- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers. This collection garnered a great deal of positive input while on trial. I'm glad to say the purchase was approved. 19th Century Newspapers is a searchable full-text facsimile-image database of 19th-century newspapers from across the nation chronicling American culture, daily life and events.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969. A full-text searchable collection of historical documents from the UK National Archives covering such events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the British Government to preserve important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one-page letters or telegrams; others were dispatches describing important personalities or economic analysis; and others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.
- Opera in Video. A collection of streaming videos of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. (coming this fall)
- Look for a substantial increase in full-text access in America, History and Life, Historical Abstracts and the Film and Television Literature Index. The Library is investing in these expansions to supply more efficient access to writings discovered through these popular indexes.
Added content to Theatre in Video streaming videos
- Twenty-four new films have been added from the Broadway Theatre Archive to the Library's Theatre in Video database. Performances include works by Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, Eugene O’Neill, Lanford Wilson, Arthur Miller, William Saroyan, Neil Simon, Anton Chekhov, Thornton Wilder, and Wendy Wasserstein, among others. Featured actors include Geraldine Fitzgerald, Linda Hunt, Meryl Streep, Alfre Woodard, John Lithgow, Jeff Daniels, Faye Dunaway, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Blythe Danner, Olympia Dukakis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Sir John Gielgud, and Sir Ralph Richardson.
Titles include Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Time of Your Life, Uncommon Women and Others, The Seagull, An Enemy of the People, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, Fifth of July, The Good Doctor, The Pirates of Penzance, and more. See them all here on the What's New page.
Free U.S. history primary resource collections
- Founders Early Access. The Rotunda Founders Early Access project makes available for the first time thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders in a free online resource. Collected over many years by the Founders documentary editions, these letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson offer a wider view of the early Republic.
- Family Letters Digital Archive. This Archive is a companion to the letterpress volumes of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series*, published by Princeton University Press. The documents archived on this site provide full text-searchable transcriptions of a rich body of correspondence between Jefferson’s immediate and extended family. The letters, and related documents, provide personal insights into aspects of Jefferson’s life that are unlikely to appear in his own writings. Falling in the years between 1809 and 1873, with a concentration on the years between 1809 and 1835, many of the letters are authored by women and contain vivid accounts of domestic and social life in nineteenth-century Virginia. Few of these documents have ever been published, and the Project seeks to make them accessible to the public through this electronic edition.
*Auraria Library will be acquiring this series in print or online, depending on pricing, this fall.
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