- America: History and Life
- America: History & Life is an electronic database that covers the history and culture of the Americas from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present and abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages, this database is an important tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=ahl - Black Thought and Culture
- Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. It contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans including the words of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and hundreds of other notable people.
URL: http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/bltclive/ - Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.
History titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl- American Decades Primary Sources. 10 vols. 2004.
- Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 2nd ed. 6 vols. 2008.
- New Encyclopedia of Africa. 2nd ed. 5 vols. 2008.
- HarpWeek
- Provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century “Journal of Civilization” for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. Harper's Weekly is perhaps the most important primary resource for examining 19th-century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. Included access to news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era.
URL: http://app.harpweek.com/ - Historical Abstracts
- Historical Abstracts is an electronic database that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, womens history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=hia - History Cooperative
- The History Cooperative is a nonprofit humanities resource offering online history scholarship.
URL: http://www.historycooperative.org/ - Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in African American History
- This module moves the study of African American history dramatically into the digital age. Includes the most essential source materials for scholarship—sources that every scholar in the field must know and will turn to again and again. Included are primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACP’s legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also available are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th century political developments. At present, the African American History module contains over 8,700 documents (7,400+ primary source items) composed of nearly 46,000 full-text searchable pages.
URL: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/ - Primary Sources in African American History
- — moves the study of African American history dramatically into the digital age. Includes the most essential source materials for scholarship-sources that every scholar in the field must know and will turn to again and again. Included are primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACP’s legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also available are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th century political developments. At present, the African American History module contains over 8,700 documents (7,400+ primary source items) composed of nearly 46,000 full-text searchable pages.
URL: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/
General Interest Databases
Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.
JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.
Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.
