Provides full-text, image level access to historical periodicals from colonial and early American history. ZSR has purchased: The Virginia Gazette, South Carolina Newspapers, and The Pennsylvania Gazette.

Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Covers interactions between American Indians (including America, Canada, and Mexico) and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection. Note: Cross-searchable with the American West database.

A database of research published in China. Contains journals, theses/dissertations, proceedings, newspapers and more. ZSR subscribes to Series F: Literature / History / Philosophy. Access availabe through VPN only.

Collection of almost 30,000 Chinese and Japanese ancient books covering historical, political, economic, religious, philosophic, literary, ethnic and geographic documents.

Contains information on present and past aspects of cultural and social life for a worldwide sample of societies. Provides descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups. Includes citations, abstracts, and full text of ethnographic and other materials, indexed by culture and subject. Ideal for both exploratory, in-depth cultural research, and cross-cultural comparisons.

Provides access to peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents that explore the culture, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America.

Contains articles published in ethnic and minority newspapers and magazines (primarily published in the US), and in international scholarly journals (primarily english language) that focus on ethnic and minority issues.

Essays that provide a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past.

Contains videos in business, economics, health, medicine, humanities, social sciences, science and mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

Includes primary source material that captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920.

Provides access to legal, political and diplomatic documents of the Panton, Leslie & Co. trading firm, which traded with the Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees and used their influence to encourage resistance to white settlement of Native lands.

Provides access to newspapers that document day-to-day life in the internment camps. Most of the papers are in English or in dual text.

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.

Streaming video platform for libraries that offers films, TV shows, and documentaries across mutliple subject areas.

Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent; contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

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.

This collection includes a selection of student and community newspapers, as well as African-American newspapers, from schools and towns around North Carolina.

Curated topical articles that provide information on current and seminal scholarship related to African American studies.

Oxford Bibliographies Online 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.

Overviews of research and trends and background information 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.

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