A compilation of Library and other resources at Brown that allow for exploration of the Indigenous experience of native peoples in North America and around the world
A database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.
Provides access to nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines
1969-present; international and interdisciplinary, Alternative Press Index provides access to nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.
Offers resources dating from the earliest contact between Native Americans and European settlers up to the civil rights movement of the 20th century
The wide range of material included in American Indian Histories and Cultures presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Librarys extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world.
Use to find biographies of people who have shaped the history and culture of the Unites States.
The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men and women from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than 60 years.
Provides access to the original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies, 1606-1822
Colonial America will consist of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them. This unique collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is an invaluable one for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), and comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press, 1959-present.
1959-present; Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press beginning in 1990. This includes ENW: A History, which covers the years 1960-1989. The experiences and contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Peoples, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans and Arab Americans illuminate three critical decades in U.S. and world history.
Capsule descriptions of many of the more than 300 unique collections of rare books, archival materials and manuscript collections that form Special Collections, housed in the John Hay Library
Search here to explore Borrow Direct partner library collections and other libraries worldwide.
Books, journals, sound recordings, videos and manuscripts collected and catalogued by your library and libraries around the world. WorldCat does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.
Provides access to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other research materials about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States, 1967-present.
1970-present; HAPI is an online source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Included are complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in over 400 key scholarly social science and humanities journals published worldwide.
Provides access to research from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research, early 19th century-present
Early 19th century-present; as a compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institutes Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature database, Anthropology Plus is a comprehensive index covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. This database provides extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries.
An unusual compilation of more than a thousand diverse and interesting maps representing a wide variety of periods, topics and world geography. Use BruKnow to search the Library Catalog for "hay maps" to pull up a browsable list of titles; add the name of a country or region to focus your search on a particular geographical area. Some maps have been scanned and may be viewed in the Brown Digital Repository
Scholar Claudio Saunt created this digital project using maps originally created by the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology in 1899. The project documents the dynamics of dis-appropriation of Native lands between 1776 and 1887, as the United States actively engaged in seizing more than 1.5 billion acres from America's indigenous people by treaty and executive order, mapping each such action taking place in this period. It also includes present-day federal Indian reservations.
For over a decade, the Calista Elders Council in Southwest Alaska worked with elders from varied Yu'pik communities to document Yup'ik place names for a mapping project. The project was initiated and encouraged by CEC's Board of Elders and community members, and funded by the National Science Foundation. It forms part of the larger Yu'pik Environmental Knowledge Project.
Previously called "Aboriginal bark paintings," scholars are increasingly realizing how graphic productions by indigenous Australians read as maps. This site explains Aboriginal mapping techniques.
