Projectr EDU & Docuseek: Streaming Global Cinema and Documentary Film

The Penn Libraries now offers access to two new streaming film and video platforms, Projectr EDU and Docuseek. Both platforms feature quality documentary and narrative films from a number of leading independent distributors, which enhances the number of acclaimed, engaging films available to members of the Penn community for on-demand viewing. Projectr EDU is a … Continue reading →

Just Launched: Web Archive of Independent News Sites on Turkish Affairs

This post first appeared on the Columbia University Libraries Spotlight Blog. The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Web Archive of Independent News Sites on Turkish Affairs. Developed by librarians within the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, the archive documents and preserves online news outlets about Turkey that are not controlled … Continue reading →

Historical African American Newspapers

The Libraries have added two African American newspapers to our collection on the Proquest Black Newspapers platform.  The Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) is the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S. It is also the only paid-circulation African American newspaper in Southern California, upon … Continue reading →

Just Launched: Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Web Archive

This post first appeared on the Columbia University Libraries Spotlight Blog. The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Web Archive, curated by Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian at Duke University, and Joshua Seufert, Chinese Studies Librarian at Princeton University. Chinese independent … Continue reading →

FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972

Throughout most of the 20th century, the FBI produced a uniquely important record of the concerns, biases and public and surreptitious activities of the federal government’s principal law enforcement agency.  This collection focuses on the FBI’s vigorous investigations of Communist groups, Communist-front groups, and other radical organizations in the United States.  It includes records of: … Continue reading →

Margaret Sanger and Womens’ Rights Movements

The Library has acquired the Margaret Sanger Papers online as part of the History Vault collection of primary source material. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) worked to ensure that women had the knowledge and the right to practice birth control. From the publication of the Woman Rebel in 1914 through her leadership of the International Planned Parenthood … Continue reading →

Film Platform: relevant and critically acclaimed documentary films

The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that the Penn community now has access to the documentary film streaming platform, Film Platform. Film Platform is a collection of social, political, and cultural documentaries, including award-winning documentary films and recent favorites from film festivals. Film Platform works with an academic advisory board to ensure that films … Continue reading →

Philadelphia Daily News, New York Daily News, and Northeast U.S. papers online

The ProQuest Historical Newspapers : U.S. Northeast Collection brings searchable page-image backfile runs of a dozen regional newspapers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. Four titles included in the collection have runs starting in the 19th century. The current U.S. Northeast Collection includes a mix of broadside and tabloid newspapers from major metropolitan … Continue reading →

New foreign newspapers online : Irish Times and Jerusalem Post

The Penn Libraries have added two important foreign newspapers to its collection of historic fulltext news sources, the Irish Times and the Jerusalem Post. The Irish Times, published in Dublin, reports on the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Founded in 1859 as a daily broadsheet, the newspaper was Protestant and Unionist for most of … Continue reading →

Food and Drink in History

Food and Drink in History is a collection of primary source materials which illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production. The resource includes key material from archives and libraries in the United States, the … Continue reading →