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Adam Matthew launches vitally important research collection on early American history

Award-winning digital publisher Adam Matthew has today announced the launch of ‘Colonial America’ – the complete CO5 files from The National Archives, UK, 1606-1822.

A ‘game-changing’ development for historians and researchers of early America, the Atlantic world, the Caribbean and the nascent British Empire, Colonial America enables online access to the vast archive of c70,000 documents of manuscript material for the first time.



How has Congress shaped America? Find out in: Landmark Legislation, 1774–2012: Major U.S. Acts and Treaties

Washington, DC - More than 12,000 people have served in America’s Congress since the First Continental Congress in 1774, and, since then, almost 46,000 public acts have been signed into law. Many of those laws have played a key role in shaping America’s political and historical character. Now, CQ Press has published Landmark Legislation, 1774–2012: Major U.S. Acts and Treaties, jammed-packed with information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress—including an additional decade of new legislation since the first edition was published.


American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965

Adam Matthew publishes the original ground-breaking consumer behavious reports from Ernest Dichter and the Institute for Motivational Research

Marlborough, England - Adam Matthew today announced the publication of ‘American Consumer Culture, 1935-1965’, the digitized papers of Austrian-American psychologist and pioneer marketing expert, Ernest Dichter (1907-1991).


Digital collection now complete for: British Foreign Office Files for China: 1919-1980

Adam Matthew makes available the final section (covering 1938-1948)

Marlborough, England - Adam Matthew announced today that they have released 1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese War and The Seeds of Communist Victory, the final section of Foreign Office Files for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: 1919-1980. All materials are sourced from The National Archives, UK.


Adam Matthew and the British Association of American for American Studies launch new essay competition

Adam Matthew sponsors exclusive North American studies competition with collection access and £500 prize

(Marlborough, UK). Adam Matthew are pleased to announce a new essay competition in partnership with the leading association on American Studies in the UK, the British Association of American Studies (BAAS). The essay competition is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent researchers in the field of North American history.


Essay competition announced for members of the Scottish Association for the Study of America

Adam Matthew sponsors new American Studies competition with collection access and £500 prize

(Marlborough, UK) Adam Matthew are pleased to announce a new essay competition in partnership with the leading association on American Studies in Scotland, the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA). The essay competition is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and independent researchers in the field of American Studies.


Age of Exploration: Now published

Digital primary sources tracing voyage and discovery across five centuries

Age of Exploration, a new digital primary source collection is now available from Adam Matthew Digital.


Gender: Identity and Social Change - Now Published

Three Centuries of Digital Primary Sources Documenting Developments in Gender Roles and Relations

 

Gender: Identity and Social Change, a new digital primary source collection, is now available from Adam Matthew Digital.


Extinction and climate change: An interview with Elizabeth Kolbert

The New Yorker staff writer explains how she researched and why she wrote her new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Los Angeles, London - A large proportion of Americans do not believe climate change is occurring. Prominent environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert explores the denialist phenomenon, the challenges of saving wildlife from extinction, and the journalist’s role in communicating science in an exclusive interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE.


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