Provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by or for African Americans are browseable and searchable.
This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by or for African Americans are browseable and searchable.
Provides articles abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to present.
Combines NISC’s popular Women’s Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. This database includes more than 696,750 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.
with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. This database includes more than 696,750 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
This free online archive of The Lantern debuts with the years 1959-1969. Coverage will be added to the site a decade at a time, eventually to include every issue published from 1881 to August 1997
Provides access to the full text of Congressional reports, hearings, committee prints, documents, and bills; Congressional Indexes 1789-1972, Congressional Record, Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; Information on congressional members, including biographical and financial information, voting record, and profiles of their congressional district. Bill tracking feature allows users to research current public policy issues; Legislative history feature offers insight on the legislative intent of both current and historical public laws.
Congressional Record, Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations;
Information on congressional members, including biographical and financial information, voting record, and profiles of their congressional district. Bill tracking feature allows users to research current public policy issues; legislative history feature offers insight on the legislative intent of both current and historical public laws.
This database offers full text including images for several prominent newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries, together in a searchable interface.
Coverage includes:
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849-1987)
Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1987)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
The Times of India (1838-2001)
The Washington Post (1877-1994)
Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)
For over 100 years, library users have relied on Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature as the ultimate index of subjects in the popular press. Presenting the richest account of U.S. cultural history you’ll find in any single source, Readers’ Guide Retrospective saves time, effort, and shelf-space, with the online equivalent of 44 Readers’ Guide annuals.
Readers’ Guide has earned the trust of researchers at all levels, and was hailed by Library Journal as One of the 50 Best Reference Sources for the Millennium. Presenting the richest account of U.S. cultural history you’ll find in any single source, Readers’ Guide Retrospective saves time, effort, and shelf-space, with the online equivalent of 44 Readers’ Guide annuals.
Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos,
government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database covers subjects in arts, music, and leisure, civil rights, counter-culture, law and government, mass media, new left and emerging neo-conservative movement, student activism, Vietnam War, women's movement, etc.
Includes books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of womenʼs activism in public life.
in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Content includes full text primary sources, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. women's history, and book and web site reviews. This Scholar's Edition includes all content in the Basic Edition, with additional digital archives from the Commissions on the Status of Women and the biographical dictionary Notable American Women.
Finding Articles and Using the Databases
Databases provide you with access to a wide range of articles that can be used as resources for your paper. When searching in the database, keep in mind the terms listed below. They will assist you in navigating the databases and locating resources.
"Full Text": By selecting the full text box in a database, you are ensuring that the database will only retrieve articles that are available in their complete format. If you do not select the full text box, you will still receive results, but you may only receive the citations.
Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals: Articles that are submitted to a scholarly journal must first be evaluated by an editorial team for the journal. This team reviews the article in order to verify that the research is authentic. If you know that you must use scholarly journals for your assignment, you should select this box.
Abstract: An abstract is a short summary, detailing the main idea of a journal article. Searching within the abstracts of articles can assist you in locating information that is pertinent to your topic.
OSU Databases
The following links to an extensive list of research databases under the subject History:
Indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines and contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 percent of the articles in the database.
for numerous Thompson Reuters databases including: Web of Science Core Collection, BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Derwent Innovations Index, and Journal Citation Reports
Citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track analyze and visualize research. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help researchers focus on the outcome of their work.
Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help researchers focus on the outcome of their work.