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Developed for teaching and research success across the curriculum, ProQuest’s expertly curated DEI collections offer authentic, diverse perspectives. Content spans books, video, scholarly journals, primary sources and more.
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Pandemics Resource Guide
How did societies respond to the Plague, Spanish Flu and HIV? Have the ways we respond to and make sense of epidemics changed over time? Based on what we can observe about the past, how will COVID-19 impact the way we live going forward?
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Associate Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries (Ohio State) discusses teaching with primary sources to complicate normative narratives of slavery, the civil rights movement and Black Lives Matter protests.
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Acta Sanctorum
Acta Sanctorum is a principal source for research into the societies and cultures of early Christian and medieval Europe.
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Alt-Press Watch
Alt-Press Watch provides an alternative to mainstream media with diverse views and distinct voices.
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American Periodicals Series
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn o
Primary Sources
Annual Register
The Annual Register is a complete and detailed chronicle of events from 1758 to the current day.
Primary Sources
Art and Architecture Archive
Connecting researchers with searchable archives of leading trade and consumer magazines, tracing the history of photography, design, fine and applied arts, and more.
Primary Sources
BBC News Bulletin Scripts Archive
The BBC News Bulletin Scripts Archive offers exclusive access to comprehensive news transcripts spanning six decades, providing invaluable insights into 20th-century
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Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865
This collection searches a unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 a
Primary Sources
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
This Website is intended to support a wide range of students, from middle and high school to college, as well anyone interested in learning more about the on-going
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British Periodicals
Comprehensive full-run coverage of nearly 500 British periodicals published from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries
Primary Sources
Colonial State Papers
This growing collection offers insight into the colonial history of North America and the West Indies. It includes the National Archives collection CO 1-- papers th
Primary Sources