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  • British Parliamentary Papers
    House of Commons Parliamentary Papers allows researches to access the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century papers, and the Hansard parliamentary debates, via a single interface, cross-searching across topics to see how issues were explored and legislation formed. Coverage: 1688-2015. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Chinese Civil War And US-China Relations: Records Of US State Dept Office Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
    Provides insight into the domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period. This product comprises all 41 reels of the former Scholarly Resources microfilm product entitled Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs. Coverage: 1945-1955. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Columbia International Affairs Online – CIAO
    A source for NGO, ThinkTank, research institute, and grey literature on Politics and International Affairs. Publishes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Coverage: 1991-. reports
  • Congress Collection
    Find biographical and political data about every member of Congress since 1945. Coverage: 1945-Present. encyclopedias reference
  • CQ Press Library
    The place to search or browse resources on American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences. Includes Congress Collection, CQ Almanac, CQ Magazine, Encyclopedia of American Government, Politics in America, Public Affairs Collection, Supreme Court Collection, Voting and Elections Collection, Political Handbook of the World, and Supreme Court Compendium. Coverage: 1983-. books e-books
  • CQ Researcher
    Comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news in the United States. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner. Coverage: 1991-. encyclopedias reference multi-subject databases news current events
  • Criminal Justice Database
    A database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Covers such areas as Criminology; Corrections & Law Enforcement; Criminal Justice; Addictions, Alcoholism, Gambling, Child Abuse; and Criminal Rehabilitation. Coverage: 1995-. articles scholarly journals

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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
  • 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

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  • Global Breaking Newswires
    Global Breaking Newswires is an aggregated full-text news database with timely access to global newswire content. This database includes newswire services from around the world, including the AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, dpa, AFP, Canadian Press, and others. The wires are available in various languages including Arabic, French, Italian, and German. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals news current events
  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Hein Online
    Contains the full text of over 300 academic legal periodicals. Coverage begins at the earliest issue for each journal. Also includes the pre-1981 Federal Register, U.S. Supreme Court documents, and Treaties and Agreements Coverage: 1776-. articles scholarly journals
  • HeinOnline Law Journal Library
    Contains more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. articles scholarly journals
  • 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. Coverage: Colonial period-present. data statistics
  • Homeland Security Digital Library
    A compendium of materials available for scholarly research in the area of Homeland Security. The digital library collection is focused on strategy and policy in the various subject areas of Homeland Security Research. Sources of information include governmental departments and agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, conference sites, non-governmental organizations, institutes and organizations, and other entities. Coverage: Details not available. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Political Science
    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. encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Latin 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. encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Handbooks Online
    Oxford Handbooks Online includes a collection of the best Handbooks in 14 subject areas. books e-books
  • Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
    Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Political Science. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field. encyclopedias reference

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  • PAIS Index
    Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Includes PAIS Archive. Coverage: 1915-. articles scholarly journals
  • PolicyMap
    A U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others. data statistics
  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • ProQuest
    Searches across all ProQuest article databases. Contains articles covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business. Databases include Research Library, Ethnic NewsWatch, and ProQuest Religion. Coverage: 1970-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals multi-subject databases news current events
  • ProQuest Congressional
    Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations as well as information on Congress, voting records, legislative histories from 1789 to the present, and current legislative activities. Also contains the full text of the U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers from 1789-2003. Also includes indexing and full text of published and unpublished Congressional Hearings from 1829 to present. Includes the Congressional Record from 1873-present and its predecessor publications from 1789-1873. Coverage: 1789-present. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • ProQuest Current News
    This simultaneously searches ProQuest databases US Newsstream, International Newsstream, Global Breaking Newswires, Canadian Newsstream, Ethnic Newswatch, and Recent Newspapers. articles newspapers magazines news current events
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    Contains ten newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2002), Pittsburgh Courier (1950-2002), Washington Post (1877-1997), New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010), The Korea Times (1956-2016), The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times (1859-2020). 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. articles newspapers magazines news current events primary sources primary sources historical newspapers periodicals
  • ProQuest Military Database
    The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline. Coverage: 1987-. articles scholarly journals
  • ProQuest Political Science Database
    This link cross searches ProQuest Political Science Database, PAIS Index, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Users can access hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals with full-text of many core titles. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. Coverage: 1985-. articles scholarly journals
  • ProQuest Recent Newspapers
    Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000s through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron’s, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and more. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals news current events
  • ProQuest Social Science Database
    This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology. Coverage: 1987-. 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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  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Roper Center Public Opinion Archives
    One of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Covers opinions on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. Coverage: 1935-present. data statistics
  • 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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  • SAGE Campus
    SAGE Campus supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through 250+ hours of structured online learning. These self-paced courses cover critical skills and research methods across all stages of academic study. Click Register to create your account through WFU. careers personal development video multimedia
  • Salem Press Online
    Reference content focusing on history and government. encyclopedias reference
  • SHAFR Guide Online
    The SHAFR Guide Online: An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1600 is a near-comprehensive, 2.1 million-word online annotated bibliography of historical work covering the entire span of U.S. foreign relations. It aims to jump-start the research of both students from high school to graduate school as well as the most advanced scholars. encyclopedias reference
  • Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
    The resource offers in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade. Coverage: 1490-2007. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals reports
  • New Social Explorer
    Social Explorer allows users to visually explore demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data. The site includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008, and other data sets. data statistics
  • 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
  • State Constitutions
    State Constitutions (Illustrated) is a collection of the constitutions of the 50 states of the United States with related documents and resources. Containing the text of every constitution with the original, consolidated and current texts and an collection of documents from before statehood, State Constitutions provides comprehensive coverage and allows researchers to compare multiple editions from multiple sources. It currently has nearly 10,000 historical and current constitutions and constitutional documents. encyclopedias reference primary sources documents manuscripts
  • State Papers Online: The Government of Britain, 1509-1714
    State Papers Online is an online resource covering two hundred years of British and European history, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne. State Papers Online, 1509-1714 gathers together sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British State Papers and links these rare historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable calendars. Coverage: 1509-1714. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States
    Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Coverage: 1878-. data statistics
  • Supreme Court Collection
    A destination for authoritative information and data on cases, justices, and the history and power of the U.S. Supreme Court. encyclopedias reference

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  • U.S. Newsstream
    Users can search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. Provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes full text from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals news current events
  • 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. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • U.S. Supreme Court Library HeinOnline
    HeinOnline’s U.S. Supreme Court Library contains comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Reports, which is the official source of United States Supreme Court case law. Since the publication of the official U.S. Reports is generally delayed by several years, the United States Reports Preliminary Prints and the United States Reports Slip Opinions are also included in this database. reports
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Contains: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Signature Ceremonies, Treaty titles in the UN Official Languages, Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties, Treaty Handbook, Monthly Statements of treaties and International Agreements, Depositary Notifications (CNs) by the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and Notes verbales from The Legal Counsel relating to the depositary practice and the registration of treaties pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter. Coverage: 1946-. primary sources documents manuscripts

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  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive
    A catalog of news broadcasts. Contains streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present); video requires RealPlayer. Also contains abstracts of evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS from August 1968 to present; daily news programs from CNN (1995 to present), FOX News (2004 to present), and ABC Nightline (12 September 1988 to present); and a selection of special programs, including coverage of political events, events related to September 11, 2001, and more. Content is added approximately 72 hours after it was broadcast. Loan requests accepted for video of broadcasts that are not available online (fees apply). Coverage: August 1968 to present. news current events video multimedia
  • Voting and Elections
    The Voting & Elections Collection from CQ Press contains in-depth data about U.S. Presidential, Congressional, and Gubernatorial campaigns and elections, historical and modern. Data export tools allow for customized data downloads for statistical analysis. Also includes information about voter demographics and political parties. Coverage: 1789-2012. data statistics

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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
  • 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 documents manuscripts
  • Women in The National Archives
    A finding aid for women’s studies resources in The National Archives, UK is presented alongside original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories. Coverage: 1559-1995. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • World Constitutions Illustrated
    This collection includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and more. It also includes constitutional periodicals, thousands of classic books, other related works such as the World Fact Book, and bibliographic references. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Includes a wide variety of sources about Latin America and the Caribbean: reference articles and commentary; academic journals and news-feeds; primary-source documents; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more. Covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology. encyclopedias reference primary sources
  • World Treaty Library
    This collection brings together Rohn, Dumont, Bevans, Martens, League of Nations, United States, and United Nations treaties into a searchable database. Search a comprehensive treaty index by keywords, title, parties, sign date or citation. encyclopedias reference primary sources documents manuscripts
  • World Trials Library
    The HeinOnline World Trials Library Includes more than 3,500 trials including complete sets of American State Trials, Howell’s State Trials, and the Nuremburg Trials. It contains trial transcripts, critical court documents, and trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials, as well as biographies of many of the greatest trial lawyers in history. 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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