New Content Added to Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History
5/17/18
Newly added to Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History: 236 primary sources (text and images) with curriculum correlations for easy integration into the classroom workflow. Content has been added across the eras, but especially boosts coverage in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Among the 113 new text documents are:
- Coverage of the Donald Trump presidency, including his Inaugural Address and his first Executive Order on Immigration
- Native American coverage, including the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 and the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation
- The First, Second, and Third Charters of Virginia
- Frederick Douglass’s Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincolnand his famous “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” speech
- Excerpts from critical Supreme Court decisions, including Plessy v. Ferguson, Loving v. Virginia, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- An excerpt from Ralph Nader’s landmark consumer advocacy book Unsafe at Any Speed, which prompted the auto industry to implement safety features on their vehicles
Among the 123 new images are:
- Several political cartoons by Herbert Block (Herblock) about such topics as abortion, gun control, and economic policy
- More extensive coverage of the Ronald Reagan presidency, including images of “Hands across America,” the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign
- Appearances by Malcolm X and images related to important events during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
- Notable popular culture events, including Orson Welles speaking to journalists after the historic The War of the Worlds broadcast, the first appearance of the superhero Superman in “Action Comics,” and handwritten song lyrics by Bob Dylan
- The iconic painting of President George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, which became the model for his likeness on the one-dollar bill
- Wanted bulletins and posters from the Gangster Era asking for the public’s help locating notorious criminals, such as Alvin Karpis and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (a.k.a. Bonnie and Clyde)
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Products included:
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society,
American Fiction, 1774-1920,
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society,
Archives Unbound,
Archives of Sexuality and Gender,
Associated Press Collections Online,
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture,
British Library Newspapers,
British Literary Manuscripts Online,
Business Insights: Essentials,
Business Insights: Global,
Cameron's Camp for Wellness,
Cameron's Collection,
Chatham House Online Archive,
ChiltonLibrary.com,
China and the Modern World,
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920,
Daily Mail Historical Archive,
Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence,
Digital Scholar Lab,
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library,
Eighteenth Century Collections Online,
Financial Times Historical Archive,
Gale Academic OneFile,
Gale Academic OneFile Select,
Gale Analytics,
Gale Books and Authors,
Gale Business: DemographicsNow,
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship,
Gale Business: Plan Builder,
Gale Case Studies,
Gale College Collection,
Gale Courses,
Gale Directory Library,
Gale General OneFile,
Gale Health and Wellness,
Gale In Context: Biography,
Gale In Context: Canada,
Gale In Context: College,
Gale In Context: Elementary,
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies,
Gale In Context: For Educators,
Gale In Context: Global Issues,
Gale In Context: High School,
Gale In Context: Middle School,
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints,
Gale In Context: Science,
Gale In Context: U.S. History,
Gale In Context: World History,
Gale Interactive: Chemistry,
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy,
Gale Interactive: Science,
Gale LegalForms,
Gale Literary Index,
Gale Literature,
Gale Literature Criticism,
Gale Literature Resource Center,
Gale Literature: Book Review Index,
Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors,
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography,
Gale Literature: LitFinder,
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series,
Gale Literature: Something About the Author,
Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series,
Gale NewsVault,
Gale OneFile: Agriculture,
Gale OneFile: Business,
Gale OneFile: CPI.Q,
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media,
Gale OneFile: Computer Science,
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues,
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice,
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts,
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies,
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory,
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete,
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship,
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy,
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts,
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture,
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies,
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Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence,
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Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health,
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Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies,
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines,
Gale OneFile: Psychology,
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy,
Gale OneFile: Science,
Gale OneFile: U.S. History,
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Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism,
Gale OneFile: World History,
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Gale Primary Sources,
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Gale eBooks,
Gale eBooks: Professional Learning,
Gale literature,
Indigenous Peoples of North America,
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013,
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950,
Literature Criticism Online (International),
Mirror Historical Archive, 1903-2000,
Miss Humblebee's Academy,
National Geographic Kids,
National Geographic Virtual Library,
Nineteenth Century Collections Online,
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers,
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals,
Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957,
Political Extremism and Radicalism,
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970,
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992,
Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II,
Religions of America,
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection,
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive,
Smithsonian Collections Online,
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History,
State Papers Online,
The Economist Historical Archive,
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003,
The Independent Historical Archive,
The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991,
The Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers,
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600–1970,
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600–1926,
The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals,
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926,
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources,
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926,
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978,
The Making of the Modern World,
The Shakespeare Collection,
The Sunday Times Historical Archive,
The Telegraph Historical Archive,
The Times Digital Archive,
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,
U.S. Declassified Documents Online,
Women's Studies Archive,
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean,