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The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, comprises more than 350 volumes of resourceful historical information.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides reports and statistics on the issues, attitudes and social trends shaping America and the world.
