Primary History Databases & Article Indexes

America: History and Life
Also Known as: America History and Life
History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present....   [more]
Holdings: 1964 to present. Updated three times a year.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

Primary History Databases & Article Indexes

19th Century Masterfile
Also Known as: Poole's Plus, Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Indexing to 19th century periodicals. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which includes date and title information not in the print version, Stead's Index to Periodicals (18...   [more]

Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers five separate web-based resources, four of which are collections of historic American Newspapers and one of which is a genealogical source. ...   [more]
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American National Biography
Also Known as: ANB
The American National Biography (ANB) is the successor to The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)(1926-1937). As such, it is a source of biographical information on Americans of significance, both ...   [more]

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Also Known as: APS Online
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine...   [more]
Holdings: 1740-1900

DigiZeitschriften
Also Known as: Digi Zeitschriften
DigiZeitschriften provides full-text access to over 100 scholarly journals published in Germany or neighboring countries since the late 1700s. The journals are in German, English, or other European la...   [more]

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Also Known as: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
American publications from 1639 to 1800. Browsable by subject, genre, author, etc....   [more]

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
Also Known as: shaw shoemaker
The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides publishe...   [more]

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United State...   [more]
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ECCO 18th Century Collections Online
Also Known as: ECCO, Eighteenth century collections online
"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-tex...   [more]

EEBO: Early English Books Online
Also Known as: Early English Books Online; Short Title Catalogue; Wing; Pollard and Redgrave
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented...   [more]
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Google Scholar
Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Goo...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
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    Access Google Scholar without authenticating as a Penn user
    proxied Google Scholar connection

Index to Early American Periodicals
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Librar...   [more]

International Medieval Bibliography
Also Known as: IMB
You will need to click on the "enter database" button to get to IMB. The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), the world's leading bibliography of Medieval Studies and an essential ...   [more]
Holdings: 1967-
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
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    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)
    JSTOR on Mobile devices

Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: LA TImes, ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1985)
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of LA Times from 1881-1986....   [more]
Holdings: 1881-1986

New York Times (1851-2012), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and avail...   [more]
Holdings: 1851-2011

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Also Known as: NAWLD
Fulltext of letters and diaries, published and manuscript, of American women during the Colonial period through 1950. Biographical information is provided for each writer. Primary source materials are...   [more]

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

State Papers Online
Also Known as: State Papers Online, 1509-1714
--State Papers Online, 1509-1714: Part I: The Tudors, Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
--State Papers Online, 1509-1714: Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I,...   [more]
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Wall Street Journal (1889-2001), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: wsj, ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Wall Street Journal
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers

Full-text of the Wall Street Journal. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, financial quotes, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printin...   [more]
Holdings: 1889-1999

Important History Databases & Article Indexes

17th-18th Century Burney Collection
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
Newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) and held by the British Library digitized and made available online. This represents the largest and most comprehen...   [more]

19th Century British Library Newspapers Parts 1 & 2
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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19th Century UK Periodicals, Part 2: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary, and Colonia
Also Known as: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary & Colonial
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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19th Century US Newspapers (NCNP)
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Academic Video Online
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Afghanistan In 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War
- from Archives Unbound
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Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Offers access to information about the cultural life and history in the 1800s, including first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, Also contains early biographies, vital statistic...   [more]
Holdings: Parts 1 - 12
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Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification " 1883-1886
- from Archives Unbound
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AM Search
Also Known as: Adam Matthew Search
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America's Historical Imprints: Early American Imprints Series I and II, 1639-1819
Includes Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 ...   [more]

American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776
"Peter Force, printer and document collector, intended to publish rare pamphlets, correspondence, and proceedings relating to the "Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America" th...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

American Bibliography of Slavic and Eastern European Studies
Also Known as: ABSEES
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union....   [more]
Holdings: 1990 to the present, selective coverage before 1990. Updated monthly.

American Film Institute Catalog
Also Known as: afi catalog
American film information for the years 1893-1972 produced by the American Film Institute (AFI). The film experts at AFI update and add new records twice yearly and are working on completing their cov...   [more]

American History in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893
- from Archives Unbound
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American Indian Law Collection
Also Known as: HeinOnline's American Indian law collection , HeinOnline American Indian law collection
- from HeinOnline
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American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
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    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: APCRL
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American Presidency Project
Contains a number of resources relevant to studies on the American presidency: Public Papers of the Presidents, 1789-2007, State of the Union messages and addresses, inaugural addresses, radio address...   [more]
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American Slavery Debate: In the Context of Atlantic History
Access to 320+ downloadable documents that illustrate the myriad of international influences that affected American attitudes toward slavery and antislavery between the American Revolution and the Civ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Also Known as: An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
More than 10,000 digitized items. While the broadside format represents the bulk of the collection, there are a significant number of leaflets and some pamphlets. Rich in variety, the collection inclu...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. T...   [more]

Antislavery in New England (UMass Archive)
The Antislavery Collection contains several hundred printed pamphlets and books pertaining to slavery and antislavery in New England, 1725-1911. The holdings include speeches, sermons, proceedings and...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
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Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1988
Section I: 1948-1966, Section II: 1967-1975, Section III: 1976-1980, Section IV: Resistance, Sanctions and Reform...   [more]
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Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1983)
Combined HW Wilson journal article indexes: Industrial Arts Index (1913-1958), Business Periodicals Index (1958-1982), Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983). Articles cover some of the most i...   [more]
Holdings: 1913 - 1983

Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
Also Known as: ACLL
A full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 A.D., spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, p...   [more]

Archives Unbound
- from Archives Unbound
"Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. " We c...   [more]
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    browse Archives Unbound by collection

Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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ARTFL
The ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction p...   [more]
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A&HCI (WOK Web of Science)
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ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and cr...   [more]
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    Help - technical help
    Help - general index
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    Search ArtStor

biab : The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography
Also Known as: British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
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Unrestricted Access

Bibliography of Asian Studies
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

Bibliography of British and Irish History
Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 5...   [more]

Bibliography of Native North Americans
Also Known as: bnna
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Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving
The Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European la...   [more]
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Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
- from Archives Unbound
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Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Black Literature Index
- from Black Studies Center
"This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to co...   [more]

Black Studies Center
Resource combining the Chicago Defender online (1910-1975), the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and a variety of multimedia resources exploring ...   [more]

BOPCRIS
Indexing for selections among British parliamentary papers....   [more]
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British and Foreign State Papers 1812-1968
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British Cabinet Papers, 1915-1979
The Cabinet is the main body that controls policy and coordinates activities of governmental departments. It is chaired by the Prime Minister and consists of most of the ministerial heads of departmen...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

British History Online
A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles." Includes sources for parliamentary, ecclesiastical and ...   [more]
Holdings: Access to freely available content only.

British Humanities Index: BHI
- from CSA Databases
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as qual...   [more]
Holdings: coverage begins in 1962-

British Periodicals
Also Known as: Proquest British Periodicals
British Periodicals tracks the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and into the 20th ce...   [more]
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Broadsides from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, tre...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
A project of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Center for Research Libraries-U.S. Ethnic Newspapers Database
ethnic, newspapers, alternative, race, news, crl...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Center for Research Libraries: Newspapers Database
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Unrestricted Access

Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive Module 1 1920-1979...   [more]
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Chicano Database
Covers all types of materials relating to Mexican-American topics and, for materials published since 1992, broader topics relating to Latinos....   [more]
Holdings: 1967 to present.
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Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
- from Archives Unbound
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Chinese Recorder and the Protestant Missionary Community in China 1867-1941
- from Archives Unbound
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Christian Periodical Database, 1800-1923
Periodicals published by Christian organizations prior to 1923. Includes periodicals of established (Catholic, Episcopal, etc.), emerging (Adventist, Holiness, Mormon, etc.) and alternative (Theosophi...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Christian Science Monitor (1908-1999), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1908-1999

Chronicling America: Historical American Newspapers, 1880-1922
Also Known as: Washington Bee
Digitized versions of selected newspapers covering the period from 1900-1910, including the African American newspaper the Washington Bee....   [more]
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Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Also Known as: CMS I, CMS II
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CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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CIA Family Jewels Indexed
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Colonial State Papers
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Constitutions of the World Online
Also Known as: Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century Online
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Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons 1936-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Critical Writing: Galileo
Spring 2013 Critical Writing course taught by Dan Cheely...   [more]

Current Digest of the Russian Press Archive (1949-2013)
Also Known as: Current Digest of the Soviet Press , Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
- from East View Resources
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Holdings: 1949-2013

Darwin Correspondence Project
800 letters written and received by Darwin. "For the first time online you can now read the full texts of nearly 800 letters Darwin wrote and received during 1871, the year in which his controversial ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Densho Digital Archive of the Japanese American Experience
The Densho Digital Archive holds a wealth of visual history interviews and other materials that broadly document the Japanese American experience. These unique primary sources cover a span of history ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie Online
Also Known as: Dictionary of German Biography
This online edition of Dictionary of German Biography (DBE) provides information about people from all aspects of public life: men and women from the entire German-speaking area from the time of the v...   [more]

Digital Archives, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, personal papers and other material digitized and made available by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Digital Islam: Theses on EThOS
Freely accessible UK dissertations on Islam. One must register to download material....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts with contributions from multiple libraries including the University of Pennsylvania Rare Books and Manuscripts coll...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
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Early Republic: Critical Editions on the Founding of the United States
Also Known as: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Online edition of Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (Johns Hopkins Press). Primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members...   [more]

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Holdings: 1843-2020
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Education Index Retrospective (1929 - 1983)
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Holdings: 1929 - 1983

Eighteenth Century Journals
Also Known as: 18th Century Journals, Eighteenth Century Journals Portal, 18th Century Journals Portal, 18th C Journals Portal, Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1815
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El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Electing the President: Proceedings of the Democratic National Conventions, 1832-1988
- from Archives Unbound
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Electing the President: Proceedings of the Republican National Conventions, 1856-1988
- from Archives Unbound
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Electronic Enlightenment
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Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Electronic Theses Online Service - British Library EThOS
Search more than 250,000 British doctoral dissertations and theses. Obtain free e-versions online or request digitization....   [more]
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Empire online
Manuscript and printed materials pertaining to the history of colonialism, 1492-1962. Primarily British. ...   [more]
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Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- from ABC-CLIO ebooks
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English Short Title Catalogue
Also Known as: ESTC
The English Short Title Catalogue provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, as well as for...   [more]
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European Navigator
Contains over 16 000 documents on the European integration process. The key post-war historical events and the European organisations are presented chronologically and thematically, and are illustrate...   [more]
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European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
Also Known as: European Americana
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Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions 1835-1910
- from Archives Unbound
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Evans TCP
Also Known as: Evans Early American Imprint Collection, Evans Text Creation Partnership, Evans Digital Collection TCP
The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text...   [more]

Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Also Known as: Medieval Feminist Index
The Index aims to become a reliable guide to the scholarship on women and gender during the Middles Ages, providing timely coverage, a wide range of publications indexed on a regular basis, and a thor...   [more]
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Filmakers Library Online
- from Alexander Street Press
Filmakers Library is a multidisciplinary collection of over 1,400 documentaries made from 1974 to the present by independent filmmakers from around the world that can now be streamed over computer. Th...   [more]

First World War
Also Known as: Adam Matthew First World War Databases
The First World War portal from Adam Matthew showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features. The three available...   [more]
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First World War Centenary Partnership: The Imperial War Museum
A collaborative effort that includes databases of podcasts, photos and images, and history. Intended for exploration and discovery. ...   [more]
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First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video. The collections include primary material from major poets of the period, includ...   [more]
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First World War: Personal Experiences
Also Known as: Adam Matthew First World War Databases
This database from Adam Matthew showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features.The First World War: Personal Exp...   [more]
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First World War: Visual Perspectives and Narratives
Also Known as: Adam Matthew First World War Databases
Visual Perspectives and Narratives features a diverse range of unique material from the holdings of Imperial War Museums. Through various visual and documentary resources, such as official and persona...   [more]
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1929
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Foreign Office Files for China, 1930-1937
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Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948
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Foreign Office files for China, 1949-1976
Complete UK documents collection in searchable fulltext, being FO 371 (General Correspondence from Political Departments, UK Foreign Office): China and FCO 21 (Registered Files [F and FE series] from ...   [more]
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Foreign Office Files: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Also Known as: Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan , Foreign Office Files for India Pakistan and Afghanistan
Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964
Section II: South Asian conflicts and independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971
Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emerge...   [more]
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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
Also Known as: Franklin D Roosevelt and Race Relations 1933-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Gale Primary Sources
Also Known as: Artemis Primary Sources
From Gale Primary Resources. Artemis provides an interface to cross search a growing number of primary resource databases. Searching for term frequency, and term clustering, visualizations, as well as...   [more]

Gale Primary Sources (Law Resources)
Also Known as: Artemis Making of Modern Law, Artemis Primary Sources (Law Resources)
MOML 1; Legal Treatises 1800-1926 MOML 2: Primary Sources MOML 3: Trials 1600-1926...   [more]

German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
- from Archives Unbound
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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Google Ngram Viewer--corpus search
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Guerra Civil Espanola / The Spanish Civil War Collection
Also Known as: La Guerra Civil Espana
- from Archives Unbound
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Guide to record society publications, 1982-
List of publications of English and Scottish historical and antiquarian societies....   [more]
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    rlg interface 03/01/05

Hansard, 1803-2005
Digital version of the Hansard, the official printed transcripts of the debates that took place in the British Parliament from the 19th century onwards....   [more]
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HeinOnline
Also Known as: Hein Online
Legal research database containing fulltext documents (PDF) organized into collections including: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Libr...   [more]
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

Historical Abstracts plus America History and Life
Also Known as: Historical Abstracts + America History and Life, Historical Abstracts and America History and Life
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History of Afghanistan Online
Also Known as: HAO
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

Hollywood, Moral Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
- from Archives Unbound
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Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution Of Nazi War Crimes
Also Known as: Holocuast and the Records of Concentration Camp Trials
- from Archives Unbound
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House and Senate Journals, 1789-1875
Minutes of the legislative chambers. They include lists of the House and Senate's official work on bills, resolutions, and votes....   [more]
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IBZ Online
Also Known as: IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) Aims and Scope has been the leading international and interdisciplinary reference work documenting a...   [more]

Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts (Mid-Atlantic)
Also Known as: Local and Regional History Online (Mid-Atlantic)
- from Alexander Street Press
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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
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Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

Index Islamicus
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world in general, including Muslims in Africa and Asia and major Muslim minorities worldwide. Topics covered inc...   [more]
Holdings: 1906-present.

Indexes and Guides to Western European Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department
- from Archives Unbound
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India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966
- from Archives Unbound
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Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920
Also Known as: Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920
- from Archives Unbound
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Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie & Company
Also Known as: Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company
- from Archives Unbound
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Indigenous Peoples: North America
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Industrial Mobilization in Britain and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1918
- from Archives Unbound
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iPOLL
Also Known as: Roper Center, RPOLL
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Question-level data from public opinion polls. Almost 400,000 questions from polls, 1935 to present, based upon Roper Center-archived surveys with US national adult samples...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to present. Updated daily.

Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
Also Known as: DNSA
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Irish History Online
"Irish History Online is an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains approximately 72,000 bibliographic ...   [more]
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Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte Online
Also Known as: Jahresberichte f, r deutsche Geschichte
Includes 200,000 entries, 1986-. ...   [more]
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Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977-1992
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
Also Known as: DNSA
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Japan at War and Peace 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
- from Archives Unbound
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Japan Times Archive
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Holdings: 1897-2014
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Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
- from Archives Unbound
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JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
JARDA contains thousands of Japanese American internment primary source materials: Personal diaries, letters, photographs, and drawings, US War Relocation Authority materials, including camp newslette...   [more]
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Jewish Life in America, c.1654-1954
Also Known as: Jewish Life in America , Jewish Life in America c1654-1954
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Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection
- from Archives Unbound
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Johnson's Russia List (JRL)
this contemporary news blog focused on Russia, its politics and foreign relations is a project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University's...   [more]
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Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) 1957-1994
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Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations
Journal of the proceedings of Her Majesty's Commissioners for promoting the trade of this Kingdom, and for inspecting and improving her plantations in America and elsewhere...   [more]

King and the People in Morocco 1950-1959: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Morocco
- from Archives Unbound
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L'Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la criation de la France moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France)
Also Known as: Affaire Dreyfus , Dreyfus Affair
- from Archives Unbound
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Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World
A collection of Latin texts and photos of archaeological sites focused on Rome. Includes digitized reference sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. ...   [more]
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Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918
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Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers Project
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London Lives 1690-1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
"London Lives contains enough documentary material to reconstruct the lives, or significant portions of the lives, of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who lived in the eighteenth century, including ...   [more]
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London's Past Online
"London's Past Online is a fully searchable, online bibliography of published material relating to the history of Greater London."...   [more]
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Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
the term primary sources is used not in the historian's sense of a manuscript, letter, or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute, or regulation. Designed to complement The Making of ...   [more]

Manuscripts Relating to Slavery: New-York Historical Society
The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. T...   [more]
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March of Time, 1935-1967
Also Known as: The March of Time
- from Alexander Street Press
"With its first appearance on American motion picture screens in February 1935, The March of Time. startled journalists, filmmakers, and audiences alike with its controversial topics and unique approa...   [more]

MCC 18th Century Dutch Slave Trade Archives
The Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC) was a Dutch trading company established in 1720 in the Zeeland capital of Middelburg in The Netherlands. After the monopoly of the Dutch West India Company...   [more]
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Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Also Known as: MEMSO
Resource for the study of Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800), including key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history...   [more]

Metalib
MetaLib is a library portal providing end users with an easy and personalized interface which can search simultaneously for information in a variety of electronic resources, such as catalogs, referenc...   [more]
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Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Middle East Online Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970
- from Archives Unbound
A sampler of more than 1,000 documents providing more than 200,000 pages of documents from the National Archives UK covering Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Balfour Declaration (1917)...   [more]

Middle East Online Series 2: Iraq 1914-1974
Also Known as: IRAQ 1914-1974: THE MIDDLE EAST ONLINE SERIES 2
- from Archives Unbound
A sampler of more than 3,000 documents from the National Archives UK selected to illustrate internal politics in Iraq, British colonial and foreign relations with Iraq, and Iraq in world politics duri...   [more]

Monthly Catalog (1951-)
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Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976
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Nazi Bank and Financial Institutions: U.S. Military Government Investigation Reports and Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, 1945-1949
- from Archives Unbound
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Nazism In Poland: The Diary Of Governor-General Hans Frank
- from Archives Unbound
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NDB ADB Deutsche Biographie
Also Known as: Neue Deutsche Biographie
The online version of the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (23 volumes Aachen to Schwarz) and the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie (ADB) (56 volumes 1875-1912) together providing biographical entrie...   [more]
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New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present
Also Known as: New World Cinema
- from Alexander Street Press
200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors, and 50+ award-winning shorts. Detailed title-level indexing allows viewers immediately to identify films with social, cultural, or ...   [more]

New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1922-1993

New York Legal Research Library
New York Statutes, Session Laws, Attorney General and Comptroller Reports, State Reports, Trials and related material....   [more]

Newsbank Access World News
Also Known as: NewsBank National Newspapers , America's Newspapers , Access World News , News Bank
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, ...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with title, 1970s or more recent to present.
    NewsBank U.S. Newspapers

Newspaper Carriers' Addresses
"Carriers' addresses were published by newspapers, usually on January 1, and distributed in the United States for more than two centuries. The custom originated in England and was introduced here duri...   [more]
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Newspapers of the French Revolution of 1848
- from Archives Unbound
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Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
Also Known as: NCCO, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Corvey Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
NCCO, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: 1: British Politics and Society, 2: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, 3: British Theatre, Music, and Literature, 4: Corvey Collection of ...   [more]
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Nuremburg Laws And Nazi Annulment Of Jewish German Nationality
- from Archives Unbound
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Opinion Archives Metasearch
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Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Also Known as: Orlando Project
"Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. "...   [more]

PAIS International
Also Known as: Public Affairs Information Service, PAIS Archive
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, educa...   [more]
Holdings: 1915-
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    Journal List (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)
    Broad Topics Classification (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)

Pamphlets from the Harvard College Library
As one of a few institutions to have consistently collected pamphlets published during the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, Harvard holds tens of thousands of these pamphlets, covering d...   [more]
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Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Also Known as: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
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Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition
Also Known as: The Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition
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Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition
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Papers of John Marshall
Also Known as: The Papers of John Marshall, Rotunda, American Founding Era
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Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800
Fire destroyed the War Department office in 1800. For decades historians believed that its files, and the window they provide into the early federal government, had been lost forever. This collection ...   [more]
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Papers of Thomas Jefferson
"Since 1950, Jefferson's writings have been compiled in the ongoing project The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Rotunda's digital edition brings together all thirty-three volumes published through 2006 in...   [more]

PERSEE
This is a documentary portal of French social and human science journals, created by the education nationale. Users must register before accessing this resource. Provides partial fulltext for Annale...   [more]
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Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Philadelphia Historical Land and Vital Records
Also Known as: Historic Land and Vital Records
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Philadelphia Neighborhoods Project Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Also Known as: Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures
Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures is a free, searchable database of neighborhood-based reports issued by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. The dat...   [more]
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PhilaDox - Philadelphia Land Records Search
Also Known as: Land Record search; philadox
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Philly History
Also Known as: Phillyhistory.org
Freely available resuorce. Register by creating your own login and password. The City's Archives contain over 2 million photo records that date from the late 1800's. PhillyHistory.org contains a growi...   [more]
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Philological Museum, The
A site devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British, published under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham. This site consists of two parts: Library of Huma...   [more]
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
- from Archives Unbound
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Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and the Daughters of Bilitis
- from Archives Unbound
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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1911-2002

POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials
Contains the full text of current, recent, and back issues of 30 philosophy journals. Every word in each journal issue in the database is fully searchable, including all articles, book reviews, footno...   [more]

Policing the Shanghai International Settlement 1894-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Prisoner of the First World War: The ICRC Archives
The Prisoner of War archives of the International Red Cross are being opened up. Individual data on prisoners of war will be posted gradually over the year 2014. Altogether, 5 million cards on prisone...   [more]
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Project Muse
Also Known as: Muse
Project Muse provides full text access to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Coverage begins in 1995 or more recently and in most cases c...   [more]

Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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Proquest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal...   [more]
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ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 1: Federal Government Records
Also Known as: History Vault , Black Freedom , ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom I Digital Archive
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 2: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Europe, and Latin America, 1960-1969
Also Known as: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Europe, and Latin America, 1960-1969
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ProQuest History Vault: NAACP Papers 2: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 1 Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
Also Known as: NAACP
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 3: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 2 Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 4: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 3 Legal Department Files
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 5: Special Subjects 1912-1972
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: Slavery and the Law
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
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ProQuest History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
Also Known as: ProQuest History Vault (Vietnam War) , Vietnam War
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Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals
- from Archives Unbound
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Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy (Wikileaks)
Also Known as: Wikileaks
More than 3 million U.S. diplomatic cables, including Kissinger-era and Carter-era declassified cables from 1973 to 1979 and Cablegate cables obtained by Wikileaks and not declassified from 2003-2010....   [more]
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Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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Rastafari Ephemeral Publications From The Written Rastafari Archives Project
- from Archives Unbound
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Also Known as: readers guide, reader's guide, wilson
Provides comprehensive indexing of the popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, ...   [more]

Readex All-Search
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Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
A fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707....   [more]
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Researchers list and bibliography of Ottoman travel accounts to Europe
Compiled by Caspar Hillebrand. Part of the series: Working Papers of the BMBF project Europe from the outside Formations of Middle Eastern views on Europe from inside Europe. Sponsored by Univers...   [more]
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SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries
- from Archives Unbound
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Sanborn Maps of New Jersey (retrospective)
Link, courtesy of Princeton Univ. Library, to scanned, historical Sanborn Maps for many New Jersey locations. This link takes you to an index page. Click on the name of the NJ county in which a town...   [more]
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Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
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Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
Also Known as: The Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
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Sexbiblio
Also Known as: Bibliography of the history of western sexuality / 1700-1945
A selective index of non-belletristic primary and secondary literature on the history of sex and sexuality in Europe, the United States, and Canada, 1700-1945. Also includes selected titles in ancient...   [more]
Holdings: 1700-1945
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs & Expositions: Visions Of Tomorrow
Also Known as: Worlds fairs, World's Fair, Smithsonian Collections Online
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Soundtoll Registers Online
Documentary database consisting of Norwegian and Danish ships ' registers for the Baltic and North Seas trade...   [more]
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South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Spectator Project
Also Known as: Spectator; Tatler, Rambler
An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), Johnson's Rambler and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. Users wishing to view the pa...   [more]
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Stokeley Carmichael: FBI Report
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Taxation and Economic Reform in America, A Historical Archive
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1781-2009

The Baseball Index
The Baseball Index (TBI) is a free catalog to baseball literature. It encompasses books, magazine articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs, poems, cartoons, advertising, or anything els...   [more]
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The Black Power Movement: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1962-1996
This collection of Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) consists of the personal files of RAM founder and National Field Chairman Muhammad Ahmad and of RAM members John H. Bracey Jr. and ...   [more]

The Black Power Movement: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1965-1976
This collection of records of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) consists of the personal files collected by General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the founding members of the Dodge Revolution...   [more]

The British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations & the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem
Also Known as: British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations and the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem
- from Archives Unbound
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The Louverture Project: a free Haitian history resource
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The Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
Also Known as: Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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The Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
Also Known as: Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
- from Archives Unbound
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The Republic of New Afrika: Independence, Reparations, and Citizenship
Also Known as: Republic of New Afrika
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The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Also Known as: War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
Also Known as: tlg
The TLG was founded in 1972 to digitize the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. It now includes over 6,500 works by over 1,800 authors and is fully searchable online...   [more]

Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations 1989-1993
- from Archives Unbound
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Times Digital Archive (1785-2009)
Also Known as: Times Digital Archive, London Times, Times of London
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
The archive allows key word searching of articles appearing in the Times of London from 1785-2009. Click on "Home" and then "News Vault" to search all historical newspapers hosted by Gale Cengage and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1785-2009

Times of India (1838 - 2005), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1838 - 2005

Translated Texts for Historians E-Library
Also Known as: TTH E-Library , Translated Texts for Historians
Fully searchable scholarly translations from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian and Armenian of texts published between 300 and 800 AD; from late antiquity to the early middle ages. ...   [more]
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U.K. Parliamentary Papers (1689-present)
Also Known as: 18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, HCPP, 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, UK Parliamentary Papers, House of Lords Parliamentary Papers
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U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid 1950-1958
- from Archives Unbound
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
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    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

U.S. Newspaper Program Newspaper Directory
The Newspaper Title Directory is derived from the library catalog records created by state institutions during the NEH-sponsored United States Newspaper Program (http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html)...   [more]
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United Kingdom Legislation, 1215-
This database contains both the full text of unconsolidated United Kingdom Statutes from 1988- to date and the full text of Primary legislation of the following types as held and maintained on The UK ...   [more]
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Urban History Bibliography
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
Access is by IP user domain. Users must be on campus or in a Penn residence hall.

The Visual History Archive works best on PC using Internet Explorer 6 or later as the browser. IE is ...   [more]

Victorian Culture Online: Exeter Digital Collections
Images of popular ephemera and other types of popular culture. ...   [more]
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Vietnam Project
Also Known as: The Vietnam Project
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Washington Post (1877-2004), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: Washington Post
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1877-2004

Waterloo directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800-1900
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Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Western Front (World War I)
Also Known as: World War I (Western Front)
A bibliographic article within the the Oxford International Relations Bibliography Online. "Seeks to focus on books that are based in extensive primary research and advance original or otherwise influ...   [more]

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Scholars Edition
A searchable collection of primary documents and images on a wide range of topics pertaining to U.S. women's history. The new Scholar's Edition features enhanced content and search tools that make it...   [more]

Women, War and Society, 1914-1918
Also Known as: Archives Unbound
- from Archives Unbound
The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this ...   [more]

World Constitutions Illustrated
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World News Connection
Also Known as: WNC
English translations of non-U.S. media sources....   [more]
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World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
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    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

World War I and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1918
Also Known as: Archives Unbound
- from Archives Unbound
This collection documents the Russian entrance into World War I and culminates in reporting on the Revolution in Russia in 1917 and 1918. The documents consist primarily of correspondence between the ...   [more]

World War I Pamphlet Collection @ Penn
Also Known as: First World War Pamphlet Collection
Pamphlets from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries collections digitized and available through Print at Penn, The Internat Archives, and Hathi Trust. ...   [more]
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Zeitschriftendatenbank
Also Known as: ZDB
The worlds largest specialized database for serial titles (journals, annuals, newspapers etc., incl. e-journals), managed by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The ZDB contains more than 1.6 million bib...   [more]
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ZENON DAI : Deutsches Archaologisches Institut catalog
Zenon represents freely available digital access to the complete inventory of the Romisch-Germanischen-Kommission (RGK) . Zenon includes digitized journals, ebooks, databases from the RGK collections ...   [more]
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Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

ATLA Religion Database
Covers all religious traditions; strongest coverage is for materials dealing with the Judeo-Christian tradition. While about half of the material included is in English. Includes materials published...   [more]
Holdings: 1949 to the present. Updated two times a year.

Bibliography Of Ugaritic Grammar And Biblical Hebrew Grammar In The Twentieth Century (Mark S. Smith)
Oriental Institute Reaserach Archives, University of Chicago...   [more]
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Chronicon
"Chronicon: Fachportal fur Geschichtswissenschaften ist ein Informationssystem zur allgemeinen und europdischen Geschichte. Hier kvnnen Sie digitalen Sammlungen und andere Angebote der Bayerischen Sta...   [more]
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Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
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CRM Online
The online publication of the National Park Service, Cultural Resource Management....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
Also Known as: DOE Corpus
Fulltext of all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts. Texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial sentences. Units are retrieved through string, boolea...   [more]

Digital Library of the Caribbean
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean c...   [more]
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EconLit
Also Known as: Econ Lit CSA
- from CSA Databases
Covers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Book reviews (1994- ), Dissertations (1987- ), Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (1984- ).Updated monthly.
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    Journal List (AEA)
    JEL Classification Codes Guide (AEA)

EEBO: Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured ...   [more]
Holdings: 1470-1700

eHRAF Archaeology
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Modeled after HRAFs Collection of Ethnography, the Collection of Archaeology provides access to archaeological materials for comparative studies. Includes general and topical descriptions for a...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
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eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
    Overview and User Tips (obsolete)

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

Germania Sacra: Historisch-Statistiche Beschreibung der Kirche des Alten Reiches
Searchable database to the journal Germania Sacra, Van Pelt Library BX1534 .A1 G53...   [more]
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Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
ACCESS NOTE: 5 concurrent users

International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

Index of Medieval Art
Also Known as: Index of Christian Art
Text-only database indexes thematic and iconographic content of early Christian and medieval art. The ICA locates an iconographic subject and provides extensive tabular description of the individual w...   [more]
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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
International law, comparative law, and municipal law of countries outside the US, UK, and Commonwealth....   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

International Bibliography of Historical Demography
Also Known as: IBHD
Bibliographic citations on population studies and demography through history. All world areas are covered, with roughly 70-percent of records treating Europe, and all historical time periods are also ...   [more]
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International Monetary Fund Publications
Also Known as: IMF Publications
Fulltext of official IMF publications, documenting and supporting the activities of the IMF in promoting international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and orderly exchange arrangements, forst...   [more]
Holdings: 1981-present.
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LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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Left Index
Bibliographic citations for the "literature on the left". Topics include anarchism, art and esthetics, community organizing, culture studies, ecology and environmental studies, economics, gay and lesb...   [more]
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    former interface

London Times, Palmer's Index to the
Part of Chadwyck-Healey's Historical Newspapers Online project which aims to offer newpaper indexing covering over 200 years of history. Palmer's Index covers the entire nineteenth century and ...   [more]
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Mergent Archives
Also Known as: Moody's Manuals, mergent web, Mergent WebReports, mergent web reports, mergent, Municipal & government manuals, corporate manuals, Mergent's Full Collection of Digitized Manuals, Annual Reports, Municipal Manuals
Includes every Moody's or Mergent Manual published since 1909, as well as a collection of historical annual reports dating from 1925....   [more]
Holdings: 1909-
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    Mergent WebReports

Middle English Compendium
"The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English ...   [more]
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NBER Working Papers
Working papers in Economics for public policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community. Includes NBER Technical Working Papers and NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy...   [more]
Holdings: June 1973 No.1 - present

NCJRS Abstracts Database
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database includes abstracts of over 140,000 research reports, journal articles, and government documents relating to crime, law enforcement, a...   [more]
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    NCJRS Thesaurus

NCJRS Abstracts Database (via Proquest)
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855,...   [more]
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Philosopher's Index
Also Known as: Philosophers Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics,...   [more]

Polling the Nations
Primary data, fulltext for approximately 250,000 individual questions and aggregated responses, often cross tabulated by respondent characteristics, compiled from public opinion surveys. Topics cove...   [more]

Population Index
Covers fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historic...   [more]
Holdings: 1986 to 2000.
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ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
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    new interface

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
Historical Annual Reports from U.S. Corporations. Coverage begins in the 1800s for certain companies. ...   [more]

Provencal Database
The PhiloLogic implementation of the Provengal Database is based on data provided by Professor Akehurst at the University of Minnesota.

The Project for American and French Research on the Treasu...   [more]

RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI, the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies, is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish Studies and the study of the Land of Israel (Erets Israel), arranged by subjec...   [more]
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Also Known as: RILM Retrospective, RILM Comprehensive
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]
Holdings: Updated monthly.

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (ProQuest LibGuide)

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Also Known as: USPTO
Covers all US patents from 1790 onwards. Download or view high-quality images of the actual pages of the patents, including diagrams and structures from 1790 onwards. Patents from 1976 - present are a...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Free PDF download of all pages

UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.