History: All History Databases

Multi-disciplinary database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 other publications.

Delivers streaming video titles spanning subjects including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Includes documentaries, films, demonstrations, and more.

Contains primary source material that reflects a broad view of the times. African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s while The Civil War 1860 - 1865 contains the full text of major articles gleaned from newspapers published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.

Contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.

Includes over 5 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.

Finding aids for the manuscript, political and SIUC university collections held in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). Search materials ranging from the late 18th century to the present including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of literary works, office files, photographs, and printed material. Covers only a portion of the Center's materials, which are added on a continuing basis.

Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents covering a broad range of subjects from the Middle Ages forward, from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.

Indexes over 16,000 publications in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Covers the Arts, Humanities, Language (including Linguistics), Poetry, Music, Classical works, History, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, Archaeology, Architecture, Religion, Television, Theater, and Radio with abstracting and indexing for more than 1,700 journals.

Primary source collection detailing the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves.

Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. Combines Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender.

Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Where possible complete non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.

Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters made searchable. Consists of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. Also includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources.

Over 260 volumes works on history published since 1960.

Repository for digital content created by member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) or purchased by the consortium for use by its members. It includes several collections of digitized photographs from the SCRC.

Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Full-text searchable database of the Chicago Tribune's historical backfiles. Includes digital reproductions of newspaper pages, including images.

Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national, and international news.

Full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. Other topics covered include travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, social events, and the like.

Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

Published and unpublished hearings held by the U.S. Congress.

City-to-city comparisons of key consumer costs for more than 300 US cities.

Contains Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses produced by SIUC students. Full text PDFs are included when available. Note: records include an option to buy a print or microform copy of a dissertation or thesis, but Morris Library can loan its print copies of dissertations and theses for free.

Includes dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

Searchable and indexed books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries from the bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement.

Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Searchable or browse within sixteen indexed subject categories.

Page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700: from the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War.

Partnership for creating fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database.

Complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015 covering the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them.

Cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Full text of selected journals subscribed to by Morris Library. Abstracts of articles in other journals are also viewable.

Combined search of Ethnic Diversity Source and Diversity & Ethnic Studies ebooks. Supports the study of African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Multiracial Americans, and Native Americans, among others, with respect to their cultures, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences. Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, historical documents, and biographies are complemented by primary sources, such as speeches and interviews. Also includes videos and over 6500 ebooks.

Works to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works in the Evans collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America.

Covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, cultural, and economic issues to shed light on internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent radical groups and their movements to change U.S. government and society in the 1960s.

Collection of source materials for the major social movements and key figures in early twentieth century black history, generated between the early 1920s and early 1980s by the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation through widespread investigation of those deemed politically suspect.

Search the most recent global news, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

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Coverage begins in 1996 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across the time span of your choice. Printing and emailing take just a click, and six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.

Provides more than 200 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more.

Standard source for quantitative facts of American history that includes over 37,000 data series from over 1000 sources. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

Data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. Hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Includes primary source full-text electronic editions and translations in the history of philosophy and thought.

Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles offering extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.

Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multicultural issues. Indexes and abstracts nearly 2,650 additional titles. Features 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition, and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags.

Provides access to a vast, indexed collection of corporate- and industry-related documents. Contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries.

Periodicals, academic journals and other content pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, full text for 245 pamphlets and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Complete archive of the magazine from the first issue to the mid-1990s, including every page and every photograph, all fully searchable.

Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources.

Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. as well as television and radio news transcripts.

Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

Catalog of more than 19 million open access digital resources from over 1,000 organizations.

Multidisciplinary database providing full text with every entry from more than 1,600 publications.

Institutional repository offering permanent, reliable,and free access to research and scholarly material produced at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Explores controversial topics by bringing together information needed to understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles for context, full-text magazines, academic journals, newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, and multimedia files and links.

National record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. Offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors.

Offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.

Papers presented at conferences (multidisciplinary). Uses the FirstSearch interface.

Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre from 1993-present.

Access to the full text of all Johns Hopkins University Press' scholarly journals covering such disciplines as psychology, classics, cinema, medicine, literature, history, and more.

Indexes congressional hearings, prints, bills, historical publications, (1789-1969) and unpublished hearings (1823-1972). Full text of congressional bills and resolutions (from 1989), reports and documents, biographical and voting information for members of Congress, the Federal Register (from 1980), the Congressional Record (from 1985), and the National Journal (from 1977).

Searches 34 databases on the ProQuest platform simultaneously, including a large number of national and regional newspapers. What's included.

Includes the Chicago Tribune (1849-1999), The Chicago Defender (1909-1975), and The New York Times (1851-2020).

Comprehensive index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. Covers the years 1890 through 1982 and reflects the history of the twentieth century U.S.

Collects public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations such as CBS, ABC, the Associated Press, Gallup, Harris, Pew, and major academic and commercial pollsters. Polls cover a variety of topics, including social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and many more.

Contains over 6 million pages from 29,000 works about the Americas published from 1500 to the early 1900's. Includes books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography.

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Historical maps charting the growth and development cities and towns. Each map shows the street and building addresses at the time the map was made, as well as the outline of each building and construction details and was created to assist fire insurance companies assess property risks.

Unique and rare historical materials held in Morris Library's Special Collections Research Center, including manuscripts, political papers, rare books, digital collections, and the University Archives.

Magazine featuring works from some of the best known figures in literature, philosophy, history and the arts such as Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Satre, Jorge Luis Borges and many others. The complete run of the magazine—covers, photographs and advertisements, too—is included with an interface in both Spanish and English.

Coverage begins in 1984 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across a chosen time span. Six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.

Coverage begins in 1996 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across the time span of your choice. Printing and emailing take just a click, and six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.

Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Indexes, and Chemical Indexes.

Maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office, WAVE lists documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women.

Collection organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.