Gale Archives Unbound: Full List of of Gale Archives Unbound Collections

Date Range: 1256-1794 Approximately 16,000 pamphlets covering this period in French history. Includes information on the legislative history and governance of France, as well as other aspects of French life.

Documents of the U.S. Consulate in Aden, Yemen, pertaining to independence movements from British and Ottoman Turkish colonial occupation, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

U.S. diplomatic reports on Afghanistan in the context of the Soviet-American competition in the region during the Cold War, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Afghan War Diary reports of the British Army Headquarters in India on the conflict between the Emirate of Afghanistan and British and Indian forces, sourced from the British Library.

Date Range: 1901-1928 Assorted documents of The National Negro Business League. Founded by Booker T. Washington to enhance the economic prosperity of the African American community.

British Army documents from the India Office Military Department on the failed British campaign against Turkey for colonial control of Iraq during World War I, sourced from the British Library.

Date Range: 1989-1991 (small amount of material from 1981-1989) This collection contains materials on civil rights, the development of civil rights policy, and the debate over civil rights legislation during the administration of President George H.W. Bush and during his tenure as vice president. Contents of this collection includes memoranda, talking points, correspondence, legal briefs, transcripts, news summaries, draft legislation, statements of administration policy (SAP’s), case histories, legislative histories and news-clippings covering a broad range of civil rights issues.

Materials in this collection document the work of the most significant figure in the struggle for black equality in Mobile, Alabama, John L. LeFlore. Records of the Non-Partisan Voters League, 1956-1987.

This collection consists of James Dombrowski's correspondence and papers as leader of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1941-1948, and executive director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1948-1966. 

Date Range: 1950-1959 This collection of State Department documents provides access to primary source materials on the political, economic and social development of Turkey during a period of democratization in the 1950s.

This archive covers Egypt from the years before the opening of the Suez Canal through the era of British domination, Arab nationalism, and independence. The documents here are sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State.

Date Range: 1910-1929 This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the German colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

Date Range: 1930-1939 This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Italian colonial governments and later the mandate authorities, and the activities of the native peoples.

Date Range: 1910-1929 This collection comprises correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents related to U.S. consular activities. U.S. Consulates were listening posts reporting on the activities of the Portuguese colonial government and the activities of the native peoples. Highlights include the beginning of an anti-colonial movement and the industrialization and economic exploitation of Portugal’s African colonies.

Date Range: 1966-1978 Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity.

This archive, from the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, documents the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) which was established in 1946 to, among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against…labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities."

Archival material from the FDR Library in Hyde Park, NY, for the study of the early development of the Civil Rights Movement. The collection material concerns the issues of lynching, segregation, race riots, and employment discrimination.

Materials from 1981-1993 related to the planning and organization of the October 1991 Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, focused on U.S. role in the Israeli-Palestinian relations and in Middle Eastern affairs more generally, sourced from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.

The General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches voted to create the Council for Social Action in 1934. The Council worked to focus on continuing Christian concern for service, international relations, citizenship, rural life, and legislative, industrial and cultural relations.

This collection details Operation OAK TREE, the U.S. Army's codename for the plans to intervene in Alabama in the event of civil disturbances related to school integration in May 1963, and its successor, Operation PALM TREE. These records cover Governor Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door," the Birmingham church bombing, and the National Guard deployment to the area.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on Iraq, British colonial occupation, and independence, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

After gaining independence in 1956, Morocco made great strides toward economic and political liberalization. The sultan Muhammad V, ruling his newly independent nation, proclaimed his intention of turning it into a constitutional monarchy. His first act was to transform himself into a monarch and assume the title of king. The Moroccan government undertook a number of economic, social, and political reforms, including the drafting of a constitution.

Date Range: 1894-1908 This collection contains publications related to the Dreyfus Affair, including the newspaper article "J'accuse" by Zola in 1898, as well as archival documents from a wide range of countries.

Date Range:1939-1945 Features all of the French press that actually reached Britain during the occupation by the Germans from 1940 to 1944.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on the region and its Ottoman Turkish, British and French colonial occupation, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

This series consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States' diplomatic post in Liberia. The topics covered by these records include all aspects of relations with Liberia, and interactions of American citizens with the Liberian government and people.

This archive serves as a companion to Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918. It consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by American diplomats, as well as records of American citizens and companies with relations to Liberia. It carries the story from the end of First World War into the interwar period.

This archive documents the American consulate in Tripoli. Included here are correspondences of Secretary of State James Madison during the Tripolitan War, 1801-1805, between the United States and the piratical North African Barbary States. Handwritten correspondences from Secretary of State William H. Seward in the Lincoln Administration, relating to the opening of the port of New Orleans in 1862, and exchanges from Secretary of State James G. Blaine, in the Garfield Administration.

Date Range: 1672-1810 Published from 1672, this influential periodical promised in its first issue to chronicle the activities of luminaries in metropolitan Paris, in the French provinces, and abroad, and to offer good literature to lovers of novels and stories. It was published first under the title Le Mercure Galant by Donneau de Vise. Upon his death it was taken over by Riviere Dufresny (1710), then Lefevre de Fontenay (1714), and Abbot Bucher. In 1724 the title was changed to Le Mercure de France, and the periodical was split into a literary and a political section.

This archive reveals more than a century of U.S.-Morocco relations and includes, among various documents, correspondences from U.S. ministers in Tangier and Tetuan.

Date Range: 1940-1978

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents tracing the role of the United States in the creation of the state of Israel, in the Palestinian Naqba, and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on the region, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

Date Range: 1969-1974

From the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Transcriptions of interviews conducted between 1967 - 1973 with influential individuals from the Civil Rights Movement.

The Written Rastafari Archives Project (WRAP) involves an exclusive collection of the most well-known Rastafari ephemerals – newsletters, magazines, newspapers, booklets, statements, letters, articles and assorted literature - written and published by a number of Rastafari Mansions, organizations, groups and individuals over the past four decades.

Bush White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Files and the Staff and Office Files, 1990-1991, on the United States military and diplomatic response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, sourced from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.

Covers the Congo (Zaire between 1965 and 1971; presently called Democratic Republic of the Congo) following independence, during the Congo crisis of the 1960s, when there was a threat of the Cold War spilling over into Central Africa.

This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal affairs contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats, including special reports on political and military affairs; studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; full texts of important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers; translations of high-level foreign government documents, including speeches, memoranda, official reports, and transcripts of political meetings and assemblies.

Covers the period after Nigeria became an independent nation in 1960. In October 1963, Nigeria altered its relationship with the United Kingdom by proclaiming itself a federal republic and promulgating a new constitution.

Includes American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments in French Africa, and various materials from U.S. diplomats, including: special reports on political and military affairs; studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; full texts of letters, instructions, and cables sent and received; reports and translations from foreign newspapers; and high-level foreign government documents.

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry reference files, evidence submitted to the committee, transcripts of hearings, reports, and papers of the Anglo-American Cabinet Committee on the situation of Jewish survivors in Europe and the problems connected with their resettlement in Palestine, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on Saudi Arabia, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives. This archive divides into two distinct parts: the first part, 1930-1944, documents the formation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; the second part, 1955-1959, illustrates the U.S. view of the day-to-day workings of the Kingdom in the context of the Cold War.

This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Jerusalem from the period of British colonial occupation of Palestine, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents, 1963-1967, dealing with conflict between Turkish Cypriot paramilitary formations and Greek Cypriot government forces, and the roles of the U.S., Turkey, the United Nations and NATO in the conflict, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Beirut from the period of French colonial occupation of Lebanon, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

This collection consists of selected portions of the records of attorney Vernon Z. Crawford (1919–1986) and the Blacksher, Menefee and Stein law firm whose work represents a significant contribution to the shape of the civil rights movement in 20th century Alabama. Documents include legal documentation, complaints, petitions, requests, depositions, handwritten notes, correspondence, exhibits (maps, plans of school buildings, population diagrams), and surveys.

Documents of the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers dealing with British colonial occupation of Palestine, the creation of the State of Israel, the Palestinian Naqba, and British foreign policy and diplomacy towards Israel and the Arab states, sourced from the UK National Archives.

Documents of the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers dealing with the British colonial occupation of Iraq and British foreign policy and diplomacy towards Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf countries, sourced from the UK National Archives.

U.S. State Department Central Classified Files on Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the "Trucial Sheikhs" (future United Arab Emirates), and Yemen, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Date Range:1965-1979

Date Range: 1918-1920 This collection reproduces important letters, reports, memorandums, cablegrams, maps, charts, and other kinds of records relating to the activities of the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia

Date Range: 1989-1993 This digital collection reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China’s human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990.

Includes records of the New York State Supreme Court, which include a full testimony of all witnesses, including the two who spoke in secrecy to hide their identities; preliminary motions, summations, the court's charge, the verdicts, and the sentences; and a confession made years after the trial by one of the men convicted.

Date Range: 1802-1949

George H.W. Bush Presidential Records from a variety of White House offices dealing with the administration's policies on Israel and Palestine, sourced from the George H.W. Bush Library.

This collection is from the Records of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations (ODCSOPS) relating to the use of Federal marshals, U.S. Troops, and the federalized National Guard in Oxford, Mississippi, 1962-1963, on the occasion of James Meredith’s enrollment at the University of Mississippi. The records cover events such as the riots of September 30 and Governor Barnett’s efforts to obstruct Federal marshals, as well as daily events on campus and Meredith’s progress under integration. The files detail the extensive Federal involvement, including preparations for the military operation, Executive Orders, after action reports on the costs and lessons of Federal involvement, congressional correspondence on the military’s involvement, and effects on the media, public, and in particular, students and staff at Ole Miss.

This publication covers President Eisenhower's use of Federal troops and the Arkansas National Guard in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957 -1958. The operation is detailed from the planning for intervention prior to deployment, up to the withdrawal of troops at the end of the school year. Records include a journal of events, an Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations & Plans summary of the operation, a historical report prepared by the Office of the Chief of Military History, papers on Governor Faubus' actions with regard to integration, press reports and observations by Army officers on the reaction of the community, and congressional correspondence.

This collection reveals details of the Federal Government's plans to militarily intervene in the 1963 March on Washington (codenamed Operation "Steep Hill") in the event the march became disorderly. The records include army staff communications and memos, intelligence reports and estimates, congressional correspondence, press articles, and maps planning the route of the March.

Correspondence files of the U.S. Operations Mission in Saudi Arabia during the early Cold War period, as well as the Subject Files of the office of the Director documenting the U.S. economic and technical assistance programs and security activities, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Date Range: 1980-1992

Digitized version of the Primary Source Media microfilm collection entitled Records of U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies, 1948-1961: U.S. Operations Mission in Iraq, 1950-1958, comprised of documents of the Point Four program in Iraq during the early Cold War period, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Documents from the FBI chronicle the civil rights activists that left Washington on May 4, 1961, bound for New Orleans.