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Adam Matthew America in World War Two: Oral Histories and Personal Accounts
America in World War Two is a digital resource that shows how World War Two changed American society and the economy. The impact of the war on families and individuals is presented through oral history videos, mail, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, newspapers, and more.
From early topographical sketches and pioneers’ accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his ‘Wild West’ stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.
London Low Life brings the dark underworld of Victorian London to life with a digital collection of street literature, advertisements and propaganda, cartoons, maps, and much more.
Historical Newspapers: New York Collection features nine newspaper titles that provide local perspectives on historical events with coverage from 1785 to the present.