Databases

• 19th century U.S. newspapers
  19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and …
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• American national biography online
  American National Biography contains over 17,000 biographies of deceased Americans whose lives have shaped the nation. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
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• American poetry
  see Literature Online.
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• American state papers, 1789-1838
  Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.
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• Archive finder
  Archive Finder is a directory that describes over 206,200 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
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• CQ electronic library
  The CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Electronic Library is an integrated search environment providing access to 8 separate CQ resources for research on American Government, history, politics, public policy, and current events. Provides access to research and reference articles, opinion and news coverage, data, and contact directories. Congressional Quarterly is renowned for non-partisan coverage of U.S. Government issues and activity. CQ EL …
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• Early encounters in North America : peoples, cultures, and the environment
  The Early Encounters database documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. It makes available a collection of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters that document the first impressions of North America by Europeans and of Europeans by native people. The collection includes primary materials, images, environmental studies and maps that researchers and students …
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• Encyclopedia of American studies
  The Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to the history and culture of the United States by focusing on problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplines. It features broad synthetic articles and bibliographies covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. As a comprehensive reference, …
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• Google news archive search
  Google News Archive Search searches across a large collection of historical archives of major newspapers, magazines, news archives and legal archives. Results include both content that accessible to all users (such as BBC News, Time Magazine and Guardian) and content that requires a fee (such as Washington Post Archives, Newspaper Archive, and New York Times Archives). Some of these resources are available through KU's Articles and Databases …
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• Harper's weekly
  HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly, the illustrated 19th and early 20th century "national newspaper," an important resource for examining America on a cumulative week-to-week basis from 1857-1912. Through this database one can discover news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature, and advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion of the times. This is an important primary resource for …
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• Historical statistics of the United States
  Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition contains over 37,000 different time-series statistics providing a quantitative view into American history, Colonial Times to the present. Data series address many different topics of the United States, including Colonial, Revolutionary, and Confederate States aspects of American History. The Millennial Edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and …
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• Homeland security digital library
  The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is a database containing documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management, non-classified Presidential directives and policy and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources related to Homeland Security. The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include …
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• International index to music periodicals : IIMP full text.
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full-text from many periodicals, covering the scholarly to the popular. Full-text ranges from 1874 to the present. If you wish to search International Index to the Performing Arts along with International Index to Music Periodicals, please click here. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)
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• LGBT life with full text
  LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life, the definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues, as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation …
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• North American immigrant letters, diaries and oral histories
  North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Included are approximately 100,000 pages of primary sources (much previously unpublished),such as letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, political cartoons, and oral histories. Materials included cover a period from approximately 1840 to the present, with most of the focus on the period from 1890 to …
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• Oral history online
  Oral History Online contains an index and links to editorially vetted, Web-based oral histories in English in archives and libraries around the world, with links to full text, audio, and video when available. It also contains tens of thousands of in-copyright, full-text interviews from proprietary collections.
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• Oxford African American studies center
  The AASC provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African American experience. The Center also includes content from print …
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• Oxford reference online. Premium
  Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works in the Premium Collection. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)
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• Statistical abstract of the United States
  The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
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• United States Congressional Serial Set
  Database of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Texts constitute a rich source of primary source material, including maps, on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial set will consist of over 12 million pages. Database searchable by subject, publication category, standing committee author, and …
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