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Adam Matthew is delighted to announce the publication of the long-awaited Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC) under the title of American History, 1493-1945: From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, originally announced in September 2013.

This new collection from Adam Matthew provides comprehensive coverage of formerly classified files on the Apartheid Governments of South Africa from 1948-1980. This vast body of primary material provides unprecedented levels of detail with in-depth analysis of events, international reaction and policy dilemmas, accompanied by numerous first-hand accounts and reports.

Adam Matthew are delighted to announce the launch of their latest resource, American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965. This truly unique collection showcases the market research reports and supporting documents of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer, which are held at the Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware.

While archives across the UK are recognising the potential of digitisation to unlock their treasures, the realities of a large-scale digitisation project can be daunting for any institution. This article will explore how partnerships between publishers and archives can help the latter face the challenges of getting content digitised.

American West – a resource sourced from the Everett D. Graff collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago – was released in 2008, enabling research into the development of the American West and offering fascinating insights into overland travel, wagon trails, railroads, Native Americans, western fiction and the ‘wild west’.

Adam Matthew, today announced the digitisation of one of the largest World’s Fairs collections in the world: the Donald G. Larson Collection at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. “We are delighted to be partnering with Adam Matthew on their forthcoming world’s fair digital collection."

Adam Matthew, today announced that The First World War Portal is the latest Adam Matthew collection to be awarded ‘Best Reference’ by Library Journal. Each year, Library Journal evaluates over 8,000 books, e-books, audio books, videos/DVDs, databases, systems and websites, awarding the prestigious ‘Best Reference’ accolade to a select few.

Last month saw the launch of China, America and the Pacific, a multi-library resource documenting the trading and cultural relationships between these regions during the period 1700-1900. An extensive range of material from 12 leading international libraries includes ships’ logbooks, rare newspapers and printed books, manuscript sources, historic maps, objects and artworks, ephemera and visual material.

Adam Matthew today announced an agreement with The National Archives (TNA), Kew - the UK government’s official repository - to digitise and publish all TNA materials relating to South Africa during the apartheid era. These formerly restricted documents provide unprecedented levels of detail and scope with first-hand accounts and reports.

Today we announced a major new agreement with the Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission (TSLAC) to provide permanent access to two Adam Matthew online collections via the TexShare consortium.

We are delighted to announce the release of The First World War: Propaganda and Recruitment - the second module available within the 'First World War Portal' - covering significant themes from recruitment and training to morale, efforts to control public opinion through censorship to the development of various forms of propaganda.

With the centenary of the Great War on the horizon, the second resource within our First World War digital portal, Propaganda and Recruitment, is due for release later this month. Building on the rich and extensive material within our first resource, Personal Experiences, this new collection offers a vast and fascinating array of primary documents.

Adam Matthew today announced the signing of an agreement with the world’s oldest and best known holiday provider, Thomas Cook, to digitise their archive as part of a forthcoming digital resource on the history of Mass Tourism and Leisure. Thomas Cook, one of history’s great brands - and perhaps the first truly multinational corporation - is synonymous with the rise of popular tourism.

We are delighted to announce that Adam Matthew has signed an agreement with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York, to digitise and publish the Gilder Lehrman Collection (GLC): one of the most important archives on American history in existence, spanning from 1493 until the twentieth century.

In the same week that California celebrates Native American Day (Friday 27th September), Adam Matthew will launch our latest resource Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America, containing material digitised from the Edward E. Ayer collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago – one of the strongest archival collections on Indigenous history in America in the world.

What are the processes and considerations involved when approaching the digitisation of primary sources materials, most of which are not only rare and unique, but also fragile. And, how does a primary sources publisher adapt the variations of materials?

In early 1920’s Canada, grain farmers were suffering the effects of a significant collapse in the price of wheat. In 1919, wheat was selling at a healthy price of $2.31 per bushel, but by 1922 it had plummeted to just 77 cents. Many farmers considered the price crash as a direct result of the withdrawal of the federal wheat board.

Since the arrival of European settlers, the history of Indigenous Americans can be read through their relationship with the land. The progress of colonial settlements across the continent threatened many tribes’ nomadic, hunter-gatherer mode of subsistence.

Part II of this vibrant and engaging resource aims to complement the comprehensive thematic areas introduced in Part I with material from brand new source libraries such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Archives at the University of Warwick.

Building on the success of 'Foreign Office Files for China, 1948-1980' we announce the launch of new supporting content covering a key period in twentieth-century Chinese history, from the 'May 4th Movement' to Japanese clashes with Kuomintang forces, 1927-1928.

“The outstanding event of this month has been, of course, the publication of the Beveridge Report.” A little over seventy years ago a report was published in Britain which was to irrevocably change the common consensus on the basic responsibilities of government and thereby also transform British society. Mass unemployment, poverty, and disappointment at wasted wartime sacrifices had characterised the ‘Hungry Thirties’; a return to that status quo...

Following the revolution of 1912 which ended the two-thousand-year-old monarchy, China entered into a period of political instability lasting the best part of four decades. In theory the state was united under the successor government to the Qing dynasty, the Republic of China. In practice no one government succeeded in establishing itself over the whole country until ...

This fourth section of Victorian Popular Culture explores the pivotal era in entertainment history when previously static images came to life and moved for the first time. Through the wealth of printed and visual material, as well as artefacts, browsers are able to imagine the wide-eyed wonder of those early audiences, experiencing the magic of Victorian inventions and optical entertainments.

During our work this year with SAGE Publications it has become clear that our two businesses share many of the same core values and our approaches to quality publishing. You may already be aware from the recent press release that as a result of these fundamental alignments, and the ambitious plans for both companies, Adam Matthew is now a part of the SAGE Group.