America and Great Britain : Diplomatic Relations 1775-1845

provides 7000 pages of primary material, charting the emergence of an independent America. The set is made up of the diplomatic, official correspondence between America and Britain and gives an extraordinary insight into the shaping of a nation, from America being referred to as “our Colonies and Plantations in North America” by King George the Third to its recognition as the “United States” by Britain in 1782.

Annual Register 

The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758.

Archives of human sexuality and identity. LGBTQ history and culture since 1940

brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Rare and unique content from microfilm, newsletters, organizational papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more.

 Art and Architecture Archive

A collection of the digitized backfiles of many of the foremost art and architecture magazines of the twentieth century. Trade magazines, widely recognized as indispensable sources for art and architecture, are also strongly represented.

Associated Press - section 2 - US Cities and section 4 - Middle East Bureaus

U.S. City Bureaus Collection

Primarily a post-World War II collection, these bureau records—consisting primarily of wire copy, as well as correspondence and newsletters—cover a broad segment of American political and social history. Major subjects include the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Cuba, the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, the My Lai massacre trial of Lt. William Calley Jr., and the U.S. presidency. Presidents including George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and John F. Kennedy are all represented in the files.

The Dallas bureau led the coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and both Dallas and Austin wrote about subsequent events, from the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald to the trial of Jack Ruby to the Warren Commission report. Highlights from the San Francisco bureau include the growth of the counterculture movement and radical politics, as well as the gay rights movement. The Birmingham, Atlanta, and New Orleans bureaus were on the front lines of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, covering the Birmingham bombings, events in Selma from 1963 to 1966, the Freedom Rides, desegregation, and the Black Panthers. The Miami bureau devoted considerable copy to Cuba, including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Cuban refugees. The Chicago bureau boasted an especially active crime beat. The bureaus extensively covered education, environmental issues, immigration, crime, urban affairs, sports, and politics.

Middle East Bureaus Collection

Spanning the decades between 1967 and 2005 (dates vary by bureau) the Middle East Bureaus Collection contains wire copy (original news reports) in both English and Arabic and includes information on conflicts in the area, particluarly the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (The Six Day War) and the U.S. war in Iraq (2003). Additional subjects include Islam, the Persian Gulf War (1991), Kurds, elections and International Relations.

Book Review Digest Retrospective - 1908-1982

Collecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest, this database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction from 1903 to 1982. 

Caribbean Newspapers 1718-1876

Expanding our collection of Latin American historical newspapers- the Caribbean Newspapers 1718-1876 - provides access to more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands.  Most of these newspapers were published in English but a number are in Spanish, French and Dutch. Countries represented include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Virgin Islands. Also found within this resource are newspapers from Bermuda, an island not technically part of the Caribbean, but situated on shipping routes between Europe and this region and integrally related to this region.

Context of Scripture online

Presents the multi-faceted world of ancient writing that forms the colorful background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible. Designed as a thorough and enduring reference work for all engaged in the study of the Bible and the ancient Near East, the Context of Scripture Online provides reliable access to a broad, balanced, and representative collection of Ancient Near Eastern texts that have an impact on the interpretation of the Bible.

Empire online

F W J Von Schelling Sammtliche Werke

An online edition of F.W.J. Von Schelling;'s complete works.

Independent voices

A set of digitized U.S. newspapers, journals, and magazines originally published by the alternative press  during the 1960s, '70s and '80s broadly described on the project website as serials produced by "American youth. Feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, and members of the LGBT communities."   Colgate University Libraries by participating in this project gains early access to content that will become open access and sponsors the production of the content.

New Pauly Supplements I and New Pauly Supplements II

Adding to last year's purchase of the New Pauly - an encyclopedia of the classical world - are a number of supplemental volumes some of which will be coming out over the next 3 years