We recently acquired a series of new french-language digital historical collections from Gale.

Patriotes aux Armes!

This collection consists of newspapers and periodicals; broadsides; leaflets; and books and pamphlets and other documents produced by or relating to the underground resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, and Italy.

L’Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la creation de la France moderne

“The Dreyfus Affair and the creation of modern France“ describes the controversy of 1894 – the date of the arrest of Dreyfus – to 1908, the official transfer of the ashes of Emile Zola to the Pantheon.

Actes royaux francais, 1256-1794

Approximately 16,000 pamphlets covering this period in French history are available in this collection. It offers information on the legislative history and governance of France, as well as other aspects of French life.

Journaux de la Revolution de 1848

The revolution of 1848 caused the final collapse of monarchy in France, and in the power vacuum that followed a range of competing voices sought to control the future direction of the country. The social and political upheavals of this period are detailed in this collection of newspapers and periodicals.

La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Resistance et journaux de Vichy

Providing perspectives from both the Vichy government and the resistance movement, this collection constitutes the sum of the French press that actually reached Britain during the Occupation of 1940-44. It is the record of what was known by the British about the hearts and minds of the French people at the most dramatic period of their shared history.

The Responsa Project contains an electronic collection of Torah literature and  encompasses a variety of Jewish sources representing a period of over three thousand years of heritage and tradition. All texts are fully typed in, proofread and hyper-linked. The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrashim, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries) and Responsa collection – questions and answers (‘Shut’ in Hebrew).

We recently acquired Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 from ProQuest.

Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy is Module 3 of ProQuest’s History Vault eResource.  It looks at foreign policy with a focus on 1960-75, however some of the collections start much earlier and others extend later allowing users to see, for example, the post-WWII evolution of Europe and decisions made with regard to Japan, as well as the events leading up to the American involvement in the Vietnam war and events in the war.  Events from around the world are included in this module including the Berlin Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, the Yom Kippur War and more.

Content Highlights

• Associated Press, Saigon Bureau Records – 136,000 pages of records never before available to researchers outside the AP
• Papers of William C. Westmoreland
• National Security Files from the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations
• CIA Research Reports
• Public Statements by the Secretaries of Defense

We have added some significant new acquisitions from Gale to our online collections.

British Literary Manuscripts

Here are some more new products we recently acquired from Readex:

American Broadsides and Ephemera

Based on the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American broadsides and ephemera, this full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800

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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 contains a large collection of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in America over a 160-year period. Early American Imprints, Series I is based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement. Including more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages, Series I also offers new imprints not available in microform editions.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted “American Bibliography, 1801-1819″ by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. It contains  more than four million pages from over 36,000 items—including 1,000 catalogued new items unavailable in previous microform editions.