Enhance research, scholarship, and teaching with the latest historical primary source collections from Readex. Providing content and context that is relevant and foundational across all disciplines and interests, students and scholars can explore these unmatched digital resources for Black Studies, Hispanic Studies, Sociology, Global Studies, Political Science, U.S. History, and multidisciplinary interests.
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American Indian Wars, 1830-1898
American Indian Wars offers unprecedented access to many of the U.S. Army’s most vital 19th-century records, as curated by the National Archives (NARA). This resource illuminates the interactions between military forces and Native American tribes during the pivotal 19th century, offering critical perspectives for both research and instruction in Native American history.
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Native American Documents
The Federal Record, 1789-1994 Chronicling the turbulent history of Native Americans and the government of the United States across 200 years, this digital archive offers thousands of documents, dozens of suggested search paths, and text analysis tools that enable renewed insights for multidisciplinary research.
African Americans and the Early Atlantic World: Exploration and Colonization, 1535-1771
Researchers can now explore the foundational contributions of Africans in early American history with this fully searchable digitized resource, showcasing printed works from the 1500s to the 1770s.
African Americans and Revolutionary America: Freedom and Oppression, 1772-1804
Containing digitized printed works from the onset of the American Revolution to the Early Republic period, scholars can explore the pivotal role of African Americans in Revolutionary America and uncover their profound impact on early American history.
BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts
“…a history of the world speaking to the world.”
—Nick Cull, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California
Recognized as one the most important historical archives ever assembled, BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts is available as a digital primary source collection from Readex. This expansive collection of nearly 70,000 individual multi-page reports from 1939 to 2001 – brought together in partnership with the BBC – will prove indispensable to scholars and students seeking new and vital background for interpreting the complexity of today’s global events.
Asian Life in America
The contributions and experiences of Asian Americans are integral to United States history. From 18th-century immigrant communities to 19th-century labor rights to contemporary discourse around social justice, people of Asian descent have helped shape the story of America. Now, researchers across multiple disciplines can explore the perspectives and stories of the Asian American experience—from the early 18th century to today.
Black Life in America
Illuminating centuries of African American history, culture, and daily life in ways no other online resource can match with news coverage from 1704 to today. An invaluable resource for exploring social justice issues, equity, race, and related topics.
Hispanic Life in America
A first-of-its-kind digital news archive of Hispanic American life that spans four centuries and combines deep historical content with current sources. A dynamic resource for students to examine and study Hispanic American history and culture.
Series 20: America’s Industrial Centers and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Immigration
During the 19th century, the rapid growth of industry in America’s mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states led to continued newspaper coverage and debates about economic ties to the South, slavery and abolition. Within these industrial centers, two other historical forces collided: immigration and industrialization. The newspapers in this collection bring focus on the ensuing labor crisis that led to women’s rights and immigration becoming leading topics of debate, offering scholars an on-the-ground view of the complex early history and evolution of civil rights—gender, ethnicity, race, and labor—in America.
Series 19: The Politics of Race in the South
In the American South, the debate over slavery and secession–as recorded and shaped in its regional newspapers—was the result of political, economic, social, and religious forces that continue to be researched and analyzed today.
Series 18: Racial Awakening in the Northeast
New England newspapers played a pivotal role in shaping the national discourse around slavery and civil rights in the decades before and after the American Civil War. Abolitionists, political parties, and religious leaders all used newspapers to sway readers to their causes, making such papers essential material for researchers studying racial and social justice movements.
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