Daily Life Through History
The website Daily Life Through History is part of the global Bloomsbury Publishing Company’s Digital Resource division, which acquired ABC-Clio Publishing Company in 2021. It is one of several subject matter database collections of ABC-Clio, and based on historical content. It contains hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed items, accessible with a paid subscription for educators, students and librarians for academic and educational purposes. Materials include primary sources and secondary sources, organized by time period and subject. The website also offers additional academic support through tutorials and tips for improving writing and research skills.
Search: General search options are found on the right side, midway down on the front page. Options for refined search options are found beneath the general search bar, to the far right by clicking on “filter +.” A new window opens, with the categories of Reference Library, which has further options for media, documents, e-books and round tables. There are further options for narrowing a search to specific time periods and by geographic region. There are additional tips for searches at the bottom of the filters page.
Date range: Prehistory to the present
Publisher: Bloomsbury Digital Resources/ABC-Clio
Publisher About page: https://dailylife2-abc-clio-com.mutex.gmu.edu/About/About
Object type: Newspapers, documents, magazines articles, letters, narratives, photos, maps, audio recordings, video clips.
Location of Original Materials: ABC-Clio Publishing, Journal of the West, Greenwood Publishing Group, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Exportable Image: yes, with a paid subscription, and for teaching purposes.
Facsimile Image: yes
Full Text Searchable: yes
Titles List links: because Daily Life Through History is a subscription based website, I did not find any links to other, outside websites.
History/Provenance: In 1953 Eric Boehm started the American Bibliographic Center (ABC-Clio), based on his interest in providing historical information to the general public. The company began digitizing their materials in the 1960s, then published their first online database in 1975.
They merged with the electronic publishing company Intellimation, an organization that published software for schools, and began putting their materials onto CD-Roms. In 2001 they began publishing e-Books. In 2004, they bought the quarterly academic and historical journal, Journal of the West, and in 2008 they bought Greenwood Publishing Group, adding to their collection of historic archival information. In 2021, ABC-Clio was bought by Bloomsbury Publishing, an international publishing company. ABC-Clio is part of Bloomsbury’s Digital Resource division. Their databases, fifteen in total, provide academic and scholarly information to schools and libraries.
Original Catalog: not sure
Digitized from Microfilm: did not find specific information regarding this, but will assume that, based on the volume of materials, some would come from microfilms.
Original Sources: All original sources come from ABC-Clio, Journal of the West, Greenwood Publishing, and Bloomsbury Publishing.
Reviews: In 2010, Mary Ellen Quinn reviewed ABC-Clio and found them to be a reliable source of information for schools and libraries. Her review included all of ABC-Clio’s databases, including Daily Life Through History. Their acquisition of Greenwood Publishing greatly expanded their access to items and information related to social studies and history. A new feature, which generated praise, was the addition of ideas exchange, which offer different opinions and views of topics. https://www.booklistonline.com/Another-Look-at-ABC-CLIO-Databases-Mary-Ellen-Quinn/pid=4456228
Access: Subscription services
Information from Publisher: https://dailylife2-abc-clio-com.mutex.gmu.edu/About/Terms All of the information on the Daily Life Through History is owned or licensed to ABC-Clio through copyright protection. In compliance with “Fair Use,” Section 107 of US Copyright law, materials on Daily Life Through History may be downloaded and used by teachers for non-commercial, educational purposes.
Other Information: https://marcrecords-abc-clio-com.mutex.gmu.edu/solutions.aspx
MARC records (machine readable catalog record) for a library’s open access cataloging system.
Citing: All citation styles for each individual item available on the Daily Life Through History are accessible underneath each item.