Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world. Hekman Library has access to the following Adam Matthew collections: American Indian Histories and Cultures, American Indian Newspapers, and the American West. Use this landing page to search across all three collections.

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From early topographical sketches and pioneers' accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his 'Wild West' stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.

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From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S. and Canada. With newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.

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Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from American Indians' earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries span over 86 volumes and comprise a trusted and long-running scholarly commentaries series for biblical studies scholars. The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary is a six-volume dictionary of the Bible offering up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and topics.

Alumni Access

Alumni of the university and seminary have access to the Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries and Dictionary by logging in to their library account using their Alumni library card barcode number. See the Guests and Alumni page for details.

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The Atlantic was originally created with a focus on publishing leading writers' commentary on abolition, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs at the time. Over its more than 150 years of publication. It has featured articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more. The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought.

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Archon is an online catalog for the holdings of Hekman Library's Heritage Hall and allows for searching of collection inventories. Heritage Hall serves as the official repository for records of Calvin University, Calvin Theological Seminary, and the Christian Reformed Church in North America. In addition, Heritage Hall has nearly 600 manuscript collections of personal papers and organizational records. Collections readily provide primary source materials for research in a wide range of disciplines, such as History, Economics, Psychology, Literature, Theology, Political Science, and more.

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Contains records (citations only, no fulll text) from the USDA's National Agriculture Library dating back to 1970. 

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This innovative and medically accurate interactive 3D atlas and clinical reference is perfect for speech language pathology and communication disorders educators, students and practitioners. Featuring a comprehensive selection of 3D views covering key body systems and visually stunning head and neck views, it is complemented by a wealth of multimedia clinical content covering swallowing, phonetics and many commonly presenting disorders.

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American Religion: Denominational Newspapers provides access to historical newspapers covering religious news and the role religion played in American life and society between 1799 and 1900. It provides invaluable denominational insight, as well as news and opinions on critical social issues such as slavery, women’s suffrage, the Temperance movement, civil rights, Native American relocation, and local government corruption.

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African American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2 (1827-1998), provides online, full-text access to more than 350 newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. The collection features papers from more than 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Titles in Series 1 come from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, while titles in Series 2 come from the American Antiquarian Society, Center for Research Libraries, the Library of Congress, and New York Public Library.

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Ambrose Video 2.0 is a host site for a selection of plays from the BBC Shakespeare collection, including Hamlet, Henry V, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night.

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AGRIS is a global database providing access to bibliographic information on agricultural science and technology, including grey literature not available through normal publication and distribution channels.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index, available via Web of Science, provides access to bibliographic and citation information from the world's leading arts and humanities journals.It covers a broad array of topics in the humanities from 1975 to the present.

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ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Humanities E-Book collection is a digital collection of high quality books in the humanities and related social sciences.

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Ancestry Library Edition is available from select computers in the Heritage Hall Archives located in Hekman Library.

Ancestry Library Edition provides access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research, such as census, military, and court records.

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The Aquatic and Invasive Plant Information Retrieval System (APIRS) includes annotated citations to peer-reviewed and gray literature and reports, with aquatic, wetland and natural area invasive plants as the focus.

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The SOA/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics operated by the Smithsonian Atrophysical Observatory (SAO). It maintains three databases which cover publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and the arXiv e-prints.

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The ARTFL corpus consists of texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.

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The ARTFL French Women Writers Project contains the full text of works by French women authors from the 16th to the 20th century. It is part of a larger effort through University of Chicago to preserve the heritage of the French Language. The main database of this project is ARTFL - FRANTEXT.

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The Anthropological Index Online is a database of articles based on the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum. The index covers the subjects of socio-cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural ethnography, providing a broad geographical range of information in each topic.

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American Rhetoric is a continually growing database of full text speeches delivered by presidents and political activists, actors, Christian leaders, authors, talk show hosts, and many famous historical figures.

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The ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives) provides free access to religion statistics, data and church membership reports from around the world, including Christian statistics and adherents data. The ARDA offers recent U.S. and international survey findings, local, national and global profiles of religion, and detailed demographic reports and maps of religious and protestant denominations in America.

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AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles. Coverage spans the early 19th century to the present.

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The ACS Publications database strives to be the most authoritative and comprehensive provider of chemistry-related information by providing full-text access to peer-reviewed, scholarly journals published by the ACS.

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AGRICOLA serves as the catalog and index of the U.S. National Agricultural Library.  All aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines are covered. It is primarily a citation-only database with some full-text material.

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ATLA is an index of journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the areas of biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues, among other topics. The database provides coverage from 1949 to the present and retrospective indexing for some journals as far back as the nineteenth century.

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Alumni of the university and seminary have access to ATLASerials by logging in to their library account using their Alumni library card barcode number. See the Guests and Alumni page for details.

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The ACM Digital Library is the full-text repository of all ACM publications. It also hosts a collection of full-text publications from select publishers focused on the field of computing.

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