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Law and Capitalism: BLSL's Database Trials

Sources to support the Brooklyn Law School course: Law and Capitalism. Under development.

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BLS patrons can access the database trials below on campus through the BLS network or off campus through a web browser that communicates with the BLS proxy server.  (Remote access requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser and librarians recommend the instructions for Firefox browser.)

Extension of Trial: History Vault modules (provider: ProQuest)

Extension of History Vault Trial:

Until May 4, 2024, BLS patrons have access to selected modules of History Vault (provider: ProQuest).  Now, BLS patrons can access History Vault trial modules using this web address: https://trials.proquest.com/access?token=FhEVragxcNfpeJGSmXTjxOlGq  History Vault provides both a main screen search feature and links to search subject-specific modules.

  • Tip: BLS patrons can access these modules on campus through the BLS network or off campus through a web browser that communicates with the BLS proxy server.  (Requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser and librarians recommend the instructions for Firefox browser.)
  • Archival materials in this History Vault trial cover:
    • American Politics and Society (including Progressive Era and New Deal)
    • Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle
    • Native Americans and the American West
    • Southern Life, Enslavement, and the Civil War
    • Women at Work During World War II
  • These are digital versions of original documents.  Older documents (such as letters, journals and petitions) may be in cursive text and might exhibit some deterioration. 

Labor & Employment: The American Worker (provider: W.S. Hein through HeinOnline) - Acquisition Update

Update: BLS Library licensed Labor & Employment: The American Worker (provider: HeinOnline).  In BLS Library's SARA catalog record for this collection, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (HEIN).  (Remote access requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser and librarians recommend the instructions for Firefox browser.)  A detailed description of this collection now appears in this guide box (which describes BLS Library's subscription databases) under: HeinOnline > Labor & Employment: The American Worker.