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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. PDF content dates back to 1887.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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A video library containing over 30K titles (279K segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. It offers an interdisciplinary journal archive across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Full text of U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of several major U.S. and international newspapers such as The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The New York Times, and the Times of London.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Central brings together over 160 major subject areas, including thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

African American Newspapers, Parts I - VIII (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new window
A collection of African American newspapers containing a wealth of first-hand reports about cultural life and history during the 1800s.
Apartheid South Africa This link opens in a new window
First-hand accounts of South Africa's apartheid regime. British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning from 1948 to 1980.
Civil Rights Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Portal for searching and accessing historical materials from over 200 libraries, archives, and museums documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The CRDL features a collection of more than 30 hours of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives.
Ebony Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
This archive covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. Coverage: 1945 through 2014.
History Reference Source This link opens in a new window
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Formery History Reference Center. Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century. Featuring the full text from leading history periodicals, reference books, encyclopedias, and nonfiction books.