Research Guides: JOUR 201: Culture of Journalism: Past, Present and Future: Events

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You have a variety of topic to choose from when considering events in journalism such as, the assassination of President William McKinley, the Spanish American War, Suffragettes, Federalists, Anti-Federalists.

History Resources

Victorian Popular Culture: a Portal This link opens in a new window
Victorian Popular Culture is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This innovative portal invites users into the darkened halls, small backrooms and traveling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist seances. The resource is divided into four self-contained sections: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema; Music Hall, Theater and Popular Entertainment; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Some back-files date back to the early 1800s
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present,
This database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 and access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books.
Women and Social Movements Library This link opens in a new window
Organized around the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present,

Japanese Relocation

Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life This link opens in a new window
Over 24,000 pages from twenty-five titles of relocation camp newspapers, from 1942-1945.

Resources

Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 This link opens in a new window
Confidential prints issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office since approximately 1820 concerning Canada, the Caribbean and the United States.

World War I

First World War Portal This link opens in a new window
An excellent resource for Personal Experiences, Propaganda & Recruitment and Visual Perspectives & Narratives.
This resource showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents. The material is complemented by a range of contextual secondary material, including scholarly essays, case studies and interactive maps.
Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War This link opens in a new window
(1914-1922) Includes digital scans of 1,500 publications written by men and women serving in the armed forces and various welfare organizations during WWI.
These magazines were written by and for every type of unit from every combatant nation. As such, these primary sources contain first hand accounts of the war and everyday life during the war from a wide range of on-the-ground perspectives.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003) This link opens in a new window
With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, sparking a revolution in journalism and news reporting.
The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events - including news of war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science. Containing over 260,000 full colour pages, fully searchable and browseable, the ILN Historical Archive 1842-2003 provides users with unprecedented access to the entire run of this unique historical record.

Civil War

American Civil War Research Database This link opens in a new window
The American Civil War Research Databases is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War.
Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with over 16,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually.
ProQuest Civil War Era This link opens in a new window
access to the full runs of eight newspapers from 1840-1865 and nearly 2000 pamphlets
Materials were specifically selected for regional and diverse perspectives they offer; newspapers include Richmond Dispatch, Charleston Mercury, New Orleans Times Picayune, Boston Herald, New York Herald, Columbus State Journal, The Kentucky Daily Journal, and the Memphis Daily Appeal. Pamphlets come from two important collections: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase & John P. Hale and Civil War Pamphlets 1861-1865.
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines This link opens in a new window
Includes 65,000 pages from 49 confederate, union, abolitionist, and British presses periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of which are illustrated.

Slavery

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window
Access to Part II-IV: (2) Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, (3)The Institution of Slavery (1492-1888), (4) The Age of Emancipation.
These collections cover the transatlantic slave trade, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S., Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.It includes digital access to a variety of primary sources: legaldocuments, court records, plantation records, company records,first-person accounts, newspaper articles, government documents and much more. Also includes reference articles and links to websites, biographies, chronologies, bibliographies to give background and context for further research.
ProQuest History Vault: Slavery and the Law This link opens in a new window
Documents in Series I: Petitions to State Legislatures, 1777-1867 include primary source materials digitized from the state archives of Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
The collection includes nearly all existing legislative petitions on the subject of race and slavery. Documents in Series II: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1777-1867 were collected from local courthouses, and show the realities of slavery at the grassroots level in southern society. This collection also includes State Slavery Statutes, a master record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789â1865.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
The Black Studies Center provides access to several resources at once: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), 10 historical African American newspapers, Black Literature Index and 100 oral history videos in History Makers.