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LA84 Foundation Digital Archive

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: Provides more than 40,000 documents in sports history, covering academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications. The Olympic titles include a complete run of back issues of Olympic Review, the official publication of the International Olympic Committee, and two dozen Olympic Games official reports. Complete or partial runs of the following journals in sports history have been digitized:

  • American Golfer
  • ASSH Bulletin
  • Baseball Magazine
  • College Football Historical Society Newsletter
  • Football Studies
  • Golf Illustrated and Outdoor Man
  • International Sports Studies
  • Iron Game History
  • Journal of Olympic History
  • Journal of Sport History
  • NASSH Proceedings
  • Olympic Review
  • Olympika
  • Outing
  • Sport in History
  • Sport Management Review
  • Sporting Traditions
Digital Archive Books and Reports include:
  • This Great Symbol. John MacAloon, 1981
  • Serious Fun : A History of Spectator Sport in the USSR. Bob Edelman. 1993.
  • Olympic Studies Current Intellectual Crossroads. Lamartine DaCosta et al. 2002.
  • Pierre de Coubertin's American Studies and Their Importance for the Analysis of His Early Educational Campaign. Stephan Wassong
  • Official Olympic Reports
  • Bill Mallon's Olympic Results Book Excerpts
  • Olympian Oral Histories
  • Centre for Olympic Studies. UNSW.


Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
Publicly Available Resources

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