American Indian Histories and Cultures Earns Choice "Outstanding Academic Title 2014"

Award is a double-win for Adam Matthew and the Newberry Library, Chicago

(Marlborough) Adam Matthew is pleased to announce that American Indian Histories and Cultures (AIHC), a major digital resource sourced exclusively from the renowned Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been selected for inclusion in Choice’s annual Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) list. 

Calling them "the best of the best," the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles list is comprised of almost 9 percent of the titles reviewed by Choice during the past year, and less than 3 percent of the more than 25,000 titles submitted to Choice during the same period. American Indian Histories and Cultures is in good company.

American Indian Histories and Cultures spans an extensive time period from early contact to the mid-20th century. It provides unprecedented coverage with a diverse range of materials, including rare manuscripts, newspapers, artwork, maps, speeches and pictures. All the information is presented with detailed metadata, allowing access to unrivaled source material for the study of westward expansion and the American Indian experience. Researchers will be able to peruse many significant and rare items, including:

• An original copy of ‘The Red Man’s Greeting’ (1893) – a booklet written on birch bark by Potawatomi Indian Simon Pokagon
• Artwork by Bodmer, Waldeck, Catlin, Burbank and Eastman, and American Indian ledger art
• Manuscripts, portraits and printed books relating to major American Indian figures, including Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull
• Modern manuscript collections such as “The Bureau of Indian Affairs relocation records” (1936-1975)

"In breadth and depth of primary sources," states the March 2014 Choice review of the resource, "AIHC surpasses Infobase Publishing’s American Indian History Online, ABC-CLIO’s The American Indian Experience, and a plethora of open-access sites that focus on either a specific type of primary resource, geographic area, or topic.” - M. J. Cedar Face, CDL, Southern Oregon University for Choice

Three years in the making, American Indian Histories and Cultures is Adam Matthew’s second collaboration with the Newberry Library, following the OAT-winning American West, which presents sources from the Graff Collection of Western Americana. The two resources are cross-searchable, allowing students and researchers exceptional access to both collections.

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Serving the public as an independent research library since 1887, the Newberry hosts a collection focusing on Western Europe and the Americas and offers a wide array of programs. Its more than 1.5 million books, 5 million pages of manuscript, and 500,000 historic maps range from illuminated medieval works and rare cartographic treasures to rich genealogical resources and the papers of Midwest authors and companies. For more information visit www.newberry.org