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Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Description: Academic Search Premier (ASP)
contains full-text articles from nearly 4,700 periodicals,
including over 3,600 peer-reviewed scholarly journals. These
journals cover a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Popular news magazines and other magazines are also included.
NCWC Librarians Say: Great for starting
out with research on a huge variety of topics. Searching
can sometimes be tricky, because so many different fields of
study are covered. Try also searching ProQuest Research
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ProQuest Research Library via ProQuest
Description: ProQuest Research
Library (PQRL) provides full-text coverage of a wide range of topics including the arts, business, criminal justice, humanities, health, social sciences, and natural sciences.
3,820 titles are covered here, with 2,250 in
full-text.
NCWC Librarians Say: Great for starting out with
research on a huge variety of topics. PQRL contains some
resources that Academic Search Premier (above) does not, and
vice versa. Try searching both PQRL and ASP when
beginning your research. |
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Aluka
Description: Aluka is a digital library
for African studies, which contains documents, pictures, and
other items all in a digital repository for your use.
Of particular relevance to history is the Struggles for
Freedom content area, with unique and useful documents
including some articles, books, pamphlets, and images
related to recent history in a variety of countries.
The Heritage Sites content area is also of interest to
students of ancient history.
NCWC Librarians Say: Try Aluka for anything related to
Africa; unique resources, images, and documents are always
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JSTOR
Description: JSTOR contains
the complete text of selected scholarly journals, going
back as far as the journals go back. NCWC offers access
to the Arts & Sciences I collection, as well as the
Biological Sciences collection, including major journals in fields such as
economics, history, literature, political science, sociology, and
biology.NCWC Librarians Say:
JSTOR provides unique, exhaustive historical coverage of
some very important journals, and all articles are in
full-text. Wonderful if you're researching a topic
that's been important for many years.
Check out
JSTOR's Tutorials on YouTube:
How
to Search and
How
to Browse
(Audio required!)
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Description: HeritageQuest Online
contains census reports, genealogy resources, and local
history resources that are primarily designed to help people
collect their family history. NCWC
Librarians Say: Great for tracing genealogies and
family trees, and for doing some of the deep historical
research that genealogists do.
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The New York Times (Historical) via ProQuest
Description: The complete historical text
of the New York Times is available here. Full page and
article images with searchable full text back to the first
issue covering from 1851 - 1999.
NCWC Librarians Say: The
Times has been America's leading newspaper since
before the Civil War. Find contemporary coverage of
historical events, book reviews, and other useful things here.
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World Data Analyst via Britannica
Description: A collection of current and past statistics on the countries of the world that makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy.
NCWC Librarians Say:
This is a great resource, with deep statistics on
everything from economy to quality of life to military
spending. A wonderful tool for international
comparison.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press
Description:
Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women from Colonial times to 1950.
NCWC Librarians Say: These can be
browsed by historical period, by historical event, and by
country. Unique primary documents are here, and are
wonderful for finding the perspectives of women as events
unfolded in history.
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Description: A
database of primary sources, Annals of American History
provides key texts of historical documents.
Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who
made and analyzed American history through speeches,
writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
NCWC Librarians
Say: A great starting point for primary sources,
with very helpful introductions. A great place to
find the "real stuff" of American history.
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American Slavery
via Greenwood Digital Collection
Description: A "composite autobiography," this is a collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
NCWC Librarians Say: The
institution from the perspective of the people it affected
most. A window into an often underrepresented part of
America's past.
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American
Presidency Project via UC Santa Barbara
Description: The American Presidency Project is a
collection of 75,795 public documents to be used in the study
of the presidency. It contains fully digitized
presidential papers from the 1700s to today, all in searchable
digital format. Its data section also provides valuable
information.NCWC Librarians Say:
If you are doing any research that might involve a U.S.
president, you have to do yourself the favor of using this
resource. It's a wonderful primary-document site.
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In the First Person via Alexander Street Press
Description:
In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.
NCWC Librarians Say: These narratives
include a huge variety of different people, events, and places
in the world. Many of these are not completely in full
text here, unfortunately.
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American Memory Project via The Library of Congress
Description: American Memory provides free and open
access through the Internet to written and spoken words,
sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and
sheet music that document the American experience. It is a
digital record of American history and creativity. These
materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress
and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people,
places, and ideas that continue to shape America.
NCWC Librarians Say: This includes
literary, historical, geographical, and other resources in
digitized online form. A helpful place to find
different kinds of primary documents that focus on America.
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Documenting the American South via The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Description:
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes nine thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
NCWC Librarians Say: Ever-growing,
the DocSouth collection is especially useful for looking at
key texts and primary source documents from the history of
this region.
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Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
Description: This project brings together local history materials, historical fiction related to these localities, and museum artifacts that highlight Eastern North Carolina's rich past. The website fosters keyword, title, subject, author, artifact, classroom resource and geographic access. Keyword full-text searching is available in the search box at the top of every category page, as well as on the Search page.
NCWC Librarians Say: A virtual museum
of the region around Rocky Mount, this digital library
provides access to items of interest to those investigating
local history.
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Sanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps
Description:
Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities.
NCWC Librarians Say: The best
collection of North Carolina maps, especially city maps.
Some of the older historical maps from the 19th Century are of
particular interest.
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Other historical information may be found in the General/Multidisciplinary article databases |
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