HISD14 Making it Strange: Modernism in European Art & Ideas, 1900-45

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Look for Historical Newspaper databases related to your topic, time period, and geographic area.

Look for Historical Newspaper databases related to your topic, time period, and geographic area.

High-quality digital scans and metadata of periodicals published from 1890 to 1922.

Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations

The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this definitive collection of primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents - charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, press cuttings, magazines, posters, correspondence, minutes, records, diaries, memoranda, statistics, circulars, regulations and invitations - are published here for the first time in fully-searchable form, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars.

World’s Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow, consists of six collections and includes materials published between 1834 and 1940.

Mostly contains American World's Fairs for the 20th century, but might have some useful content.

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.

Look at the sub-collections; Arts and Culture might be of interest.

This collection documents the Russian entrance into World War I and culminates in reporting on the Revolution in Russia in 1917 and 1918. The documents consist primarily of correspondence between the British Foreign Office, various British missions and consulates in the Russian Empire and the Tsarist government and later the Provisional Government.

The Spanish Civil War Collection presents approximately 3,000 rare pamphlets from this tumultuous period, including publications from Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the Philippines, as well as more than 100 German pamphlets published in Spanish.