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A comprehensive, scholarly, multidisciplinary database with thousands of full-text journals. Recommended for research in all disciplines.
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Learn about items in archival collections and contact archives to arrange visits to examine materials. Recommended for History research.

British History Online is a not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. It brings together material for British history from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and academics. These primary and secondary sources, which range from medieval to twentieth century, are easily searchable and browsable online.

Provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Also includes a digitised version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739
Disability in the Modern World is a landmark online collection that fills the gap in academic literature about the community and contributions of people who experience disability, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy. Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video, and it was a 2020 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
Primary source material database with over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Date coverage: 1524 - 1885.
Digital images of every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Exploring Race in Society contains scholarly journals and proprietary essays that provide researchers with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past. Each proprietary topic includes an overview article and three essays suggesting potential solutions. Solutions essays are written by a diverse group of writers representing the fields of academia, journalism, medicine and other disciplines working to address issues related to race.
A complete index of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War era and the Reconstruction period. The text is presented as images of the journal's pages. Recommended for History research.
A complete index of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War era and the Reconstruction period. The text is presented as images of the journal's pages. Recommended for History research.
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The complete backfile of a core of scholarly journals that have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. Bortz Library subscribes to the following JSTOR packages: Arts and Sciences I - XV; Business IV; Global Plants; Hebrew Journals; Ireland Collection; Life Sciences; Lives of Literature; Public Health; Security Studies; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa; Sustainability Collection; World Heritage Sites: Africa; Mathematics and Statistics; and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

This collection brings together all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
Organized in four parts, each cross-searchable and available separately, this online archive of original manuscript documents of British State Papers chronicles domestic and foreign history, from 1603-1714, the period of Henry VIII to Queen Anne.
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Statista is an online statistics portal. It provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources, and provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.

The Student Activism collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today's vibrant, continually unfolding actions. The collection captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.
85,000+ archival, primary source, images from the U.S. National Archives. Recommended for History research.

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