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African American Song |
50,000
tracks of music including jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms
of African American musical expression. It is a resource to
document the history of African American music in the form of
an online music listening service. Some limited
information on Artist by viewing "Liner notes." (when available)
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| American
History in Video |
Provides
the largest and richest collection of video available online
for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more
than 5,000 titles on completion. 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. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling
approximately 420 hours.
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Biography
Resource Center
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Biographical
information on people throughout history, across all disciplines.
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| Daily
Life America (ABC-CLIO) |
A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights
the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present.
A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning
reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps. A
key resource supporting courses in American history and literature
at the high school and college level—but with a fresh
approach. A dazzling web experience for anyone with a hankering
to explore the back roads and byways of the American experience
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| Daily
Life through History Premium (ABC-CLIO) |
Combining three rich databases to provide a comprehensive,
cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social
studies, English, and language students, Daily Life Online
moves seamlessly from past to present, providing context for
contemporary life and culture. There's more to history and
contemporary events than just the names of rulers and the
rise of economic systems; Daily Life Online shows
how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived
and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours.
Allows searching Daily Life through History, Daily Life in
America, and World Folklore and Folklife from a single access
point.
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Gale
Virtual Reference Library
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Chapters
from encyclopedias including biographies. |
| Grove
Art Online |
Encyclopedia
of the arts and art history with web links. Advanced search
includes "People" section as well as "Search Biographies."
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| History
Reference Center |
History
Reference Center is a full text history reference database featuring
full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias
and non-fiction books as well as full text for more than 130
leading history periodicals. Also included are more than 61,100
historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical
figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more
than 80 hours of historical video.
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| History
Resource Center: US (Gale) |
History
Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access
to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from
more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal
covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history
from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes
citations from over 180 additional history journals from the
Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation
Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
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| History
Resource Center: World (Gale) |
History
Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection
of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading
scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images,
maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic
research materials for the study of world history. From ancient
Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance,
world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary
sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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| Issues
and Controversies in American History |
Builds
a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped
our nation
by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.
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| JSTOR |
A
trusted archive of important scholarly journals, spanning many
disciplines.
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Literature
Resource Center
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Literary
criticism and biography on notable authors.
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| MagillOnLiterature
Plus (EBSCOhost) |
If you are looking for background information, overviews, plot
summaries, and biographical information about authors this is
a good starting point. Sources included are reference materials
such as Masterplots and literature encyclopedias. Makes a good
study aid but does not include magazine and journal articles.
For literary criticism published in journals, try Literature
Online (LION), Project Muse, or JSTOR. The Library has many
more resources related to literary studies, so check with a
librarian to explore more.
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| Project
Muse® |
The
Project MUSE® complete collection offers a comprehensive
selection of prestigious humanities, arts, and social sciences
journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum at any academic
institution. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed,
with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars
in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text
versions of titles from many of the world's leading university
presses and scholarly societies.
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| U.S.
History Collection (Gale) |
This
collection provides coverage of the current thinking and events
in U.S. History, as well as scholarly work being established
in the field. This compilation of over 40 journals provides
robust and balanced coverage of the field.
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| World
History Collection (Gale) |
This
collection of nearly 40 predominantly full-text journals provides
balanced coverage of events in World History. It is useful both
to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher.
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