Primary Source Databases: Roundup of 2024 Acquisitions

Tulane University Libraries (TUL) purchased access to a wide array of digital primary sources in 2024. Below is a roundup of new content available to TU affiliates:

 

Historical Newspapers & Magazines 

 

Global Collections:

• Newspapers.com - includes 4,000+ titles, 1700's to 2000's, from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Panama, Australia, Papau New Guinea, and the Philippines

Black American Press:

• Chicago Defender - coverage expanded to 2010  
• Proquest Historical Black Newspapers - coverage expanded to 2010  

Flagship U.S. Newspapers:

• Detroit Free Press - coverage expanded to 1999  

International Newspapers:

• Jerusalem Post (1932-2008)  
• Prensa Libre (Guatemala City) (1951-2023)  

Women's Press:

• Women’s Magazine Archive - includes Better Homes & Gardens (1922-2005); Chatelaine (1928-2005); Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005); Essence (1970 to 2005); Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005); Ladies’ Home Journal (1883-2005); Parents (1926-2005); Redbook (1903-2005); Seventeen (1944 to 2005); Town and Country (1846 to 2005); Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005); Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003)

 

Rare Books

 

Louisiana History:

• City and Business Directories: Louisiana, 1805-1929 

 

Government Archives & Documents

 

Congress:

• Proquest Congressional - 2024 updates to Congressional Hearings, Congressional Research, and U.S. Bills and Resolutions

FBI:

• Hollywood and J. Edgar Hoover: Communists in the Motion Picture Industry  
• National Security and the FBI Surveillance of Enemy Aliens  

Office of Civil Rights:

• War on Poverty: Office of Civil Rights, 1965-1968  

 

Advocacy Organization Archives

 

Civil Rights:

• Civil Rights and Social Activism in the South - James A. Dombrowski and the Southern Conference Educational Fund  
• The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers 

Jewish Issues:

• American Jewish Congress Records  

Labor Unions:

• Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO 

 

Missionary Archives

 

Presbyterian Church:

• Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910 

 

Mixed Media Archives

 

Far Right and Left Political Groups:

• Political Extremism & Radicalism - includes content from U.S., Europe, and Australia as well as global communist and socialist movements

Social Movements: 

• Power to the People! Counterculture, Social Movements, & Alternative Press, 1960-2015 - includes Pacific Coast Counterculture Collection; University of Michigan Student Activism Collection; British counterculture magazines, and more

Prison Studies:

• Mass Incarceration & Prison Studies - includes primary and secondary sources to research incarceration trends and infrastructures in the U.S. and beyond

 

- Rachel Stein, 11/26/2024