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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.
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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)
Use DETAIL Inspiration to search across all of the architecture projects published in the journal DETAIL over more than 30 years. Typical documentation for each project includes: photographs, drawings, and technical product information. More than 3,800 projects are searchable by title, building type, construction type, building materials, location, and construction date. Projects are added to the database monthly and all projects can be downloaded as PDF files to serve as your design inspiration.
RWU library is an affiliate library of FamilySearch. FamilySearch resources help millions of people around the world discover their heritage and connect with family members. Users will need to create a free personal account to access. Some materials in FamilySearch can only be accessed while on campus.
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.
From MRI/Simmons website: "Launched as a joint venture in 2019, MRI-Simmons combines the two largest and most respected consumer survey companies in the US (MRI and Simmons Research). With thousands of attitudinal and behavioral data points, gathered through ongoing surveys and passive measurement, MRI-Simmons empowers advertisers, agencies and media companies with deeper insights into the “why” behind consumer behavior."
"Launched as a joint venture in 2019, MRI-Simmons combines the two largest and most respected consumer survey companies in the US (MRI and Simmons Research). With thousands of attitudinal and behavioral data points, gathered through ongoing surveys and passive measurement, MRI-Simmons empowers advertisers, agencies and media companies with deeper insights into the “why” behind consumer behavior." - from MRI Simmons website
Create maps and generate reports (i.e., tables) based on demographic data from the United States Census and related surveys (1790 to present). Learn more about using Social Explorer.