Key Resources
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowScholarly, peer-reviewed articles and professional association publications, Abstracts and links to full text, about half are peer reviewed, covering all academic subjects including STEM fields.
Use this link if you want to include video clips (Opens in new window) from the Associated Press in your search results. - Accessible Archives (History Commons) This link opens in a new windowAccessible Archives includes diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views of United States history and culture, especially African American history and women's history and historical newspapers. The date scope focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- BrowZine Web Edition This link opens in a new windowBrowZine is software that allows you to browse, read, and monitor many of the librarys scholarly journals in a format optimized for your iOS or Android device.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text newspapers, magazines and journals of American ethnic, minority and indigenous communities. Offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
- Sage Journals This link opens in a new windowJournals in full text published by Sage, emphasis on the social sciences.
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Primary and Historical Resources
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Primary source information digitized from Americas libraries, archives, and museums, from the written word to works of art and culture, to records of the heritage of the United States, to the efforts and data of science. Photographs, documents, music, video, data, lesson plans for teaching.
- Indigenous Peoples of North AmericaDetails the impact of invasion and colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and European histories and systems of knowledge with primary source documents spanning the 16th through the 20th century.
- Power to the People!: Counterculture, Social Movements, & Alternative Press, 1960-2015Covers a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries largely through digitized alternative and indie publications.
- Public Housing, Racial Policies, and Civil Rights: The Intergroup Relations Branch of the Federal Public Housing Administration, 1936-1963Among the documents are civil rights correspondence, statements and policy about race, labor-based state activity records, local housing authorities’ policies on hiring minorities, court cases involving housing decisions, racially-restrictive covenants, and news clippings.
- The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
More Places to Look
- International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest 2009 (Wiley) This link opens in a new windowScholarly signed and referenced articles on people and events in the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowFull articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts.
- Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowScholarly, peer-reviewed articles and professional association news and information, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports. International in scope. Mostly full text, or with links to full text for Northeastern-subscribed journals.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowA select collection of full-text articles in psychology from chiefly peer-reviewed journals.
- Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCitations to scholarship in areas related to communication and mass media, including new media, rhetoric, film, broadcasting, and more. Peer-review filtering. Links to full text for Northeastern-subscribed journals.