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The Kauffman Collection
The Kauffman Collection is intended to enhance the Library’s collections with works of high quality, both in content and construction. Principally falling within the humanities, the works embody classical ideas and ideals, or have made significant contributions to other eras. To assist the library patron in advanced appreciation of the literature, this collection also includes supporting materials that assess, critique, and examine the chosen works.
Many of these materials are electronic books, videos, and audiobooks. Recently added are searchable, digitized reproductions of significant works and documents from public and private sources, from lands near and far.
Digital Resources
Nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
Papers from 1912-1990 from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)....
The largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on complet...
Collection of almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as missionaries to the American Indians from 1833 to 1893....
A mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources on the American West....
This archive illuminates the experiences the LGBTQ community....
Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the collegiate research....
Contains over 1,000 sources with over 1,000 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans....
Archival material on the trading and cultural relationships between the 18-20th century China, America, and the Pacific region....
Regimental histories and personal narratives from the postwar period and early 20th Century period....
Titles based on the English Short Title Catalog of UK works in the 18th century....
Primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices, and consequences....
Collection and archive of British Romantic, early Victorian writing, and Continental Romanticism....
Primary source material on the 19th-20th century lives of women....
Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the spectrum....
Primary source material for the study of the Great War....
Dozens of historical archives covering hundreds of years of history....
These unique materials tell both the historical and the personal stories of the colonization of the Americas....
Nearly full coverage including current issues, historical issues from 1880, and the Kansas City Times....
Cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people....
Maps and travel accounts of 19th century Europe....
Primary source collections of the 19th century....
Free digital books in the classics, history, and literature....
Historical documents on the transatlantic slave trade....
Weekly film trade publication between 1907 and 1928....
Poetry by 20th century African American poets....