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| Historical primary source newspapers, featuring full-text content including images. Covers newspapers that published in the 1800s from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. |
| • Coverage Range: 1800s |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| Original historical documents pertaining to the history of African Americans, mostly in the United States, but also from the Colonial era and the West Indies. |
| • Coverage Range: 1670s to 1900s |
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| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with articles from Africana; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; and the African American National Biography. Also contains resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and selected articles from other major reference titles.
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| • Vendor: Oxford University Press |
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| Contains citations and some full-text articles from alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. It is international in scope with its central focus on socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays, lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Covers material from 1991 to the present. Click on the "Get It" button to access full-text when available. |
| • Coverage Range: 1991 to present |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, the coverage is both international and interdisciplinary |
| • Coverage Range: 1969-1990 |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| History and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Includes secondary source articles, books, and book reviews published between 1964 to present. Some full-text links included. Use the Library's "Get It!" button to obtain materials with no direct full-text link. NOT A GOOD SOURCE FOR ANCIENT OR MEDIEVAL HISTORY, OR FOR TOPICS NOT DEALING WITH NORTH AMERICA |
| • Coverage Range: 1964-present |
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| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| A resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War, with indexed, searchable information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, with 16,000+ photographs. |
| • Coverage Range: U.S. Civil War Era, mid-nineteenth century |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material. |
| • Coverage Range: 1855 -1875 |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| Streaming online newsreels, archival films, and documentaries covering all periods of U.S. history. Funding for this database is provided by a generous gift to the Waidner-Spahr Library. |
| • Coverage Range: 1700s to present |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| Primary materials from the Library of Congress, covering various periods of American history. Includes photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. Special online collections of Native American history, African-American history, United States presidents, immigration, literature, and cultural history. |
| • Coverage Range: American history - time periods vary. |
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| • Vendor: Library of Congress |
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| Biographies of non-living people who were influential in the United States. Biographies cover all professions. Includes bibliographic lists for further research. |
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| • Vendor: Oxford University Press |
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| Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. |
| • Coverage Range: 1740 to 1900 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Offers access to resources in fashion and related fields. Includes the full-text of the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and an extensive color image bank. Useful for research in fashion, theatre & dance, anthropology, art history, history, american studies, and cultural studies. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| • Vendor: Oxford University Press |
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| Covers all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. Topics include archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
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| • Coverage Range: Sixteenth century to present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| This database details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. |
| • Coverage Range: 1830-1865 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations. |
| • Coverage Range: Scope – 20th century to present |
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| • Vendor: Alexander Street Press, LLC. |
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| A multi-disciplinary database of English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. |
| • Coverage Range: Mid 1990s-present |
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| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| Full-text runs of regional U.S. newspapers from the 1850s, as well as pamphlets covering a wide range of topics. Contains primary source documents that encompass the buildup to and evolution of the American Civil War that shaped the Nation's identity.
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Material produced by the National Communication Association along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. |
| • Coverage Range: 1915-present |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| Presents a weekly analysis on one of many broad-ranging topics from the news. Each report focuses on a single issue and is written by a seasoned journalist. |
| • Coverage Range: 1991 -- Present |
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| • Vendor: SAGE Publications, Inc. (CQ Press) |
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| Provides a weekly report on issues in Congress, as well as the status of proposed legislation, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes. |
| • Coverage Range: 1983 -- present |
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| • Vendor: SAGE Publications, Inc. (CQ Press) |
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| An extensive collection of full-text sources on Southern history, literature, culture, and religion, covering from 1624 to 1920. |
| • Coverage Range: 1624 to 1920 |
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| • Vendor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Full-text scans of nearly all English-language imprints and other materials from the eighteenth century. The collection contains a wide variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. |
| • Coverage Range: Eighteenth century |
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| • Vendor: GALE Cengage Learning |
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| A reference resource containing general articles on American history and culture. An ideal starting point, especially for topics unfamiliar to you. The Encyclopedia addresses issues such as literature, art, photography, film, popular culture, architecture, consumer culture, urban studies, ethnicity, gender, race, economics, labor, social movements, politics, and global America. An ideal starting point, especially for topics unfamiliar to you (Part of Credo Reference package). |
| • Coverage Range: All Volumes |
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| • Vendor: SAGE Publications, Inc. (CQ Press) |
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| Covers news, culture and history from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
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| • Coverage Range: 1990 to present |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources, this resource provides a rich seam of information on personal experiences of war. Supplementing the primary sources is a wealth of secondary resources including interactive maps, 360 degree panoramas and walk-throughs of the Sanctuary Wood Trench System, the Memory Wall, In Their Own Words feature, scholarly essays, a slideshow gallery, chronology and glossaries. |
| • Coverage Range: World War I era |
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| • Vendor: Adam Matthew |
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| A set of 11 separate databases of archival and primary source material, covering topics related to American history, including collections focusing on Hispanic- and African-American history. The individual databases are: African American Historical Serials Collection; American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-4; American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection, Series 1-2; Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection, Series 1; Gateway to North America--People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York; Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society; The Latino-Hispanic American Experience--Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers. |
| • Coverage Range: Varies; 1700s to 1960, many collection focus on 19th century. |
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| • Vendor: Ebsco |
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| Fully searchable, full-text copies of articles and images from the Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta Daily World; Baltimore Afro-American; Boston Globe; Chicago Defender; Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Sentinel; New York Amsterdam News; New York Times; Pittsburgh Courier; Washington Post. Coverage varies by paper but goes back as far as 1851. |
| • Coverage Range: 1851-2005 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| A set of 11 collections of primary source documents covering aspects of US history. Collections include: Black Freedom, Immigration, NAACP, Plantations, Politics and Society 1960-75, Slavery and the Law, Vietnam War, and Women's Rights. |
| • Coverage Range: varies; 1770s to 1975 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| A citation-only database that includes articles from English-language periodicals on such subjects as Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Criminal Justice, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Gender Studies, Geography, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology. Articles in this database were published between 1907 and 1984. Use the library's "Get It!" button to obtain materials with no direct full-text link. |
| • Coverage Range: 1907 to 1984 |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: EBSCO (WilsonWeb) |
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| A full-text database that covers journal articles in Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, and Religion. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+ |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: EBSCO (WilsonWeb) |
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| Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world in all aspects of the humanities. FOR CITATION SEARCHING: Click the "More" button at the top of the search screen, then click "Cited References." |
| • Coverage Range: Mid-1970s - present |
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| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| Maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data from around the world for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. |
| • Coverage Range: 1850 to present |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
| • Vendor: University of Michigan |
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| Important and rare periodicals from Confederate, Union, abolitionist, and British presses. Includes illustrations from issues published from 1860 to 1865. |
| • Coverage Range: 1860-1865 |
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| • Vendor: Harper's Weekly |
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| A complete guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Other topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law and globalization. Also included are classic texts by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and others,
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| • Coverage Range: 1891-present |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
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| • Coverage Range: 1850 to present |
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| • Vendor: Cornell University |
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| Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. |
| • Coverage Range: see description |
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| • Vendor: University of Michigan |
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| Fully searchable, full-text copies of articles and images from 1851 to 2008. |
| • Coverage Range: 1851-2008 |
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| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| Primary source material in Western as well as non-Western languages, sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions around the globe. Includes (1) British Politics and Society: sources related to the political climate in Great Britain; (2) European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection: full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more – with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers. (3) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange: covering international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century, including government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more; (4) British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. |
| • Coverage Range: 19th Century |
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| • Vendor: Gale |
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| Designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Useful as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| • Vendor: Ebsco |
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| Provides access to over 14,000 surveys conducted in the United States, as well as countries around the world. It includes surveys from a variety of pollsters and detailed information on the questions. |
| • Coverage Range: 1986 - present |
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| • Vendor: ORS Publishing |
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| Statistical tables (summary profiles) showing downloadable data on U.S. population, business, and geography for the nation, and for individual states, counties, and large cities (pop. >25,000). |
| • Coverage Range: Last U.S. census. |
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| • Vendor: U.S. Census Bureau |
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| Includes ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to racial relations.
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| • Coverage Range: 1975-present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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| Contains full-text searchable books and pamphlets reflecting both sides of the American slavery debate. Includes first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions, anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and early secondary works.
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| • Vendor: Dickinson College / Millerville University |
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| A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature and conference proceedings of the social sciences. Also has the capacity to conduct a cited reference search and create a citations map. |
| • Coverage Range: 1900 to present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: THOMSON REUTERS |
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| Covers English-language periodicals, published in the Unites States or internationally, in sociology, anthropology, psychology, geography, economics, political science, and law. Indexes material from 1983-present, includes abstracts for material 1984-present and contains some full-text for 1994 to present. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1984+ and “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| • Vendor: EBSCO (WilsonWeb) |
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| Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
Advanced search tools include Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms, an aid for picking search terms. |
| • Coverage Range: 1963 to present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: ProQuest |
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| The official U.S. government web page for census information. Covers demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics of the United States population, as well as business, industry and trade data.
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| • Coverage Range: 2002 - present |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • Vendor: U.S. Census Bureau |
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| Covers essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, and urban history. |
| • Coverage Range: 1973-present |
| • Citations Only |
| • Vendor: EBSCO |
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