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  • America: History and Life About

    • Database: America: History & Life

    Description: Indexes articles, reviews, and dissertations for U.S. and Canadian history.

    Full text: no; some links to other fulltext resources

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Historical Abstracts About

    • Database: Historical Abstracts

    Description:Indexes scholarly literature of world history, 1450-present.

    Full text: no; some links to other fulltext resources

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Social Sciences Citation Index (via Web of Science) About

    • Database: Social Sciences Citation Index via Web of Science

    Description: Consists of multidisciplinary indexes of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Sociological Abstracts About

    • Database: Sociological Abstracts

    Description: Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

    Full text: no

    Access: on campus and remote

Other Useful Databases:

  • Historical New York Times About

    • Database: Historical New York Times via Proquest

    Description: The Historical New York Times offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage begins September 18, 1851.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Historical Statistics of the United States About

    • Database: Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition

    Description: This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a recognized expert.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Access NewspaperARCHIVE About

    Database: Access NewspaperARCHIVE

    Description: NewspaperARCHIVE, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Accessible Archives About

    • Database: Accessible Archives

    Description: Provides full-text searchable databases for primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals. Includes Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1880, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, and American County Histories to 1900.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (via NewsBank) About

    • Database: America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922

    Description: Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

  • Digital Archives of The Robesonian About
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    Database: Digital Archives of The Robesonian

    Description: Digital Archives of The Robesonian, is available (via Access NewspaperARCHIVE) from 1897 to the present. The Robesonian is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.

    Full text: yes

    Access: on campus and remote

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