One of the oldest and most well-known reference sources, with both short and book-length overview articles in almost all disciplines. Also includes historical timelines, multimedia, selected magazine articles, notable quotations, and a dictionary and thesaurus.
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"Black Life in America"—a unique digital archive of news media—presents the broad sweep of African American history in ways no textbook or other online resource can match. By offering balanced coverage from diverse sources published from 1704 through present day, this multi-disciplinary resource is crucial for the study and interpretation of historical and current events.
This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Africana and Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more. It combines essential resources for research and teaching including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.
Add-on modules include The HistoryMakers® oral history video resource with extensive interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans, eight additional historical black newspapers, Black Abolitionist Papers, and Black Studies Dissertations.
This research database offers essential content covering important issues related to race in society today. Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness.
Hispanic Life in America is an easy to use online resource that presents coverage of the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. Series 1: 1704-1942; Series 2: 1943-2009
Indigenous Life in America is the largest and most comprehensive digital news archive ever assembled covering Native American life. The collection begins in 1690 with the first issue of Americas’ first newspaper, Publick Occurrences. More than 17,500 content sources address all time periods, geographies, and localities where Native life has been documented. Navigation tools facilitate quick and easy access to the full collection and to topic categories such as activism, arts, court decisions, education, Indigenous government, health, reservations and removal, sports, and many others. Series 1: 1690-1945: European Colonization through World War II.; Series 2: 1946-2016: Indigenous Identity after World War II.
