Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.
U.S. & Canadian advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Concentrates on Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
Includes detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters, glimpses of daily life in the army and at home, anecdotes about key events and personages.
Over 450 prison newspapers from across the country in one collection representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
The personal papers of this important politician, scholar, and filmmaker, including his notes, correspondence, media clippings, and other ephemera, particularly while with the U.S. Information Agency in the 1960s, plus his documentary films.
Born in 1932, Bruce Herschensohn began his career as a box-boy at Ralphs Grocery, then to RKO Radio Pictures as a messenger boy, and then RKO’s Art Department. After service in the U.S. Air Force, he began his own motion picture company. One of the films he wrote, directed, edited, and scored was the feature-length documentary "John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums" for the United States Information Agency (USIA). He was then appointed Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the USIA. During his tenure the USIA received numerous awards for film and television productions, including an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. In 1969, Herschensohn was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Government. He also received the second highest civilian award, the Distinguished Service Medal, and then became Deputy Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon. From 1978 through 1991 he was a political commentator on KABC-TV and KABC-Radio. In 1980 he was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team and was himself the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in California in 1992. A world traveller, Herschensohn taught "The U.S. Image Abroad" at the University of Maryland, occupied the Nixon Chair at Whittier College teaching "U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies", worked with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Zurich, Switzerland and Cavendish, Vermont, and was Chairman of the Board of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, also receiving an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Pepperdine. From 1993 to 2001 he was Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute and, in 1996, a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University. He taught at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy from 1998 to 2006, and is currently a Senior Fellow of this institution. Herschensohn is also an Associate Fellow of the Nixon Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Individual Freedom. His books include The Gods of Antenna, Lost Trumpets, Hawks Without Wings, Doves Without Conscience, The Last Time I Saw Hong Kong, Hong Kong at the Handover, Across the Taiwan Strait, Passport: An Historical Novel of the Cold War, Millennium’s Edge, Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy, Above Empyrean, and An American Amnesia.
Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.
Personal accounts, such as diaries and letters, of people in North America from 1534-1850, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials.
Focus on social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries including speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art.
Access to scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries, documenting the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states.
Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.
Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.
Primary sources documenting the history of student organizing in the U.S.
Digital archive of travel guides, museum catalogs, travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, and historical maps of Egypt and Cyprus.
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