: For Students, Faculty, and Staff 
Below is a sample of some of the new databases we added to the UMN libraries, website and collections in the last few months. Please share these and use them in your research! If you have any questions about how to search our databases and collections, please request a consultation or contact your subject librarian.
1980s Culture and Society
Zines, newspapers and ephemera, oral histories, films and photographs from archival collections and primary sources from across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Diverse perspectives, materials produced by grassroots organizations and under-represented groups are presented alongside government records and mainstream media to showcase the key social, cultural, and political concerns of the decade.
Fashion and Race Database
The Fashion and Race Database is an online, educational platform that expands the narrative of fashion history and challenges mis-representation within the fashion system. Research tools include access to a library of essays and a podcast.
Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communications
Find primary sources like advertisements, company histories, timelines, and key developments in radio and television and the rise of mass media empires which led to America’s transformation into a consumer-based society. Learn how broadcasting impacted society and global conflicts and follow the rise of formats like talkshows and soap operas including in depth coverage of Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
Exploring Race in Society
Search materials covering important issues related to race in society today. Includes full-text essays, articles, reports, photographs, graphs and charts to provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.
LandScan Global Population Database
LandScan combines geospatial science, remote sensing technology, and machine learning algorithms, LandScan Global is the finest resolution global population distribution data available representing an ambient (24 hour average) population.
Hindi Cinema
Candid, unedited interviews from the private collection of author and film-maker Nasreen Munni Kabir, Hindi Cinema offers a unique insight into the film industry from the years 1950-2010 through the experiences of leading film-makers. Also includes photos, posters, and a brief history.
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
A comprehensive record of the performance history of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessor, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Includes almost 1,400 prompt books to uncover how productions took shape, and explore the creative process behind the company’s most important presentations in extensive additional documentation including production records, costume designs, music files and photographs.
Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968
Diaries and oral histories for the study of the lives and experiences of less well-known women, told through their own words. Featuring content from both regional and national archives across the UK and Ireland.
Africa and the New Imperialism
Explore the history of European colonisation across the African continent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through rare printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender
Collections of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other topical areas.
History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century
Collections of books, manuscripts, and ephemera providing a historical view of disabilities from the seventeenth to twentieth century. Materials include personal memoirs, reports and proceedings of organizations and institutions, policies and programs concerning persons with disabilities. Rehabilitation, treatments, methods of education, and other forms of remediation are documented.
