A vast collection of databases devoted to early American history, Accessible Archives has been described by leading academics as 'one of the most important developments in early American research since microfilm'. Accessible Archives' databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books from the 18th and 19th centuries. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records are now available in a user-friendly on-line environment. These databases are encyclopedic in scope and allow full Boolean, group name, string and truncated searches. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically. Titles will continue to be added, covering important topics and time periods for scholars and students of all academic levels.

AccessUN is a commercially published index to United Nations documents and publications, from 1945 onward. Includes resolutions, treaties, and UN periodicals. Useful for research on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature.

Also known as: Readex United Nations Index, Index to United Nations Documents

The African American Experience (AAE) includes the full-text of over 300 reference works from Greenwood Publishing as well as over 4,000 interviews with former slaves from the WPA slave narratives project. Primary source documents, audio clips, images, maps, photographs, and over 60 Negro University Press titles are also included.

This enormous collection of African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

Starting with the Freedom`s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of 10 to 12 million words of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Never before has such important original source material - written by African- Americans for African-Americans - been readily available for research and fresh interpretation by historians, sociologists, educators and students.

Offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 1,000 historical American newspapers. Holdings include Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5. Series 1, 1690-1876: This collection provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Series 2, 1758-1900. This collection focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers. Series 3, 1829-1922. This collection focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century newspapers including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond. Series 4, 1756-1922: This collection includes 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 5, 1777-1922: This collection presents 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states, including the North Star, the famous anti-slavery newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass.

Also known as: Early American Newspapers

This first release is a functional prototype and contains 290 authors and approximately 22,000 pages of information. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials from 1850-1870. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The database includes some previously unpublished manuscripts - for example, the letters of Amos Wood and his wife. The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (APS Online) provides the full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations, editiorial cartoons, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc., from more than 1,100 American magazines and journals that began publication between 1741, when Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine first appeared, and 1900. Popular, special interest and general magazines; literary and professional journals; children's and women's magazines; and many other historically significant periodicals are included. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

The articles are available as digitized images and therefore preserve the original typography, graphics, and page layout. The database allows searching by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. In addition, a Search for Periodicals function in APS Online leads to bibliographic information and a summary of the historical significance of all the periodicals represented in the database. Extensive primary source content in its original context and a history of American magazine publishing are made available in APS Online.

Also known as: APS Online

About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.

Also known as: Associated Press Images

ARTstor is a digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. ARTstor contains more than 1 million images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods, with initial strengths in European, American and Asian cultures.

Black Historical Newspapers offers primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It allows for study of major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and for exploration of everyday life as written in the Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier.

Also known as: Philadelphia Tribune, Baltimore Afro-American, Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier

Landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures form the corpus. Unlike their white counterparts, black leaders have had to wrestle with the issues of their race alongside the issues of leadership in their chosen professions. They have been forced to defend positions, justify actions, correct perceptions, protest injustice, celebrate cultural achievement, and confront the agenda of a white-dominated society.

Encompasses 100,000 pages of materials, beginning with the ideas of Frederick Douglass and including those of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Sidney Bechet, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Dorothy Height, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, J. Saunders Redding, Sojourner Truth, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, and dozens more. Targeted for inclusion are the written and spoken words of Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Rosa Parks, Gwendolyn Brooks, and a long list of others.

In addition to including the most familiar writings, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, trial transcripts, and interviews. Much of the material is fugitive, and approximately twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously.

British Newspapers, 1600-1900 is a comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. It provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from the British Isles. This interface searches the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th century British Library Newspapers. It also includes specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.

British Periodicals Online traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages. British Periodicals Online can be searched in tandem with hundreds of other journal backfiles via Periodicals Archive Online.

Also known as: BPO

C19 indexes millions of documents published between 1790 and 1919. It is currently comprised of the following components for which further detail is available.

Books:
--Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919) (Index only)

--Nineteenth Century microfiche project (1801-1900) (Index only)

Periodicals:
--American Periodicals Series (1770-1919) (Full-Text)

--British Periodicals Series (Index only)

--Periodicals Index (1790-1919) (Index only, but links out to JSTOR)

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Index only)

--Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) (Index only)

Official Publications:
--House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) (Full-Text)

Archives:
--ArchivesUSA (19th century records only) (Index only)

Newspapers:
--Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905) (Index only - but full-text available via Times Digital Archive )

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.

Students, faculty, researchers, museum professionals and library visitors will find CAMIO to be a valuable tool. CAMIO provides images for art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, class projects and research resources. It is a single point of entry to many collections, providing unlimited and powerful, Web-based searching.

The scope of the CAMIO collection ranges from 3000 BC to the present. The content includes about 95,000 works of art - photographs,paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture - plus audio, video and mixed media. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths.

CAMIO art images span the following categories:

* Photographs
* Prints
* Sculptures
* Paintings
* Decorative Arts
* Posters
* Costumes
* Utilitarian Objects
* Jewelry

This full-text digital collection is based primarily on unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the British Library in London, and supplemented by additional sources from seven institutes, such as the Cambridge University Library. This project provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793 to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It provides multiple perspectives from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people, and tourists. In addition, there are over 400 color paintings, maps and drawings by English and Chinese artists, as well as many photographs, sketches and ephemeral items depicting Chinese people, customs, and events.

Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 features full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II. This unique collection includes a range of primary sources related to wartime conditions in France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Vatican, in addition to those from Spain and Germany itself. Subjects covered include: the German attempt to win over important groups within the territories; the psychological warfare of rival propaganda campaigns; resistance units; and the repercussions of such events as Germany's invasion of Russia.

CQ Press Political Reference Suite contains the online version of many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics. Users can search or browse the Reference Suite as a whole or by entering one of the online editions and beginning there. The database includes personalization options that save user profiles, document history, and searches. It also features CiteNow!, an exclusive CQ Press tool that helps users easily download full citations in MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, and APA styles.

The following online editions are also available in the Suite:

Congress and the Nation Series Documents the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency from 1945-2004. Includes in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to Congress Facts, figures, and analysis on every aspect of the U.S. Congress and how it works.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to Political Campaigns A complete analysis of American political campaigns, including people, processes, races, and issues.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to the Presidency A guide to the structure and operations of the executive branch and the president's relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to U.S. Elections Thorough historical and statistical coverage of every major aspect of federal and gubernatorial elections in the U.S.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court A complete and thorough overview of every aspect of the Supreme Court.

Historic Documents Series Important primary source documents from the last three decades. Includes expert commentary and analysis that sets each year's events in context.

Political Handbook of the World Current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries. Includes names of key ambassadors, international memberships of each country, and profiles of over 120 intergovernmental organizations.

CQ's Politics in America Profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress. Includes key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information, biographical data, contact information, and other member facts.

Supreme Court Yearbook Series Essential coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court - updated yearly since 1989. Includes case summaries of every opinion during each court term, along with tables and figures on voting patterns and constitutional law.

Washington Information Directory Current key contacts in federal, congressional, and state government offices, nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, and foundations. Includes organizational charts and tables that untangle departmental structures and allows the export of contact information into letter templates. and other formats.

Vital Statistics on American Politics Data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more. Allows for data export into Microsoft Excel.

[Descriptions adapted from CQ Press website]

Also known as: Congressional Quarterly Press Political Reference Suite

Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1923. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports published after January 2001.

Description adapted from text on the CQ Press website

Concurrent user limit: 20

Also known as: Congressional Quarterly Researcher

The Declassified Documents Reference System is a full-text database of previously classified documents that have been declassified by the Federal government. The database covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, and includes material in the fields of history, political science, international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more. Documents from such agencies as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the White House are included. Date coverage is largely post-World War II to the early 1990s, with some documents dating back to the early decades of the Twentieth Century, and up to the early years of the Twenty-first Century.

Concurrent user limit: 2

This online collection contains scanned images of rare printed and important manuscript texts on many aspects of gender, sexuality and culture in Great Britain. Types of materials include: ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets, diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books, and periodicals. Other features include essays by modern scholars, biographical sketches, a chronology, etc.

The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) uses the Freedom of Information Act to collect government documents on US national security issues. These documents, primary research material on public policy, are digitally scanned and searchable. Some of the scanned documents have sensitive information blacked out. DNSA also provides good background material, explaining the context of the documents, along with bibliographies, chronologies, and glossaries.

Documents are organized in collections, ranging from "Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990" to "The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977." Also notable are collections on "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962," "Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002," and "Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush."

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Also known as: Evans Digital Edition

Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. A continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before. Designed for researchers of varying skill levels, the intuitive interface of this long-awaited digital edition offers both simple and advanced searching as well as in-depth browsing within sixteen carefully indexed subject categories.

Also known as: Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition

Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. (Updated quarterly)

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition. Designed for graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.

Also known as: EEBO

The Early Republic currently includes 17 volumes of digitized primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members as collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. These volumes of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress are used by Congress, historians, political scientists, and jurists to understand the most important and productive Congress in United States history.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a collection of English and foreign language books, directories, pamphlets, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Content is presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. With full-text search capabilities across 180,000 titles (33 million pages), this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

Also known as: ECCO

Eighteenth Century Journals provides full text access to 70 British newspapers and periodicals from the 17th and 18th century. Features many short run items and very rare materials to complement to other resources already available in this area. Covers extremely wide-ranging topics from this time period, including: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion. Supports studies of the 18th century, including: literature, the theatre, the origins and rise of romanticism, politics, revolution and rebellion, social issues, gender, society life, religion and the influence of the press.

Also known as: 18th Century Journals

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Describes English-language letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or its colonies from 1473 to 1800, as well as material printed in English anywhere in the world during that period. The database sources are ESTC/North America and The British Library and represents holdings of over 1600 libraries worldwide. (Updated daily)

Also known as: ESTC

FBIS Daily Reports are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information. FBIS Daily Reports became World News Connection after 1996.

In the late 1800s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen began collecting monographs and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. By the time her successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages.

The HarpWeek database contains all the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1877) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

Includes the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Sessional Papers (almost 80,000 papers) and the accompanying Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900. The Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers Collection (1688-1834) features publications published officially by the House of Commons or the House of Lords from 1688 to 1834, including sessional papers and other material such as Journals and Private Acts.

Lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street Press databases. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

Justis is the full-text, online library of UK, Irish and EU case law and legislation dating back to 1163. Documentation is available for both caselaw and legislation (pdf). Justis includes acts of Parliament (UK) from 1707 onward, acts of Parliament (Scotland) from 1999, acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2000, and acts of Parliament (England) from 1235 to 1706. The latter are derived from Ruffhead's edition of the Statutes at Large up to 1866, thereafter from HMSO. The collection also includes Statutory Instruments from 1949 and Statutory Orders from 1671. Finally, Justis UK also includes Church Assembly and General Synod Measures from 1920.

In addition to offering keyword searching across thousands of collections freely available on the Web, the Letters and Diaries Online platform allows users to perform in-depth fielded searches across all of the letter, diary, and oral history collections published commercially by Alexander Street Press. Temple users will only have full-text access to those collections Temple has purchased (North American Women's Letters and Diaries / North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories / The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries / Black Thought and Culture)

Also known as: Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online

Provides access to the full text of congressional working papers and legislation, a wide variety of information about Congress, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, financial data, and the full text of the Congressional Record. The full text of key regulatory and statutory resources is also included. The U.S. Serial Set module includes the full text of over 325,000 U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress covering the period from 1789 to 1969. The Serial Set captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress.

Use Lexis Nexis Congressional with U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection to:

* Discover a law's intent by tracing its legislative history
* Gauge Congressional attitudes toward current topics
* Find out how members of Congress voted on legislation
* Investigate the finances of members of Congress
* Monitor legislation and public policy on almost any topic
* Review the federal regulations that implement legislation
* Learn the makeup and mission of Congressional committees
* Access "Hot Bills" and topics of Congress
* Research various aspects of United States history

Also known as: Congressional Universe, Serial Set Digital Collection, Lexis Nexis Congressional

Library of Latin Texts is a full-text database of modern critical editions of Latin classical, patristic, and medieval Christian writers including the entire corpus of ancient Latin literature up to the second century A.D. The database also contains a significant amount of Neo-Latin Literature (after 1500) including decrees from modern ecumenical councils up to Vatican II and sixteenth century translations into Latin of important medieval works.

The LIFE photo archive is a joint venture between LIFE and Google. Search millions of photographs, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.

Searchable, full-text and full-image archive of every page of the (London) Times from 1785 to 1985.

Also known as: Times Digital Archive,Times (London)

Provides the full-text of over 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches from 1800 to 1926. This material has been separated into 99 different subject areas to aid in searching.

This digital collection contains books and pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The collection covers trials from all countries and languages, although the great majority are English-language and published in the U.S. or Great Britain. Documents are in PDF format and are fully searchable.

Also known as: New York Times, Historical New York Times

Also known as: New York Times,Historical Index to the New York Times

19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional British newspapers from 1800-1900. This new collection includes newspapers from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

Also known as: 19th Century British Library Newspapers

When finished will include more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks.

When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers. When complete the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies will enhance the use of the database. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. (Updated yearly)

Oral History Online, published by Alexander Street, is the most comprehensive online index of oral history collections in English, with access to full text, audio, video, or bibliographic citations for more than 2,000 English oral history collections from all over the world. The narratives cover thousands of subjects from the late 19th Century to present, including civil rights and race relations, labor history, African American history, women's history, immigration studies, political history, American Indian history, regional history, and more. Oral History Online provides keyword searching of more than 129,000 pages of full-text by some 4,300 individuals, as well as pointers to some 1,400 audio and video files and over 10,000 bibliographic records. Additional indexing also permits searching by narrators' age, race, occupation, birth and death dates; by interview subject and place; by repository information; and many other search criteria.

Over 7,500 articles, images, and maps dealing with African American history and culture drawn from Oxford University Press reference sources. Further details are available here.

The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower is the online version of the 21 volume print collection of the same name, which includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This collection includes documents?many of them previously classified?from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.

A collection of full-text histories of Pennsylvania's counties written between 1870 and 1900.

Also known as: American County Histories to 1900

Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.

This database is primarily a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from the Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Included, however is information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, etc.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. As of early 2009, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 550 journals, providing access to over 13.2 million article pages - representing over 2 million articles.

Also known as: PAO

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. As of early 2007, over 16 million articles going as far back as 1665 are currently indexed. Every article in each journal covered is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.

Also known as: PIO

Also known as: C19

Incldues the American Periodicals Series, and the following historical newspaper runs:

Atlanta Daily World
Baltimore Afro-American
Chicago Defender
New York Amsterdam News
New York Times
Philadelphia Tribune
Pittsburgh Courier
Wall Street Journal

Provides bibliographic information for articles from over 400 periodicals in the popular press with full text available from over 200. Indexing goes back to 1890.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Readers' Guide Full Text

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.

Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

Textual information on construction details (for example, steel beams or reinforced walls) is often given on the plans while shading indicates different building materials. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and details on what was manufactured in them. In the case of large factories or commercial buildings, even individual rooms and the uses to which they were put are recorded on the maps. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery. Click here to access a key provided by the Sanborn Map Company.

Also known as: Digital Sanborn Maps

The digital Senate Executive Journals feature the deliberations of American Senators on a wide variety of events, organizations and people, with a strong focus on nominations across military, judicial and executive branches and on international treaties.

Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), a notable scholar, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.

Also known as: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

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.

The Sixties is centered on key themes that provide insight into the issues that shaped America and that still resonate in today?s debates: Arts, Music, and Leisure; Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women?s Movement.

When complete, the collection will contain over 150,000 pages of fully searchable text and associated audio and video material. These materials are frequently rare and hard to find; they include diaries, letters, and oral and written histories from both newsmakers and ordinary citizens caught up in the times; government documents, hearings, and other official papers; and papers and histories from radical and other organizations and groups; plus songs, photographs, ephemera, and more. To supplement the primary material and to facilitate the teaching of research using primary sources at the university level, The Sixties at completion also includes a collection of critical documentary essays. Compiled by leading scholars in the field and assembled around a major theme or research question, each critical documentary essay consists of annotated primary-source documents, linked by an original interpretive essay that provides historical context and insight into the sources.

This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. (Description via Publisher)

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.

Note: A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some texts. With some browsers, you may also be able to input your search in Greek; with others, you may have to input Beta Code or Latin Transliteration. Extensive information about font requirements is available at the TLG website at: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help.fonts.html .

Supreme Court Records and Briefs (SCRB) comprises over 150,000 cases from the generation before the American Civil War to the decade of the Vietnam War and Watergate. It covers every aspect of law: civil rights law; constitutional law; corporate law; environmental law; gender law; labor law; legal history and legal theory; property law; taxation; trademark and intellectual property law, among other subjects. Document types include Appellant's Brief; Appellee's Brief; Application for Review; Application for Writ; Brief in Opposition; Brief of Real Party; Intervenor's Brief; Jurisdictional Statement; Letter Brief; Opposition for Review; Oral Transcript; Petition; Petition for Rehearing; Petitioner's Brief; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Relator's Brief; Supplement to Petition; Transcript; among other sources.

Famous briefs include those written by leading attorneys, future associates of the Court, institutions, corporations, and advocacy groups: N.A.A.C.P.; ACLU; The New York Times; Louis D. Brandeis; Abe Fortas; Thurgood Marshall; Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The collection is of interest to scholars and patrons interested in all aspects of American constitutional, political, legal, social, economical, cultural, and intellectual history.

SCRB is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States.

SCRB features a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are featured, the majority consisting of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion.

Also known as: Supreme Court Records & Briefs 1832-1978,Making of Modern Law

The Vanderbilt University Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC (since 1968), and CNN (since 1995). The archive also includes more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989, presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and significant national and international events.

Title and text descriptions for each news broadcast permit sophisticated searching of all material in the archive. The archive's search interface, the TV-NewsSearch database, includes over 705,000 records describing items of news content which can be searched using keyword or boolean techniques. Detailed searching instructions are contained in the TV-NewsSearch database, along with instruction for downloading the free RealOne media player required for viewing the collection video. (Requires downloading free RealOne media player from Real Networks.)

Also known as: Television News Archive

Also known as: Wall Street Journal,Historical Wall Street Journal

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals indexes major 19th century British periodicals on Victorian thought and opinion. Subjects covered include: literature, religion, politics, social science, women's studies, science and the arts. The Index also identifies authorship of unsigned articles and includes a table of contents for every periodical indexed.

Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities and examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present. WSM was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of the State University of New York at Binghamton. They are assisted by a scholarly editorial board of fourteen historians.

World Newspaper Archive is a single point of access for America's Historical Newspapers and Latin American Newspapers