ProQuest History Vault™

This category consists of nine modules: Slavery and the Law; Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries; records focused on the Slave trade and other legal issues pertaining to slavery; four modules of Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records; a module on the Civil War entitled "Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army"; and Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War. Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. Southern Plantation Records document the far-reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the nation. Plantation records are both business records and personal papers because the plantation was both the business and the home for plantation owners. The Confederate Military Manuscripts module brings together unique collections that are being digitized for the first time. Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War features correspondence of the U.S. Army's Office of Civil Affairs.

Modules include:

• Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries
• Slavery and the Law
• Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Law and Order in 19th Century America
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 1
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 2
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 3
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 4
• Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army
• Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War

Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War Brochure

Taken together, these twelve modules offer an extremely strong combination of resources on the civil rights movement with major collections of records from the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The Library Journal selected the NAACP Papers modules as a Best Reference Pick in March 2015.

Modules include:

• African American Police League Records
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, Supplement
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (1895-1996)
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 (1925-1996)
• NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files
• NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files
• NAACP Papers: Special Subjects
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Legal Department Files
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
• Reverend J. H. Jackson and the National Baptist Convention, 1900-1990

Black Freedom Struggle Brochure 

The NAACP Papers Brochure

Features collections on American workers and labor from the late 19th through 20th Century, and records of the Socialist Party of America

This category currently consists of four modules. Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century consists of federal government records and has strong coverage of strikes and radical labor unions in the first half of the 20th Century. Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO, consists of records sourced from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Catholic University of America, and the AFL-CIO. American Federation of Labor Records: The Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937, focuses on the career of one of the most influential labor leaders in American History. The Socialist Party of America Papers document the party's revolutionary efforts, as well as their involvement in several major reform movements of the 20th century.

Modules include:

• American Federation of Labor Records: The Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937
• Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, John A. Ryan Papers, 1892-1945
• Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, Francis J. Haas Papers, 1904-1953
• Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO
• Socialist Party of America Papers
• Stephen S. Wise Papers: Rabbi, Scholar, Activist,1874–1949
• Workers, Labor, and Race: Records of the Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1941-1946
• Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century: Federal Records

Includes:

• Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration
• Bexar Archives: Colonial Archives of Texas during the Spanish and Mexican Periods, 1717-1836

There are five modules in this category. The largest module in this category consists of the records of the National Woman's Party, League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance. A great companion to this module is the manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College. These collections focus on voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights. The module on Women at Work during World War II consists of records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department and correspondence of the director of the Women's Army Corps. ProQuest has produced the Margaret Sanger Papers in association with the Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University.

Modules include:

• Margaret Sanger Papers
• Southern Women and their Families in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Struggle for Women’s Rights, 1880-1990: Organizational Records
• Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women’s Army Corps
• Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, Reproductive Rights

Notable collections in this module from the 19th Century focus on Indian Removal from 1832-1840, the U.S. Army and American Indians in the years from the 1850s-1890s, including detailed coverage of Indian Wars. The featured collections on the 20th Century are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes.

Includes:

• American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971

American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 Brochure

Going in chronological order, the first module in this category are the papers of one of the most prolific inventors in American History, Thomas A. Edison Papers. The other modules in this category consist of immigration records to the United States during the massive immigration wave from 1880-1930; legal collections from the Harvard Law School Library featuring the papers of three Supreme Court Justices, the first Black federal judge, and one of the most infamous criminal cases of the 20th century; papers of the Progressive leader Robert M. La Follette; records from the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House and other federal agencies on the New Deal and World War II; FBI Files on radical politics; records of the Truman and Eisenhower Presidencies; records of Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and other anti-Vietnam War organizations; and records on American Politics from the beginning of the Kennedy administration through the Nixon Administration.

Modules include:

• Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records
• Thomas A. Edison Papers
• Law and Society since the Civil War: American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library
• Progressive Era: Robert M. La Follette Papers
• Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights
• Progressive Era: Voices of Reform
• Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
• Records of the Children’s Bureau, 1912-1969
• New Deal and World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Office Files and Records of Federal Agencies
• American Politics in the Early Cold War—Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961
• FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972
• American Politics and Society from JFK to Watergate, 1960-1975
• Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
• Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority
• Temperance and Prohibition Movement
• American for Democratic Action Records, 1932-1999
• American Jewish Congress Records: Administrative and Executive Committee, Governing Council, National Conventions, and Executive Director Files

American Politics and Society Brochure 

While these modules provide an excellent view of U.S. international relations during these important years, these records also offer detailed information on the countries in which the U.S. diplomatic or military officials were stationed. As such, the collections in the International Relations and Military Conflicts category are an excellent source for studies of individual countries or regions of the world. In addition, U.S. diplomats and military officials often reported back on international reaction to events in the United States, thereby providing an international perspective on important developments in the United States. This category also now includes British Foreign Office Records on World War I and the creation of Israel from 1940-1948.

Modules include:

• World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence
• World War I: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Diplomacy in the World War I Era
• U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
• U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945
• World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees
• Creation of Israel: British Foreign Office Correspondence on Palestine and Transjordan
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961
• Nazi Looted Art and Assets: Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Africa and Middle East
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Asia
• Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
• CIA Cold War Research Reports and Records on Communism in China and Eastern Europe
• Confidential U.S. State Department and Diplomatic Post Special Files, Asia, 1945-1966
• Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Early Cold War, 1946-1960
• Planning for the Post-World War II World, State Department Records of Harley A. Notter, 1939-1945