Communication and Media Studies

"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library."-description

"The AdViews digital collection provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s. All of the commercials held in the DMB&B Archives will be digitized, allowing students and researchers access to a wide range of vintage brand advertising from the first four decades of mainstream commercial television."-- description.

"American Archive of Public Broadcasting staff and guest curators create exhibits of selected recordings that focus on themes, topics, and events of cultural and historical significance. In the exhibits, curators contextualize digitized primary and secondary source public television and radio materials. Each curated set of selected recordings present a diversity of perspectives concerning the exhibit's focus. As a result, AAPB exhibits often illuminate how public broadcasting stations and producers have covered the exhibit's theme."--description from AAPB

"The American Archive of Public Broadcasting contains more than 50,000 hours of digitized public broadcasting programs and original materials. Some notable collections are featured here in Special Collections. Each Special Collection finding aid provides detailed information about the content, such as its creator, recommended search strategies, and related resources. Most of the materials described in the Special Collections are available online. If not, particular materials of interest can be accessed on location at WGBH and the Library of Congress."- description from AAPB

"The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. We defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal." from About page. Includes data about Journalist Killed, Imprisoned, Missing, All Attacks on the Press. Safety Resources for Journalists in the field and at home.

"This collection presents over 3,300 items relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture. The project was made possible by grant funding to Duke University from the 1998 Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition."-- description

"An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. From Democracy Now's daily news program, to three days of TV news coverage following the 911 attacks, to Mosaic’s timely clips of Middle East newscasts, to UCSF's Tobacco Industry Videos: These collections offer an alternative way to view and interpret current news and public affairs."- description from webpage

The United States Department of Commerce website for the NTIA. Learn about Key Issues, access data and statistical information and research center.

Pew Research Center's website includes publications on recent surveys, reports, fact sheets, includes international survey reports, and videos.

Tools and resources include Dataset Downloads, includes post on how to use datasets, Survey Question search, Religious Landscape Survey, Global Religious futures, Local News Dynamics, and the National Public Opinion Reference Survey.

Contains a plethora of data, data search tools, reports on demographics, economics and labor issues for the United States. SUBJECT area includes Consumer expenditures, how Americans Spend Time, Employment Projections, Industry reports, Consumer Price Indexes.
DATA TOOLS include calculators for Inflation, economic trends, series reports, and MANY other data search tools.
PUBLICATIONS include Monthly Labor Review, Occupational Outlook Handbooks, Geographic Profiles, reports, videos and more.

Includes US government history through documents, photos, records, military records, founding documents, ancestry search, topic search (under Research our Records), ONLINE EXHIBITS.

"The Indigenous Journalists Association’s mission is centered on the idea that accurate and contextual reporting about Indigenous people and communities is necessary to overcome biases and stereotypes portrayed in popular and mainstream media. Expanding access to accurate news and information is essential to an informed citizenry and healthy democracy, across tribal, local, state and national levels. For more than 40 years, Indigenous journalists across the United States and Canada have worked to support and sustain IJA. Originally formed as the Native American Press Association in 1983, the organization has grown from just a handful of reporters to a membership of nearly 900, which includes Indigenous journalists, associates, educators and partners."- from About page.