Databases by Subject
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Databases for Race and Ethnic Studies
- Accessible Archives
- Coverage: 1728 - 1900
- Access to archival fulltext newspapers including the Pennsylvania Gazette, African American and Civil War Newspapers, and Godey's Lady's Book.
- Alternative Press Index
- Coverage: 1991 - current
- Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Subjects covered include anarchism, labor, socialism, feminism, ecology, gay and lesbian issues, political and social change.*Password required for full text. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
- America, History & Life
- Coverage: 1967 - current
- Covers American history.
- American Memory
- Coverage: historical
- Digitized collections from the Library of Congress. Oral histories, letters, photographs, documents. Search by keyword.
- Asian American Drama
- Coverage: 1891 - current
- 70 full text plays by 17 Asian American playwrights, searchable by title, author, character, scene, subject, theater, production company, and more. Includes biographies, photos, playbills, and other images.
- Black Drama
- Coverage: 1850 - current
- Contains the full text of approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850's to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. Search by author, title, subject, date, full-text, etc.
- Black Thought And Culture
- Coverage: 1700 - 1975
- 438 sources by 192 leading African Americans include monographs, essays, articles, speeches, interviews, letters and correspondence, and other fugitive material. Materials are searchable by author, source, year, historical event, subject, influences, geographic location and more.
- Chicano Database
- Coverage: 1960s - current
- Interdisciplinary database, indexing all types of materials for Chicano studies (journal articles, books, chapters, and newspaper articles).
- Early American Imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
- Coverage: 1639 - 1800
- Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1639 to 1800. Not yet complete.
- Early American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
- Coverage: 1801 - 1819
- Full text of almost every book and pamphlet printed in North America from 1801 to 1819. Not yet complete.
- Early Encounters In North America
- Coverage: 1474 - 1600
- Full text works by 1,076 authors in the form of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between American Indians, Europeans, Americans, and Africans in the area of present-day Canada and the United States, with limited coverage of Mexico. Searchable by author, source, year, encounter, people, image, place, fauna, flora, environment, cultural event, personal event, and more.
- HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
- Coverage: 1970 - current
- HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key journals published throughout the world.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, And Oral Histories
- Coverage: 1804 - current
- The full text letters, diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of 342 men and women are searchable by author, source, year, place, nationality, personal event, subject, and more. Includes some audio recordings and scrapbook images.