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Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowCourtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System
Current and historic biographies with links to full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Search by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender. Some obituaries. -
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window58,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and overseas, and who died in or before 2008. Authoritative in-depth articles include likenesses and detailed lists of additional sources.
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Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
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ISBN: 0199935793Publication Date: 2016
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EIU Viewpoint and Country Reports (Economist Intelligence Unit) This link opens in a new windowContains Country Reports, Country Finance, and Country Commerce, plus special reports on current international issues. Updated continuously.
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Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowAn encyclopedia with detailed entries covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories. Not limited to Europe! Frequently updated.
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Foreign Policy This link opens in a new windowGlobal news magazine providing insights and analysis as well as original reporting.
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Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowReports, working papers, policy briefs, data, and audio and visual media drawn from a directory of thousands of government, nongovernment, and intergovernmental institutions and research centers.
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Statista This link opens in a new windowBrings together data and graphs on every imaginable topic from business to government, surveys, sports, and scientific topics. The drop0-down menu for Reports includes a collection of Country and Region reports with demographic data.
What are primary sources?
Some examples of Primary Sources:
- Audio recordings of a speech or oral history
- Autobiographies, diaries, or letters
- Certain government documents, such as congressional hearings or agency reports
- Interviews
- Journal articles which report first hand observations
- Newspaper accounts of events
- Photographs or moving images of an event
- Records of an organization, often kept in Archives
Primary Source Collections include:
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Afro-Americana Imprints (Readex/Newsbank) 1535-1922 This link opens in a new windowCreated from the Library Company's Afro-Americana Collection which began with Benjamin Franklin. This online resource provides more than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets and broadsides, about the African American experience, Africa and the Caribbean, and including works by African American authors.
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Boston Public Schools Desegregation Collection (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowThis project was partially funded by the Boston Library Consortium.
Reports, correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, flyers, posters, legal proceedings, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools and its effect on students, parents, and communities.
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Boston’s Latinx Community History
Over 41,000 records documenting two Latinx organizations, La Alianza Hispana and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, from 1965-2001 as well as additional context about each collection.
- Early Caribbean Digital Archive (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new window
A digital archive of early colonial Caribbean texts, to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people.
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Lower Roxbury Black History Project (Northeastern University)From 2007-2009, with the assistance of her son, London Parker-McWhorter, photographer and documentary filmmaker Lolita Parker Jr spoke with over 40 residents of Roxbury to collect the audio, video, interviews and oral histories, scans, and photographs documenting the rich history of Boston’s Lower Roxbury community.
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El Caribe Digital Archive (East View) This link opens in a new windowA collection of the Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Santo Domingo. Content coverage from 1956-2021, El Caribe has chronicled national and international news, both for the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region. Access to El Caribe is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
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Decolonization: The Politics of Independence in Former Colonial Territories (Gale) This link opens in a new windowIncludes primary sources related to the complex process of decolonization across 60 former colonial territories and Commonwealth nations in the 20th century. The core content consists of over 250,000 pages of rare pamphlets, newsletters, correspondence, posters, and more.
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Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowOriginal primary source documents relating to Empire Studies, including decolonization, from libraries and archives around the world. Diaries, images, letters, records.
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Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (East View) This link opens in a new windowThe publications within the Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection contains nearly 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). Many of these newspapers provide a rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era. The newspapers have been made available by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas at Austin and were curated under the leadership of Adán Benavides. Important contributions to this effort were also made by Guillermo Náñez of The Latin American Library of Tulane University.
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El Mundo Digital Archive (East View) This link opens in a new windowA searchable collection of El Mundo published in Puerto Rico from 1919-1990. Content is mostly Spanish, with some articles in English. Creation of the El Mundo Digital Archive has been made possible through the support of the Center for Research Libraries and the collaboration of the University of Puerto Rico, which owns the copyright for the publication.
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Latin American Newspapers 1805-1922 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new windowOver 50 online and full text historic newspapers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Public Housing, Racial Policies, and Civil Rights: The Intergroup Relations Branch of the Federal Public Housing Administration, 1936-1963 (Gale) This link opens in a new windowNEW! Among 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.
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, Law This link opens in a new windowThis collection brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
- Latino-Americans Collection from Digital Public Library of America
- Library of Congress: Free to Use and Reuse Sets
This page features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page.
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Financial Times This link opens in a new windowLondon-based and international in scope, with extensive business, marketing, economic, political, news and trends worldwide. Also hosts subject-focused newsletters, podcasts, and live conferences. Access to the Financial Times requires registration with a Northeastern or NU Boston email address.
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New York Times via NYTimes.com This link opens in a new window
Northeastern offers current and archival access to the New York Times. Please use the link above to register with a Northeastern email address. Once registered, users can log in directly at https://www.nytimes.com or use the New York Times app on a smartphone or device. Also available in Spanish and Chinese.
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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowLeading economic, business, finance, and political news, information, commentary and analysis. Also available in Chinese and Japanese. For historic WSJ content dating back to 1985, please use Factiva.
Individual registration using a Northeastern email address is required.
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Washington PostWashington D.C.'s newspaper, with coverage of the city and region, national events, and coverage of federal government "inside-the-beltway" news. For off-campus access, please create an account and then follow these instructions (Opens in new window) to link our university subscription. Once registered, users can log in directly at www.washingtonpost.com.
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Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowOur largest general news source, with current and complete newspapers, magazines, wire services from around the world. Backfiles sometimes go back to the 1980s. Text only.
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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.
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PressReader This link opens in a new windowPressReader provides online access to today's newspapers from over 100 countries around the world in over 60 languages in a full-color, full-page format. This is a 90 day archive. PressReader can also be accessed via email registration. Go directly to the home page, click 'Sign In,' then 'Library or Group,' then select Northeastern University from the dropdown menu to create your account.
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Project Syndicate This link opens in a new windowSubtitled, The World's Opinion Page Project Syndicate is unique source of opinion pages from around the world. Content is searchable and good for debate and argument essays or to research a range of views on current event.
- Latin American Weekly Report (LatinNews) -- leading source of political, economic, and security analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean since 1967
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Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online Premium provides video content to a broad range of subject areas, including documentaries and journalistic content on topics in business, politics, history, music, public health, education and more. Training videos are also available.
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Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowA curated collection of films for the Northeastern community, including feature films as well as high-interest documentaries. You may use Scholar OneSearch to find out if Northeastern has a particular film. Closed captions and transcripts included. Films provided by HBO and Neon Films cannot be viewed outside of the U.S.