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  • Diaolong Full-text Database of Chinese & Japanese Ancient Books
    A project of collaborations among scholars from China, Japan, and Taiwan. It is one of the most comprehensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ancient books including almost 30,000 volumes of ancient books covering historical, political, economic, religious, philosophic, literary, ethnic and geographic documents. books e-books
  • Digitalia Hispanica
    Simultaneously search or browse Digitalia’s multiple collections including scholarly eBooks and eJournals from Spain, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic, and more. Subject Collections for eBooks and eJournals include Architecture, Art, Caribbean Studies, Historic Periodicals of Spain, Law, Religion and Mythology, Spanish Literature Criticism, and many more. articles scholarly journals books e-books

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  • Ebony Magazine Archive
    Ebony Magazine Archive covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014. Coverage: 1945-2014. primary sources
  • eHRAF World Cultures
    A cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups from around the world. Includes citations, abstracts, and full text of ethnographic and other materials, indexed by culture and subject. Information is drawn from books, dissertations, conference papers, and journal articles. Coverage: 1991-. books e-books
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica
    The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. encyclopedias reference
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition)
    The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a reference tool and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. encyclopedias reference
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam (Three)
    Encyclopaedia of Islam-Three is the third edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam which sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. EI-Three is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It is published in five substantial segments each year. encyclopedias reference
  • Ethnic Diversity Source
    Ethnic Diversity Source is a full-text database that covers the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America. articles scholarly journals books e-books
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    Contains the complete text of more than 250,000 articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 150 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the U.S. Coverage: 1995-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals multi-subject databases news current events

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  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Films on Demand – Master Academic Collection
    17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. multi-subject databases video multimedia
  • Final Accountability Rosters Of Evacuees: Japanese-American Relocation Centers (1944-1946)
    The rosters that form Final Accountability Rosters Of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946, provide demographic information on the “evacuees” resident at the various relocation camps. They consist of alphabetical lists of evacuees resident at the relocation centers during the period of their existence. Final Accountability Rosters Of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946, is part Archives Unbound- American Studies. Coverage: 1944-1946. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • New Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
    The Fortunoff Archive (hosted by Yale) holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Users must create an account and be on campus or VPN in order to access testimonies. primary sources video multimedia

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  • HAPI – Hispanic American Periodicals Index
    Contains bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, and literary works in social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Find information about political, economic and social issues, arts and letters in Latin America. Geographic coverage: Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage: 1970-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • Historical Atlas of Islam
    A collection of historical maps showing the reach of Islam throughout history. encyclopedias reference
  • HistoryMakers
    The HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. A non-profit educational institution, the organization is committed to preserving, developing and providing access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories. Includes recordings of stories of both the well-known and unsung African Americans from diverse backgrounds. Currently, over 10,000 hours of primary source video content are accessible on The HistoryMakers Digital Archive, with more content being added each week. video multimedia

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  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • JET Magazine Archive
    JET Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014. Coverage: 1951-2014.
  • Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
    Based on a variety of original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society in New York, this resource offers insights into the everyday lives of the American Jewish population over three centuries. The database includes documents and manuscripts; full-color, searchable images; interactive maps with historical census data; biographies; essays; and an interactive chronology. Materials can be organized and viewed by key themes, such as business & industry, civil rights, politics, everyday life, culture & the arts, etc. Coverage: 1654-1954. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Kanopy Video
    Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas. video multimedia

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  • Latin American Newspapers
    Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1805-1922, offer coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a dozen other countries, these resources provide viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures. Latin American Newspapers chronicles the evolution of Latin America over two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items. Coverage: 1805-1922. primary sources historical newspapers periodicals

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  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound
    Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. video multimedia

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  • Oxford Bibliographies: Latino Studies
    Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic. encyclopedias reference

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  • ProQuest International Newsstream
    International Newsstream provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. The comprehensive collection features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format. Over 800 of the world's top news sources such as The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications are included in the collection. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals

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  • Queer Pasts
    Queer Pasts is a digital queer history project consisting of primary source document collections and curatorial essays. The digital exhibits on this platform are designed for students, teachers, and scholars of queer history. primary sources

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  • Routledge Handbooks Online
    Overviews of research and trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology. encyclopedias reference

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  • South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
    SAOA is a free open-access resource for research and teaching. It is a growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Times of India
    Founded in 1838 to serve the British residents of West India, The Times of India now circulates more than four million copies, covering almost eight million readers.  It is the largest English daily newspaper in the world. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1838-2010. primary sources historical newspapers periodicals
  • Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
    A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Includes over 10,000 poems by around 70 poets, including Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Sherley Anne Williams, Bob Kaufman, and Langston Hughes. Coverage: 1901-2000. literary texts

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  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
    Contains abstracts and indexing from professional journals, major news magazines and books covering law, politics, political science, and public administration. Coverage: 1975-. articles scholarly journals

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