Adam Matthew Primary Source Collections
- Coverage: varies by collection
- Access:
- Purchased By: University of Utah
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world.
African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress
- Coverage: 1933-1947
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
The National Negro Congress was established in 1936 to "secure the right of the Negro people to be free from Jim Crowism, segregation, discrimination, lynching, and mob violence" and "to promote the spirit of unity and cooperation between Negro and white people." It was conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks.
Help
African American Newspapers
- Coverage: Varies by Paper
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: Unlimited
A part of the Accessible Archives collection, this database provides access to a selection of prominent African-American newspapers. The Marriott Library has purchased access to a portion of this database which includes papers like Freedom's Journal, The North Star, Colored American, National Era, Frederick Douglass Paper, Provincial Freeman, The Christian Recorder, and the Douglass Monthly Supplement. The Archives also include a rotating selection of other papers, with new content added periodically.
American Fur Company: America's First Business Monopoly
- Coverage: 1831-1849
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
The papers include original letters received from factors, foreign and domestic agents, mainly to Ramsey Crooks, president of the Company; copies of letters sent by the Company; records of furs received from the Native Americans, and orders for goods to be shipped to the factors in exchange for furs.
American Indian Histories and Cultures now called, Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
- See: Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
- See: Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
- Coverage: 1968-1979
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 (Part 1 & 2)
- Coverage: 1940-2014
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
The Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 consists of 20 individual collections, with a total page count of nearly one and a half million pages. Documents span from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990. Although most materials are in English, the archive contains periodicals in German, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Hebrew, Indonesian, and other languages. Four collections are sourced from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the largest lesbian-focused archives in the world; two are sourced from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. Others are sourced from the New York Public Library; the London School of Economics; and from the National Institutes of Health.
Archives Unbound
- See: Final Accountability Rosters of Evacueess: Japanese-American Relocation Centers
- See: Final Accountability Rosters of Evacueess: Japanese-American Relocation Centers
Atlanta Daily World
- Coverage: 1931-2003
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
African-American newspaper published in Atlanta, Georgia. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Atlantic Monthly Archive
- Coverage: 1857-2014
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought.
Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
- Coverage: 1901-1928
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key. In 1900, he established the League "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro," and headed it until his death. Content: 15,779 images Source: Library of Congress
Cambridge Archive Editions Online
- Coverage:
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Cambridge Archive Editions Online (CAEO) is a documentary, primary source ebook collection on political, territorial, and ethnic issues from the 18th – 20th centuries covering four broad regions of the world, including Near and Middle East (120 titles, 966 volumes); Slavic, Balkan, and Caucasus (11 titles, 56 volumes); East and Southeast Asia (9 titles, 92 volumes); and North America (1 title, 9 volumes).
The CAEO is a digital presentation of the well-known and respected series of British archival reprints found in the National Archive (UK). The collection includes selected documents from the British Government records that create an accurate survey of a historical period, political movement, or a country’s development. The collection has been published over 25 years and includes over 1,000 volumes, nearly 700,000 pages of primary sources, and over 750 maps.”
Colonial America Modules 1-5
- Coverage: 1606-1822
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Colonial America makes available all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series from The National Archives, UK, covering the period 1606 to 1822. CO 5 consists of the original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies, making it a uniquely rich resource for all historians of the period.
COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present
- Coverage:
- Access: Freely Available
- Purchased By: Free
- Maximum Users: unlimited
This HeinOnline database compiles a selection of scholarly publications on the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life and has a focus on social sciences, including testing and vaccination issues, economic issues, global health, and societal impact. The database also features a subcollection dedicated to past pandemics and vaccinations for other diseases, allowing researchers to access ways government has responded to medical crises in the past and how previous pandemics can inform today’s decisions and responses. Much like our understanding of COVID-19, the database will continue to evolve over the coming months and years as new content is published and integrated.
Updated: Regularly
Help
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
- Coverage: 1639 - 1800
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: Unlimited
Early American Imprints: Series I is a microform collection that is based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement to American Bibliography. The collection was first published by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS). The collection is focused on early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more, and covers subjects related to life in 17th- and 18th-century America, such as agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and many others.
Help
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
- Coverage: 1534 - 1850
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: Unlimited
Early Encounters in North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early American encounters which document the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Because of the way the collection is indexed, it is possible to retrieve information about a number of historical relationships. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.
Empire Online
- Coverage: complete
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
- Coverage: 1946-1955
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was established in 1946 to, among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against…labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities." The CRC arose out of the merger of three groups with ties to the Communist Party, the International Labor Defense (ILD), the National Negro Congress, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. CRC campaigns helped pioneer many of the tactics that civil rights movement activists would employ in the late 1950s and 1960s. The CRC folded in 1955 under pressure from the U.S. Attorney General and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which accused the organization of being subversive. 115,378 images Source Library:Schomburg Center, New York Public Library
Final Accountability Rosters of Evacueess: Japanese-American Relocation Centers
- Coverage: 1944-1946
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
The rosters, which are part of the Records of the War Relocation Authority, consist of alphabetical lists of evacuees resident at the relocation centers during the period of their existence. The lists typically provide the following information about the individual evacuees: name, family number, sex, date of birth, marital status, citizenship status, alien registration number, method of original entry into center (from an assembly center, other institution, Hawaii, another relocation center, birth, or other), date of entry, pre-evacuation address, center address, type of final departure (indefinite leave, internment, repatriation, segregation, relocation, or death), date of departure, and final destination. Included for each center are summary tabulations on evacuees resident at the center and on total admissions and departures.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
- Coverage: current
- Access: UALC
- Purchased By: UALC
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Opposing Viewpoints is a resource for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues for users with access to both resources.
Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H Jacobs
- Coverage: complete
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
This database is the definitive cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. It spans more than four centuries and includes over two million pages.
History and Culture
- Coverage:
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
This database is a trial.
It will expire on May 2, 2024.
South Asian History and Culture is a collaborative project to create the world’s largest index of digital cultural materials from South Asia—with links to the full text and images. Released in beta late in 2023, the database has now officially launched, with over 500,000 publications from thousands of organizations. And it’s continually growing.
Help
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
- Coverage: c. 1490-2013
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from early European colonization up to photographs and Indigenous newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
To search across all of The University of Utah's Adam Matthew collections go to Adam Matthew collections
Japanese American Internment: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
- Coverage: 1933-1988
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
In an atmosphere of hysteria following U.S. entry into the Second World War, and with the support of officials at all levels of the federal government, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the U.S. military broad powers to ban any citizen from a wide coastal area stretching from the state of Washington to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. The order also authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington. The same executive order, as well as other war-time orders and restrictions, were also applied to smaller numbers of residents of the United States of Italian or German descent. Yet while these individuals (and others from those groups) suffered grievous violations of their civil liberties, the war-time measures applied to Japanese Americans were harsher and more sweeping. Entire communities were uprooted by an executive order that targeted U.S. citizens and resident aliens.
Content: 6,734 images
North American Women's Drama, 2nd Edition
- Coverage:
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
North American Women's Drama contains the full text of 1,517 plays written from colonial times to the present by more than 330 playwrights from the United States and Canada.
Overland Journeys: Travels in the West / 1800-1880
- Coverage: 1800-1880
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Comprised of selections from the microfilm collections Travels in the West and Southwest and the Plains & Rockies, this digital collection provides a unique window on Western History. Selections are based on the bibliographies, The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, and The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869.
South Asia Archive
- Coverage:
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
This database is a trial.
It will expire on May 2, 2024.
One quarter of the world’s population lives in South Asia, and yet South Asian content is underrepresented or absent from many libraries. The South Asia Archive is a landmark collection of 4.5 million pages of documents from across the Indian subcontinent from 1700 to 1953, originally collected by the South Asian Research Foundation (SARF).
It’s the largest collection of books, journals and documents from the region, covering India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Its size and diversity will bring new and inclusive perspectives to learning and research across the humanities and social sciences. Faculty in economics, politics, law, Indology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, history, and education will all benefit.
Documents are in a mix of English and vernacular languages, with fifteen percent of the archive’s content comprising material written primarily in Bengali and also including some content in Sanskrit. The archive is incredibly diverse in its reach, with materials of interest to those studying across all main areas of the humanities and social sciences.
Provide Feedback on this Trial
Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records
- Coverage: complete
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
This database is a trial.
It will expire on May 15, 2024.
The Southern plantation played many roles in African American History, A farm, business, home, prison, a cornerstone of Southern culture, political power base and the home of many African American traditions. The Southern Plantation Records in History Vault document the impact of plantations on the American South and the nation as a whole. Many planters kept journals, crop books, overseers’ journals and account books in remarkable detail. Family members kept personal diaries and exchanged correspondence with relatives and friends. Southern Plantation Records illuminate business operations and labor routines, family affairs, roles of women, racial attitudes, relations between masters and slaves, social and cultural life, shared values, and tensions and anxieties that were inseparable from a slave society. All are revealed with a fullness and candor unmatched by any of the other available sources.
Provide Feedback on this Trial
Victorian Popular Culture
- Coverage: 1800-1929
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death, Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
- Coverage: 1961
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Content: 4,285 images
Source Library:
Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia. Boynton had outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines. Five years prior to the Boynton ruling, the Interstate Commerce Commission had issued a ruling in Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company that had explicitly denounced the Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine of separate but equal in interstate bus travel, but the ICC had failed to enforce its own ruling, and thus Jim Crow travel laws remained in force throughout the South. The Freedom Riders set out to challenge this status quo by riding various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement and called national attention to the violent disregard for the law that was used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. Riders were arrested for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses.
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision; Issues and Identities Digital Archive
- Coverage:
- Access: University of Utah
- Purchased By: Marriott Library
- Maximum Users: unlimited
Much of history is one-sided, focusing mainly on the male perspective and leaving women's voices unheard. Bringing women's stories to light, the Women's Studies Archive connects archival collections concerning women's history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women's political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women's voices, from female-authored literature to women's periodicals. By providing the opportunity to witness female perspectives, Gale's Women's Studies Archive is an essential source for researchers working in Women's History, Gender Studies and Social History.