Force & Diplomacy  Tags: force diplomacy history military_history war society conflict peace history_3229  

Resources that index scholarly journals, general interest periodicals, ephemera, and primary-source documents potentially relevant to the study of force and diplomacy.

Academic Search Premier (access via EbscoHost)
The Libraries' most comprehensive interdisciplinary journal database. It provides full-text access to more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, including Foreign Affairs (9/1922 to date), and Diplomatic History (6/1993 to 6/2005; 12-month "embargo"); see Blackwell Synergy for access to current year.

African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century (primary source database)

Provides in-depth exploration of all major events of the 19th Century through the prism of the African-American experience. Titles include Freedom's Journal, North Star, Provincial Freeman, and the Frederick Douglass Papers (1851-1859).

AccessUN (primary source databases) AccessUN is a commercially published index to United Nations documents and publications. It indexes resolutions, treaties, and UN periodicals and includes some full text. Covers the years 1945 to date.

Access World News

1,400+ full-text international newspapers. For more newspaper coverage, see Ethnic NewsWatch, Lexis-Nexis Academic, and World News Connection.

American Civil War Letters & Diaries (primary source database)

Alexander Street Press databases are renowned for their extensive and professional indexing. American Civil War Letters & Diaries is no exception. Search by date (including by day), geographic location, and personal event in the life of the letter writer / diarist (e.g. participation in a battle, death of a child, promotion, etc.) . The current "release contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, and memoirs. . . [including] 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts". Biographical details are listed for every author in the database; some are treated with brief biographical narratives.

American Periodical Series Online (primary source database)

"This unique and valuable collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II (Proquest).

Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974 (print only)

This 11-volume print index to older secondary historical literature remains valuable. Access is from the 1st floor of Paley Library, Reference Stacks.

Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897) via 19th Century Masterfile

One of a core set of indices for pre-1920 studies.

Congressional Record File via 19th Century Masterfile

One of a core set of indices for pre-1920 studies. Congressional Record File consists of the following: 1) Annals of Congress (1789-1824); 2) Register of Debates (1824-1837); and 3) Congressional Globe (1833-1873).

Descriptive Catalog of the Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881) via 19th Century Masterfile

One of a core set of indices for pre-1920 studies.

Digital Dissertations

The definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Digital Dissertations help you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from 1997 on are available for free download along with 24-page previews of thousands of other recent dissertations.

Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876) (primary source database)

This database, a component of the Archive of Americana, is based on Clarence Brigham's famous History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. "Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 650 historical American newspapers, focusing on titles published in the 18th century" (Readex).

Early Encounters in North America (primary source database)

Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this Alexander Street Press database documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. "This release contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters." A fertile research ground for exploring war and society in American history.

Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. For more newspaper coverage, see Access World News, Lexis-Nexis Academic, and World News Connection.

 

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996 (primary source database)

FBIS is an important new digital archive of full-text translations of foreign news sources from all areas of the world. Click "i" for more information.

Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons and House of Lords (1803-1830) via 19th Century Masterfile

One of a core set of indices for pre-1920 studies.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970

The U.S. Census Bureau has recently made available a digital copy of this important, two-volume reference work. The updated, 6-volume "Millennial" (2006) edition is now available in print on the 1st floor of Paley Library, Reference Stacks.

History Cooperative Journals
Created by a consortium of academic publishers and professional history associations, this database provides full-text access to the Journal of American History and thirteen other academic journal titles in history.

In the First Person (FIRP) (primary source database)
FIRP indexes and links to "first-person" material in selected Alexander Street Press databases including Early Encounters in North America, Oral History Online, and Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Since FIRP indexes more than just oral histories (letters, diaries, autobiographies), it will eventually contain many more records than are available in the Oral History Online database. Currently, for example, FIRP contains 16,000 records versus ORHI's 15,400. FIRP can be used to find primary source material available on the free web, and is itself a free resource.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Search thousands of full-text domestic and international newspapers and magazines. Also includes sections on government and political news, as well as updated archives of state and federal case law, statutes and regulations. Primarily of interest to those researching the recent or "contemporary" past. For more newspaper coverage, see Access World News, Ethnic NewsWatch, and World News Connection.

LexisNexis Congressional with U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (primary source database)

Provides access to the full text of congressional working papers and legislation, a wide variety of information about Congress, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, financial data, and the full text of the Congressional Record. The full text of key regulatory and statutory resources is also included. The U.S. Serial Set module includes the full text of over 325,000 U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress covering the period from 1789 to 1969.

New York Times (primary source) 

• Full-Text (2000 - present) (via Newsbank) 
• Full-Text / Full-Image (1851 - 2003) (via Proquest Historical Newspapers) 
• Full-Text (1980 - present) and Index (1969 - present) (via LexisNexis Academic)
• Index (1851 - 1922) (via Chadwyck-Healey Historical Newspapers) 

Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 (full-text resource)
A searchable, full-text and full-image archive of every page of the (London) Times from 1785 to 1985. It complements Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).

World News Connection
Non-US media sources in translation. Covers multiple topics and all regions of the world. For more newspaper coverage, see Access World News, Ethnic NewsWatch and Lexis-Nexis Academic.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. It currently monitors approximately 1,500+ titles for coverage, of which 67% are published outside the United States.