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JSTOR
Full-text archive of over 400 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. Journals can be browsed individually or searched as a group.
The purchase of JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III was funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services by an Act of Congress, in accordance with the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Bill.

Daily Life Through History
A comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that includes full-length reference books, book chapters, encyclopedia articles, primary documents, and more all centered on everyday life through history and world cultures today.

New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851 - 2007) (via ProQuest)
Searchable, full-text, scanned images (PDF) of historic issues of the New York Times. Searches can be limited by date, section of newspaper, and more.

History Cooperative
A web portal to historical scholarship made available by the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the University of Illinois Press and the National Academy Press, in partnership with JSTOR. The portal includes links to full-text issues of the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History.

American Memory Collection
American Memory is a free resource of digital images, documents, audio, and video embracing all aspects of American history and culture. Provides access to over 7 million digital reproductions of primary sources from over 100 important historical collections from the Library of Congress.

AP Images
Contains current photos and graphics from the Associated Press and extensive archives of historical images.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full-text history encyclopedias including: American Revolution Reference Library, American Civil War Reference Library, Major Acts of Congress, and History Behind the Headlines.

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A web portal directing learners to free and subscription databases of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The portal includes a link to the Iter Bibliography, a premier bibliography, containing 1.1 million citations for secondary source material on the period.

CountryWatch
Political, economic, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics; daily news coverage by country; comparable country data sets; maps.

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General and Interdisciplinary Content Databases
General content databases cover a range of subjects and may be helpful to your research in this area.

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