Back to Main Menu| African American Music Reference Description: Comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and more. Also accessible through Music Online. | all full text streaming media |
| African American Song Description: "African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others." | streaming media streaming media |
| America's Historical Newspapers Description: Early American Newspapers, Series I 1690-1876 | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| American History in Video Description: Streaming video collection that allows "students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries." | streaming media streaming media |
| American History Through Literature 1820-1870 Description: Consists of alphabetical entries that discuss literary topics in terms of their history, and historical moments in terms of literature. (1820 - 1870) | reference tools reference tools |
| American History Through Literature 1870-1920 Description: Consists of alphabetical entries that discuss literary topics in terms of their history, and historical moments in terms of literature. (1870-1920) | all full text data/statistics |
| American Song Description: American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, pioneers, and cowboys. | streaming media streaming media |
| Biography Reference Bank Description: Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries from a large range of biography reference works. | linked to full text indexes/databases |
| Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Description: Authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia covering sociology and related fields. | reference tools reference tools |
| Britannica Online Description: Encyclopedia Britannica on-line. Includes inks to additional print and web resources. | all full text reference tools |
| CIAO- Columbia International Affairs Description: A comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. (1996-present) | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Cities of the United States - 5th ed. Description: Covers general statistics and hard to find facts about United States cities. | all full text reference tools |
| Congress and the Nation Description: A listing of the actions of the United States Congress. Includes historical information and legislative chronologies on certain topics. Also provides citations. (1945-2004 (ongoing)) | all full text reference tools |
| CQ Political Reference Suite Description: A suite of databases covering current and past issues in politics. Includes: Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics and Washington Information Directory. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Description: Encyclopedia Britannica on-line. Includes inks to additional print and web resources. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice Description: Covers the topics, concepts, and ideas which motivated and shaped the fields of activism, civil engagement, and social justice. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Africa Description: An up-to-date encyclopedia on the history, people, politics, and cultures of Africa. Includes entries on individual countries and social issues such as the AIDS crisis. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 Description: Documents the African American experience "from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass - and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans." | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present Description: "...traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African Americans on the American cultural landscape." | reference tools reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of African Diaspora Description: Information on the people, places, and events of the African Diaspora, spanning five continents and five centuries. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Politcal, Social, and Military History Description: "Key insights into the military, political, social, cultural, and religious origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict." | all full text data/statistics |
| Encyclopedia of Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History Description: From the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Encyclopedia of the Cold War provides authoritative information on all military conflicts, battlefield and surveillance technologies, diplomatic initiatives, important individuals and organizations, national histories, economic developments, societal and cultural events, and more. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Human Rights Description: "This encyclopedia offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history." | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West Description: A searchable encyclopedia covering many aspects of the history of migration and immigration to the American West. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of India Description: A comprehensive encyclopedia on India. Includes history, geography, and culture. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World Description: "This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more." | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Modern Europe Description: A survey of European history since 1914. (1914-2007) | no full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Race and Racism Description: The economic, sociological, historical, anthropological and scientific aspects of race and racism. | all full text indexes/databases |
| Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior Description: Provides a description and scholarly analysis for all presidential elections, including state and general elections. | all full text reference tools |
| Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England Description: Biographies and topical essays that describe the often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. | all full text reference tools |
| Europa World Yearbook and Regional Surveys Description: Standard reference source for country information. Offers current overview of political and economic situations in over 250 countries and comparative statistics. | reference tools reference tools |
| Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire Description: A survey of European history beginning with the French Revolution and ending with the onset of World War I. (1798-1914) | all full text reference tools |
| Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction Description: A survey of European history since 1914. (1914-2007) | no full text reference tools |
| Extremist Groups: Information for Students
Description: This ebook contains entries on 150 active extremist groups from around the world. Each entry gives background information, information on major players, tactics and information about counter efforts. | all full text reference tools |
| Films on Demand Description: Digital Education streaming video | streaming media streaming media |
| Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture Description: Comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period. | all full text reference tools |
| Heritage Quest Online Description: Find ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930) and search for information about people and places described in family and local histories. | all full text indexes/databases |
| Historic Documents Series Description: A database of key historical government documents from United States history. Includes presidential statements, resolutions, reports, treaties and more. | all full text reference tools |
| Historic Map Works Description: Extensive digital map collections with over 200,000 high-resolution, full color historic maps. The core of the collection consists of property and land ownership maps illustrating the geographic and development history of the United States. | reference tools reference tools |
| Historical Statistics of the United States Description: A standard source for historical statistics in American history. Tables can be downloaded in Excel or CSV. You can create custom tables by merging columns from multiple tables. | reference tools reference tools |
| History Resource Center: U.S. Description: Brings together a broad collection of resource for U.S. history research. Includes primary materials, historic documents,encyclopedia articles, links to digitized special collections, and full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources Description: This ebook provides overviews, excerpts and some full text of first-hand historical documents related to human and civil rights. | some full text reference tools |
| Jazz Music Library Description: Comprehensive streaming audio collection with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. Also accessible through Music Online. | data/statistics data/statistics |
| Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800 -1926 Description: 22,000 legal treatises published on American | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Material Culture in America Description: In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts,concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. | all full text reference tools |
| Medicine, Health, and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources Description: Media related to health and biology social issues from the 19th century up to the present. (19th, 20th and 21st centuries.) | all full text reference tools |
| New Catholic Encyclopedia Description: This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more. | all full text reference tools |
| New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Description: Survey of the history of Western thought and culture. Each entry explores the origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes of such subjects as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, among many others. | all full text reference tools |
| New Encyclopedia of Africa Description: An up-to-date encyclopedia on the history, people, politics, and cultures of Africa. Includes entries on individual countries and social issues such as the AIDS crisis. | all full text reference tools |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature Description: The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant | all full text reference tools |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World Description: Provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. | all full text reference tools |
| Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection Description: Includes dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and quotation sources. Search multiple books simultaneously or search an individual title or chosen subject. | reference tools reference tools |
| Politics in America Description: A guide to politics in America. Provides profiles of U.S. and State Congress members. Also includes state overviews. | not applicable reference tools |
| Reference Universe Description: An electronic index to content contained in the library's print and electronic reference titles. Search Reference Universe to find out which titles contain information on your topic. | linked to full text reference tools |
| Slavery and Anti-slavery Description: Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm. This first collection, Debates over Slavery and Abolition, contains: 7,247 books, 80 serials, more than fifteen manuscript collections, & court records. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries Description: "Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a joint venture with Smithsonian Global Sound® (www.smithsonianglobalsound.org), an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media." By Fall 2009, you will be able to access through the Music Online interface. | streaming media streaming media |
| Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources Description: This ebook provides overviews, excerpts and some full text of first-hand historical documents related to social policy. | reference tools reference tools |
| Statesman's Yearbook Description: Contains country profiles highlighting key historical events and describing form of government and social organizations. Also includes statistical data in areas such as defense, economy, energy, trade, and communications. | all full text reference tools |
| Supreme Court Yearbook Description: Beginning in 1989, the Supreme Court Yearbook summarizes reviews the cases seen by the Supreme Court, provides overviews on important topics. (1989-1990) | not applicable reference tools |
| Treaties and International Agreements Description: 15,000 treaties and international agreements, including international tax treaties. | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| United Nations Treaty Collection Description: Access to over 158,000 United Nations treaties and treaty actions. (1926-present) | indexes/databases indexes/databases |
| Vital Statistics on American Politics Description: Provides statistics from various areas in American politics over time and for specific years. Statistics appear in html but can also be downloaded in Excel Spreadsheet and CSV forms. (1788-2006 (ongoing)) | reference tools reference tools |
| West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2d ed. Description: Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics, covering important issues and hot topics, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. | reference tools reference tools |
| World Book Online Description: 22 volume World Book Encyclopedia Online plus access to primary sources, external web sites, historical maps and multi-media | all full text reference tools |
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