A selection of materials from the Penn Libraries about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Le Monde, fulltext for historic French newspaper
Le Monde, first published after the Liberation of Paris in World War II, is now available to Penn readers in page images with searchable fulltext from its first issue, dated 19 December 1944, through 2000. Le Monde is a newspaper of record for French and world affairs, distinguished by its analysis of events and its editorial content.
...Continue readingA Librarian Research Round-Up
We profile a few of our accomplished librarian-scholars about their recent academic work.
Diversity in the Stacks: Literature from Soviet Russia's Borders
What influence has Russian literature had on the countries and cultures on its periphery?
Exploring the History of the Liberal Arts with SIMS Fellow Christine Bachman
While serving as the 2019-2020 Graduate Fellow at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Christine Bachman explored the early medieval manuscript called LJS 101.
Policy Commons – international think tank publications fulltext
The Penn Libraries have become a founding member of Policy Commons, a new one-stop community platform for research from the world's leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
...Continue readingPenn Libraries Receives Gift for DEIA Lecture Series
The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce a gift of $100,000 from William C. Park (‘89) and Jung Choi to fund a five-year lecture series dedicated to exploring topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access.
Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff Can Now Access The New York Times Online
University of Pennsylvania students, faculty, and staff now have access to The New York Times, courtesy of the Penn Libraries.
Featured Books: Pride Month
To help celebrate Pride Month, Penn’s LGBT Center have put together a selection of books and films that explore the LGBTQ experience from a wide variety of perspectives.
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the Americas
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was a Church of England missionary organization active in the British Atlantic world from the 18th through the early 20th centuries.
...Continue readingAugust 2019
Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer
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In praise of pretty books
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August 2019
Slavery, Abolition and Social Change, 1490-2007
This database assembles many substantial clusters of material offering in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade. The range of material is vast and serves as a complement to the U.S.- and English-focused Slavery and Anti-Slavery database. It can also be searched with comple
...Continue readingFrontier life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
...Continue readingLondon Lowlife: Street culture, social reform and the Victorian underworld
Full-text searchable database containing color images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London; designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond. Will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including literature, cultural studies, urban studies, and social history.
...Continue readingMedical Services and Warfare, 1850-1927
This database tells the story of medical advances during warfare from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the influenza epidemic in 1918 and the discovery of penicillin in 1927. The wealth of documents cover multiple conflicts as well as interwar developments from a range of perspectives.
...Continue readingQ&A with Professor Jessa Lingel
Jessa Lingel is an assistant professor at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication. Lingel’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of digital culture with social change: broadly speaking, she studies how communities — especially marginalized communities — employ technology to reinforce their values, objectives, and identities.
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