Race, Drugs, and Inequality (HIST-GU4588): Archives

Gale

 

Archives of Sexulaity & Gender - https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio11849934

Includes 82 different collections, among them the Act Up Archives, One National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Bush Administration and the AIDS Crisis.

 

Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970  https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio14569842.

Includes four collections: the Records of the Children's Bureau: Maternal and Child Health, 1912-1969; The Committee on Public Health of the New York Academy of Medicine: Correspondence, Reports and Documents (1911-1990s); Selected Publications on Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Library of Social and Economic Aspects of Medicine from Michael M. Davis

 

Narcotic Addiction and Mental Health: The Clinical Papers of Lawrence Kolb Sr

https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio15267939

 

Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio8679323

 

Women’s Studies Archive - https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio13276115

30 collections, including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (1918-1974), Committee of Fifteen Records (1900-1901), Grassroots Feminist Organizations, Herstory, Comision Femenil Mexciana Nacional Archives.

 

Gale Primary Sources https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio10667231

Lists all of the Gale collections, including Archives Unbound and Nineteenth Century Collections Online

 

Search tips: use Advanced search to search within a collection or to combine search fields.  Use quotes for a phrase: "needle exchange" use proximity operators Nn e.g. needle n3 exchange finds the two works three words apart (in either order).  Term frequency will show a term in a timeline of documents per year, e.g. marihuana/marijuana.

ProQuest History Vault

Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century - https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14915389

Includes material related to the Reagan and Bush administrations.

 

African American Police League Records, 1961-1988.  https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14975670

 

NAACP Papers (1909-1972) https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio12171595

 

Struggle for Women’s Rights Organizational Records, 1880-1990 https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio13879505

Includes Women’s Action Alliance papers (1970-1990) which focused on women’s health

 

Search tips: after searching for a term, you need to download the PDF and then search the PDF to see your terms:  marijuana.  It is also possible to click on the subjects in the results records, e.g. "drug abuse and treatment" to see all the records coded with that subject heading.

Other Digital Archival Collections

LGBT Thought and Culture - https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio11849114

Includes some archival collections.

Finding Archvial Collections (mostly physical collections)

 

CLIO: https://clio.columbia.edu

For other online collections choose "databases" and enter keywords

For collections at Columbia, choose the "archives" filter, and then search by keyword: e.g. narcotics control, drug* AND (treatment OR policy)

 

Archive Grid https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio5801362

 

WorldCat - https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/AMS7418

database records for archival collections - fairly brief descriptions 

 

Archive Finder (also sometimes called Archives USA) https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/AMN4483

 

Columbia Archives Portal https://library.columbia.edu/collections/archives-portal.html

 

NYPL Archives http://archives.nypl.org/