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A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources and the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Users can create custom tables, which can be downloaded, printed, or graphed.

Full-text of many scholarly journals with coverage back to first issues, although recent coverage is not included for most titles.

Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

This resource currently provides access to 325 titles, equaling approximately 269 hours of documentary video. Upon completion, the collection will contain 1,000 hours of streaming video that offers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide.

When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. For research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.

Full-text of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

HarpWeek's collection of 19th century journals.

Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works.

A resource for U.S. history and U.S. women's history, this information is organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes 76 document projects with more than 2,200 documents, 30,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,640 primary authors.

A valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. Created from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

Provides biographical information on the lives of over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Ranges in time from the earliest recorded European explorations to the very recent past. You can limit full text or name searches by sex, occupations and realms of renown, birth and death date ranges, birthplace and special collections (Black History, Women’s History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, American Indian Heritage, and Hispanic Heritage). Also includes articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History.

Content Includes: Over a million article and book citations, retrospective coverage from Biography Index back to its first publication in 1946, coverage of present-day news-makers. Entries on individuals reflect the perspective of the time when they were written.

Wilson’s largest biography database combines in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, plus periodicals coverage of Biography Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images.

Accurate, up-to-date biographies drawing information from newspaper articles, magazine articles, and books. Search by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles of works and key words for more than 25,000 articles and obituaries. Features more than 19,500 images, and the subject's own views, attitudes and commentary as well as the commentaries of other journalists and colleagues. Covers celebrities, politicians, business people, writers, actors, sports figures, artists, scientists, and others.

Provides complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. Full text is available for over 400 periodicals, many of them peer-reviewed, as far back as 1994.

Get information on more than 30,000 voyages carrying African captives, including names of those who were transported.