Go Deep into History with Archives Unbound
If you are researching a project or writing a paper and need primary sources at your disposal, Archives Unbound is your answer. Archives Unbound provides digital collections of historical documents organized into broad topics such as American Studies, Health and Environmental Studies, Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Native American Studies, and Law Politics and Radical Studies among many others. This database provides historical documents scanned at high resolution for research needs, or for those who just want to scratch a curious itch. The date range of the collection spans from the Middle Ages to contemporary times covering topics such as Witchcraft, World War II and twentieth-century political history. Just enter your Glendale Library card number and you are ready to start.
The materials in the collections are quite extensive, branching out into international historical matters and landmark events.
Collections of interest include:
Allied Propaganda in World War II and the British Political Warfare Executive
Includes correspondence, minutes and agent mission files as well as a complete collection of all the airborne propaganda leaflets dropped over mainland Europe during the war by the British and American forces.
Comprises correspondence for Zapata and the Liberation Army of the South between the headquarters and the camps and regional commands. Documents include requests for economic aid; guarantees to people for jobs and food; complaints of abuses; reports, promotions, and notifications to the troops and brigades, as well as information on pay.
FBI Files on Hollywood as they looked into communists in the Motion Picture Industry
Includes newspaper clippings and other documentation relating to the August 1942 order by the FBI to report on “Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry.” Various FBI reports chronicling the working of major film studios such as MGM, Paramount, RKO, and Warner Brothers, and studio management and labor union power struggles. The FBI's investigation of Hollywood resulted in many thousands of pages and show a growing operation organized in the early 1940s that continued throughout the Cold War.
Integration of Alabama Schools and the U.S. Military, 1963
This collection includes 12,818 essential materials for the study of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement at a critical moment in its history and include documents related to sit-ins, civil disobedience, National States Rights Party, Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers, Voter Registration, Integration and the Ku Klux Klan among many others.
Hollywood, Censorship and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
The 30,000+ items from the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences include the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration Files documenting forty years of self-regulation and censorship in the motion picture industry. This collection also includes several hundred files for films reviewed by the Studio Relations Committee between 1927 and 1929, and a small number of files for films released after 1968. The five hundred titles selected for microfilming and included in this digital collection were chosen by the staff of the library’s Special Collections Department, with advice from film historian Leonard J. Leff.
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
A digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers that document the concerns and day-to-day life of interned Japanese-Americans. Although articles in these files frequently appear in Japanese, most of the papers are in English or in dual language text. Many of the 25 titles constituting this collection are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted. A sampling of titles include: Rohwer Outpost, Poston Chronicle, Gila News Courier, Tulean Dispatch, Granada Pioneer, Minndoka Irrigator, Topaz Times, Manzanar Free Press, Denson Tribune, and Heart Mountain Sentinel.
Includes more than 200 newsletter and periodical titles totaling nearly 8,000 issues of serial literature on its "private" face, exploring the challenges and complexities of building gay and lesbian communities inside and outside of a "straight" world, the need for psychological reinforcement through support groups in an effort combat an often hostile environment, and the yearning for spiritual confirmation of one’s identity and life choices. This product is strong in newsletters from organizations that began their work during the formative years of the gay and lesbian movement. Most of these organizations are now defunct and their newsletters are the only record of their history and contribution to the movement.
Archives Unbound is a valuable resource for serious and casual researchers seeking primary sources from the comfort of their homes.
