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06/25/2025

❔ How did government officials receive breaking news and intelligence before the internet?

💡 Answer: Open-source intelligence like the radio and television transcripts in the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS) Daily Reports.

✅ Today FBIS is a crucial primary source providing multiple perspectives on issues that persist today. Find sample searches and preview coverage from the years after the state of Israel was established, and early conflicts over Gaza and the West Bank: https://ow.ly/itoj50WeUjv

06/25/2025

Attending in Prague? Visit Peter in the Readex/Newsbank stand to learn about primary source collections that will support your research and teaching.

06/24/2025

🤔 What do the early writings of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini tell us about current events?

📚 Primary sources like Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports reveal the ideological origins of today's regime: https://ow.ly/5XLL50WeOBp

06/23/2025

🏖️ Sunny Naples, Florida or 🌄 quaint Chester, Vermont?

💡 Support librarians working with government documents and library science students by bidding on a stay in Florida or Vermont.

2025 Auction Now Open for Bidding! Established in 1994, the W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship provides financial assistance to an individual who is 1) currently working with government documents in a library and 2) completing a master’s degree in library science. The award is named after W. David Roz...

06/20/2025

🎓 The GODORT: Government Documents Round Table Silent Auction supporting the W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship is now open!

📄 Support librarians working with government documents and library science students - bid on a stay in sunny Naples, Florida or quaint Chester, Vermont.

👉 https://godort.readex.com/

06/19/2025

🎉✨ Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate freedom, resilience, and the rich heritage of our Black communities.

06/18/2025

💣 The US declared war on Britain in 1812. Tensions over US westward expansion and conflict with Native Americans, trade disputes and the impressment of seamen, and "...the wrongs which have forced on them the last resort of injured nations..." led to the declaration of war.

📰 Historical newspapers like the American Mercury (Hartford, CT) provide researchers not only with the text of the Presidential Proclamation and Congressional Act declaring war, excerpts of letters from government officials, but also colorful commentary from newspaper publishers to fuel research on early America.

🛞 Continue your research journey with Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922: https://ow.ly/r6Yn50WbGSv

06/16/2025

First stop, Brisbane! Bezi is delighted to be exhibiting at this year’s Exhibition Events. Come visit Louise and Craig at the Bezi booth to learn more about the top e-resources in HSS 🐝

06/16/2025

🐾 Happy National Take Your Cat to Work Day! 🎉 Our feline friends have many talents but always take charge🐱💼

Images from American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1749-1900 https://ow.ly/vvHS50Wa2bv

06/13/2025

🎯 Today in History: June 13, 1866
On this day, the U.S. House passed the 14th Amendment — one of the most powerful (and still debated) parts of the Constitution.

✅ Guaranteed citizenship
✅ Promised equal protection
✅ Tried to block former Confederates from returning to power (Section 3)

The former Confederate states had to ratify it to regain their seats in Congress — but full enforcement? That’s a story still unfolding.

💡 Section 3 has resurfaced again and again — during Reconstruction and even in recent political debates.

How have interpretations and applications of Section 3 shifted over the decades? What does its evolution reveal about constitutional enforcement and political power?

👉 https://ow.ly/cCWX50W94Bz

06/12/2025

🏛️ In April 1967, at the Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in support of Virginia couple Richard and Mildred Loving and against anti-miscegenation laws - laws prohibiting in*******al marriage.

⚖️ Ultimately, SCOTUS ruled anti-miscegenation laws violated the 14th Amendment freeing Mr. and Mrs. Loving and similar couples from their "great burden." 🫶

Find first-hand coverage of Loving v. Virginia in Black Life in America https://www.readex.com/products/black-life-america

06/10/2025

Accused of "...many kinds of miseries, which were prenaturally Inflicted, and generally ascribed unto an horrible Witchcraft." Bridget Bishop was hanged in 1692.

Not long after, Puritan author and public figure Cotton Mather defended his role in the in The Wonders of the Invisible World.

Find Mather's work in Early American Imprints https://ow.ly/krs350W7epp