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History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Old Interface.

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Indexes over 2000 journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present. interface.

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Primary Sources-Archives and Documents

Primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838.

Includes Congressional and Executive Department materials related to: Foreign Relations, Indian Affairs, Finance, Commerce and Navigation, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-office Department, Public Lands, Claims, and Various Other Topics.

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Photographs from as early as 1840's and other graphics spanning over 160 years of history. Includes a small selection of recent sound clips.

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Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

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A unique digital collection of material contributed by partner institutions.

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Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, constituting a rich source of primary material on all aspects of American history.

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Identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).

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Provides links and information about government resources, many of which are freely accessible via the Web.

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Since 1972 documents covering the most significant events of the year, these documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

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a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant 1975, has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series -- three times more than in the previous edition -- and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty.

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History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

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An Index to letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.

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Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship relevant to the students, research community, and general citizenry of Florida.

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A list of freely available statistical resources compiled by the University of Michigan.

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Primary Sources-Articles and Books

A full text collection of American magazines and journals.

This collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, and 1900.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

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Evans Digital 1639-1800 Full Text

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides.

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The 56 years of Harper’s Weekly provide a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912. The first segment includes the Civil War Era: 1857-1865. The next two cover Reconstruction: 1866-1871 and 1872-1877. The last six encompass the Gilded Age: 1878-1912.

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Primary Sources-Newspapers

Indexes the University of Florida student newspaper from 1984-1991.

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Identifies Florida newspapers for which the UCF Library has available.

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Indexing is limited to Northeast Florida regional news.

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Index to the Times 1906-1980 Citations or Abstracts

Short index entries from the 296 printed volumes of the Official Index to the London Times which covers the years 1906-1980 inclusive.

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Los Angeles Times 1985-Current Full Text

Full-text articles from the Los Angeles Times.

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Complete text and images of the New York Times.

Digital reproductions of every page from every issue in downloadable PDF files.

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List newspapers available on microfilm in the UCF Library, as well as links to other news resources.

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Orlando Sentinel 1985-Current Full Text

Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Classifieds and advertisements are excluded.

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A collection of short index entries from the 296 printed volumes of the Official Index to the London Times which covers the years 1906-1980 inclusive.

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Wall Street Journal 1985-Current Full Text

Financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance.

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Washington Post 1985-Current Full Text

Full-text articles from the Washington Post.

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Secondary Sources-Articles and Books

Full text of a small collection of scholarly books in history and social studies.

Gutenberg-e has traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories.

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Indexing to journals, conferences, books, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, medicine.

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Humanities Full Text 1983-Current Citations or Abstracts Full Text

Periodical information in the diverse subject area of the humanities.

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A collection of electronic resources relevant to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

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Full text of 1000+ core research journals from the year of their inception, many dating back to the early 1900's, JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

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A collection of over 40,000 books in full text, including both current and classic works.

All users must create a netLibrary account. Use a campus computer, Pegasus, or the Proxy when you create your account.

Once the account has been created, you can log into netLibrary and "check-out" books for up to two hours.

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Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300+ high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.

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The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.

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Covers hundreds of core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.

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Secondary Sources-Biography

Biographies of over 30,000 African-Americans from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.

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Arranged by occupation, from the Librarians' Index to the Internet

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Enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources.

References 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 current and retrospective reference books, covering contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

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Citations to biographies published in books, magazines, and journals.

Cites more than 2,700 periodicals and 1,800 books, including individual and collective biographies, as well as juvenile literature.

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Biography Resource Center combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands images, and links to vetted websites.

People included are from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Search by name, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. List of Sources included,such as the Dictionary of American Biography.

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Secondary Sources-Other

Indexing and full text of to U.S. dissertations and thesis.

Search by author, title, school, year, and discipline. Full text available for most dissertations granted from 1997 forward. From 1980 forward, citations include a 350-word abstract. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.

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Links for history, newsletter, book reviews.

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Catalog of library collections from the U.S. and around the world.

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 36 million records for books and material in 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.

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Last Updated January 28, 2009