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AMST-203 Conflicts and Cultures in American Society: The 1970s (Wickman): Resources in the Trinity Library
Electronic books are available from the library. You can access them via the "Online Access" link in the book record in OneSearch. Physical books on the shelves in the library are also available
Features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. New subscription as of July 1, 2019.
Collection of African-American newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, The Baltimore Afro-American
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Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries.
HeinOnline is the world’s largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world’s constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase.”
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The Vogue Archive contains the full run of the American Vogue, 1892 to present. Every page, cover, advertisement, image, and fold out is indexed, searchable, and viewable in high-resolution color. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Nearly 500,000 art images of art, architecture and other forms of visual and material culture. Represents all time periods and cultures. Includes online and offline tools for faculty and students.
Best to begin by searching broadly and then narrow your search. For example, search across all the collections by artist's surname, then limit results by also searching for a primary word in the title.
For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.
The Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) is a digital repository program and community dedicated to the preservation, maintenance and delivery of a wide-range of digital cultural heritage resource from memory institutions in Connecticut.
Web-based digital video delivery platform that allows viewing of thousands of streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime. Available for in-class use and remote viewing.
Notes: Works best with Firefox or Internet Explorer. Use the 'email this video' feature to send a film link, not the browser link.
Searching Tips: Register on campus in order to take advantage of all features. Once registered, you may log in from anywhere.
Educational and feature films from major producers including California Newsreel, Criterion Collection, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber, and others. For academic use only.
Films may need to be ordered in advance before viewing. See https://commons.trincoll.edu/library/2019/08/12/changes-to-kanopy-film-streaming-library/ for more details.
These sources can be used to find images of important people, places and events that occurred in the 1970s.
