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A-Z Databases
Find the best library databases for your research.
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Coverage is from 1851 to date, with some exceptions.
For more information on activating your account see: https://rwu.libguides.com/NYTOnline
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The site will include more than 2,000 curated documents around six crucial phases of the U.S. Black freedom struggle. Each time period features an overview plus organized information and links to primary source documents about the relevant people, places, related government documents. Collections of primary documents include:
Slavery and Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
Jim Crow Era to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
Civil Rights and Black Power Movement (1946-1975)
Contemporary Era (1976-present)
The archive’s collection consists of over 4,400 testimonies that record the experiences of over 4,000 survivors, witnesses, bystanders and liberators of the Holocaust.
"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions."
Collections include Advertising Periodicals, African American Historical Serials, Alternative Medicine and Health, American Antiquarian Society, American Civil War, American Literary Periodicals, American Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry Periodicals, American Political Periodicals, Musial Periodicals, and more.
Create maps and generate reports (i.e., tables) based on demographic data from the United States Census and related surveys (1790 to present). Social Explorer's Teach and Learn Modules are very useful for exploring several different areas.