"Police photograph of Alfred Dreyfus after his formal public degradation in 1895 and issue of Berliner Morgenpost, September 20, 1898 with articles about the Dreyfus affair"
Site about the Dreyfus Affair from the French Ministry of Culture. This is an English translation of the site, a French version is also available. Items in the "Educational Resources" section of the site are in French.
This sites presents the catalog of digital collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de la France. It contains approximately 70, 000 digital documents, 1200 full-text documents, and 80, 000 images. Content can be browsed or searched.
"Assembled by Dr. Lorraine Beitler as a resource for scholars, a teaching collection for students, and as a traveling exhibition designed to stimulate discussion of the issues of prejudice, racism, and social injustice in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it has been exhibited around the world at more than 20 venues since 1994. "
"The choice of sending a postcard in favor or against Dreyfus was a political statement, along with the commentary written by the sender..." Part of the MODIYA Project: "an open source resource for exploring the interrelation of Jews, media, and religion as an area of research and teaching."
"A wide range of primary source documents, from Alfred Dreyfus's diary descriptions of the torment he suffered on Devil's Island to Emile Zola's famous J'accuse! letter.." Also includes a "selection of rare photographs and newspaper illustrations and cartoons..."
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