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Digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa.
African Journal Archive is an archive of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organizations in Africa. AJA is a retrospective digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the most current issue. Currently includes 617 journals from 15 African countries, published 1906 to the present. About 37% of the titles are open access; the remainder are part of the Sabinet Complete subscription. 65% are refereed. 62% are actively published. About 1500 articles are added per month.
UM's Sabinet subscription does not include Juta's Law Journals. Taylor & Francis/Routledge journals available via Taylor & Francis, but not through Sabinet.
The African Journal Archive is a Sabinet Gateway project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Custodianship of the Archive resides with Sabinet Gateway. Provided by Sabinet via Coherent Digital, part of the Sabinet Complete Collection.
Database of literature written 1955-present covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
The research, publications, speeches and archives of the leading international affairs think tank, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London. High level analysis and research on almost 100 years of global events and issues. Includes 'behind the doors' insight into the real movers and shakers, influencers and deal brokers. For researchers of international affairs, economics, law, and business, diplomacy, security and terrorism, environment, development, war and peace studies.
40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
Periodical collection of hand selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, social science.
40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
Prizewinning history books, published electronically. Topics include, but are not limited to, Africa, Colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, Military History and History of Foreign Relations. 1999-present.
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which is covered by America: History and Life with Full Text) from 1450 forward.
Includes world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. Provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.
Major collections of journal articles and essays in the humanities, including Essay and General Literature Index, Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, and Humanities Source.
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Full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science, plus full text ebooks and open access content.
Mostly 3-5 years & older full text. African American studies, anthropology, botany, business, ecology, economics, education, general science, geography, history, language & literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics.
Dates of coverage vary by journal title. All go back to the very first issue published, but most have a "moving wall" embargo that excludes issues from the most recent X years (where X can be anywhere from 0 up to 10 years, depending on the particular journal; most are in the 3 to 5 year embargo range).
Hint: Use documents to find useful keywords and concepts, and retrieve matching JSTOR content, via JSTOR Text Analyzer.
Lists articles, notes, etc. in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays on all aspects of medieval studies.
Provides a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. Its editorial staff is based at the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, and the project is supported by over 50 teams of contributors in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan.
The IMB offers an unparalleled tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work published throughout Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region.
The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies.
1900-present. Systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
1972-present. Covers sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education.
Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Its sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Women's Studies International includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.
1740-1940. Special interest & general magazines; literary & professional journals; children's & women's magazines; other historically significant periodicals.
Collections of primary source documents from American history.
Includes: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922; America's Historical Imprints; Afro-Americana Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1535-1922; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; African American Periodicals, 1825-1995; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.
Collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Includes manuscript, book, and newspaper content.
Late twentieth century AP office archives from bureaus in Europe and the Middle East.
Content of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive. Includes wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more from the European Bureaus Collection: 1952-2000 and Middle East Bureaus Collection: 1967-2005.
Magazine content from Ebony (1945-2014), JET (1951-2014), and the African American Historical Serials Collection (1816-1992).
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Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspapers, and more.
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, Black Abolitionist Papers, and much more. At the heart of Black Studies Center is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, consisting of essays that provide an introduction to major topics in Black Studies. Black Studies Center provides the historical full-text of one of the most influential black newspapers in the United States, The Chicago Defender, as well as the Michigan Chronicle (1936-2010).
Digital archives of English-language periodicals published in, or about, China.
Includes these files:
Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949: A collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in, or about, China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded. This corresponds to the periods of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era (1911-1949), when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic with modern approaches to politics, literature, education, public morality, and intellectual life.
Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China (1854-1949): Official correspondence, despatches, reports, memoranda, and private and confidential letters - constitute invaluable and often unique evidence of Chinese life, the economy and politics through the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Revolution of 1911, the May 30 Movement, the two Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Chinese Civil War.
Digitized historic American newspapers published from 1836-1922 produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program.
Collection of Confederate Newspapers published from 1861 to 1865.
Digital images of books published during the 18th Century. Full-text searching; access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science & more.
Agricultural newspapers and periodicals from 1841 to 2010, mostly early 20th century.
Content of The Flint Journal, including articles, illustrations, advertisements, and other content. Includes images (1898-1995; 2018 to present), and text (1995 to present).
The Flint Journal is also available on microfilm on the 1st floor of the Thompson Library, covering 1898 - 2018. These years of coverage are included in the online version, but if you need full page or article images for the years 1996 - 2017, you can scan them on the microfilm reader. If you only need the text of an article from the years 1996 - 2017, it is available in the online version.
Provides cross-searching of British and American historical newspapers and periodical archive collections, ranging from the 18th century until a few years ago.
Includes these newspapers and collections of newspapers, which can also be searched separately:
Combines primary source databases with British, American, and some international content. Allows analysis of content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
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Searches content from a number of sources, including both partner content digitized by Google through their News Archive Partner Program and online archival materials that they've crawled.
Search results can include content that is freely accessible as well as content that requires a fee: be sure to check Journal Finder to see if the Thompson Library provides access to a source before paying a fee for it. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the topics they are searching. In addition to seeing results ranked by relevancy, users can also see a historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically generated timeline.
Online version of the 19th-century American magazine Harper's Weekly, with original page images and searchable full-text.
Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
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Digitized images of American magazines and journals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century.
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Provides full text, searchable access to important American magazines and newspapers from the 18th through early 20th centuries.
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Digital archive of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945.
Offers rare first-person accounts and seldom-heard voices. It contains 24,838 pages of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945.
The 25 newspapers presented here are sourced from the Library of Congress. Many of the titles in this archive are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted. Although articles in these files frequently appear in Japanese, most of the papers are in English.
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Searchable, browsable online access The Michigan Daily, UM-Ann Arbor's student-run newspaper.
Digital newspapers published in Michigan, mostly before 1923.
Over 800 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and more than 850,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Searchable access to the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), in full digitized page images.
Searchable access to the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), from the first issue on September 18, 1851 to one month ago. Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm. Also incorporates indexing and subject headings from the New York Times Index, 1851-1993.
Digital primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.
Primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from around the world, including from national libraries, academic and public libraries, and a variety of special collections, archives, and repositories.
Currently contains four collections:
Custom cross-search of full-text backfiles of dozens of United States and international English-language newspapers. Click "More info" for individual titles.
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1890-present. General, historical events, business, humanities, science, social science.
Includes two collections:
(Descriptions from the publisher.)
Archive of Smithsonian Magazine (1970-2010) and Air & Space Magazine (1986-2010).
The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum and research complex--home to 19 museums, 9 research centers and over 137 million collection objects for the study of art, history, culture, and science. The Smithsonian's collections and fields of study focus on the American Experience, World Cultures, a Biodiverse Planet, and Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe.
Combining the full archive of Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine, this resource brings these study themes into the pathway of students and faculty worldwide. It presents a unique and comprehensive insight into history, science, nature, the arts, innovation, technology, and world culture. Available in a fully searchable digital archive, these publications bring depth and expert coverage of high-demand topics in support of the Smithsonian Institution's mission of increase and diffusion of knowledge.
Additional years will be added annually.
English translations of key historical sources in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, and Armenian, from the time of late antiquity and the early middle ages. Includes introductions and notes.
Brings together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of conduct.
Searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books of instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.
An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines.
Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. These key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. Includes:
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Numerous publications for women. and including many female writers.
Includes the following collections, which can also be searched separately:
Facts on File coverage of all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
A Read Aloud button is available for text-to-speech for much of the content.
Keyword(s): United States
Provides full text searchable access to historical newspapers published in Africa, East Europe, Latin America, and South Asia.
World Newspaper Archive is a fully-searchable, digital collection of historical newspapers from around the world. It includes a gradually expanding digitized backfiles of 19th and 20th century newspapers from Africa (1800-1922), East Europe (1835-1922), Latin America and Latin America Series 2 (1805-1922) and South Asia (1864-1922). As the project expands, it will grow to include newspapers from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Digital primary collections sourced from around the world.
Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre.
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Digitized collections of books, sheet music, pamphlets, documents, narratives, images, & other materials.
Biographies, events & topics, primary sources, timelines, images & videos, maps & charts.
Searchable transcriptions of Works Progress Administration interviews of ex-slaves made in the late 1930s.
Guide to historical records, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world
Contains nearly a million collection descriptions contributed by thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. A combination of brief descriptions derived from catalog records in the RLG Union Catalog, and more detailed archival finding aids harvested from the Internet, including those that conform to the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) format standard.
Collections of primary source documents from American history.
Includes: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922; America's Historical Imprints; Afro-Americana Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1535-1922; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; African American Periodicals, 1825-1995; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.
Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.
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Collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture from colonial times until 1960. Includes manuscript, book, and newspaper content.
Late twentieth century AP office archives from bureaus in Europe and the Middle East.
Content of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive. Includes wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more from the European Bureaus Collection: 1952-2000 and Middle East Bureaus Collection: 1967-2005.
A digital collection of 23 interviews of former slaves out of 2,300 taken by the Works Progress Administration. The full print collection can be found under the call number E441 .A58.
Digital archives of English-language periodicals published in, or about, China.
Includes these files:
Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949: A collection of 17 English-language periodicals published in, or about, China during a period of over 130 years, extending from 1817 until 1949 when the People's Republic of China was founded. This corresponds to the periods of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era (1911-1949), when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic with modern approaches to politics, literature, education, public morality, and intellectual life.
Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China (1854-1949): Official correspondence, despatches, reports, memoranda, and private and confidential letters - constitute invaluable and often unique evidence of Chinese life, the economy and politics through the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Revolution of 1911, the May 30 Movement, the two Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Chinese Civil War.
Primary source documents from the 16th to 18th centuries, and journals & magazines from the 20th century.
Colonial State Papers (1574 - 1757) provides access to over 7,000 manuscript papers and 40,000 bibliographic records concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Colonial State Papers offers access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records with this incredible resource on Colonial History. In addition to Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, this collection also covers the Caribbean and Atlantic world. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.
Colonial Legacies: Empire & Commonwealth Periodicals has over 30 periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies.
This archive offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century to the 21st – these publications encompass the key events in the empire's later phase and its post-independence legacies.
Contains themed collections of over 80,000 declassified and FOIA'ed documents that led to U.S. policy decisions.
Consists of over 45 themed collections of more than 90,000 declassified and FOIA'ed documents that led to U.S. policy decisions from 1942 to 2014. Includes collections on Afghanistan, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Iran, Japan, Korea, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, and the Soviet Union. Topic collections include the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War and more.
Contains documents created 1945-2015.
Primary sources from several libraries, including books, pamphlets, and manuscripts, all searchable.
Covers Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women, & the legal status of Cuban women.
Archive of materials compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime (1898-1959).
Digitized archival materials from Flint and Genesee County that are housed in the Genesee Historical Collection Center, the official archives of UM-Flint.
The materials located in this digital repository represent a fraction of the digital and physical materials in the Genesee Historical Collection Center. The archives is open to all and strives to provide access to primary source documents related to the history of Genesee County, Flint, and the University of Michigan-Flint. Includes these collections:
CIA translations of newswire & news broadcast services, 1941-1996; the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
Combines primary source databases with British, American, and some international content. Allows analysis of content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
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Collections of primary sources in Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern & Islamic, Slavic, Jewish, Religious, and general historical studies.
A collection of text and video on human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Includes more than 10,400 pages of archival materials; over 2,300 published monographs totaling more than 37,000 pages; 241 complete videos; more than 3,000 pages of reports, journal articles, and other full-text items; more than 1,000 images (most from The Getty); and nearly 700 links to vetted, important external websites.
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Collaborative project involving more than 50 Michigan libraries. It includes local history materials from communities around the state. Michigan's unique heritage is represented through photographs, family papers, oral histories, genealogical materials, and much more.
Tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Includes books, serials, pamphlets, essays, & other documents.
Full-text searchable histories and atlases of Michigan counties, dating from about 1866 to 1923.
Michigan eLibrary's gateway to different digital projects, including photographs, oral histories, and other materials, from different repositories throughout the state.
Digital primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.
Primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from around the world, including from national libraries, academic and public libraries, and a variety of special collections, archives, and repositories.
Currently contains four collections:
Large compilation of biographical material on indigenous peoples from all regions of North America. Includes biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries and oral histories.
This database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. North American Indian Thought and Culture contains around 120,000 pages of text and images, including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched thoroughly. Full-length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives.
Books & articles, 18th century - 1920. Includes biographical, autobiographical, & fictionalized narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. (Part of DocSouth)
Contains material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. Covers the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton.
Covers the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Created by the University of Michigan Digital Library.
Large-scale plans of urban areas. Maps of over 12,000 US cities and towns.
Sanborn maps, large-scale plans of a city or town, were created to assist fire insurance companies assess the risk associated with insuring a particular property. This collection includes 660,000 maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
Contains 55,000 video testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides.
The Visual History Archive contains 55,000 audiovisual interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. Interviewees are primarily Jewish survivors, though the archive also includes interviews with gay/lesbian, Jehovah's Witness, and Roma and Sinta (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and war crimes trial participants.
Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the following:
The interviews were conducted in 62 different countries and in 41 languages and comprise the most extensive resource of its type. Each interview is fully indexed, thus allowing the viewer to search using either the assigned index terms or a free-text search. Additionally, transcripts are provided for many of the testimonies.
Collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery; includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials from US and European archives.
Includes four parts:
Searchable archive of 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century British State Papers, Domestic and Foreign.
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Documents from Parliament, concerning parliamentary affairs, legislation, policy, politics.
Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688.
1905-present. Documents on government, politics, foreign relations, domestic affairs from various government agencies, including the White House, CIA, FBI, State Department, others.
Digital archive of texts related to witchcraft dating from the 15th century to the early 20th century.
This archive on witchcraft includes texts dating from the 15th century to the early 20th century. The majority of the material concerns the so-called "classic period" of the 16th to 18th centuries. In addition to these classic texts, the archive includes:
The majority of these texts, sourced from the Cornell University library, are in Latin, English and German, although there are also selected items in French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish. Covers 1500-1930.
Primary documents from the history of women in social movements between 1600 and the present.
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Primary source material from archives in the United States & Europe. The historical collections include original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, & more.
Biographies, events & topics, primary sources, timelines, images & videos, maps & charts.
Profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all eras and walks of American life who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Includes thousands of illustrations, linked cross-references, and links to select web sites. 1999 ed., updated quarterly.
Citations to articles and books relating to all aspects of native North American culture and history.
Citations to books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. BNNA covers all aspects of native North American culture, history and life. Content range covers sixteenth century through the present. Earliest indexed publication is from 1890; some coverage throughout 20th century; bulk of the collection was published after 1990.
Helps locate biographical entries contained in 1000+ volumes & editions of important biographical reference sources. Contains citations for 15M+ biographies on nearly 5M people, living and deceased, from all periods, locations, & fields.
Contains more than 600,000 biographies on more than 528,000 people from around the world and throughout history.
Combines more than 135 frequently consulted Gale biographical sources with more than 325 full-text periodicals and journals, more than 27,000 portraits, and thousands of Recent News briefs on high-interest individuals. Updated continuously.
Index to biographical articles in English-language periodicals and books, 1946 - present.
Articles on noteworthy individuals from antiquity to the present. Searchable by various criteria.
Gateway to databases and text collections focusing on Classical and Medieval European history.
Includes the following databases:
Contains over 700 full-text volumes, in 15 subject areas, published from 1960-2014. Volumes consist of historical essays & bibliographies.
Contains over 300 full-text volumes, in 15 subject areas, published from 1960-2014. Volumes provide authoritative historical essays and bibliographies on topics ranging from the First World War to U.S. Foreign Relations. In addition to world history, this collection also covers the histories of subjects including language and linguistics, music, philosophy, political and social theory, religion, theater and performing arts, and warfare. All chapters may be read online or downloaded as PDFs.
Historical statistics (1750-2010) on the economics, populations, labor force, education, and transportation of nations.
Contains downloadable data drawn from and updating the 3 volume print reference work International Historical Statistics 1750-2005. IHS covers a wide range of topics including: the economy, trade, population, labor, education, migration and transportation with data spanning 260 years (1750-2010). The data is organized by regions which are presented as: The Americas, Europe, and Asia + Oceania. Tables can be downloaded as PDF or Excel documents.
Balanced, accurate discussions of over 250 controversial topics in the news along with chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, contact info, and bibliographies, including primary source documents and news editorials.
Covers 1995-present. A Read Aloud button is available for text-to-speech for much of the content.
Full-text searchable histories and atlases of Michigan counties, dating from about 1866 to 1923.
Large compilation of biographical material on indigenous peoples from all regions of North America. Includes biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries and oral histories.
This database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. North American Indian Thought and Culture contains around 120,000 pages of text and images, including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched thoroughly. Full-length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives.
African and African-American history; biography from major reference works.
Concise articles on noteworthy people from the British Commonwealth who are no longer living.
Concise articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life from the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. No living person is included: the Dictionarys articles are confined to people who died before 31 December 2000. Also includes "themes"--essays on groups, clubs, sets, and gangs in British history, linked to articles on their individual members. Please note: access is limited to one user at a time. If your access is blocked, please try again later. When you are done, please logout to free up the access for another user.
Over 400 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press
Fully indexed, cross-searchable database of over 400 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes subject reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and science--both "Quick Reference" titles (concise dictionaries, etc.) and larger "Reference Library" titles (multi-volume encyclopedias, etc.).
Concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Transcriptions of interviews of Holocaust survivors.
Facts on File coverage of all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
A Read Aloud button is available for text-to-speech for much of the content.
Keyword(s): United States
5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.
Late twentieth century AP office archives from bureaus in Europe and the Middle East.
Content of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive. Includes wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more from the European Bureaus Collection: 1952-2000 and Middle East Bureaus Collection: 1967-2005.
Cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspapers, and more.
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, Black Abolitionist Papers, and much more. At the heart of Black Studies Center is Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, consisting of essays that provide an introduction to major topics in Black Studies. Black Studies Center provides the historical full-text of one of the most influential black newspapers in the United States, The Chicago Defender, as well as the Michigan Chronicle (1936-2010).
Videos, newsreels, and primary documents on United States history, world history, and women in social movements.
Includes these collections:
A collection of text and video on human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Includes more than 10,400 pages of archival materials; over 2,300 published monographs totaling more than 37,000 pages; 241 complete videos; more than 3,000 pages of reports, journal articles, and other full-text items; more than 1,000 images (most from The Getty); and nearly 700 links to vetted, important external websites.
Contains 55,000 video testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides.
The Visual History Archive contains 55,000 audiovisual interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. Interviewees are primarily Jewish survivors, though the archive also includes interviews with gay/lesbian, Jehovah's Witness, and Roma and Sinta (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and war crimes trial participants.
Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the following:
The interviews were conducted in 62 different countries and in 41 languages and comprise the most extensive resource of its type. Each interview is fully indexed, thus allowing the viewer to search using either the assigned index terms or a free-text search. Additionally, transcripts are provided for many of the testimonies.
Transcriptions of interviews of Holocaust survivors.
Helps locate biographical entries contained in 1000+ volumes & editions of important biographical reference sources. Contains citations for 15M+ biographies on nearly 5M people, living and deceased, from all periods, locations, & fields.
Free genealogical website, with millions of historical records. Search options include a catalog, books, genealogies, and a Wiki.
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