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Articles: Journals or Newspapers (1)

• America: History and Life

  America: History and Life provides abstracts and citations from reviews and dissertations about the history and culture of the United States and Canada from the earliest recorded times to the present. See Historical Abstracts for world history. Coverage: 1964-.

Encyclopedias, Reference (1)

• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

  Bibliography only, no full text. This database is derived from the seminal reference work "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750," commonly known as the Alden-Landis bibliography (after the co-editors John Alden and Dennis Landis). Features works produced in Europe that make some mention of the discovery and emerging awareness of the Americas. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. Coverage: 1493-1750.

Multimedia (1)

• American Song

  This streaming music database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Primary Sources--Documents & Manuscripts (26)

• Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League

  Booker T. Washington, founder of the National Negro Business League, believed that solutions to the problem of racial discrimination were primarily economic, and that bringing African Americans into the middle class was the key. In 1900, he established the League "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro," and headed it until his death. Coverage: 1901-1928.

• Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)

  This collection of records reproduces the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and its leaders. It also covers organizations that evolved from or were influenced by RAM and persons that had close ties to RAM. Source Library: Personal Collection of Dr. Muhammad Ahmad. Coverage: 1962-1999.

• Civil War in Words and Deeds, The

  Collection of regimental histories and personal narratives. These first-person accounts, compiled in the postwar period and early 20th Century, chronicle army life during the American Civil War. Source Library: Lost Cause Press. Coverage: 1860-1865.

• Civil War Service Reports of Union Army Generals

  These reports represent an attempt by the Adjutant General's Office to obtain more complete records of the service of the various Union generals serving in the Civil War. The Adjutant General requested that each such general submit "...a succinct account of your military history." Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1864-1887.

• Early American Imprints, Series I & II (combined)

  An electronic version of the Early American Imprints sets. Combined search of both the Evans collection and the Shaw & Shoemaker collection. Coverage: 1639-1819.

• Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)

  An electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the Thirteen Colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included. Coverage: 1639-1800.

• Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw/Shoemaker (1801-1819)

  An electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included. Coverage: 1801-1819.

• Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984

  Between the 1920s & 1980s, the Justice Department and the FBI engaged in widespread investigation of those deemed politically suspect. This collection includes source materials for the major social movements and key figures in early twentieth century black history, and provides a window into the development of America's first systematic domestic surveillance apparatus. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Coverage: 1920-1984.

• Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress

  The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was formed in 1946 by a merger of three groups with ties to the Communist Party: the International Labor Defense, the National Negro Congress, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. The records in this collection represent the files of the national office of the CRC, including case files, publications, correspondence, etc. Coverage: 1946-1955.

• Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party

  On November 3, 1979, a rally of black industrial workers and Communists was planned in Greensboro, North Carolina, against the Ku Klux Klan. During the rally, a caravan of Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party drove by the area where the anti-Klan activists were congregating. The confrontation led to gunfire and the deaths of five protest marchers. This collection of documents from the FBI, local and state police, and other law enforcement agencies sheds new light on the motivations of the Communist organizers, the shootings, subsequent investigations, and efforts to heal the Greensboro community. Coverage: 1979-1981.

• Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration

  The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe. Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1938-1947.

• James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi

  This collection contains extensive FBI documentation on James Meredith's battle to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962 and the white political and social backlash, including his correspondence with the NAACP and positive and negative letters he received from around the world during his ordeal. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Coverage: 1961-1962.

• Landmark Documents in American History

  Contains the full text of over 1000 primary source documents relating to American History. Also includes photographs, paintings, and biographies of important figures. Coverage: 1492-present.

• Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project

  The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was the most controversial and contentious program of the Depression-era's Work Projects Administration, recognizing that journalists, playwrights and novelists were also unemployed. This collection presents the FWP publications of all 47 states involved in the project. Coverage: 1933-1943.

• Making of America

  19th century journals and books from the United States. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• Making of the Modern World

  Digital facsimile images of primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth from the period 1450-1914. Full-text searching across works in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more. Coverage: 1450-1914.

• Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia

  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 information on the social, political, economic, scientific, religious and agricultural characteristics of the Appalachian region. Coverage: 1700-1950.

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries

  Includes the full text of diaries and letters of women who lived in the United States and Canada from colonial times until 1950. Coverage: 1675-1949.

• Price Control in the Courts: The U.S. Emergency Court of Appeals, 1941-1961

  This collection provides a unique look into the creation and activities of the temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, established by Congress and given exclusive jurisdiction to determine the validity of price control regulations under the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. Coverage: 1941-1961.

• Records of the Persian Gulf War

  This collection contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Source Library: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Coverage: 1990-1991.

• Republic of New Afrika: Independence, Reparations, and Citizenship

  This collection provides documentation collected by the FBI and chronicles the activities of the social movement organization The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), including activities of national and local leaders, power struggles within the organization, its growing militancy, and its affiliations with other Black militant organizations. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Library. Coverage: 1968-1980.

• Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson

  Contains clippings, correspondence, James Jackson's lectures, research notebooks, speeches, and writings (published and unpublished), internal documents pertaining to the Southern Negro Youth Congress and to Freedomways, materials pertaining to the Smith Act indictments of Jackson and other communists, Communist Party internal documents, and memorabilia and other biographical materials. Source Library: Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University. Coverage: 1932-2000.

• Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations, 1989-1993

  This digital collection reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China's human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990. Source Library: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Coverage: 1989-1993.

• U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950

  Correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes as U.S.-Vatican relations, the Vatican's role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope's personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews. Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1940-1950.

• War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824

  Until the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824, Indian affairs were under the control of the Secretary of War. This collection includes letters to and from the War Department, including correspondence from Indian superintendents, territorial & state governors, military commanders, Indians, missionaries, and other public and private individuals. Additional attachments include vouchers, receipts, depositions, contracts, newspapers, copies of speeches, passports for travel in the Indian country, etc. Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1800-1824.

• We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961

  Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, which outlawed racial segregation in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines. The Freedom Rides bolstered the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement and called national attention to violent disregard for the law in the southern United States. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Coverage: 1961.

Primary Sources--Historical Newspapers & Periodicals (8)

• African American Newspapers (1827-1998)

  Searchable collection of 270 newspapers from 36 states, offering insights into African-American history, culture, and daily life. Includes page images. Coverage: 1827-1998.

• America's Historical Newspapers

  Searchable database of hundreds of historical newspapers, including page images from microfilm. WFU access includes both the Early American Newspapers Series 1 (1690-1876) and African-American Newspapers (1827-1998). Tip: If the link is only searching the African-American Newspapers collection, look for the link to Search "All of America's Historical Newspapers" at the top of the database screen. Coverage: 1690-1876, 1827-1998.

• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

  Covers books and periodicals of the 19th century. Corresponds to or provides indexing for: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer's Index to the Times. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama

  This collection is a mixture of issues and papers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861-1865. These newspapers "recorded the real and true history of public opinion during the war." Coverage: 1860-1865.

• Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

  Includes hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. Coverage: 1801-1899.

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers

  Contains three newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), and Wall Street Journal (1889-1989). More recent issues are available through other databases, such as ProQuest. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page. Coverage: 1849-three years ago.

• Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South

  The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year run and was in its time the South's most important literary periodical. Scholars and students of history, journalism, and literature can discern much about how the hot-button topics of slavery and secession were presented in southern intellectual and literary culture in the early stages of the Civil War. Coverage: 1834-1864.

• Through the Camera Lens: The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927

  For those within the film industry, information and opinion were shaped by a number of aggressive trade publications, each competing for the same limited number of subscribers. Chief among these was the Moving Picture World, which reviewed current releases and published news, features, and interviews relating to all aspects of the industry. Coverage: 1907-1927.

Statistics & Data (1)

• Historical Statistics of the United States

  Over 30,000 data series covering all aspects of American life. View tables in HTML or PDF and create your own custom charts. Gift of the Paschal Endowment Fund. Coverage: Colonial period-present.