This fall, take some time to check out the new and trial databases at the Library!
African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883
Over 1,400 searchable works covering African-American life during Reconstruction, immediately after the Civil War. Includes memoirs and accounts of African-American life in the South, both slave and free, and works of literature and poetry. Covers the period immediately before African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest. This database is on trial through October 31.
African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922
Over 1,000 fully searchable printed works covering African-American life from post-Reconstruction through World War I. Includes memoirs and first-person accounts of the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, plantation life, Reconstruction, and more. Covers the period immediately after the companion database, African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle. This database is on trial through October 31.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
Composed of five chronological Series spanning from 1684 to 1912, the AAS Historical Periodicals Collection is one of the premier digital libraries documenting American life from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the early 20th century. The scope of the collection is vast with over 6,500 full-text titles, featuring over 10 million pages of digitized content representing more than two dozen languages. Subject areas covered range from Religion and Philosophy; to Civil War and Slavery; to Art, Science, and Medicine; to Family and Society, ensuring that researchers from a wide range of disciplines are likely to find immense value in this collection.
BenchSci
Antibody searching across millions of figures extracted from vendor product sheets, published data, and more. Free registration required; available to Georgetown faculty/students/staff only.
EPS China Data
EPS China Data offers a wealth of statistics about China: agriculture, economy, education, finance, industry, health, manufacturing, and more. Data can be analyzed within the web interface or downloaded into Excel. This database is on trial through December 1.
Gender: Identity and Social Change
This collection of digitized papers, files, and correspondence documents the women's suffrage movement, first and second wave feminism, and the men's movement from the 1800s through the early 2000s. The originals come from nine libraries in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, including the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Gender: Identity and Social Change was generously purchased by the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Library in Doha, Qatar.
We invite you to check out these new resources. If you have questions about them contact eresources@georgetown.edu!