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Use your library card and PIN to access a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history in the Gale Archives Unbound database.
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging...
11) The Dark Ages
This pamphlet offers a condensed history of Europe between the fall of the Roman empire and the twelfth century. The author’s profound anticlerical bias becomes apparent as he explores the influence of Christianity on a world in which order was maintained by the imposition of violence, and in which the general populace was kept in a state of ignorance and serfdom. He supports his conclusions with quotes from his own translations of documents
...12) English Journey
14) Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor
On the night Virginia secedes from the Union, three enslaved men approach...
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical
...Harold Felix Baker Wheeler (1878?-1947) was a British writer and historian. He is the author of several biographical works, including The Story of Napoleon, The Story of Lord Kitchener, and The Story of Nelson, as well as other nonfiction titles, including The Maxims of Napoleon and The Mind of Napoleon.--Fable.
Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the Nazi capital. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and interviews with survivors, this book reconstructs the daily lives of Jews who stayed in Berlin during the war years.
Contrary to the received wisdom that "hidden" Jews stayed in attics and cellars and had minimal contact
...An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural
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