Join a Layered Discussion on How Primary Sources Bring Clarity to the American Social Fabric
Looking for inspiration to create a culture of discovery on your campus? Join us for free, live webinars from Gale's expert trainers that analyze the roles of disabilities studies, LGBTQ+ studies, radical studies, and social justice in the volcanic changes within twentieth-century American life. Dive deep into the latest collections from Gale Primary Sources:
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century
Political Extremism and Radicalism: Global Communist and Socialist Movements
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Exploring Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America is a 20th-century primary source collection that offers perspectives on society, sexual identity, community building, and gender issues with collections from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The archive contains materials that cover activism and social justice issues, highlight disabilities in LGBTQ+ society, offer information around alternative sexualities, document interactions between sexuality and religion, and represent diverse ethnic communities across North America.
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century: An Overview
With this collection we will explore material demonstrating how people with disabilities have worked for equal rights through activism and advocacy, and gained access to firsthand experiences through memoirs, letters, and more. Also included in this archive are papers, pamphlets, manuscripts, books, research materials, and more, which delve into institutional treatment from a medical humanities perspective. This webinar will showcase the content of this archive and review navigational tools and features of the online interface.
Preview: Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press
Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century provides 600,000 page of print material covering a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements from the 20th century. The collection is not meant to focus on just a few specific movements, but rather, present a broad picture of counterculture and organized groups throughout the mid- to late-20th century in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and other Western locations.
Exploring Gale’s Political Extremism and Radicalism Archive Program with a Focus on Part III: Global Community and Socialist Movements
Political Extremism and Radicalism, Part III: Global Communist and Socialist Movements provides access to primary sources created by a variety of communist, socialist, and Far-Left groups, and figures across the world’s capitalist nations, as well as materials generated by anti-communist organizations and individuals. Covering primarily the 20th century, the archive concerns the “birth” or “evolution” of early communism and socialism. Join to discover how all three collections in Political Extremism and Radicalism reference each other, and learn tips and best practices for navigating the archive.