity. The database provides a source of 20th-century political, social, cultural, and economic history. With coverage from the start of World War II to 2001, this archive includes first-hand, real-time coverage of people, places, global events, key regions, and national security priorities of the UK government, including WWII, the Cold War, Communist China, Chernobyl, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union/Russia.
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology includes over 2000 articles, covering topics such as: Crime & Deviance; Culture, Popular Culture, Media & Sport; Demography & Ecology; Digital World; Economy & Consumption; Education; Gender & Sexuality; Health & Medicine, Gerontology & Aging; Management & Organizations; Methods; Politics & Law; Race & Ethnicity; Religion; Science; Social Change, Social Movement & Globalization; Social Problems; Social Psychology, Interaction, Groups, & Socialization; Social Stratification; Theory; Urbanization.
Access to books, journal articles and collections from across the social sciences that address global social challenges and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with exclusive access to the new, non-profit, Open Access Global Social Challenges Journal.
Journal articles and reports covering the earth sciences, environmentalism, and sustainability during the second half of the 20th century.
This curated selection gathers together documents from Human Rights Documents Online covering issues such as economy, education, equality, food security, labour rights, aid, and more. This specialized subset of documents, sourced from Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa, Canada, emphasizes the significant work done by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) globally in these areas.
The contents of this collection are organized by cultures and indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists with unique subject identifier codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), making it ideal for both exploratory, in-depth cultural research, and cross-cultural comparisons.
The Encyclopaedia is a large-scale collective reference work compiled by scholars in the field, touching on all aspects of Islam from the time of the Prophet to the present day.
Environment, Sustainability and Climate (HRES) is a curated selection from the broader Human Rights Documents Online database. This specialized subset of documents, sourced from Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa, Canada, emphasizes the significant work done by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) globally in these areas.
FAMILY, produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts content on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families from 1980 onwards. The database database contains published and unpublished materials on a wide range of topics including child development and psychology; family dynamics and parenting; child abuse prevention, and sociocultural aspects of Australian life.
A broad multi-language resource for the study of women's history, comprising more than 4,700 books, pamphlets and journals from Europe, the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and New Zealand, ranging from 1543-1945. It consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaboration of academic and research libraries ensuring the long-term preservation of 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access in accordance with Australian copyright law and computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research.
Images of America is an essential tool for genealogical research, broadly supplementing raw facts with actual images of the towns, factories, schools, churches, and people that shaped a family's history.
This collection charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. All titles in this collection have been assigned one or more title-level subjects relating to their scope, and are further divided into six sub-collections, whose areas of focus constitute Marriage and Family, Employment Discrimination, Military Service, AIDS and Health Care, and Public Spaces and Accommodations.
Journal articles and reports covering ethics and the life sciences during the second half of the 20th century.
The New York Academy of Science has existed since 1817—the Academy has brought together extraordinary people working at the frontiers of discovery. Throughout its history, the Academy's Membership has featured thinkers and innovators from all walks of life, including U.S. Presidents Jefferson and Monroe, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Margaret Mead, and many more. This is an archive of the Academy's documents dating back to 1817.
This collection provides the complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files from The National Archives, Kew, for the entire period of the Nixon administration, 1969-1974.
Journal articles and reports covering the development and use of nuclear energy during the second half of the 20th century.
The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau copies archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long-term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible.
Project Syndicate produces and delivers original commentaries. Featuring exclusive contributions by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world. Project Syndicate syndicates experts, and it adds new experts on topics relevant to the issues of the day.
Journal articles and reports covering modern Public Health policies during the second half of the 20th century.
This curated selection gathers together documents from Human Rights Documents Online covering issues such as women's rights, the rights of the child, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights, and various aspects of gender. This specialized subset of documents, sourced from Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa, Canada, emphasizes the significant work done by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) globally in these areas.
Founded in 1871, with roots dating back to 1837, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is the world’s longest-established scholarly association, dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute’s archive contains unique content, including research data, papers, fieldwork, drawings and photographs.
Ruth Benedict made significant contributions to the field in her exploration and examination of the role of individuals in relation to larger societies and cultures, and her integration of analysis of personality and individual agency in cultural description. She published her major work, "Patterns of Culture" in 1934, a comparative work that integrated her own work and others. After WW II, Benedict began studies in Europe among refugees and in the United States among refugees and also among New York neighborhoods, pioneering community action anthropology. She developed the concept of synergy and influenced her student, Abraham Maslow, in his psychological work.
This collection explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Investigating the breadth and complexity of human sexual understanding through the work of leading sexologists, sex researchers, organizations and personal accounts.
State Papers online Colonial: Asia, is the digitisation of the British Colonial Office’s files (CO series) of documents now housed in The National Archives in the United Kingdom. These working files bear witness to the two very different sides in the colonial relationship: a British Government whose main priority was the acquisition of commodities, wealth and labour; and the local people living under colonial rule and British-style institutions for law, health, education, policing, defence, agriculture and industry.
This curated selection gathers together documents from Human Rights Documents Online covering issues such as democracy, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, censorship, human rights defenders, media, internet, social media, surveillance, and more. This specialized subset of documents, sourced from Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa, Canada, emphasizes the significant work done by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) globally in these areas.
HeinOnline’s U.S. Congressional Documents collection features the complete Congressional Record bound volume set from its inception in 1873 as well as the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). Also available are the Congressional Record Dailies from 1980-present, Rules & Precedents, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Hearings, and other works related to Congress.
University of California Press is a nonprofit publishing arm of the University of California system. For more than 100 years, it has championed work that influences public discourse and challenges the status quo in multiple fields of study. It publishes journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Penn Press publishes thought-provoking work in the humanities and social sciences designed to support the needs of researchers, teachers, students, and readers around the world as they collaborate, teach, plan research, and study.
Water Rights & Resources is dedicated to understanding the complex interplay of state and federal laws that govern all aspects of water in society, from municipal use to restoring its pristine condition. Collecting congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases, this collection touches on a wide range of water issues, including irrigation, hydropower, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights, encompassing the unique water rights issues that span from the Eastern seaboard to the Great Lakes and across the arid West.
A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.
Important primary sources, offering insight into many aspects of the conflict, including government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe. Sources include the records of the Special Operations Executive; and private papers of American General Robert L Eichelberger, from the Pacific war.

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