Carlyle Letters Online features thousands of letters written by Thomas and Jane Carlyle to more than 600 recipients: politicians, poets, scientists, and others. Each letter in the collection is indexed with multiple terms, and can be searched by date, subject, and recipient.
Datasets of opinion polls conducted in the U.S. from 1935 to the present.
iPOLL is a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in opinion polls in the US since 1935. For US data, iPOLL permits you to locate questions (and the answers of the full sample) and then to link to the data files and run secondary analysis. Support for these services is available from the Roper Center.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012. May not be compatible with Chrome.
It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
Collection combining primary documents with historical and scholarly analysis and teaching tools, all documenting women’s activism in public life.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is a collection of primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting women’s activism in public life.
The database is organized around document projects, each posing a new interpretative question and then providing 20 to 50 primary documents that address the question, together with an interpretive introduction and headnotes, bibliography, and related links. Examples of topics are:
How Did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia Shape New Forms of Women’s Activism During the American Revolution, 1780-1781?
How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?
How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?
LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 150 full-text monographs and books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
LGBT Life with Full Text contains an index and full text covering the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of books.
Chicago and graphic design share a long, vital association that stems back to the city's role as the geographical and railway center of the industrial part of the country. As it became a center for the production and distribution of printed materials, Chicago became importance in the world of graphic design. This collection reflects that prominence.
Embellished title pages: medical texts from the 16th and 17th centuries. These reproductions of title pages from the rare book collection of the Library of the Health Sciences show examples of the many fascinating ways printers embellished their books with elaborate engravings, woodcuts, and color typography. The title pages reproduced here were printed between 1505 and 1677 in a variety of European cities.
The project is an effort to preserve fragile book jackets of the H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies and to provide access for scholars and general readers through the digitization of the images. Collected over the period from the 1940's through the nineties by Jamaican nationalist poet and Supreme Court Justice H.D. Carberry, the Carberry Collection is comprised of 1000 volumes, two thirds of which are literature and about one third history and politics.
The Sheet Music Collection comprises about 10,000 pieces of music, ranging from popular music of the late-19th and early-20th centuries as well as classical music scores. The selections presented here are in the public domain and include patriotic hymns and marches, Broadway hits, Tin Pan Alley, and other examples of Americana.
The collection consists of items related to the British administration of Sierra Leone, including public and private papers of British officials in the colony of Sierra Leone, 1792-1825.
Originally established in 1927, the Society of Typographic Arts currently focuses on local and regional issues as well as on any global issues that might affect Chicagoland designers. The collection includes a selection of exhibition catalogs and other publications.