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  • Church Missionary Society Periodicals
    This resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work, periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters. Coverage: 1804-2009. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts
  • 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

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  • 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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  • New HeinOnline Labor and Employment Database
    This database covers US labor history and current labor issues in the US. It combines legislative histories, Supreme Court case briefs, accounts of historical labor riots, current reports on working conditions, and scholarly book and journal content. primary sources

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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.

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  • Market Research and American Business Reports, 1935-1965
    An insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer. Coverage: 1935-1965. primary sources reports
  • Mass Observation Online
    Mass Observation was a social research organization formed in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This collection includes studies and publications, diaries and personal writings, photographs, and interactive maps. It describes everyday life in the words of ordinary people, with interviews and records of overheard conversations, rather than through polls. Coverage: 1937-1965. primary sources documents manuscripts reports
  • 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

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  • Population Index on the Web (1986-1999)
    “Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world’s population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. It is a searchable and browsable database containing more than 40,000 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index.” Coverage: 1986-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • 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
  • ProQuest Sociology Database
    This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. Coverage: 1985-. 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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  • 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 Books
    Explore research social science monographs, classroom texts, and professional development titles. books e-books
  • 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
  • SAGE Reference
    Authoritative encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences. encyclopedias reference
  • SAGE Research Methods
    Supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings. With information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences, the book, reference, and journal content in SAGE Research Methods and advanced features help researchers of all levels conduct their research. encyclopedias reference
  • SAGE Video
    With new and original video productions, including contributions from our book and journal editors and authors across the world, SAGE Video offers quick definitions, short tutorials, and in-depth interviews for a range of academic viewpoints. It also features extensive footage of practitioners in real-life professional settings designed to illustrate best practice and provide a unique insight for students to master the theory, skills, and techniques needed to succeed. video multimedia
  • 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
  • Social Issues Primary Sources Collection
    Covers crime & punishment, environment, family, gender issues & sexuality, government, politics & protest, human & civil rights, immigration & multiculturalism, medicine, health, bioethics, social policy, and terrorism. A subset of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Coverage: Details not available. primary sources documents manuscripts
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
    “Social Sciences Citation Index indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences including anthropology, communications, history, law, management, political science, psychology, sociology, and women’s studies. It provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Social Sciences Citation Index is most useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.” Coverage: 1956-. articles scholarly journals
  • Social Services Abstracts
    Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Coverage: 1979-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Provides citations and abstracts to articles published in some 2300 journals in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Also includes citations to some books and many dissertations. Includes Social Services Abstracts. Coverage: 1952-. 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
  • Statistical Abstracts of the World
    This database aggregates the statistical abstracts of over 40 countries (and growing) and makes the content available through a single-search interface. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations and research firms are also included. Coverage: 2013-. data statistics

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