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African American History Online
Subject: Biography, History, Ethnic Studies
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Description: Comprehensive online database with informative hyperlinked entries, including photographs and maps, on more than 500 years of African-American history.

American History in Video
Subject: History and Media
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Description: The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Black Thought and Culture
Subject: Politics & Government, History, Ethnic Studies
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Description: Contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, comprising over 1100 authors.

Daily Life Through History
Subject: History, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies
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Description: Explores the daily life and customs of peoples throughout history and modern times with articles, images, maps and primary documents.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Subject: History, Religion, Literature, Law, Fine Arts, Science & more
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Description: Access digital images of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product gives researchers new methods to access critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Films on Demand
Subject: All
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Description: Covers more than 5,500 educational titles. Users can organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, personalize folders and manage their entire collection.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Subject: All
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Description: Covers the history and culture of the world (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Humanities Source
Subject: Archaeology, Arts, Media, Religion, Women's Studies
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Description: Articles from 1,450 journals and magazines in the humanities, including art, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, literary criticism, music, the performing arts, philosophy and religion.

JSTOR (Arts & Sciences I-X)
Subject: Anthropology & Archaeology, Economics, Education, Ethnic Studies, History, Languages, Literature, Mathematics, Politics, Social Sciences
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Description: Archive of core scholarly journals. Full text starting with the first issue.

Making of the Modern World
Subject: History, Literature, Economics & Business
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Description: Provides full-text images of every page from 61,000 books on economics and business published during a four hundred year span, as well as of 406 pre-1906 serials. This collection contains 12 million pages focusing on areas such as commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade, and transport.

Modern World History Online
Subject: Biography, History
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Description: Spans world history from prehistoric times to the present, with biographies, primary source documents, timelines, maps and charts.

New York Times Historical (ProQuest)
Subject: News
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Description: Full text of the New York Times (1851-2007).

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
Subject: Literature, Religion, Social Sciences, Science and Women Studies
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Description: Primary source collection in a variety of western and non-western languages from a wide variety of distinct archives from the 19th century.

Oxford Reference Online
Subject: Dictionaries & Quotations
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Description: English and bilingual dictionaries in all subject areas.

Salem History
Subject: History
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Description: Online version of several sets of history reference books.Excellent place to start for introductory material on historical themes, people, and places.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archives
Subject: Social Sciences, Ethnic Studies
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Description: Primary source collection includes the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, and the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Subject: Politics & Government, History, Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies
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Description: Includes reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials dealing with the history of women's movements in the U.S.

World Folklore and Folklife
Subject: Social Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Women's and Gender Studies
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Description: Documents the daily life and cultures of peoples around the globe.