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January 18, 2024
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“Much of this archive constitutes a tangible record of a historic time before websites and hashtags, with materials created by the last generations that depended primarily on print communication,” said Seth Cayley, vice president of global academic product at Gale. “As a whole, these pieces offer a unique reflection and authentic voice of the time before the growth of the internet and the birth of social media.” Key collections in the archive include: Power to the People is available on the Gale Primary Sources platform, enabling cross-archival searching to help users make new connections across topics. For those looking to explore even deeper insights, the archive is also available through Gale Digital Scholar Lab (the Lab). This allows researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw-text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sources and perform textual analysis on large corpora of historical texts. With the Lab, researchers can analyze and explore historical text more interactively, generating new research insights and content sets not previously possible. Gale Primary Sources is a digital research platform that brings the thoughts, words and actions of past centuries into the present for a comprehensive research experience. With authoritative content and powerful search technologies, the platform helps students and researchers examine literary, political and social culture of the last 500 years and develop a more meaningful understanding of how history continues to impact the world today. Its innovative technology improves discovery, analysis and workflow while setting the bar for digital primary source analysis and data visualization with tools like cross-archival searching and Topic Finder, which visually organizes search results to help users make new connections across topics. Power to the People is complementary to other Gale collections such as Women’s Studies Archive, Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Environmental History and Political Extremism and Radicalism. For more information or to request a trial, visit the Power to the People web page. About Cengage Group and Gale Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 65 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.gale.com. Follow Gale on: Media Contact: Kayla Siefker, Gale, part of Cengage Group 248-378-3376With Power to the People, researchers have access to a wide range of rare primary sources on social movements that have shaped modern Western history. Scholars can explore pamphlets, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, leaflets, broadsides, manuscripts, posters and other printed pieces covering a diversity of ideas and initiatives that span critical periods such as the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage, LGBTQ+ rights, anti-war movements, environmental activism and many others. The archive paints a multifaceted picture of social history that highlights equity, diversity and inclusion.
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