The Department of American Studies provides undergraduates with an opportunity to explore and interpret the American experience from multi-disciplinary perspectives such as the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences. In addition to support for undergraduate study and teaching the library strives towards providing resources that encourage and facilitate the interdisciplinary study and research of the American experience. Three library endowments support the collections in three distinct areas of American studies: the Sacher Family Endowment for Southern United States History and Culture, the Jodi and Ivan Ludington, Jr.Family Endowment for the Study of the Great Lakes and the Twist Family Endowment for American Studies, focusing on the American presidency.
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Coverage:
1954-
Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, American periodical series, I, II, and III. When completed in 2003, this database will have more than 7,000,000 pages of full text periodicals.
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Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
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Indexes reference works (biographical dictionaries, who's who editions, subject encyclopedias, etc.) containing multiple biographies on individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity worldwide. Usage info: Licensed for two concurrent users.
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Coverage:
1680s to 1930s
"... provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. ... British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals ..."--Home page; "about" page.
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Coverage:
1960-
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S.
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Coverage:
1970-
Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and documents on Hispanic American topics in over 400 social science and humanities journals.
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Coverage:
1863-1905 and 1913-Sept. 1922
Fully searchable database of index entries to the New York times for the available date range; valuable reference material for students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.
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Coverage:
1982-
Provides citations and abstracts, with some full text, to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982, covering topics such as the labor movement, ecology and the environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization. Usage info: Licensed for 1 simultaneous user.
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Coverage:
1988-
Indexes the contents of over 150 U.S. federal government periodicals; provides links from a list of periodicals indexed to full-text periodical issues when available.
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A fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic Advisory Board. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
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"Includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services."
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"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites ... Provides cover-to-cover full text to nearly 300 journals and periodicals and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."
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Coverage:
1851-three years before present
Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
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Provides indexing to English language oral histories held in repositories and collections; includes interview-level records (some with full text; some with links to audio or video on external websites).
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Beginning thru 1995.
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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Coverage:
Beginning thru 1995
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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Coverage:
1890-1982
Provides comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982.
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