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African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion.
The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
The American West contains primary documents covering frontier life, Native American life, the rise of the railways, and much more, and includes the papers of early pioneers and explorers, early emigrants, ranchers, and more.
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
C19 forms the bibliographic spine of 19th century research. It comprises tens of millions of records and provides integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material. It includes: Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, The Nineteenth Century, American Periodicals, British Periodicals, Cotgreave's Index, An Index to Legal Periodical Literature, Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811–1849, Periodicals Index Online, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Stead's Index to Periodical Literature, The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, The U.S. Serial Set, Archive Finder, Palmer's Index to The Times, The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors, and Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism.
Digital National Security Archive has "the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945."
Digital Theatre+ contains hundreds of classic and contemporary productions in live-capture and audio formats, including insights from casts, creatives, and academics. Also contains thousands of pages of written resources, including essays, guides, lesson plans, and more.
Films on Demand provide every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study.
Compare global economies, countries, and industries with in-depth analysis on over 400,000 companies.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 provides access to hundreds of searchable Hispanic American newspapers published in the United States. It is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project”.
ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) "established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. [It] maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction...ICPSR does not provide publications, reports, or ready-made statistics,... [but instead supplies] the numeric raw data used to create publications, reports, and figures."
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America is a collection of manuscripts, artwork, speeches, diaries, essays, correspondence, maps, and more covering areas such as American Indians and the European Powers, American Indians and the US Government, military encounters, cultural encounters, the native American civil rights movement, and more.
Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of poll data anywhere — from 1935 to present. Contains data from U.S. and international polling firms with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. International and U.S. datasets available for immediate download.
JSTOR is a full image database of back issues of scholarly journals in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.
Life Magazine Archive 1936-2000 consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1936 of the American variety magazine Life, published by Time Inc.
The New York Times covers a variety of topics through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. In addition, you will be able to share content on social networks, save articles of interest, subscribe to email newsletters and set up personalized alerts. Once activated access to NYTimes.com is available from any location, on or off campus. Please take a minute at the beginning of the semester to activate your subscription. Faculty and staff will need to renew annually whereas students will have access until their anticipated graduation date.
To use this tool: you must first REGISTER HERE to sign up and activate your access to NYTimes.com. Follow the simple instructions. Once activated, your Pass will provide access to NYTimes.com from any location. To download your free NYT apps: visit nytimes.com/mobile.
Newsweek Magazine Archive 1933-2012 comprises 80 years of news reporting and commentary, charting the key US and global events during this period.
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) "is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin."
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Austin American Statesman provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1871 – 1980
Social Sciences Full Text covers "a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals." It also includes full text/full image articles.
SocINDEX with Full Text has millions of citations and articles, from thousands of journals (some going back to 1895), plus conference papers, books, and other items.
Time Magazine Archive 1923-2000 consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1923 of the American popular magazine Time, published by Time Inc.

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