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  • Defining Gender

    What? Defining Gender explores the study and analysis of gender, leisure and consumer culture. This collection contains original primary source material from British archives including ephemera, pamphlets, college records and exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account ...

    When? varies

    Why? Search primary source material from British archives on the study and analysis of gender, leisure, and consumer culture.

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  • Everyday Life and Women in America

    What? The Everyday Life collection features texts of rare books, periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, and broadsides. These documents cover a variety of themes including popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, and employment. There is also an emphasis on advice literature, and on ...

    When? 1800-1920

    Why? Search primary source material on both women's and men's issues circa 1800-1920.

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  • Victorian Popular Culture

    What? Victorian Popular Culture contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930

    When? 1779-1930

    Why? Search primary source material relating to popular culture in America, Britain, and Europe from 1779-1930

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  • Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism

    What? Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism provides a look at the evolution of British and American working class tourism from c.1850 to 1980. This collection includes material from the world's oldest travel agency, the Thomas Cook Archives

    When? 1850-1980

    Why? History of the evolution of British and American tourism from 1850-1980.

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  • AM Explorer

    What? Cross-search Adam Matthew Digital collections held by MSU Library:

    When? Varies

    Why?

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  • New York Times (NYT)

    What? NYTimes.com delivers global breaking news, 24/7 updates, photography, and video. MSU students, faculty, and staff can access, browse, search and share globally relevant content from either a mobile device or desktop. In addition, faculty can access inEducation, the online educator resource where The...

    When? 1851 - current

    Why? Unlimited, 24/7 global news coverage

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  • Sanborn Maps of Montana (Digital)

    What? Digital Sanborn Maps of Montana provides digital access Sanborn fire insurance maps. Note, MSU's access only includes Montana maps.

    When? 1867-1970

    Why? Access Montana Sanborn fire insurance maps electronically

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  • Foreign Office Files for Japan

    What? Through extensive runs of Foreign Office Files from the National Archives, UK, this collection documents Anglo-Japanese diplomatic relations during an era of rapid Japanese progression and expansion.

    When? 1919 - 1952

    Why? British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952

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  • Global Commodities

    What? Global Commodities explores the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world through a wide range of manuscript sources, rare books, maps, advertising, paintings, photographs and ephemera during the 18th-20th centuries. This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commod...

    When? Varies

    Why? Printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history

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  • NewspaperARCHIVE

    What? NewspaperARCHIVE contains millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date

    When? 1607 - Present

    Why? Search newspapers from around the world by keyword and date from 1607 - Present.

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  • Food and Drink in History

    What? From feast to famine, explore five centuries of primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting ke...

    When? Varies

    Why? Explore five centuries of primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history

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  • Women's Magazine Archive

    What? The Women's Magazine Archive is a primary source for consumer magazines aimed at a female readership through which to interpret multiple aspects of 19th and 20th-century history and culture. Titles included in the archive, inlcuding Good Housekeeping and Ladies' Home Journal, serve as canonical reco...

    When? 1883 - 2005

    Why? Find consumer magazines aimed at a female readership through which to interpret multiple aspects of 19th and 20th-century history and culture

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  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

    What? Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages. Users can search ECCO Part I and Part II to find contextual essays and chronology, an image gallery, and a key documents section facilitate discovery and study.

    When? 1701 - 1800

    Why? Find titles printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800