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    When completed, this searchable collection will include 270 newspapers from 36 states, offering insights into African-American history, culture, and daily life. New content is added monthly; scheduled for completion in Fall 2010.
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    America: History and Life provides abstracts and citations from reviews and dissertations about the history and culture of the United States and Canada from the earliest recorded times to the present. See Historical Abstracts for world history.
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    This ebook is arranged by decades from 1900-1909 to 1990-1999. Includes full or excerpted primary sources representing diverse views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from each decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and photos and illustrations. Topics include the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports.
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    Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Articles, advertisements, and illustrations are included.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Generally excludes classic Greece and Rome, focusing on the other parts of Europe.
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    Provides citations to international scholarly work concerning the areas of: ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics; Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art and music, archaeology, religion, mythology, science, and more. The scholarship concentrates on the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D.
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    Contains The Associated Press' current year's photo library and a wide selection of images from their vast negative and print library, dating from the 1840s. Over 750,000 photos are available.
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    Profiles milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period to help students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other.
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    Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
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    Covers books and periodicals of the 19th century. Corresponds to or provides indexing for: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer's Index to the Times.
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    Rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
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    Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective contains the full text of over 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers. This database contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and over 700 images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
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  13. Content
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    Covers the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Includes the full text of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors. Supported in part by the Paschal Library Endowment and by the Weatherspoon Library Endowment.
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    Includes papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, Biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works.
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    Significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Contains declassified documents that have been gathered through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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    Provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.
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    An electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the Thirteen Colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included.
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    An electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included.
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    Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1475 and 1700. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Corresponds to the Pollard and Redgrave, and Wing Short-Title Catalogues, as well as Thomason Tracts.
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    Includes citations, abstracts, and full text of ethnographic and other materials that are indexed by culture and subject. Information is drawn from books, dissertations, conference papers, and journal articles.
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    Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1701and 1800. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue.
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    Includes over 70,000 images of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. Contains manuscript and printed material, from not only British but also French, Dutch, Spanish, North American and other points of view. Supported by the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Corresponds to volumes 1-9 of the printed Encyclopaedia of Islam. Covers religion as well as the art, geography, history, etc. of countries where Islam has most significant presence. Please note: The electronic version is no more updated than the printed version, which has been published in stages since 1960. Therefore some content is over 40 years old. Articles are not dated, but contain bibliographies with dates.
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    Traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity. Also covers depictions and manifestations of the phenomenon, such as propaganda, sociological and philosophical explanations, literature and film.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Topics include history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, politics, economics, the Irish and English languages and literatures, the visual arts and other fields.
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    Provides a comprehensive survey of LGBT history and culture in the United States.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Covers Russia's people, politics, economics, religion and social systems.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, including Europe's overseas expansion into the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, beginning in the 15th century
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    Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
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    Topics include art, government, education, biographical entries and specific topics like apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish inquisition, and Utopia.
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  31. Content
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    Formerly the Medieval Feminist Index, Feminae covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Coverage is from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E. and the geographic area is Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
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  32. Content
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    Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada. For similar coverage of the U.S. and Canada, use America History and Life.
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    Over 30,000 data series covering all aspects of American life. View tables in HTML or PDF and create your own custom charts. Gift of the Paschal Endowment Fund.
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    House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. A source for the history of Great Britain and its colonies.
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    A database that links users to full text English-language oral histories on the free web and in proprietary databases published by Alexander Street Press. WFU does not subscribe to all Alexander Street Press databases.
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    A bibliography of modern scholarship concerning the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500). The entries are drawn from over 4000 periodicals and from over 5000 miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften).
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    Indexes books and over 1700 periodicals concerning Europe and the Middle East from 400-1700. Includes history, literature, art, politics and government, etc. The separate book database covers books, materials published in books, and collected essays.
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    A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund.
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    Contains the full text of over 1000 primary source documents relating to American History. Also includes photographs, paintings, and biographies of important figures.
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    Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations as well as information on Congress, voting records, legislative histories from 1789 to the present, and current legislative activities. Also contains the full text of the U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers from 1789-2003. Also includes indexing and full text of published and unpublished Congressional Hearings from 1829 to present. As of January 2009, includes the Congressional Record from 1974-present, with retrospective content added monthly.
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    History Universe is an American history database consisting of two modules: African-American Studies and Women's Studies. Each module contains primary and secondary material from the colonial era to the present.
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    19th century journals and books from the United States.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Examples of topics covered include communism, linguistics, physics, postmodernism, deconstruction, and post-colonialism.
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    Includes hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
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    Includes the full text of diaries and letters of women who lived in the United States and Canada from colonial times until 1950.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    An online reference to historical developments from prehistory through 2004.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Coverage is through the first year of George W. Bush's presidency.
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    Contains three newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), and Wall Street Journal (1889-1989). More recent issues are available through other databases, such as ProQuest. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page.
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    Encyclopedias, Reference
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    Reference coverage of key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions.
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    Reference coverage of key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions.
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    Reference coverage of key events, influential voices, race relations by group, legislation, media influences, cultural output, and theories of inter-group interactions.
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    Indexes general interest magazines covering most of the 20th century.
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    Covers crime and punishment, environment, family, gender issues and sexuality, government, politics and protest, human and civil rights, immigration and multiculturalism, medicine, health, and bioethics, social policy, and terrorism.
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    "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae CD ROM E contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of Medieval texts deriving from the period between A. D. 600 and the fall of Byzantium in 1453. Scholia and Byzantine historigraphical and lexicographical works have already been digitized and are included in this disk. In addition to its extensive collection of texts, the TLG contains the canon of Greek authors and works, a comprehensive database of all known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors. Complete bibliographical information about all works in the CD ROM is included. Software allows one to locate and tabulate linguistic phenomena and to undertake lexical, grammatical and stylistic studies that would have been immensely time-consuming, if not impossible, in earlier eras."" TLG users include researchers, educators and students from a wide range of disciplines such as Classics, archaeology, Byzantine studies, history, art history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, and religious studies."
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    Literary Texts
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    "Women Writers Online contains the full text of hundreds of pre-Victorian English-language works written by women. Works are both fiction and non-fiction. The text of each work is fully searchable. A special subset, Renaissance Women Online, contains 100 works from this period as well as critical commentary."
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    Examines the lives of first- and second-generation immigrants with a focus on their journey to America, their search for identity and the emotions they experienced in a new land.
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