HIST 301: African American Women's History - Baumgartner (2012): Databases

These comprehensive online resources offer more than 100,000 early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials. Featuring extensive indexing and full bibliographic information, they together illuminate more than 250 years of American history, literature, culture and daily life. Unique and authoritative, these fully searchable products enable researchers to browse and explore America's past in unprecedented ways. Collections include:

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
Civil War Broadsides and Ephemera
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society, 1652-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the American Antiquarian Society, 1801-1819

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.

Coverage
1701-1800

Over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, and more. This database is based on the English Short Title Catalogue and includes works published in the United Kingdom during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere.

Coverage:
1857 - 1871

HarpWeek is a unique online journal database that provides complete images and hypertext linking of the journal during the Civil War years (1857-1865) and the Reconstruction years (from 1866-1871). Researchers are able to access the illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads that are a part of these historic volumes. Civil War and Reconstruction researchers should find this to be a valuable primary resource.

Coverage:
1890 - 1982

Readers' Guide Retrospective indexes both popular and general-interest magazines published in the United States. It indexes the same material as its' print counterpart, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature for the same years.

Coverage
Varies by publication.

A collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 17 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Indexes "The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer" and "Cleveland Magazine" from 1982-present. Also includes local cemetery records and death notices 1833-1975.

A broad-based database and full text online search service that provides indexing and full text access to sources in the following categories:
* News: Search the full text of today's news or search back more than 20 years
* Business: Retrieve full text company news & financial information
* Legal Research: Search full text federal, state & international legal materials
* Medical: Find full text & abstracted medical & health information
* Reference

Full-text of the Los Angeles Times from 1881 to 1993.

Provides full-text access to The New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and The New York Times (1857-2016).

Provides current coverage from major national newspapers including: The New York Times (1980-present), The Wall Street Journal (1984-present), Washington Post (1987-present), Los Angeles Times (1985-present), The Christian Science Monitor (1988-present), The Atlanta Journal Constitution (2001-present), The Boston Globe (1980-present), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1990-present).

Coverage:
1955 - present

Historical Abstracts indexes and provides abstract summaries to sources on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a periodical database unmatched in breadth.

Gender Studies Database combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues.

A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 87 document projects with almost 2700 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors. It includes as well book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

Coverage
1972 and Earlier to the Present

Produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.