This bibliographic database provides a robust source of information focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada. It is an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Citations and links to book and media reviews are added benefits to the America: History and Life database. It provides strong English-language journal coverage, balanced by an international perspective on topics and events. This includes English abstracts for articles published a variety of languages. (EBSCO)
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| 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale) 1 million newspaper pages. Newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets, proclamations. The most comprehensive collection of early English newspapers. Titles from London, British Isles, and the Colonies. (Gale) |
A to Z Maps Online   The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. Updated monthly. (A to Z Maps Online) |
| Accessible Archives Developed by dedicated instructors and students of American history, these databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in a user-friendly online environment. This resources includes the following components: African American Newspapers; America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers; American County Histories; The Civil War; Frank Leslie’s Weekly; Godey’s Lady’s Book; The Liberator; History of Woman Suffrage; National Anti-Slavery Standard; The Pennsylvania Gazette; The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue; The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County; Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets; Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman; South Carolina Newspapers; Twelve Years A Slave; The Virginia Gazette; Women’s Suffrage Collection. (Accessible Archives) |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book Project The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is an online, fully searchable collection of nearly 2,000 high-quality books in history and the humanities, recommended and reviewed by historians. |
Adam Matthew Explorer  Searches all Adam Matthew databases to which the McKay Library has access, including: American Consumer Culture; American History, 1493-1945; American Indian Histories and Cultures; China, America and the Pacific; Colonial America; Defining Gender, 1450-1910; Eighteenth Century Drama; Eighteenth Century Journals; Empire Online; The First World War; Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980; Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954; Literary Manuscripts Berg; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; London Low Life; Medieval Family Life; Medieval Travel Writing; Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700; Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975; Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape; Shakespeare in Performance; The First World War; The Nixon Years, 1969-1974; Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History; Victorian Popular Culture; Virginia Company Archives. |
| African American Newspapers (Accessible Archives) This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, all of which embody the African-American experience. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| America and World War I: American Military Camp Newspapers (Accessible Archives) American Military Camp Newspapers provides users with unparalleled access to unique sources covering the experiences of American soldiers during the mobilization period in 1916, in the trenches in 1918 and through the occupation of Germany in 1919. This collection addresses a topic and period that continues to be of the widest interest and importance to scholars, students, and the general public - America in the World War I Era. Camp newspapers make important original source Material--much of it written by soldiers for soldiers--readily available for research and fresh interpretation of events about "The War to End All Wars." This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| America: History And Life (EBSCO) |
| American Ancestors NOTE: ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE MCKAY LIBRARY. Genealogy information from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, founded 1845. |
| American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. (EBSCO) Details on the collection can be found here. |
| American Civil War Research Database (Alexander Street Press) The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with over 17,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually. (Alexander Street Press) |
| American Consumer Culture (Adam Matthew) Cross-searchable access to essential primary sources for the study of market research, consumerism, business and advertising in America. Explore highly visual and captivating trade cards, photographs, catalogues and marketing material, plus insightful market research reports, pilot studies and letters through three major collections for the study of American consumer culture. This multi-title platform provides cross-searchable access to hundreds of thousands of pages of essential American history across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Presented within a single interface, students and scholars can now maximise their research and teaching and take advantage of the truly interdisciplinary nature of material from three Adam Matthew Digital products for the study for American consumer culture. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| American County Histories (Accessible Archives) Includes selected county histories for states in the Central, Mid Atlantic, New England, Southeast, Southwest, and West regions. These books include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, and many additional subject areas. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| American History in Video (Alexander Street Press) The largest & richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. Allows students & researchers to analyze historical events & the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial & governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage & important documentaries. This release includes over 3146 titles, equaling approximately 765 hours. |
| American History, 1493-1945 (Adam Matthew) This collection traces the progress of American History and extensively covers the major themes of the period from colonization and settlement through the revolution, expansion, politics, slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, to World War II. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History holds one of the outstanding collections on American History. It is full of individual items, but it also has rich veins of manuscript research material. This makes it ideal for teaching survey courses on American History, but equally valuable as a platform for undergraduate essay work and postgraduate research. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| American Indian Histories and Cultures (Adam Matthew) Spanning four centuries and covering North and Central America, this digital resource provides access to material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. Discover a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the ongoing repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| American Periodicals (ProQuest) Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. |
| American Song (Alexander Street Press) A music history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. (Alexander Street Press) |
| Ancestry.com NOT AVAILABLE OFF CAMPUS. Works best with Internet Explorer. The leading resource for pursuing family history research online. Access to hundreds of millions of fully searchable individual records, including all available US Census records (1790–1930). |
| ArchiveGrid (OCLC) ArchiveGrid includes over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies. (OCLC) |
| Archives Unbound (Gale) Archives Unbound addresses students and scholars' pressing need to see primary, unpublished archival documents. There is no better way to study the past than through consultation of primary source documents. 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. Includes the following components: Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945; Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents; German Folklore and Popular Culture: Das Kloster. Scheible; International Women’s Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues; Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers’ Project; Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970; Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974; Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia; Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880; Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement; Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950; Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals; Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project; SUR, 1931-1992; Testaments to the Holocaust. Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London; The Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South; Women, War and Society, 1914-1918. (Gale) |
| ArkivDigital ArkivDigital is a Swedish genealogy database with access to 69 million color digital images of historical documents including church records, court records, and inventory of estates. |
| Art and Architecture Archive (ProQuest) A full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. The magazines are scanned from cover-to-cover and presented as full-color page images; detailed indexing permits quick, efficient searching and navigation of this material.(ProQuest) |
| ATLA Religion Database (EBSCO) Covers topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history & religion in social issues. The definitive index for religious and theological literature. Contains >1.5 million bibliographic records from 1940 to present. |
| Biography Reference Center (EBSCO) More than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. |
| Black Women Writers Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa & the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions. |
| Brill's Online Reference Works Several reference works, including New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. New Pauly's is the best encyclopedia in English for classical studies. It covers both the ancient world and the reception of classics in the modern world. |
| British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries Largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers. |
| British Library Newspapers (Gale) Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. |
| CES Digital Collections Visit the CES Digital Collections page to search for pioneer diaries, BYU theses & dissertations, images of LDS historical and doctrinal significance and images from the BYU Museum of Art. |
| Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records (ProQuest History Vault) ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more complete description, please follow this link. |
| Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (ProQuest History Vault) ProQuest History Vault's coverage of the Black Freedom Struggle offers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history. The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century consists of four modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers, offering unique documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. Major collections in these modules include Civil Rights records from the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush presidencies; the Martin Luther King FBI File and FBI Files on locations of major civil rights demonstrations like Montgomery and Selma, Alabama or St. Augustine, Florida; and the records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). For a more complete description, please follow this link. |
| Civil War Research Database (Accessible Archives) Primary source. Contains major articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Includes descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. For additional information on the Civil War Collection, click here. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| Colonial America (Adam Matthew) Colonial America enables access to a vast archive of circa 70,000 manuscript documents – now fully searchable using Handwritten Text Recognition technology. Sourced from The National Archives UK, Colonial America offers access to thousands of documents on North America from 1606-1822. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 (Gale) The Daily Mail has been at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate. As well as providing access to the regular edition of this path-breaking newspaper, the archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931. (Gale) |
| David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. |
| Defining Gender, 1450-1910 (Adam Matthew) Discover five centuries of primary sources providing a gendered perspective on conduct, domesticity, the family, consumption, education and the body. Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original British source material to enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective. Students and scholars are provided the opportunity to research the ideals of social conduct, power distribution within the family, consumption and leisure, education of men and women and gendered perceptions of the body to analyse and challenge the changing views and ideas surrounding traditional gender roles. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. |
| Early Encounters in North America Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between different groups of people in North America. Indians, Africans, Europeans, and Americans were working out their futures in a complex web of tribal and imperial rivalry, interacting with each other at the most intimate and personal levels. |
| Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2013 (Gale) A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. The Economist has presented timely reporting, concise commentary and comprehensive analysis of global news every week. |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) ECCO contains English-language and foreign-language titles published in the UK between 1701 and 1800, plus thousands of important works from the Americas. 150,000 printed works (33 million pages) covering the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution. |
| Eighteenth Century Drama (Adam Matthew) Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth-century society, and explore how the plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history. Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here. Also included are the diaries of Larpent’s wife and professional collaborator Anna, recording her criticisms of plays, as well as insights into theatrical culture and English society. Hundreds of further documents including playbills, theatre records and correspondence provide social context. This truly interdisciplinary resource is rich in the breadth and scope of eighteenth-century material available, and will appeal to researchers working on not only theatre and drama, but literature, history, politics, music, censorship, gender and Romanticism. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Eighteenth Century Journals (Adam Matthew) Bringing together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835, this resource illuminates all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Eighteenth Century Journals draws together material from some of the finest archives across the UK and the US, with the aim of representing the rich variety of the eighteenth century press. It is the first resource of its kind to make available unique and extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals online, each chosen to convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835. From political journals circulated in London coffee houses to colonial newspapers, and from poetic reviews to magazines for ladies of fashion, Eighteenth Century Journals illuminates all aspects of social, political and literary life, providing an opportunity to examine a variety of topical issues, and to compare a range of perspectives on the debates of the day. The vast material will be of interest to those studying a range of topics, including literature, theatre, the origins and rise of Romanticism, politics, revolution and rebellion, social issues, gender, society, religion and the influence of the Press. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Empire Online (Adam Matthew) Spanning five centuries, and charting the rise and fall of empires around the world, Empire Online enables students and researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. With primary source material from American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. Documents from Africa, India and North America are also featured. Students and researchers of colonial history, society, trade and travel, politics and culture are encouraged to explore a diverse range of topics and subjects from ship’s logs to missionaries in Africa. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 (EBSCO) A bibliographic index of European works prior to 1750 that relate to the Americas. This resource comes from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. |
| Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents (Archives Unbound – Gale) This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010 (Gale) Reporting on topics such as industry, energy and international politics. In the final decades of the twentieth century, coverage of management, personal finance and the arts was added, to make the paper a complete general newspaper for the businessman. |
| Fold3 (Ancestry) United States Military records; non-military resources include: city directories, naturalizations, vital records, Native American records. |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew) Formerly restricted British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Featuring diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, political pamphlets, reports of court cases and other materials, this collection represents a constant exchange of information between London and the British embassies and consulates. Due to the unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China, these formerly restricted first-hand accounts provide unprecedented levels of detail into a turbulent period in Chinese history. The documents allow students and researchers intimate access to eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and analyses, economic assessments, synopses on Chinese personalities, and more. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Gale Primary Sources Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Gale Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets. Includes the following components: Archives Unbound; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; The Making of the Modern World; Sabin Americana, 1500-1926; American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990; The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources; U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978; American Fiction; Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture 1790-1920; Nineteenth Century Collections Online; 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection; 19th Century UK Periodicals; British Library Newspapers; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004; The Economist Historical Archive; Financial Times Historical Archive; The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003; Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers; Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992; The Sunday Times Digital Archive; The Telegraph Historical Archive; The Times Digital Archive; The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (Gale) |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library More than 2,600 reference e-books in Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, Science, Social Science. |
| German Folklore and Popular Culture: Das Kloster. Scheible (Archives Unbound – Gale) Das Kloster is a collection of magical and occult texts, chapbooks, folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible, between 1845 and 1849. In addition to the Das Kloster volumes, this collection provides additional volumes of unique perspectives on Central European culture and tradition. Included are texts essential for the study of German folk traditions, the Reformation, wit and humor and 19th-century literature. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (ProQuest) The greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning 4 centuries (1543-1945) and 15 languages. |
| Global Issues in Context (Gale) Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. It features hundreds of issue and country portals that bring together sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each gateway page includes reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Contains rich multimedia, including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs. |
| Global Road Warrior A country by country guide specifically designed for those engaged in international trade & business travel. It includes points of interest, climate, electrical and Internet information, etc. |
| Godey's Lady's Book (Accessible Archives) First successful American journal for women. Resource for the study of 19th Century American history and important social issues of the day. Covers social history, women's studies, textiles studies, material culture and literature. Covers 1830-1885. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| Government Periodicals Index GPI provides indexing for a curated list of periodicals issued by the U.S. government going back to 1988. Most of the journals fall into these topical areas: military and veteran issues, health and medicine, natural resources and management, science and technology, and law enforcement; other areas of coverage are represented by the following: transportation, public/foreign policy, agricultural and rural studies, law and the courts, and economic. |
| Historical Newspapers (Accessible Archives) Includes selected issues from: Charleston Mercury; Frank Leslie's Weekly; The Lily; National Citizen and Ballot Box; News of the Day; New York Herald; Old Post Union; Pennsylvania Gazette; Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog; Pennsylvania Newspaper Record; Pennsylvania Packet; Revolution; Richmond Enquirer; South Carolina Gazette; Gazette of the State of South Carolina; South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; South Carolina and American General Gazette; Stars and Stripes and Old Post Union; Vincennes Courant; Vincennes Weekly Courant and Patriot; Vincennes Gazette; Vincennes Weekly Gazette; Vincennes Times; Virginia Gazette. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) Search several historical newspapers at one time, including: The Atlanta Constitution? (1868-1984); The Austin American Statesman? (1871-1978); The Baltimore Sun (1837-1992); The Boston Globe? (1872 - 1986); Chicago Tribune (1849-1994); The Christian Science Monitor (1908-2004); The New York Times (1851-2014); San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922); Toronto Star (1894-2015); The Wall Street Journal? (1889 - 2000). |
| History of Science, Technology and Medicine (EBSCO) Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated quarterly. Covers 1975-present. |
| History Vault (ProQuest) ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. These collections include: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; and International Relations and Military Conflicts. |
| Humanities Source (EBSCO) Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. It includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more. (EBSCO) |
| Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines (HarpWeek) Contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers Covers 3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865 & originally printed in 16 different cities. |
| Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 (Gale) With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, sparking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events - including news of war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science. Containing over 260,000 full colour pages, fully searchable and browseable, the ILN Historical Archive 1842-2003 provides users with unprecedented access to the entire run of this unique historical record. (Gale) |
| Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts (Alexander Street) A unique resource cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning series of local history books. It will include over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life. All of the images and texts have been indexed, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more. |
| Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Poster and Ephemera (Alexander Street) Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database holds >1400 images & will contain 75,000 when complete. |
| International Relations and Military Conflicts: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944 (ProQuest History Vault) U.S. Military Intelligence Reports offer comprehensive documentation of developments and events in the key nations of the world during the period from World War I to the final campaigns of World War II. After World War I, the U.S. military developed a sophisticated intelligence gathering capability. Concerned with much more than strictly military intelligence, American military attaches and their staffs reported on a wide range of topics, including the internal politics, social and economic conditions, and foreign affairs of the countries in which they were stationed. This module contains the U.S. Military Intelligence reports for China, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Soviet Union, Biweekly Intelligence Summaries, and Combat Estimates. (ProQuest) |
| International Relations and Military Conflicts: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 (ProQuest History Vault) Covering the U.S. involvement in the region from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the escalation of the war during the Johnson administration, to the final resolution of the war at the Paris Peace Talks and the evacuation of U.S. troops. |
| International Relations and Military Conflicts: World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees (ProQuest History Vault) This module includes President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Map Room Files, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Records of the War Department Operations Division, U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports, Records of the Office of War Information, Papers of the War Refugee Board, George C. Marshall Papers, and numerous other collections. Taken together, these collections provide many different views of World War II. Firsthand accounts of the innermost workings of the top level of military planning during World War II can be found in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Map Room Files and Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Office of War Information Papers contain information on the U.S. homefront, as do records on the internment of Japanese civilians. World War II Combat Interviews offer firsthand accounts from the perspective of the individual soldiers who participated in the D-Day invasion. The Papers of the War Refugee Board provide documentation on the fate of civilians in Europe with a special focus on Jewish refugees. Other collections in this module include FBI Files on Tokyo Rose, Manhattan Project documents, Potsdam Conference Documents, and records on lend-lease. (ProQuest) |
| International Women’s Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues (Archives Unbound – Gale) Historical women’s periodicals provide an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for women’s rights—woman suffrage, fair pay, better working conditions, for example—grew in the United States and England. Some of the titles in this collection were conceived and published by men, for women; others, conceived and published by male editors with strong input from female assistant editors or managers; others were conceived and published by women, for women. The strongest suffrage and anti-suffrage writing was done by women for women’s periodicals. Thus a variety of viewpoints are here presented for study. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Japanese Immigrants to the United States 1887-1924 (BYU-Idaho) Birth, death, residences, occupations, children, spouse and brief historical information of early Japanese immigrants. |
| Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 (Adam Matthew) Explore the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today. Based on a rich variety of original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this indispensable resource offers captivating insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries. Charting the Jewish Diaspora from the earliest settlements through to the mass European influx of the early twentieth century, Jewish Life in America will appeal to researchers of all aspects of this diverse and extensive cultural heritage. The collection is based on a rich variety of original manuscript documents ranging from a peddler’s certificate signed by Benjamin Franklin, to records of organisations such as the Baron de Hirsch fund, which supported Jewish entrepreneurship all across America from 1819 to the 1980s. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Legislative Insight (ProQuest) A Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. |
| Literary Manuscripts Leeds (Adam Matthew) This resource offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Alongside original compositions are copied verses, translations, songs and riddles. The whole collection is situated within an assortment of manuscripts, some entirely dedicated to poetry, while others contain medicinal recipes, household accounts, draft letters, musical scores and plays. There are also several printed works, with handwritten verse additions. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers’ Project (Archives Unbound – Gale) This collection presents the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) publications of all 47 states involved in the project, which ran from 1933 to 1943. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| London Low Life (Adam Matthew) An extraordinary digital collection bringing to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, and inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city. From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children’s chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature. London Low Life is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld. This collection, drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, will be of interest to 19th century scholars researching: working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, ‘slumming’, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social reform, Toynbee Hall, police and criminality. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 (Gale) We use the term primary sources 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 Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. (Gale) |
| Map as History The Map as History is a collection of more than 230 animated historical maps used as learning tools for world history events ranging from the Roman Empire, the American Colonies, world wars, Europe, and the Middle East. |
| Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Niermeyer (Brill) J. F. Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus is a highly practical lexicon, providing researchers, teaching staff and students in the field of Medieval History with concise, essential information. This new online edition, still the “compendious lexicon for rapid information” envisaged by Niermeyer, recreates the second print edition (2002) on Brill’s Dictionary Platform , providing French, English and German translations for every entry of a Medieval Latin concept and searches on lemma and full text: searches can be refined by century of use. |
| Medieval Family Life (Adam Matthew) Only five major letter collections exist from fifteenth century England and they are all available online for the first time in this digital resource. The Paston Family Papers have long been a subject of both literary and historical interest. They are Britain’s first surviving records of private correspondence, describing everyday life in East Anglia during the Wars of the Roses. In addition, we include four other valuable collections relating to medieval families in Essex, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire and Warwickshire, c1400-1490. This resource contains full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Medieval Travel Writing(Adam Matthew) An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. Explore this magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with a focus on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. Topics covered include: pilgrimage, the origins of global trade, travels to the Holy Land, the Silk Road, and the representation of the 'East' and the 'Other' in the Middle Ages. The project combines multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville, with translations, route maps and introductory essays. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974 (Archives Unbound – Gale) An essential contemporary resource for the understanding of modern Iraq, this online archive of primary source documents delivers first-hand government records covering the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of the new state, up to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Major strategic issues and policy-making statements are set out in their full context, revealing the internal workings of the Mandate administration, international relations and treaties, the importance of oil, and all matters of local and regional importance. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) Current news pertaining to all branches of the military & government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals & periodicals; indexing & abstracts for nearly 400 titles. |
| Military and Intelligence Database Collection (Gale) Library resource offering authoritative periodical content covering past and present military affairs. Contains hand-selected content supporting key subject areas such as, governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more. (Gale) |
| Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia (Archives Unbound – Gale) This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers. In addition, there are accounts on the development of farming and mining communities, family histories, and folklore. These accounts provide a view of the of the vast region between Lexington, Kentucky and Winchester, Virginia, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Birmingham, Alabama, and provides information on the social, political, economic, scientific, religious and agricultural characteristics of the region. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| National Geographic Virtual Library (Gale) Featuring the complete archive of the magazine from 1888 to Present, National Geographic Magazine Archive, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface. With standard library features and functionality common to all Gale Digital Archives, National Geographic Magazine Archive is a powerful tool for finding and reading through the 100+ years of impactful articles found in this archive. |
| NBC Learn - Higher Ed NBC News has made thousands of videos, historic newsreels, primary source documents, photographs and more available. These include Historic Film and Video Clips from the earliest days of film and television news to the latest current events, and Primary Source Documents which contain hundreds of historic documents, newspaper articles, letters and more. |
| New York Times: ProQuest Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1851 - 2013 |
| Newspaper ARCHIVE Digital images of historic newspapers from 1700 to 2006 from the U.S. and 9 other countries. Over 70 million searchable pages from 4000+ papers, including 16 newspapers in Idaho. |
| Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Gale) Like the British Library newspapers project and 19th Century U.S. Newspapers this collection covers the period 1800 to 1900. When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles, some of which exist only in a single copy. |
| North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Alexander Street) North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants. The collection will be particularly useful to researchers, because much of the original material is difficult to find, poorly indexed, and unpublished; most bibliographies of the immigrant focus on secondary research; and few oral histories have been published. |
| North American Indian Drama (Alexander Street) North American Indian Drama contains 256 plays by 49 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing groups such as Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure. |
| North American Indian Thought and Culture (Alexander Street) The largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. With 100,000 pages of content when complete, including biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs, the database presents the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others. |
| Oral History Online (Alexander Street) Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 329,400 pages of full-text by close to 10,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to over 4,200 audio and video files and almost 19,000 bibliographic records. |
| Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880 (Archives Unbound – Gale) Comprised of selections from the microfilm collections Travels in the West and Southwest and the Plains and Rockies, this digital collection provides a unique window on Western History. Selections are based on the bibliographies, The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, and The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement (Archives Unbound – Gale) The collection consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka and were gathered by Dr. Komozi Woodard in the course of his research. The extensive documentation includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, as well as some personal records. The materials cover Baraka’s involvement in the politics in Newark, N.J. and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, the Black Women’s United Front. Later materials document Baraka’s increasing involvement in Marxism. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| PBS Video Collection (Alexander Street) The PBS Video Collection is now in its third edition and contains nearly 600 titles. This product brings one of television’s most trusted networks into classrooms, with familiar series and names like NOVA, Nature, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Ken Burns, American Experience, and Frontline. |
| Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700 (Adam Matthew) This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. We have now enhanced their ground-breaking work by linking the new detailed catalogue descriptions with complete digital facsimiles of the original manuscripts. The result is a resource which is indispensable for anyone interested in women and women's writing in Early Modern Britain. One of the key attractions of the resource is that it brings together little-known material from widely scattered locations. This resource includes over two hundred and thirty manuscripts from fifteen libraries and archives in the UK and North America. The manuscripts are remarkably varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this an invaluable resource. There are contextual essays from academics working in the field, as well as biographical and bibliographical resources. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 (Archives Unbound – Gale) Essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. This online archive covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. From The National Archives of the UK, and The Wiener Library, London. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals (Archives Unbound – Gale) This publication collection consists of over 1,000 air dropped and shelled leaflets and periodicals created and disseminated during the Second World War. The majority of items in this collection were printed by the Allies then air or container dropped, or fired by artillery shell over German occupied territory. Many leaflets and periodicals have original publication codes and were printed in over 10 languages. Only shelled leaflets, Germans to Allies (115 items), are in English. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 (Gale) From 1841 to 1992, Punch was the world's most celebrated magazine of wit and satire. From its early years as a campaigner for social justice to its transformation into national icon, Punch played a central role in the formation of British identity -- and how the rest of the world saw the British nation. With approximately 7,900 issues (200,000 pages) from all volumes of Punch between 1841-1992, including Almanacks and other special numbers (issues), as well as prefaces, epilogues, indexes, and other specially produced material from the bound volumes, and the images in the archive appear as originally published, the Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 enhances teaching, learning, and research. Though contributions to the magazine were unattributed until after 1902, information from the ledgers has been incorporated into the Punch Historical Archive, allowing users to identify contributors and better understand the nature of the magazine and the Victorian periodical press. Gale, a Cengage Company, was pleased to collaborate with Liverpool John Moores University on the transcription of the Punch contributor ledgers from 1843-1919. |
| Queen Victoria's Journals (ProQuest) As well as detailing household and family matters, the journals reflect affairs of state, describe meetings with statesmen and other eminent figures, and comment on the literature of the day. They represent a valuable primary source for scholars of nineteenth century British political and social history and for those working on gender and autobiographical writing. |
| Rastafari Ephemeral Publications from the Written Rastafari Archives Project (Archives Unbound – Gale) The provocative literary materials in this collection provides an historical time stamp and current affairs commentary on the transitional period in the Rastafari Movement’s development—a period extending from the early 1970s through to the present. It is a forty-three year period during which the Rastafari Movement has been spreading across the Afro-Atlantic world in one form or another and becoming progressively globalized. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) Indexing of general-interest periodical articles published in the U.S. from 1890 through 1982. |
| Readex AllSearch (NewsBank) A primary source archive that contains centuries of primary sources: books, pamphlets, newspapers, government documents, and more. Included databases are: America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, Hispanic American Newspapers, American State Papers, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, House and Senate Journals, Series I; Senate Executive Journals, and U.S. Congressional Serial Set. |
| Routledge Handbooks Online The world’s leading scholars provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines, and the primary debates of today. |
| Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale) Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Over 6 million pages from 29,000 works. |
| Salem eBooks Includes Literature, Health, History, Science databases of Salem Press titles. |
| Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (Alexander Street) Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period is a definitive collection organized by Nancy Kushigian of the University of California, Davis and Stephen Behrendt of the University of Nebraska. In addition to 60 volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, the database includes extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays specially commissioned for the project by Alexander Street Press. This database contains over 9,027 pages. |
| Scribner Writer Series (Gale) Scribner Writers Series provides original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. Entries include concise essays, citations, and biographical information that places the author and their works in personal and historical context. (Gale) |
| Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (Gale) A four-part collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery. It includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials. The first part documents the debates surrounding slavery and its abolition in the U.S. but also in the UK and other European countries, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. |
| Southeast Idaho Oral Histories (BYU-Idaho) Transcribed oral histories of Southeast Idaho |
| Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War: Slavery and the Law (ProQuest History Vault) |
| Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (ProQuest) The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. This resource includes years 2013 to the present. |
| Student Resources in Context (Gale) Student Resources In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR. (Gale) |
| Subject Guides LibGuides Research Guides |
| SUR, 1931-1992 (Archives Unbound – Gale) SUR is one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. This collection includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs and advertisements, more than 40,000 pages; a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries, correcting mistakes and inconsistencies found in the index published in the magazine; and a set of images of manuscripts from the first issue as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| Testaments to the Holocaust (Archives Unbound – Gale) Electronic holdings of the Wiener Library in London, England. The collection includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; and a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism. The core of the collection is 1,200 eyewitness accounts dealing with the pogrom of 1938 through the scope of the Holocaust. Also included are photographic materials. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| The Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age (Harpweek) Electronic access to Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) covering the Civil War Era, Reconstruction, Gilded Age I, II, III & IV collections. |
| The First World War (Adam Matthew) Rich in primary source content from world-class libraries and archives, this collection is an invaluable source for anyone studying and researching the ‘Great War’. From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war. Covering an array of international perspectives, the resource showcases intimate personal narratives, wartime propaganda and recruitment material, the truly global reach of the conflict, and the role of women in war through various documentary and visual forms. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| The Nixon Years, 1969-1974 (Adam Matthew) These files allow scholars and researchers the opportunity to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation. FCO and British Embassy analyses of US policy decisions, White House staff appointments and UN discussions, views on Europe, the deployment of F111 aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over funding from Congress, visits to the US by both Wilson and Heath, files on the internal situation in the US and domestic reform are core subjects of this digital collection. There are also detailed assessments of all the changes brought about by the Presidential Elections of 1972. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 (Alexander Street) The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. NOTE: This database contains content that may be offensive. |
| Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (Gale) (1902-2005) Contains the full text of every issue of the Times Literary Supplement published between 1902 and 2005. Contains 250,000 reviews, poems, letters and articles from 5,000 issues. |
| Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History (Adam Matthew) Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. This world history resource offers students and researchers a window to the past and transports them across continents. From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women. The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry. From the meticulous accounts of outings and sightseeing of the chaperoned young lady, to the impassioned descriptions of far continents by the determined explorer, these personal accounts are written by women of all ages, travelling for many different reasons, from all walks of life. They cover journeying for work, for pleasure, for charity, for enlightenment, by sea, air and land. The explorations range from vacations to intrepid adventures, and every type of trip in between. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume I, Christianity (Alexander Street) Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Volume I, Christianity includes the complete 17-volume German edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke (DBW) and English edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series (DBWE); an international selection of English-language editions of key authors such as Pope Benedict XVI, Hans Urs von Baltasar, Leonardo Boff, Sergius Bulgakov, Rudolf Bultmann, Helder Camara, James Cone, Mary Daly, Ivone Gebara, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Adolf von Harnack, Bernard Lonergan, Henri de Lubac, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Jon Sobrino, Dorothee Sölle, Ernst Troeltsch, and John Howard Yoder; and a selection of the papers of Reinhold Niebuhr. Upon completion, it will include 150,000 pages of printed works and primary sources. |
| U.S. History Collection (Gale) Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, the library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field. (Gale) |
| U.S. History in Context (Gale) U.S. History In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Content includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers. (Gale) |
| U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995 (Brill) This collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond. |
| Upper Snake River Valley Idaho Histories Short historical sketches of pioneers who settled in the Upper Snake River Valley between 1883 and 1893. In addition, the collection contains a brief history of the meetings, elections and programs of the Daughters of the Snake River Valley Pioneers from 1924-1950. |
| Victorian Popular Culture (Adam Matthew) This innovative portal invites readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances. The Victorian Popular Culture portal is an essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This resource contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. As well as fascinating primary source material in the form of objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills, the resource includes a number of tools to support teaching and research. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Virginia Company Archives (Adam Matthew) An essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. This resource documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas and provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America. There is valuable evidence on the ethnic and gender composition of Virginia and new evidence of tensions among the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans. This is also a crucial source for London’s economic history and will be welcomed by religious and social historians of Early Modern England. This resource is part of the Adam Matthew collection. |
| Wall Street Journal - Historical Issues (ProQuest) (1889-2000) Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Issues from 1984 to today are in the Newsstand (ProQuest) database. |
| War and Terrorism Collection (Gale) Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily. (Gale) |
| Women's Suffrage Collection (Accessible Archives) The early women’s rights movement built upon the principles and experiences of other efforts to promote social justice and to improve the human condition. Collectively these efforts are known as reform. After the Civil War, many abolitionist activists joined the Temperance and Women’s Suffrage movements. This collection includes newspapers that had some overlap between the temperance and women’s rights movements, as well as an anti-suffrage paper. This resource is part of the Accessible Archives collection. |
| Women, War, and Society, 1914-1918 (Archives Unbound – Gale) 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 definitive collection of primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents are published here for the first time in fully-searchable form, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form an indispensable resource for the study of 20th-Century social, political, military and gender history. This resource is part of the Archives Unbound collection from Gale. |
| World History Collection (EBSCO) Includes history from Africa, Asia, North & South America, Europe & the Middle East. Contains nearly 200 full-text titles, covering a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, sociology and more. |
| World History Collection (Gale) Provides balanced coverage of events in world history with relevant articles updated daily - both current thinking and established scholarly work. (Gale) |
| World History in Context (Gale) World History In Context reaches back to the ancient world and forward to today’s headlines to provide a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have shaped history. Rare primary sources, reliable reference, and multi-media content help students gain context on a wide range of topics within this vast subject. (Gale) |
| World History in Video (Alexander Street) World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage captures longer-term and multiple perspectives, so students can make connections across cultures and over time, incorporating people, places, events, and artifacts from around the world and across the centuries. |
| World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean (Gale) World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more. (Gale) |
| World Vital Records World Vital Records provides access to a variety of family history resources including databases in the following categories: Census; Birth, Marriage, and Death; Military; Immigration; Family Trees; Family Histories; Newspaper Collections; and Location specific databases. |