Databases by Subject
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Databases for Southwest studies
- America, History & Life
- Coverage: 1967 - current
- Covers American history.
- Chicano Database
- Coverage: 1960s - current
- Interdisciplinary database, indexing all types of materials for Chicano studies (journal articles, books, chapters, and newspaper articles).
- Colorado Economic And Demographic Information System
- Coverage: varies, 1980's - current
- CEDIS (Colorado Economic and Demographic Information System) provides detailed local and state level economic and demographic information.
- Colorado Newsstand
- Coverage: 1986 - current
- Searchable full-text database of articles from Colorado newspapers including the Gazette (Colorado Springs), the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, and six others.
- 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.