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PressReader

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

PressReader is a digital newsstand featuring hundreds of the world’s most popular newspapers & magazines. Recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette issues included. Limit publications by language or country to narrow your search and quickly find newspapers and magazines.

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Readers’ Guide Retrospective

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

For over 100 years, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature has become the ultimate index of subjects in the popular press, has earned the trust of researchers at all levels, and has been hailed by Library Journal as one of the “50 Best Reference Sources for the Millennium.” All the information from 44 Readers’ Guide annuals in a single database that you can search easily and precisely; access to over 3 million article citations from approximately 375 leading magazines; many of the articles are peer reviewed.

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Slavery And Anti-Slavery: Parts I-IV

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition                           

Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Part III: The Institution of Slavery                                           

Part IV: The Age of Emancipation

 

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Time Magazine Archive 1923 – 2000

This archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. The 4,000 issues include reports of national and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment.

Capturing relevant news for a given week, the magazine remains an important resource for researchers studying just about any aspect of 20th-century history and life. The archive is valuable to researchers and students of the 20th-century current events, politics, and culture, as well as those interested in the history of business, advertising, sports, and more.

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