History (Comprehensive)  Tags: history historiography primary_sources  

The African American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. Sketches assembled from reliable biographical dictionaries.

AAE includes the full-text of 300+ reference works, 60+ book titles, audio clips, images, maps and photographs, as well as over 4,000 interviews with former slaves from the WPA slave narratives project. Excellent mix of secondary and primary sources.

The Black Studies Center includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, a series of essays about the development of Black Studies, "required" readings in the field, a timeline, video, and still images.

Landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and others.

Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals.

Over 7,500 articles, images, and maps dealing with African American history and culture drawn from Oxford University Press reference sources.

Important resource for slavery and abolition studies, this database brings together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.

A product of the Air University Library, this open-access database contains article citations for English language military journals.

CIAO publishes scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

This database provides easy access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, national strategy documents, and specialized resources such as dissertations, reports and position papers from universities, research institutions, etc.

Published in the United Kingdom, the partially open-access Lancaster Index is an online bibliographic database, indexed and cross-referenced, of journal articles and monographs dealing with military and security affairs.

Stay up-to-date with developments in the U.S. military establishment; provides cover-to-cover full text access to nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Click "i" for more information.

PAIS contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and more. Covers 1915 to date.

This open-access database serves as a guide to articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and international politics, military history, etc. Covers 1997 to date.

Database of eDocuments including reports, articles, fact sheets, and links to websites with terrorism-related information. Also provides access to selected ebooks and ejournals upon registration. Click "i" for more information.

This database indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers feminist as well as gay and lesbian issues from 1991 to the present.

Provides access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI.

Full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Numerous articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives -- the other side of the story.

GenderWatch is a full-text database of many different types of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas, including history. Materials in the database date from the 1970s to the present.

LGBT Life contains indexing and abstracts for more than 130 LGBT-specific core periodicals and over 290 LGBT-specific core books and reference works.