Historical Newspapers Content Update 1/11/10

The following content was recently added to:

America’s Historical Newspapers

Publication

Issues

Publication Location

Date Start

Date End

Boston Daily Advertiser

10312

Boston, MA

1860-01-03

1900-12-31

Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Journal

35

Providence, RI

1861-01-01

1898-12-31

Ulster Gazette

5

Kingston, NY

1803-12-17

1821-05-30

Morning Telegraph

1

New York, NY

1870-01-02

 

Gazette-Telegraph

6

Colorado Springs, CO

1914-01-05

1921-04-23

New York Herald

1412

New York, NY

1875-04-20

1898-12-31

Evening Times

2048

Grand Forks, ND

1906-01-03

1914-03-28

Illustrated New Age

891

Philadelphia, PA

1863-07-29

1866-06-30

New Yorker Volkszeitung

12

New York, NY

1889-05-05

1898-08-18

 

Latin American Newspapers

Publication

Issues

Publication Location

Date Start

Date End

Diario de la Marina

1

Havana, Cuba

1902-03-11

 

Estrella de Panama

1545

Panama, Panama

1872-01-01

1904-02-28

Prensa

30

Buenos Aires, Argentina

1909-05-01

1909-05-31

Star and Herald

2119

Panama, Panama

1857-06-02

1877-06-30

Credo Reference Update: 12/21/09

Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

  • Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness
  • Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
  • Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour
  • Cambridge Handbook of Psychology
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
  • The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press
  • Key Thinkers in Psychology, Sage UK
  • Religious Holidays & Calendars, Omnigraphics

ARTstor Update 12/11/09

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Images of modern and contemporary Latin American art
Approximately 170 images of modern and contemporary Latin American art from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Uruguay are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: Architectural photography from Ralph Lieberman
Approximately 1,400 new images from Ralph Lieberman are now available in ARTstor.

Now available: African art and field photography from Christopher Roy
ARTstor has collaborated with Christopher D. Roy to share approximately 3,500 images of African art and culture, now available in the Digital Library

Trial of Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

We have trial access to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection thru 2/7/10.  The collection will include more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

The collection presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American luminaries, originally commissioned plays, and high profile docudramas—by both renowned and emerging playwrights, such as:

  • Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare’s classic tale of duplicity, betrayal and murder, performed by Stacy Keach, Jobeth Williams, and Kelsey Grammer;
  • Arthur Miller’s The Crucible performed by Richard Dreyfuss, Michael York and Ed Begley, Jr., which mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s through the lens of the seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts witch trials;
  • Reginald Rose’s classic study of persuasion and power, Twelve Angry Men, starring Hector Elizondo, Richard Kind and Dan Castellaneta;
  • The Cherry Orchard , Anton Chekhov’s timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family’s fading fortunes and struggle to maintain their status in a changing world, starring Marsha Mason, Charles Durning and Jennifer Tilly;
  • Top Girls by Olivier Award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill, a modern comedy exploring the personal expense of one woman’s rise to the top of her field during the go-getting ‘80s, starring Amy Brennenman, Carolyn Seymour and Megan Austin Oberle;
  • The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, an L.A. Theatre Works originally commissioned docudrama about the seminal 1925 Scopes trial, starring Ed Asner, Mike Farrell and Sharon Gless.

More info is available here.  Your feedback is appreciated.

The Sixties: Content Update

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 recently added over 9,000 pages of new content from 430 sources.  The new content includes issues of several underground newspapers, including AMEX-Canada, Booklegger Magazine, Despite Everything, Fifth Estate, Free Student, The Paper, The Rag,The Partisan, Sanity, and The Vanguard.

Also included are materials from the radical right, such as The Truth Seeker and newsletters written by Americans for Conservative Action and American Association for Justice.

Newly added materials from the radical left include documents and papers by Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Liberation Movement.

A complete listing of the new content can be seen on the site’s What’s New page.

Roper Center / iPOLL Update

New Datasets include:

Selected studies recently added to iPOLL:

Title: Time/Rockefeller Foundation/SRBI A Women’s Nation Poll [August, 2009]
Source: Survey by Time, The Rockefeller Foundation.
Methodology: Conducted by Abt SRBI, August 31-September 15, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult including oversamples of blacks and hispanics sample of 3,413. The sample included 446 African Americans and 383 Hispanics. Results were weighted to be representative of a national adult population. The results of this survey appeared in ‘The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.’
Search for: Topic: ‘women’; Organization: ‘Time’; Date: from ’08/31/2009 to 08/31/2009′

Title: Healthcare Through Women’s Economic Lenses Survey [October, 2009]
Source: Survey by The Independent Women’s Forum.
Methodology: Conducted by The Polling Company, October 19-October 25, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult women who are registered to vote sample of 800.
Search for: Topic: ‘women’; Date: ’10/19/2009 to 10/19/2009′

Title: Public Views of the H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Survey [October, 2009]
Source: Survey by Harvard School of Public Health.
Methodology: Conducted by Social Science Research Solutions/ICR-International Communications Research, October 30-November 1, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult including oversamples of blacks and hispanics sample of 1,073. There were 107 African Americans, and 141 Hispanics. Results are weighted to be representative of a national adult population.
Search for: Topic: ‘health’; Organization: ‘Harvard School of Public Health’; Date: ’10/30/2009 to 10/30/2009′

Title: Transatlantic Trends 2009 Survey [June, 2009]
Source: Survey by German Marshall Fund of the US and the Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy, with additional support from the Luso-American Foundation, Portugal, Fundacion BBVA, Spain, and the Tipping Point Fdtn., Bulgaria.
Methodology: Conducted by TNS Opinion and Social Institutes, June 9-July 1, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,000. Interviews were conducted in the US by Leger Marketing of Montreal. Parallel surveys were conducted in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania. All fieldwork was coordinated by TNS Opinion and Social Institutes.
Search for: ‘climate’; Date: ’06/09/2009 to 06/09/2009′

Title: Public Agenda Foundation A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say About Life in America Survey [April, 2009]
Methodology: Conducted by Public Agenda Foundation, April 23-June 7, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national foreign-born adults sample of 1,138. Interviews were conducted by ICR-International Communications Research. Foreign-born adults are described as adults 18 years or older who currently live in the US and came to the US at the age of five or older. The survey was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Search for: Organization: ‘Public Agenda Foundation’; Date: ’04/23/2009 to 04/23/2009′

Title: Transatlantic Trends Immigration Survey [August, 2008]
Source: Survey by German Marshall Fund of the US, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of the US, the Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy, and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, United Kingdom.
Methodology: Conducted by TNS Opinion and Social Institutes, August 29-September 29, 2008 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,000. Interviews were conducted in the US by Leger Marketing of Montreal. Parallel surveys were conducted in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Search for: ‘immigrat% not McCain’; Topic ‘immigration’; Date: ’08/29/2008 to 08/29/2008′