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  • Offers access to over 6,000 titiles, including the following publications: American Foreign Relations Since 1600;American Slavery; Daily Life Through History;Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors; Historic Events of the 20th Century; Literature in Context.

     

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly databases offering many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1910 - present
  • "American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography" is a collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States complied from nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1600 - 1900
  • ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • ARTFL consists of over 3000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
  • The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Records describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from sources including Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1979 - present
  • Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • NewspaperCat is an online database providing links to over 1000 full-text digital newspapers in the United States and Caribbean.

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  • CenStats provides access to several popular Census Bureau databases, including: Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex, USA Counties, and 1990 Public Law 94-171 Data.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Sept. 1988 - present
  • CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Contains bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Clase: 1975 - present; Periodica: 1978 - present
  • The definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Search across all CQ Electronic Library collections: CQ Almanac Online, CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, The CQ Researcher Online, CQ Weekly. 

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The Current Digest provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1949 -present
  • It is a collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 4th Century BC- 21st Century
  • The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
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    The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1945 - 2002; updated annually
  • Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) online edition delivers exact page-images of the original bound reprint edition, containing more than 100,000 cases, together with the Indexes and Book of Charts.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1220 - 1867
  • This database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: pre 1750
  • Black Americans of all political persuasions were subject to federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution. The FBI enlisted black "confidential special informants" to infiltrate a variety of organizations. Hundreds of documents in this collection were originated by such operatives. The reports provide a wealth of detail on "Negro" radicals and their organizations that can be found nowhere else.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1920 - 1984
  • Harper's Weekly;  the Civil War Era and Reconstruction I and II

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1857 - 1877
  • Contains more than 1,200 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Retrieve articles by citation, browse, or search across nearly 50 million pages of content.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • HeritageQuest presents a varied and in-depth set of data for genealogists and historians. Includes data from all of the U.S. Censuses until 1930, an index of 6,500 local history and genealogy periodicals (PERSI), a database of Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant, plus the full text of 25,000 local histories and family histories.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1790-1930
  • Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1955 - present
  • This five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Pre-Colonial America - present
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals from some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1907-1984
  • An in-depth index of more than 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.


    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Contains electronic resources for the study and teaching of Medieval and Renaissance studies.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 400 - 1700
  • Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The Legal Classics library offers more than 1,800 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Henry Maine, Frederick William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Edwardo Coke and many more!

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
  • DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues since 1945. Over 55,000 of the most important, declassified primary documents – totaling more than 420,000 pages – are included in the database.

     

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1945 - 2002; updated annually
  • Encyclopedia of North Carolina - short entries

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Digital archives for the New York Times

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1851-2009
  • Full text of letters and diaries. The collection includes bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 7,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: Colonial to 1950
  • Visit the website to search and browse more than 300 directories from cities and towns across North Carolina from the 1860s to the 1930s.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1860s - 1930s
  • Selective index of articles in North Carolina periodicals.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1992 - present; updated regularly
  • 57,000+ biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
    From the earliest times to the year 2000.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
  • Published in Philadelphia The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1728 - 1800
  • Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by title; updated monthly
  • The Public Affairs Information Services database provides information on public affairs, public and social policies and international relations. PAIS includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1915 - Present
  • Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1890 - 1982
  • The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 makes 221 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history, literature, culture, business, art and architecture, and more. Every complete page of every issue is full-text searchable — every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1785 – 2006
  • This library includes all U.S. treaties, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • A multidiscipinary collection of academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.

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  • Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1963 - present
  • Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of US Politics; The World Almanac for Kids; and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1998 - present
  • Database of country profiles produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: Current; Updated: Annually
  • Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: 1200 - present; Updated daily
  • This database contains records for over 5 million items cataloged as dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations, in WorldCat, including titles provided by NetLibrary. The database allows users to quickly and efficiently retrieve records for theses and dissertations.

    [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
  • The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System is the National Counterterrorism Center's database of terrorist incidents.

    Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
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