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- Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
American Civil War | Letters | Diaries | Memoirs | Census Records | Church Records | Government Records | Battle Reports | Speeches | Photographs - Victorian Database Online
Comprehensive Bibliography | Books | Articles | Dissertations | 19th Century British Studies - Victorian Women Writers Project Open Access
Highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. - Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Open Access
Records of 35,000 Slaving Voyages | 1514 to 1866
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- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Topics: Fulltext Articles | African-American Newspapers | 1800`s - American Black Journal (Television Program) Open Access
Streaming Video | Television Programs Presenting African American Perspectives | 1968-2002 - Black Thought and Culture
Non-Fiction Writings by Notable African Americans | Includes Previously Unpublished and Fugitive Materials | Date Range from 1700-2006 - Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I
Streaming Video | Ethnographies, Field Notes, Seminal Texts, Memoirs,Contemporary Studies | Human Behavior and Culture around the World | Politics | Economics | History | Psychology | Environmental Studies | Religion | Area Studies | Linguistics | Geography - Godey's Lady's Book
American Magazine Published for Women 1830-1898 | Fashion | Literature | Health and Hygiene | Recipes | Handicrafts | Color Plates best viewed in Chrome Browser - In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience Open Access
The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations in America | Illustrations | Maps | Lesson Plans | Related Web Sites - LGBT Studies in Video
Streaming Video | LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. - Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women: Transnational Networks (Gale)
Women's history | Issues at the intersection of gender and class | Suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health, and more | Late 18th century through early 20th century | Primary sources | Books, journals, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals - Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers (Gale)
Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century America | American Civil War | African American Culture and History | Westward Migration | Antebellum-Era Life | Political Party Newspapers - Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition
History (1600-2000) of U. S. women in social movements | Primary Documents | Online Journal | Notable American Women (1971-2004) |Publications of Federal, State, and Local Commissions on the Status of Women between 1961 and 2005. - Women Working, 1870-1930 Open Access
Explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression | Harvard University Open Collections Project
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- America: History and Life Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: United States History | Pre-Colonial Era to Present | Canadian History - American History in Video
(Primary/Secondary Sources) Streaming Video | United States History | Documentaries | Archival Footage | Newsreels | Public Affairs Footage - American Periodicals Series Online
Topics: American Magazines | 1740`s - Early 1900`s - Clase and Periodica
Scholarly Articles | Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English Languages | 24 Latin American and Caribbean Countries - Filmakers Online Library
Streaming Video | Race and Gender | Human Rights | Globalization and Global Studies | Multiculturalism | Criminal Justice | Social Justice | Environmental Issues | Bioethics | Political Science | Current Events | Psychology | Arts | Literature - Google Scholar with EIU Electronic JournalsResearch Help
Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Use the Get Full Text @ EIU link to access Booth Library`s electronic journals. View this tutorial http://booth.eiu.edu/gscholarsettings to learn how to set Google Scholar preferences for EIU journals in the generic Google Scholar. - Historical Abstracts Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: World History | Excluding the United States and Canada - JSTOR Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Scholarly Journal Articles and Book Chapters | Broad Range of Disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Field Sciences - Kanopy Streaming VideoResearch Help
Kanopy is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience. Effective 11/18/19: Booth Library has moved to a mediated access model for Kanopy. This model will allow only faculty to request films for course-related viewing. Films already licensed by the library will continue to be available until their license expires. - Making of America (Cornell University) Open Access
Fulltext Articles | Primary Sources | American Social History | Roughly 1800-1925 - Making of America (University of Michigan) Open Access
Fulltext Books | Primary Sources | Education | Religion | History | Sociology | Technology | Science | Roughly 1800-1925 - New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, 1990 to Present
Streaming Video | 200 Award Winning Feature Films | 50 Award Winning Short Films | Leading Independent Distributors | Presented at Major Film Festivals - Newspaper Source/EBSCO
Fulltext Articles | U. S and International Newspapers - Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Series I: New Readerships & Series II: Empire (Gale)
(Primary Sources) Topics: Women's | Children's | Humour | Leisure/Sport | Travel and Anthropology | Economics | Missionary and Colonial - PapersFirst
Citations for papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia. Papers1st contains a separate record for each paper listed in a Proceedings1st record (October 1993 to the present). Updated monthly. - Project Muse Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Topics: Literature and Criticism | History | Visual and Performing Arts | Theater | Cultural Studies | Education | Philosophy | Religion | Political Science | Gender Studies | Social Sciences. - Readers' Guide Retrospective
Index to Popular Magazines | 1890 to 1982 | Some Linked to Fulltext Articles - Sage Knowledge E-Reference Collection
Selected SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. Includes expanded access to full content through 6/30/2020. - Scopus
Peer-reviewed research | Citations and abstracts | Science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities | Search for cited references and author and affiliation profiles | Data from over 22,000 journals and over 150,000 books | Track, analyze, and visualize scholarly research | Create an account to save searches and set up email alerts - South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) on JSTOR Open Access
Open access materials for the study of South Asia | Primary and secondary sources | Collections on caste & social structure, literature, social & economic history, women & gender | Nearly 350,000 page images in 13 languages | Materials from 25 partner libraries, administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in partnership with JSTOR - SpringerLink Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Full-text E-books and Book Chapters | Publication Dates from 2005-2020
Peer Reviewed Journals (Some Fulltext)
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Open Access
Records of 35,000 Slaving Voyages | 1514 to 1866 - Wiley Online Library eBooks
Over 3000 ebooks from Wiley from 2017-2021 across 60+ subject areas | May be used as course materials or for course reserves | Unlimited access through June 30, 2021 | Provided through Booth Library's CARLI consortium membership - Women's Studies Collection Open Access
The collection is housed at The Women's Resource Center (WRC) which is located in the basement of Stevenson Hall. - Womenwatch Open Access
United Nations documents on women, country information, statistics, etc. - World History in Video
Streaming Video | Explore Human History | Global in Scope | War | Natural Disasters | Space Exploration | Globalization