Upcoming Releases
An ever-expanding resource, Gale Digital Collections continually adds new materials from the world's most highly regarded sources. Here are just a few soon-to-be-added titles.
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Launched in 1924, Liberty, a weekly, general-interest magazine, flourished when illustrated magazines were the most important form of mass entertainment. With a circulation of over three million, it charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America. Its prominence and willingness to pay for the best attracted original contributions from some of the greatest artists, writers, celebrities, and statesmen of the age including Walt Disney, Dr. Seuss, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.G. Wells, Clark Gable, Mae West, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. A collection of over 17,000 stories and articles, Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950 features a wide range of primary source material: from adventure to mystery and suspense to biography and humor. This collection is a wonderful addition to Cengage Learning's historical newspaper program and is a valuable resource for 20th century studies.
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National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994
National Geographic magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational and scientific organizations. Recognized for some of the highest-quality photojournalism and cartography in the world, this award-winning, iconic magazine is famous for providing unparalleled, in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology and the environment. Featuring the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part III: The Institution of Slavery
Part III: The Institution of Slavery continues this ground-breaking series by examining the institution of slavery through legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents opening up opportunities for in-depth research on how enslaved people struggled to loosen the chains of slavery by whatever means necessary. This unique grouping of primary source materials explores slavery as a labor and legal system, the relationship between master and slave, slavery and religion, free labor, and the lives of free African Americans.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part IV: The Age of Emancipation
Beginning in 1788 with Lord Dunmore's offer of emancipation and ending in 1896 with Plessy v. Ferguson, Part IV: The Age of Emancipation, the fourth installment in the Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive series, includes a range of rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas of the world. From the time of the American Revolution, when northern states freed relatively small numbers of slaves, to later periods when an increasingly large free black community was developing, emancipation was a long-sought dream, and ultimately a political and moral expectation.
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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, c. 1600-1926
Essential for the study of international law and history, The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International
Law, c. 1600-1926 is an invaluable collection of legal treatises, historical records and works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Providing broad coverage, the collection enables detailed research on centuries of major events of legal history, from public policy and taxation to contract law, sustainable development concerns, and issues of war and peace.
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