Database Subject Filter Show Database Types Filter Database Vendors Filter Loading... We haven't yet identified any Popular databases. Check back soon! Loading... The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription. New  The Archive of Political Emails was established in July 2019. It contains more than 700,000 emails from political candidates, elected officials, PACs, non-profits, NGOs and other entities that shape the political debate. The text of the emails is fully searchable and senders have been organized by:
New The Best's Library Center provides access to in-depth reports on public and private US, Canadian and Non US insurers, reinsurers, and groups. The Best's Credit Reports feature five years of financial analysis and detailed commentary on a company's operating methods and management philosophy. Access corporate changes that impact existing companies and locate surviving insurers associated with companies no longer in business. Users will be directed to an acknowledgement page when accessing the resource. Click "I agree" to continue to the content. New E&P DataBook includes valuable contact information, mechanical specifications, equipment, rates, circulation and much more from thousands of U.S. and Canadian newspaper organizations. Requires username and password. See reference staff for assistance. New Not long after brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière projected moving pictures on a screen for their fellow Parisians in 1895 cinema became one of the most important and one of the most dominant art forms shaping much of popular culture in the twentieth century. Among the first to recognize the power of cinema both as an art form and as a tool of political propaganda was none other than the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution Vladimir Lenin. His famous quip to the People's Commissar for Education Anatoly Lunacharsky in 1922 that “of all the arts for us cinema is the most important” would go on to become a policy cornerstone resulting in the proliferation of cinema halls throughout the Soviet Union. The attendance in these halls would remain one of the highest anywhere in the world up until the collapse of the USSR. With masses of captivated and quite literally captive audiences, cinema and the cinematic vocabulary would become weaponized as potent new vehicles of propaganda and messaging, shaping the population’s perception of the social, political, and cultural realities. Virtually every Soviet citizen, regardless of his or her educational background or social status, would be susceptible to the allure of the moving images on the screen. Aside from the propaganda aspects, early Soviet cinema was truly pioneering, even revolutionary. Some of the most influential film directors and theorists in world cinema operated in the Soviet Union, laying out the foundations of modern cinema and creating some of the most lasting cinematic masterpieces in history. East View’s Early Soviet Cinema Collection contains 116 books published between 1928-1948, the Golden Age of Soviet cinema. They contain works by such renowned film theorists as Lev Kuleshov, Bela Balash, Rudolf Garms, Efraim Lemberg, Natan Zarkhi and others, covering a slew of topics that range from the role of women in cinema to the role of cinema in the creation of a communist society. New Established in 1968 by the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and in continuous publication until its closure in 1991, the journal Muslims of the Soviet East was the only Islamic periodical carrying the official seal of approval of the Soviet government. Published originally in Uzbek, the journal expanded its linguistic base in the following years, adding Arabic (1969), French and English (1974), Farsi (1980), and Dari (1984). A Russian version would come along surprisingly late, only in 1990, one year before its closure. As with many foreign language publications in the Soviet Union, the target audience of the journal were not its citizens but readers abroad. Consequently, the original Uzbek language edition was exclusively in the traditional Arabic script known as the Yana Imla, a disappearing writing form in Soviet Central Asia (due to the aggressive linguistic and educational reforms carried out by the authorities), but in use in Uzbek communities in places like Afghanistan. The choice of the Arabic script had also a secondary strategic significance. Provided the subject matter of the journal - religion, Soviet authorities were especially reluctant to make it available in the reformed Latin alphabet in use in Uzbek schools, thereby precluding, or at least reducing, the likelihood of the journal becoming available to the younger generation, whose anti-religious education was of paramount importance to the government. If the publication of the journal in Arabic, Farsi, and Dari was meant to familiarize readers in those countries with the life of their coreligionists in the Soviet Union, the introduction of the journal in the “Western” languages served an additional propaganda purpose, i.e. to counter the notion prevalent in the West that the USSR was thoroughly and intractably anti-religious. Consisting of multiple sections, the journal contained a mix of sermons exhorting Islamic piety from notable Central Asian clerics, discussions of regional Islamic history, and the role of Soviet Muslims in the cultural and political life of the USSR. The Muslims of the Soviet East Archive contains the most complete collection of the journal in the English language. Fully searchable, the database provides researchers from a variety of disciplines a unique and a valuable insight into the life of Soviet Muslims, journal’s obvious propagandistic slant and purpose notwithstanding. New The Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) project is one of the most ambitious reference projects that Oxford University Press has embarked upon. OREs are highly discoverable, peer-reviewed, online encyclopedias with essays planned, written, and reviewed by the world’s leading scholars and scientists, providing hundreds of in-depth articles on core topics in all of the major disciplines. Every month, new topics are added and current essays are updated, ensuring that users have the most up-to-date content at their fingertips. The ORE project combines the ease of access and speed of digital publishing with the standards of academic publishing. OREs:
Working with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, Oxford has developed new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics. While most content is restricted to subscribers, full-text articles of pre-subscription and preview OREs are freely available, as are the summaries in restricted subscriber content. Révolution et l'Empire External New Marked by the Revolution and Empire, the nineteenth century was the century of historians; the methods and schools which today constitute the basis of historical study were developed during this time. This database includes the complete works of the greatest French historians of the nineteenth century, totaling almost 100,000 pages of text. Among the authors included in this database: Aulard, Barante, Louis Blanc, Buchez, Jaurès, Lamartine, Michelet, Quinet, Thiers, and Tocqueville.
New Some of the earliest casualties of revolutions are the ideological and institutional foundations of the political order that legitimated the ancien régime, the old form of government with its established political and socio-economic power relations. Identified by Bolshevik revolutionaries as enablers of centuries-long Tsarist malfeasance, religion and religious institutions were additionally considered to be obstructionists of scientific progress, veritable peddlers of ancient superstitions. Thus, the eradication of religion would be elevated into policy shortly after the 1917 Revolution. Although the destruction of churches, mosques, and synagogues would in practical terms curtail public religiosity, it did not guarantee neither radical nor wholesale change in people’s perceptions of the world in which they lived. The matter of changing people’s worldviews, therefore, was left to propagandists and the radically rethought educational system. The result of these policy and educational changes was the launching of the vicious anti-religious propaganda campaigns of the early 1920s and 1930s, which saw the publication of hundreds of books, newspapers, and popular magazines aimed at the complete ideological overhaul of the USSR. Comprised of nearly 281 books, East View’s Russian Anti-Religious Books After the Revolution Digital Archive is a treasure trove of these early propaganda efforts, containing some of the most important and influential works of anti-religious literature. Full-text searchable and cross-searchable with other e-content from East View the collection is a valuable resource for historians of the Soviet Union, religious studies, and secularization. New SpringerMaterials provides curated data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, and other related fields. Based on the 400-volume Landolt-Börnstein New Series, SpringerMaterials is an extensive collection of fully evaluated physical and chemical property data for engineers and physical scientists. SpringerMaterials includes thermophysical properties of common components and mixtures; a data collection on inorganic solid phases, covering crystallographic data, phase diagrams, diffraction patterns, and physical properties; and a collection of chemical safety documents. New Part of East View’s Demography and Economy Series, this collection includes 61 statistical publications covering Crimea in Ukraine. New The Early Parliamentary Elections that took place in Ukraine in July of 2019 were held not long after the spring presidential elections, which shook up the political scene in Ukraine after the resounding victory of Volodymyr Zelensky, an actor turned politician. The regular Verkhovna Rada elections were scheduled for the fall of 2019, however, immediately following his inauguration, the new president moved to disband the parliament, simultaneously calling for snap elections. The elections were held on July 21, 2019 amid Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia, a stagnating economy, and a burgeoning corruption, - the foremost factors on voters’ minds as they headed to the polls. Nearly all candidates running for Verkhovna Rada promised to address these and similar issues during the election campaign. As a result of the elections, the party of the president Sluha Naroda (Servant of the People) gained 254 seats out of the possible 450, a clear majority.The present database contains ephemera collected and meticulously sorted by East View researchers in Ukraine at the height of the heated Verkhovna Rada election campaign season. Comprised of leaflets, flyers, brochure, newspapers etc., the collection provides scholars of modern Ukrainian politics and democratic transition in Eastern Europe a fully searchable rich array of visual and textual primary sources. New When the Ukrainian voters went to the polls during the Spring 2019 Presidential Elections, little did they suspect that their votes would become part of American political history, in addition to helping elect a former TV personality to the presidency. The surprising win by the comedian turned politician Volodymyr Zelensky over the incumbent Petro Poroshenko by a landslide, was hailed in the West as a clear manifestation of Ukraine’s democratic credentials and a continuation of the democratic logic behind of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Important as Zelensky’s election was for Ukraine’s democratic development, it was soon to be overshadowed by events unfolding in a country located an ocean away, involving the administration of the American president Donald Trump and his reelection bid. The first round of elections fielded some 39 candidates, the largest group of candidates to ever run for presidency in Ukraine since its independence. The spread of the field and the general competitiveness of the elections guaranteed that none of the candidates would garner the necessary percentage points to win the elections outright. However, even before the results of the elections were announced it was becoming obvious that the main battle for the presidency was to be waged between Zelensky and Poroshenko, who earned 30% and 16% of the votes respectively. The run-off, which took place on April 21, was a three-to-one margin rout of the incumbent, with Zelensky earning 73.19% of the votes to Poroshenko’s 24.48%. Carefully selected by East View’s researchers and fully searchable, the present database consists of ephemera produced by candidates during the election season. It allows researchers and analysts specializing in Ukraine’s post-Soviet democratic development the opportunity to glean unique insights into the political discourse of a country that finds itself positioned on the frontlines of a new geopolitical rivalry between Russia and the West. New The 1994 Presidential Elections in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were the first and last time such elections were held on the peninsula. Controversial at the time, the elections and subsequent political developments laid one of the earliest foundations of the current Russian-Ukrainian political crisis. The elections were held not long after the short-lived declaration of independence in 1992 and the subsequent reconfiguration of the status of Crimea as a constituent entity within Ukraine. The 1994 elections were thus held on the background of simmering tensions between the authorities in Crimea and the government in Kiev, as well as rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia. The elections were won handily by pro-Russian separatist candidate Yuri Meshkov, whose election platform consisted mainly of promises to pursue political and economic integration with Russia. Following closely on the heels of Yuri Meshkov’s victory on a pro-Russian ticket, were the Supreme Council of Crimea elections of March 27, 1994, held concurrently with the parliamentary elections of Ukraine. As during the presidential elections, majority of voters sided with pro-Russian parties and coalitions, led by Yuri Meshkov’s Bloc Russia, which won 54 seats out of a possible 100. These were also the first parliamentary elections to be held in Crimea since Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union. The current database contains rare election ephemera from the two of the most politically consequential elections in Crimea, setting the future tone of and presaging the coming international crisis 20 years later that resulted in Russia’s annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine. It allows researchers a unique insight into the changing political mood in Crimea as it was happening. Loading... What is W.E.B. Du Bois famous for?Du Bois was already well known as one of the foremost Black intellectuals of his era. The first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University, Du Bois published widely before becoming NAACP's director of publicity and research and starting the organization's official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.
What did W.E.B. Du Bois do quizlet?During the Progressive Era, he emerged as the most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans. He founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
What did Booker T Washington believe in?Booker T. Washington, educator, reformer and the most influentional black leader of his time (1856-1915) preached a philosophy of self-help, racial solidarity and accomodation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity.
Who was the creator of Black History Month?Carter G. Woodson was a scholar whose dedication to celebrating the historic contributions of Black people led to the establishment of Black History Month, marked every February since 1976.
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