Key Article Databases
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Diversity Collection This link opens in a new windowPROQUEST - Diversity Collection provides a global view of some of the biggest topics in diversity, equity, and inclusion. It focuses on ethnic, minority, and native presses, grassroots newspapers and magazines, and journals, news and newsletters focusing on gender and sexuality. The collection aims to bring out dissenting and minority voices to support research and teaching in women’s studies, lgbtq studies, ethnic studies, and more.
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US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProQuest - (1980-current) Current U.S. news content from top newspapers, blogs, newswires and news sites (nearly 1,000 titles).
Ethnic Specific Resources
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Ethnic NewsWatch Collection This link opens in a new windowProQuest - Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United StatesContains Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975): The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)
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The BlackPast.org : an online reference guide to African American historyThis website has been created by staff associated with the University of Washington, Seattle. It provides free access to materials relating to Black African American history from the 18th Century to the present day.
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Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital ArchiveSource: Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley - 100,000 original manuscripts are available digitally.
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US Hispanic Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProQuest - Leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from US publishers in both Spanish and English.
U. S. News
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Historical Collections
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American Periodicals This link opens in a new windowPROQUEST – Primary source collection of periodicals (magazines, children’s publications, women’s journals) from 1740 to 1900.
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American Pamphlet Series I : 1820-1922 This link opens in a new windowREADEX – Primary source collection of pamphlets, focusing on topics such as slavery, suffrage, African Americans, and Native Americans. Sourced from the New York Historical Society.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new windowReadex -Articles and full-text books published in 17th- and 18th-century America. Subjects include agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, and religion.
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Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new windowProQuest - (1543-1945) Large collection of primary and secondary sources on women published between 1543 and 1945. Covers history, education, feminism, employment, health and medicine, biography and political and social reform.
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Archives Unbound This link opens in a new windowGALE – Primary source collection of manuscripts, books, and newspapers; includes Civil War in Words & Deeds.
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Archives WestThe Archives West database provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States, including correspondence, diaries or photographs. The finding aids for Whitworth's archival collections are searchable via this database.
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Digital Collections from the Library of CongressPrimary Source documents on all areas of American experience.
Popular Culture
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Popular Culture Association / American Culture AssociationFocuses on -the study of the mainstream culture or that which is popular with the masses.
Multimedia
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Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new windowPROQUEST – Cross-disciplinary multi-media streaming service, including videos and music. Also includes the Karl Barth Digital Library.
