Library News »02/04/2013

Everyday Life and Rock & Roll Databases Available

Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920
Features thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature.>

Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Featuring printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips, this resource examines key issues and events including youth culture, popular culture, changing lifestyles 1950-1975, civil rights, the space race, consumerism, the Vietnam Conflict, and nuclear disarmament.