Provides access to 50 different databases containing primary sources relating to a variety of disciplines, including Art, Art History, Film Studies, History, Southern Studies, and Women's/Gender Studies. Contains an extensive collection focusing on African American studies and the civil rights movement, which includes the NAACP papers and the Chicago Defender Archive. Also contains historical documents from the Digital National Security Archive, as well as historical newspapers and periodicals.
Offers full text from nearly 2000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 81,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 40,000 images, including historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video
Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History offers a fresh way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture.
The Gilded Age contains digitized primary source materials and scholarly commentary that supports academic research into the development of society, government, and culture in the United States between 1865-1902
Jewish Studies Source contains over 400 full-text titles. Sources comprising the collection include full-text for leading academic journals within the discipline, monographs, related articles from major periodicals and newspapers, and over 1600 biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews.
This collection brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.
These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.