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Indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes 1,700 journals and also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages. Publication dates of coverage: 1964 to present.

Contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African-Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.

Born of the New Left, the AltPress Index was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. Alternative Press Index Archive (APIA) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals that cover the period of 1969 through 1990, for more recent content see AltPress Index.

Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. This resource offers access from 1991, for content before this see the AltPress Index Archive.

Over 250 of these well-known, used and trusted volumes published since the 1960's are available online; covers 14 subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.

The Sixties is a full text resource consisting of diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.

Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

Search the archives of major U.S. and African American Newspapers. Includes: Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1942), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986), Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1995), Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), The Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975), The New York Times (1851 - 2005), The New York Tribune (1841-1922), The New York Tribune (1900 - 1910), San Francisco Chronical (1865-1922), The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1991), and The Washington Post (1877 - 1992).

Search across regional newspapers dating as far back as the 1700s

Includes Early American Newspapers Series 1 - 5, 1690-1922 and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

Provides full-text access to back issues of The Times newspaper. Dates of coverage: 1785 to 1985.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 provides access to searchable digitized copies of newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries for a Hispanic readership. It features hundreds of monolingual and bilingual newspapers in Spanish and English, including many obscure titles from the 19th century.

Search the historical archives of major African-American newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, and Chicago Defender.

A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Provides access to more than 5 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records.

The on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.

Indexes journal articles and other material related to the study of Chicanos. Produced by the University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library. Dates of coverage: 1960s to present.

Indexes journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada. Covers East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Dates of coverage: 1939 to present.

eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. Dates of coverage: 1906 to present.

Product of collaboration by over 1000 scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.

NYU Archival Collections is a single search portal and finding aid for each of the Libraries archival and special collections, including the Fales Library & Special Collections The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Archives, New-York Historical Society, and Brooklyn Historical Society.