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Table of Contents HISTORY & SOCIAL CHANGE ...............................................................3 Black History .............................................................................................................................3 Cultural History ..........................................................................................................................6 Early Modern History ................................................................................................................7 Global Issues .............................................................................................................................7 Indigenous Peoples ..................................................................................................................9 Latino History .............................................................................................................................9 Military & Diplomatic History ..................................................................................................9 U.K. History ...............................................................................................................................11 U.S. History ...............................................................................................................................12 Women’s History .....................................................................................................................16 SOCIAL SCIENCE ...............................................................................19 Anthropology ............................................................................................................................19 Gender Studies ........................................................................................................................19 Political Science & Public Policy ......................................................................................... 20 Religion & Philosophy ............................................................................................................22 NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS .........................................................23 Other Related Databases .......................................................................................................23 2 Historical Collections HISTORY & SOCIAL CHANGE BLACK HISTORY HISTORY VAULT: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century ProQuest History Vault’s coverage of the Black Freedom From the fight for liberation under slavery to the struggles Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known for civil and labor rights of the 20th century to the continuing and unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the pursuit of racial equality, proquest’s black history collections 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women and even provide students and researchers with a virtually endless wealth children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements of knowledge from diverse perspectives, including firsthand in American history. Taken with the NAACP Papers Collection, accounts from black voices who lived through the tribulations and these ten modules offer an extremely strong combination of triumphs. resources on the civil rights movement with major collections Proquest’s expertise in digitization and indexing has made it the of records from the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership first choice of museums, libraries and organizations who want to Conference (SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee share their collections with researchers. As a result, proquest has (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). a unique combination of resources: • Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records (Black Freedom 1) HISTORY VAULT: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom • Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century, Organizational Struggle in the 20th Century Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (Black Freedom 2) ProQuest History Vault’s coverage offers the opportunity to • Black Freedom Struggle of the 20th Century: Organizational study the most well-known and unheralded events of the Black Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 (Black Freedom 3) Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspective of • Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal the men, women and even children who waged one of the most Government Records, Supplement (Black Freedom 4) inspiring social movements in American history. This category consists of the NAACP Papers and Federal Government Records, Organizational Records and Personal Papers regarding the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century. Taken together, these ten modules offer an extremely strong combination of resources on the civil rights movement with major collections of records from the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). HISTORY VAULT: NAACP Papers The NAACP Papers collection consists of 6 modules containing internal memos, legal briefings and detailed activity summaries from national, legal and branch offices throughout the country. With a timeline that runs from 1909 to 1972, NAACP Papers documents the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the triumphs of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond. The files provide a comprehensive view of the NAACP’s evolution, policies and achievements during this era. • NAACP PAPERS: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files (NAACP 1) • NAACP PAPERS: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces (NAACP 2) • NAACP PAPERS: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and “An essential acquisition for libraries Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses serving scholars in civil and human rights (NAACP 3) American history, criminal justice, social • NAACP PAPERS: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Legal choice and political theory, military history, Department Files (NAACP 4) and sociology. A tremendously significant • NAACP PAPERS: Special Subjects (NAACP 5) historical resource.” • NAACP PAPERS: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files (NAACP 6) — Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal review of NAACP Papers Historical Collections 3 HISTORY & SOCIAL CHANGE HISTORY VAULT: African American Police League Records (1961–1988) In recent years, cases such as the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Black Lives Matter movement have brought the issue of police brutality onto the front page of the news. Looking back through history shows that the issue of police brutality has a long and troubled history. This module documents how African American policemen in Chicago, beginning in 1968 attempted to fight against discrimination and police brutality by the Chicago Police Department and to improve relations between African Americans and the police department. On May 10, 1968, five Black Chicago policemen founded the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League (AAPL; renamed the Afro-American Police League in 1979 and later, the African American Police League). The stated purpose of the AAPL was to establish a greater degree HISTORY VAULT: Reconstruction and Military Government of professionalism in law enforcement, to elevate the image after the Civil War of the African American police person in the African American From heart-wrenching personal letters to bills of lading for office community, and to eliminate police brutality in law enforcement. supplies, this module offers remarkable insight into the early Reconstruction period. The correspondence of the U.S. Army’s HISTORY VAULT: Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War Office of Civil Affairs reveals efforts to foster democracy and rebuild communities in the war-torn former Confederate states. Another HISTORY VAULT: Slavery and the Law prominent subject is the fair administration of the election process. This collection of petitions on race, slavery and free Troubles often arose as African Americans prepared to exercise blacks submitted to state legislatures and county their newly won rights to vote and run for office; many letters in call courthouses 1775–1867 reveal amazing candor. for military intervention to secure these rights. Collected by Loren Schweninger from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies, the petitions document HISTORY VAULT: Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level. The Industry never rivaled agriculture as an employer of slave labor collection includes the State Slavery Statutes collection, a in the Old South, but because of the kinds of records industrial comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery enterprises kept, and because of the survival of superb collections from 1789–1865. in depositories like the Duke University Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, and Virginia Historical HISTORY VAULT: Southern Life and African Society, a window is opened on the slave’s world that no other type American History, 1775–1915: Plantation of primary documentary evidence affords. Slavery in Antebellum Records Southern Industries presents some of the richest, most valuable, Plantation Records