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American History databases for Broward patrons

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Top picks

1. America: History and Life - EBSCOhost
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Some full-text linking available.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
2. Historical Abstracts - EBSCOhost
Comprehensive reference guide to the history of the world from 1450-present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in the America: History and Life database).
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
3. JSTOR - JSTOR
Full-text articles from scholarly journals are available (from Volume 1 to issues published 2-5 years ago) in the arts, business, humanities, literature, social sciences, general science, mathematics and statistics. More info
NOTE: To view full-text PDF articles, you must allow popups for this site.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
4. Periodicals Archive Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Extensive backfile of early issues. Coverage: 1802-1995.  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.


Also recommended

1. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection - ABC-CLIO
EbooksOver 500 fully searchable, full-text ebooks in all subject areas. Includes many reference books. Create an individual user profile to create user-specific bookmarks, capture and store user notes, and create bibliographic citations.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
2. American Civil War: Letters and Diaries - Alexander Street Press
Contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a battles database, and more in a 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
3. American Mosaic - Greenwood Publishing
EbooksRecommended for younger studentsProvides access to two multicultural resources, The African American Experience and The Latino American Experience, with ebooks, interviews, maps, images, audio, music files, and timelines. Teacher resources available. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
4. ArchiveGrid - FirstSearch (OCLC)
New database created 19-Jun-09. Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
5. Biography Resource Center - Gale Cengage Learning
Recommended for K-12 Full-text database provides biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Teacher resources available. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
6. Black Thought & Culture - Alexander Street Press
Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
7. Daily Life Online - Greenwood Publishing
Recommended for K-12Combines Daily Life through History, Daily Life Premium, and World Folklore and Folklife databases to provide full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present. Teacher resources available.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
8. History Reference Online - ABC-CLIO
Name changed to ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
9. History Study Center - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
Recommended for K-12 Comprehensive source for study of history includes full text of primary and secondary documents, articles, maps, images, videos, reference works, study guides, web sites, and more. Get started with this demo. Teacher resources available. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
10. Humanities Full Text - WilsonWeb
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text articles from humanities publications from 1984 to present. For earlier citations, see Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
11. Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective - WilsonWeb
Provides citations for articles in the humanities and social sciences published 1907-1984. For more recent coverage, see Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text.
NOTE: Limited to one simultaneous user. If you are unable to access, please try again later.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
12. In the First Person - Alexander Street Press
Indexes oral histories in English from thousands of web repositories and archives, and includes full text links for licensed Alexander Street Press databases.
Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
13. Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 -1926 - Gale Cengage Learning
Comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises containing 10 million pages of information from 21,000 works. Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more, all separated into 99 subject areas. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
14. Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600 - 1926 - Gale Cengage Learning
Contains over 10,000 items (about 2,000,000 pages), including unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments reprinted or bound as separate publications; and official, separately published records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The literature include sensational accounts of murder, adultery, divorce, and duels along with important cases of constitutional law, commercial law, impeachment, treason, and other topics. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
15. New York Times (1851-2006) in ProQuest Historical Newspapers - ProQuest
Provides full page and article images with searchable full-text for the New York Times and its predecessor, the New York Times Daily News, from 1851 to 2006. More info  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
16. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - Alexander Street Press
Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
17. North American Women's Letters and Diaries - Alexander Street Press
Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years - approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
18. OAIster - FirstSearch (OCLC)
New database created 19-Jun-09Catalogs more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations including digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
19. Periodicals Index Online - ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey)
Comprehensive database with nearly 16 million citations for journal articles on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Provides links to selected full-text in other databases. Coverage: 1665-1995.  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
20. Pop Culture Universe - Greenwood Publishing
Recommended for K-12Covers popular culture in America from the 1920s through present days. Teaching aids and student study guides are available. More info
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
21. Project Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press
Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, including arts, history, literature, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. More info  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU, Broward, and Alumni.
22. Reader's Guide Retrospective - WilsonWeb
Provides 100 years of citations from leading U.S. magazines covering all subjects. Particularly useful for humanities and social science research, as well as for historical information on any subject. More info  - Tutorial
NOTE: Limited to one simultaneous user. If you are unable to access, please try again later.
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
23. Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega - WilsonWeb
Multi-disciplinary database provides all full-text articles from all subscribed WilsonWeb databases. Plus indexing and abstracts for major subscribed WilsonWeb databases. More info  - Tutorial
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.

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