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January 26, 2021 / Last updated : January 26, 2021 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Library of Congress: William Farquhar Correspondence and Other 19th Century Malay Letters Now Online at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress: William Farquhar Correspondence and Other 19th Century Malay Letters Now Online at the Library of Congress. “The Library of Congress today announced the digitization of 46 Malay letters from the 19th century, mainly from Malay kings and Southeast Asian notables to William Farquhar, a pioneering British colonial administrator in Singapore (1819-1823), providing […]

January 25, 2021 / Last updated : January 25, 2021 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Florida Atlantic University: FAU Libraries Debuts Spirit Of America Digital Collection

Florida Atlantic University: FAU Libraries Debuts Spirit Of America Digital Collection. “The team created a digital collection of Weiner pamphlets. There are currently 585 pamphlets with more being added every day. This new endeavor greatly expands access and awareness of the Weiner Collection’s research materials.” Here’s a description from the collection page: “Originally inspired to […]

January 22, 2021 / Last updated : January 22, 2021 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

ABC News: Rare soldier’s diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years

ABC News (Australia): Rare soldier’s diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years. “A soldier’s diary disintegrating in Ireland’s national library has revealed disturbing evidence of an undocumented massacre of Aboriginal people in Tasmania in the colony’s early years. The diary belonged to Private Robert McNally, posted to Van Diemen’s Land in […]

January 22, 2021 / Last updated : January 22, 2021 ResearchBuzz New Resources

The Guardian: Dutch exhibition offers new insight into Berbice slave uprising

The Guardian: Dutch exhibition offers new insight into Berbice slave uprising. “The Dutch national archives are showcasing a unique set of letters sent by the leader of the first organised slave revolt on the American continent to a colonial governor, in which the newly free man proposed to share the land. The offer from the […]

December 26, 2020 / Last updated : December 26, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Library of Congress: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of 23 Early Presidential Collections

Library of Congress: Library of Congress Completes Digitization of 23 Early Presidential Collections. “The Library of Congress has completed a more than two decade-long initiative to digitize the papers of nearly two dozen early presidents. The Library holds the papers of 23 presidents from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge, all of which have been digitized […]

December 15, 2020 / Last updated : December 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

NCDC Additions: Governor Bev Perdue Speeches (State Archives of North Carolina)

State Archives of North Carolina: NCDC Additions: Governor Bev Perdue Speeches. “In support of the She Changed the World initiative, the State Archives of North Carolina is pleased to announce a new addition to the Governors Papers, Modern digital collection: Governor Bev Perdue’s Speeches.”

December 15, 2020 / Last updated : December 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

New Online: Digital Edition of the Montgomery C. Meigs Papers (HistoryHub)

HistoryHub: New Online: Digital Edition of the Montgomery C. Meigs Papers. “The papers of army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892) consist of 11,000 items (39,635 images), most of which were digitized from 51 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years 1799 to 1971, with the bulk concentrated in the period […]

November 23, 2020 / Last updated : November 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

National University of Singapore: Darwin’s handwritten pages from On the Origin of Species go online

National University of Singapore: Darwin’s handwritten pages from On the Origin of Species go online. “An extraordinary collection of priceless manuscripts of naturalist Charles Darwin goes online today, including two rare pages from the original draft of On the Origin of Species. These documents will be added to Darwin Online, a website which contains not […]

October 4, 2020 / Last updated : October 4, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

KLCC: Oregon Historical Society Adds ‘The Immigrant Story’ Series To Digital Collection

KLCC: Oregon Historical Society Adds ‘The Immigrant Story’ Series To Digital Collection. “Recorded interviews from immigrants across the state are now available on the Oregon Historical Society’s digital archive. The collection comes from the ongoing series The Immigrant Story. With over 170 interviews conducted since 2017, founder and president of The Immigant Story series, Sankar […]

October 1, 2020 / Last updated : October 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

New York Times: Beba’s Story Tells of Jewish Life Before the Nazis

New York Times: Beba’s Story Tells of Jewish Life Before the Nazis. “Three years ago, a large cache of artifacts, including poems, letters and notebooks by some of the greatest Yiddish writers of the first half of the 20th century, was discovered in the basement of a church in Vilnius, Lithuania. In scouring through them […]

September 28, 2020 / Last updated : September 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs: MIAC Presents Virtual Event for New Online Treaties Explorer Resource

New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs: MIAC Presents Virtual Event for New Online Treaties Explorer Resource. “The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC), in partnership with the U.S. National Archives Office of Innovation, is pleased to announce an online launch event of the Indigenous Digital Archive’s Treaties Explorer, also known as ‘DigiTreaties.’ Thanks to […]

September 24, 2020 / Last updated : September 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

Atlas Obscura: A Rare Day-by-Day Document of Life Aboard a Slave Ship

Atlas Obscura: A Rare Day-by-Day Document of Life Aboard a Slave Ship. “THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE DATABASE documents more than 36,000 voyages in which enslaved persons were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean…. Despite the overwhelming density of these kinds of records, masking brutality with meticulous documentation, far less survives to describe daily life on these […]

September 17, 2020 / Last updated : September 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

A Hudson River School Legacy: The Weir Family Papers Now Fully Digitized (Smithsonian Magazine)

Smithsonian Magazine: A Hudson River School Legacy: The Weir Family Papers Now Fully Digitized. “‘It was a great pleasure for us to have your entire family under our roof. I delighted to talk of old times and of old fellows-comparing the Past and the Present and weighing in the scales of experience. New schools, old […]

September 8, 2020 / Last updated : September 8, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

UConn Today: Archival Documents, Like Magic, Thanks to UConn Researchers’ New App

UConn Today: Archival Documents, Like Magic, Thanks to UConn Researchers’ New App. “…Sourcery gives researchers convenient, remote access to special collections that can’t otherwise be found online. Users just plug in citation information for the desired source material into the app, which can connect researchers to any institution in Sourcery’s service area. A researcher or […]

September 6, 2020 / Last updated : September 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz New Resources

National Archives: National Archives Launches Presidential Library Explorer

National Archives: National Archives Launches Presidential Library Explorer . “Researchers now have a new pathway into millions of digitized records across the National Archives’ 14 Presidential Libraries. The Presidential Library Explorer, launched this month, provides a more efficient way for visitors to search through records in the libraries’ holdings.”

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