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With coverage from the 1930s to the present, the West African Magazines collection provides insight into the literary heritage of Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, and other countries. The magazines showcase fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and other features. Acquired through a grant from the Resources Legacy Fund to honor Artemis G. Kirk, University Librarian Emeritus, for the library collections in the field of African-American, African and History of Slavery Studies.
An archive dating from 1983 forward of what was once the largest circulation newspaper in the world. Today, the newspaper is a popular weekly writing on all subjects in plain language.
An archive of historical content pertaining to Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture in the United States. Conveying the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics, it sheds light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized them from the earliest moments of this country’s history through contemporary times. Sources include advertisements, books, broadsides, editorials, and letters.
Covering primarily the 1950s and 1960s, Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements provides access to primary source documents that focus on how ordinary citizens in the smaller communities viewed, participated in and lived through this historical era. When completed in 2025, the collection will include letters, general correspondence, logs, demonstration plan outlines, transportation logs and plans, meetings, worship services, photographs, newsletters, news reels, interviews and musical recordings from Black, Latine, Native American and Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
The BTL Online database provides electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, ranging from antiquity and late antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts. A total of approximately 13 million word forms are thus accessible electronically.
The Dialogue is a policy website from the Inter-American Dialogue, one of the leading ""think-tanks"" in the US studying Latin America and the Caribbean. Resources include policy briefs, in-depth reports, and video presentations on democracy, migration, education, energy, and more. Access is generously provided through the courtesy of the Georgetown Americas Institute."
Foreign Affairs is a leading magazine & website covering American foreign policy & international relations. Access on foreignaffairs.com provides access to the current issue, including web-only exclusive content, as well as full archival access back to the first issue in 1922.
