UPA Collections
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LexisNexis UPA Collections consist of documentary research collections in microfilm, microfiche, print, and digital formats. These titles have been produced from some of the most important manuscript and archival repositories in the world, including the National Archives, Library of Congress, Public Record Office in London, University of North Carolina’s Southern Historical Collection, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, and the Presidential Libraries of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush.
Major topical areas covered in these collections include African American history, the American Civil War, Immigration, Labor history, Legal history, Native American history, Political history, Southern History, Women’s history, and International Relations. Within these topical areas, major individual titles include:
- American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library, including papers of Felix Frankfurter, Louis D. Brandeis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Roscoe Pound, and William H. Hastie
- The Black Power Movement
- The CIO and Industrial Unionism in America
- Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969
- Civil War Unit Histories: Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives
- Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files
- Garrison Family Papers
- Labor Union Periodicals
- Letters Received by the Attorney General
- Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, including papers of Arthur A. Schomburg, the Civil Rights Congress, the International Labor Defense, the National Negro Congress, and Paul Robeson
- National Security Files from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
- Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt
- Papers of Supreme Court Justices: Earl Warren
- Papers of the NAACP
- Papers of the Nixon White House
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files, 1933-1945
- Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks
- Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War
- Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration
- Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries
- The U.S. National Econmy, 1916-2001: Unpublished Documentary Collections from the U.S. Department of Labor
Each microform collection is accompanied by a printed index that leads users to major subjects, persons, and events in a collection. The following link provides information about the components of the guides that accompany UPA Microform Collections. UPA Guides
For more information on the importance and value of microform collections, see Microforms in an Evolving Digital World.
Titles of major print publications are
- British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print
- Landmark Briefs & Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law
- The Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency
- The Documentary History of the Truman Presidency
- The Documentary History of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidency
- The Documentary History of the John F. Kennedy Presidency