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TRIAL: SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 - NOVEMBER 30, 2024
Broadsides and ephemera were an affordable way for many 18th- and 19th-century Americans to express their views, share news, or distribute their writings publicly, and they vividly capture the daily lives of earlier Americans in a way that no other material can. Built in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, American Broadsides and Ephemera features searchable, full-color digital facsimiles of these rare, locally-printed documents from across the country. This digital collection includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900.
TRIAL: SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 - DECEMBER 31, 2024
De Gruyter and Brill have merged, combining their strengths to become a leading publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. To celebrate, De Gruyter Brill has offered complimentary access to more than 600 non-open access journals, encompassing all articles from every volume and issue since inception, plus all e-book and Partner Press content.
TRIAL: OCTOBER 1, 2024 - OCTOBER 31, 2024
In the early 1960s, Ivan Illich began to collect publications from the 19th and 20th centuries dealing with local devotions and syncretist rituals, religious iconography and poetry, and the pastoral campaigns of various churches and sects in Latin America. Reproduced from a wide range of libraries throughout Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, this vast and invaluable collection is now available in fully searchable digital format for the first time.