History (Primary Resources)


Fashion Studies Collection

The ProQuest Fashion Studies Collection brings together key resources from the fashion and lifestyle industry, offering content that spans decades of style, trends, and cultural shifts. Included is Fashion Studies Online and the following journal archives, Daily News Record, Footwear News, GQ, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue, and Women's Wear Daily.

FBI File on America First Committee

This collection covers this anti-interventionist group’s activity from 1937 to 1941 and contains newspaper accounts, America First literature, speeches, letters, reports, and press releases.

FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC

This database includes FBI records on the surveillance of James Foreman, a leader in the civil rights movement, the National Black Economic Development Conference (BEDC) and the FBI’s “COINTELPRO” investigations into various “Black Nationalist Hate Groups/Internal Security” which included SNCC and the Black Panther Party.

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s

This collection includes primary sources from the FBI that relate to a variety of individuals and organizations from the 1960s. Among those included are Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, Muslim Mosque, Inc., Abbie Hoffman, Students for a Democratic Society and Weatherman Underground, and Southern Christian

Fold3

This genealogy database provides access to US military records, including stories, photos, and personal documents for veterans beginning with the Revolutionary War. It includes data from the previously KU provided resource, American Civil War Research Database.

Food Studies Online

Provides archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us. Food studies is interdisciplinary, examining determinants of health in the context of social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political implications that reach beyond basic food consumption. 

 

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports

Transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that have been translated into English by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government agency.  This fully searchable digital edition is the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. The dates of coverage are 1941 to 1996.