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  • America: History and Life with Full Text

    What? America: History & Life with Full Text covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, this database is an important bibliographic reference tool for U.S. and Canadian history. ...

    When? 1895 - Present

    Why? Sources focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada

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  • Anthropological Literature

    What? Anthropological Literature is a bibliographic database with coverage of anthropology, archaeology, applied anthropology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnomusicology, folklore, linguistic anthropology, and related interdisciplinary research. P...

    When? Varies by Publication

    Why? Provides comprehensive indexing for the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research

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  • Avery Index

    What? The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a bibliographic database covering articles in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history. Coverage from the 1930s to the present with selective coverage dating back to 1741. As of 2007, the Avery Index has over 580,00...

    When? 1930 - current

    Why? Comprehensive listing of articles about architecture and buildings

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  • Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

    What? This new digital archive documents behind-the-scenes activities of the music, film, and entertainment industries. By providing the complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000, it arms students and researchers with the primary source material needed to develop a ...

    When? 1880 - 2000

    Why? Find primary source material needed to develop a contextual understanding of the entertainment industry as it evolved over the 20th century.

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  • American Periodicals

    What? American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines suc...

    When? 1740 - 1940

    Why? Magazines and journals chronicling the development of America from 1740-1940

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  • British Periodicals

    What? British Periodicals offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. British Periodicals is available in two separate collections, British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection ...

    When? Late 17th century to early 20th century

    Why? To find articles in magazines and journals published in Great Britain

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  • Reader's Guide Retrospective

    What? Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides citations to more than three million articles from over 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource provides researchers with access to a wide range of informat...

    When? 1890 - 1982

    Why? Provides indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

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  • Social Explorer

    What? Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to historical census data and demographic information. The site currently includes the entire US Census history from 1790 to 2000, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregatio...

    When? 1790-2000

    Why? Search historical census data and demographic information

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  • Nineteenth Century Index

    What? C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the art...

    When? 1790-1919

    Why? Find books, periodicals, government documents, newspapers, archives, and reference material supporting research pertaining to the 19th century and beyond.

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  • LitFinder

    What? LitFinder is a core repository of full-text literature, spanning history and geography to offer nearly 150,000 poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays representing the work of more than 80,000 authors

    When? Varies

    Why? To find full text poems, short stories and speeches.

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  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set

    What? U.S. Congressional Serial Set is a full text collection of reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. It also includes access to the American State Papers, 1789-1838, which preceded and then overlapped for a bit with the Serial Set.

    When? 1817-1994

    Why? U.S. government annual reports, treaties, presidential documents, legislative reports, etc.

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  • ARTFL Project

    What? The ARTFL Project has texts of French literature ranging from classic works to nonfiction prose and technical writing. The cooperative project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language is sponsored by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University o...

    When? 1180 - current

    Why? Digitized French resources including French-language classic documents and reference books from 1180-Present

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  • New York Times (Historical)

    What? Search for full-text articles from the New York Times from 1851-201

    When? 1851-2019

    Why? Locate articles from the New York Times

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  • Wall Street Journal (Historical)

    What? Contains full text articles from the Wall Street Journal from 1889-199

    When? 1889-1994

    Why? Locate older articles from the Wall Street Journal

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  • Historical Washington Post

    What? Contains full-text articles from the Washington Post from 1877-199

    When? 1877-1995

    Why? Locate older articles from the Washington Post