Sciences/History of Sciences
- CalTech Archives Digital CollectionsThe Caltech Archives and Special Collections, a department of Caltech Library, facilitates understanding of Caltech’s role in the history of science and technology, and of the research and lives of its community
- Science Museum Group (UK)The Science Museum Group cares for a diverse and internationally significant collection of 7.3 million items from science, technology, engineering, medicine, transport and media.
- Science History Institute Museum and LibraryDigital collections from the Science History Institute Museum and Library
- Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and InnovationThe Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, located at the National Museum of American History, explores the role of invention and innovation in the United States, particularly its historical context, and how that history relates to current events.
- Sputnik and Space Race Archival MaterialFrom Library of Congress's collections
- Smithsonian Air and Space MuseumDigital collections from the Air and Space Museum
General Multimedia Sources
- The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives This link opens in a new window
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This searchable database brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database covers subjects in arts, music, and leisure, civil rights, counter-culture, law and government, mass media, new left and emerging neo-conservative movement, student activism, Vietnam War, women's movement, etc.
- LIFE Photo ArchiveGrowing historical photo archive for LIFE magazine, hosted by Google.
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest This link opens in a new window
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This online portal explores the period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. It includes color images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, historical news video, ephemera and memorabilia. - Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda This link opens in a new window
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This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba. Browse sub-collections for more on subjects covered. - Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video access to documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Includes access to the African American Classics collection from California Newsreel.
- Science Museum GroupImages and objects from the Science Museum, Science & Media Museum, Science & Industry Museum, Railway Museum,
- Disability in the Modern World This link opens in a new window
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Includes digitized resources on disability history and disability studies, including history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other subject areas. Includes primary sources, videos (documentaries, interviews, art films, performances), archival materials, advertising, and secondary monographs.
News Collections
- ProQuest Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Searches all ProQuest newspapers to which UCLA subscribes, both current and historical newspapers from major U.S. cities (Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal), international news sources, and alternative press.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Complete text of articles from 1959 to the present from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news, culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
- Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new window
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A full text database comprising more than 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press, providing an alternative perspective to the coverage of mainstream media. Coverage is from 1970--present.
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AP Newsroom (formerly AP Images) contains millions of photographs dating from 1826 to present day from the Associated Press. Includes thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories and headlines from 1997 to the present. - Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Time Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
- The Daily Bruin ArchiveOnline versions of microfilm reels; search term: UCLA Daily Bruin. Keyword searching is available within each reel
- Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains historical backfiles of several leading consumer magazines: Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, Town and Country, Woman's Day, and Women's International Network News. UCLA has access to collections 1 and 2 of this database.