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New periodicals archives span numerous disciplines and content types in full-color, full-page, full-print runs. We’ll access back-files of leading women’s and consumer periodicals of the late-19th and 20th centuries, including Ladies’ Home Journal, Better Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Explore aspects of history, culture, and society beyond gender/family roles, social history, health, history of consumerism and fashion. New British Periodicals collections focus on key popular but distinguished periodicals of the 20th century, with publications spanning topics such as literature, the arts, politics, leisure, satire, society, and international affairs.
Giving researchers what they need, History Vault provides instant access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable archives on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The vast majority of the content in History Vault is not available elsewhere and invaluable for researchers in history, African American studies, Native American studies, women’s studies, political science, international relations, social sciences, sociology and more.
Government information sources provide reports and testimonies from the world’s largest publisher. House, Senate and Executive publications document the transformation of the U.S. from thirteen colonies into a world power, with primary source content on subjects ranging from Indian claims and human rights to nuclear energy, space exploration, health and terrorism.
