Online collection of crime-related materials, including court proceedings, forensic documents, true crime literature, and newspaper accounts.
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Subjects: History, Sociology / Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Political Science
This collection presents a broad history of crime in the long 19th century derived from French, German, Spanish, Australian, British and U.S. sources.
It includes trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic documents, photographs, true crime literature and detective novels, and newspaper accounts.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: 1790-1920 Update Schedule: Completed Archive Database Distributor: Gale / Cengage
Primary sources for film, broadcasting, popular music and theater
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Subject Areas: History, Cinema, Sociology
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to the 21st century. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Issues have been scanned in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of articles, covers, ads and reviews.
You have access to:
EIMA1: Music, Radio and The Stage
EIMA2: Cinema, Film and Television (Part 1)
EIMA3: Cinema, Film and Television (Part 2)
Format: Full Text Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1880 - 2015
Database Producer: ProQuest
Full text primary and secondary source archive, containing digitizations of popular culture collections from the U.S. and U.K.
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Subject: History
Full text primary and secondary source database containing digitizations of popular culture collections, focusing on the U.S. and the U.K. between 1950 and 1975. These archival materials include coverage of student protests, civil rights, consumerism and the Vietnam War.
Format: Archival Resources Dates of Coverage: 1950-1975 Database Producer: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
The collection examines American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. This collection contains over 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.
Format: Full Text
Date range: 1900-1999
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press
Resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focus is on English texts published during the "long" nineteenth century, from the beginnings of Mesmerism in 1779 through to the 1930s.
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Subject Areas: History, English, Theatre
Victorian Popular Culture is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is concerned with primarily English texts published during the "long" nineteenth century, from the beginnings of Mesmerism in 1779 through to the 1930s. This innovative portal invites users into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist sances.
The resource is divided into four self contained sections: "Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic" explores the relationship between the popularity of Victorian magic shows and conjuring tricks and the emergence of seances and psychic phenomena in Britain and America. "Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks" focuses on the world of travelling entertainment in Britain, American and Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. From big tops to carnivals, fairgrounds and dime museums, it covers the history of popular shows and exhibitions from both an audience and professional perspective.
"Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment" covers the golden era for variety, vaudeville and theatre. The era played host to a vast range of other public entertainments and spectacles, from the educational to the decadent. This section features material on music halls, pleasure gardens, exhibitions, scientific institutions and many more. "Moving pictures, optical entertainments and the advent of cinema" explores the pivotal era in entertainment history when previously static images came to life and moved for the first time. Through the wealth of printed and visual material as well as artefacts (see our virtual exhibition and 360-viewer) in this resource, we are able to imagine the wide-eyed wonder of those early audiences, experiencing the magic of Victorian inventions and optical entertainments.
Format: Archival Materials Dates of Coverage: 1779-1930 Database Producer: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
Online archive of the leading women's interest magazines, from the late 19th century through 2005.
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Subjects: History, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Social History, Art, Education, Politics, and Marketing/Media History.
The Women's Magazine Archive contains full archives of major women's interest, consumer magazines. This resource contains issues from the late 19th century through 2005.
Research fields served by this online archive include gender studies, social history, economics, marketing, media, fashion, politics, and pop culture.
Women's Magazine Archive, Part I includes complete archives of Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and Parents magazine. These titles serve as records of the evolving assumptions surrounding gender roles and cultural norms. Parents magazine is relevant for research in education, psychology, health, and serves as a reflection of broad social and historical trends.
Women's Magazine Archive, Part II features several prominent, popular, and long-running publications such as Women's Day and Town & Country magazine. Part II also focuses on specific audiences with the inclusion of Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazine, as well as Essence and Women's International Network News.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: 1883 - 2005 Update Schedule: Annual Database Distributor: ProQuest
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