A-Z Databases

The American Jewish Congress, was founded in 1918 under the leadership of Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. Includes access to records covering 1915-2009, documenting the American Jewish Congress’s impact on the United States legal system, civil rights and liberties, the fight against discrimination and antisemitism, and support for the State of Israel.

Feedback should be directed to Wen-ling Liu (wliu@iu.edu) by April 23, 2026. Includes almost 2,500 records spanning 1922 to 1956. The collection is especially concentrated between the establishment of the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) in November 1931 and its effective collapse in 1934 under pressure from the Kuomintang (KMT) Army’s encirclement campaign. Contains constitutions, directives, and resolutions that formed the basis of the CSR government. Included as well are denunciations, military reports, and court decisions that reflect the struggle to maintain the CSR through the war.

Feedback should be directed to Wookjin Cheun (wcheun@iu.edu) by April 18, 2026. An official paper of the USSR, and later, of the RF Ministry of Defense founded in 1924, appears 260 times a year. Publishes the most complete information about Russia's Armed Forces, military reform, combat training and daily routine of troops, legal advice, analysis of Russia and CIS security problems, information on tenders for food, fuel and lubricants, medicine supplies for the Russian Army MoD, new combat equipment and arms and their ads, reports from areas of military conflicts around the world, material on foreign armies, political, economic, business, cultural and sports news.

Feedback should be directed to Luis Gonzalez (luisgonz@iu.edu) by April 14, 2026. Full-text database providing access to centuries of Latin American and Latinx primary-source materials. Provides cross-searchable access to millions of pages from websites and archives scattered across the internet—books, magazines, photographs, maps, letters, diaries, ephemera, videos, and audio files. 

Trial feedback should be sent to Wen-ling Liu (wliu@iu.edu) by April 23, 2026. Manhua (漫画; 漫画月刊) was a state-sponsored pictorial magazine published in the People's Republic of China through the 1950's. At inception, the magazine featured graphic calls-to-action for the Korean War effort. From 1953 forward, the magazine expanded its length, increased its frequency, and addressed the campaign needs of the day: instituting land reform. By the late 1950's, the fallout from the Hundred Flowers Campaign had cast a repressive pall over political cartoonists. Illustrations from 1958 onward focused on encouraging people to join Great Leap Forward activities, with a noted departure away from slice-of-life humor. Resisting imperialism and solidarity across socialist movements were major themes of every Manhua issue from 1950 to 1960.