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American Studies Databases

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Index of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from before European contact to the present.

Scholarly articles, books and dissertations on national and international race/ethnicity relations, both contemporary and historical.
Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

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Academic Search Premier
  • Access provided by eLibrary Minnesota (ELM) This link opens in a new window
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Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.

Approximately 270 newspapers from most US states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.

Citations to international alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles. Coverage: 1991-present.

Citations to international alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles. Coverage: 1969-1990.

Early American Newspapers from 1690-1922 and African American Newspapers from 1827-1998.
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Digitized images from American magazines and journals held by the American Antiquarian Society, documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Includes over 6,500 titles featuring more than 10 million pages of content. Also titles in more than two dozen languages including French, German, Norwegian, Spanish.

Collection of newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage and documentaries.

The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in 1968, at a time of social change and protest and the civil rights movement. AIM used the press and media to present its own unvarnished message to the American public. This collection includes the extensive FBI documentation on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest, documentation on the 1973 Wounded Knee Stand-off, materials collected by the Extremist Intelligence Section. These primary sources provide insight into the motives, actions, and leadership of AIM and the development of Native American radicalism, as well as the attitudes of the US government towards this organization.

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American Prison Newspapers is a collection of digitized newspapers originally published by incarcerated persons in United States prisons. The collection spans the years of 1800-2020, and it includes newspapers from across the United States and from penal institutions of all kinds, including women's-only institutions. These newspapers give readers a firsthand perspective of life in U.S. prisons, revealing the news, issues, and commentary that mattered to prisoners.

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Primary source documents from Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities in the 1950s and 1960s.
News coverage of the African American experience from 1704-1975. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 Black publications.
Access to the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets and letters.

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A multi-volume, multi-national set of biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style including birth/death date and place, family, education, career highlights and achievements, awards and honors, major works, and sources of additional information.
Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.

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Collection of newspapers promoting and opposing white supremacy, published mainly in the 1920s. Includes local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers from across the US, as well as key anti-Klan voices from newspapers published by American Black, Catholic, and Jewish communities.

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Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.

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Contains Spanish and English language articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in key national and international social science and humanities journals.
Alternate Name(s):Accessible Archives

Selected newspapers, magazines, books from US colonial era through the 19th century, including eight African-American 19th century newspapers and county histories from New England and Mid-Atlantic states.

Note: History Commons is the new name and platform for the former Accessible Archives database.

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Independent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

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Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.

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Video streaming service offering films from independent and specialty producers, with a focus on documentary films. Videos and clips can be embedded into Moodle.

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Making of America (University of Michigan)
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Primary materials covering American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. See also the Making of America (Cornell University).
Text content from various publishers. Includes encyclopedias, scores, manuscripts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, cover art, lyrics, liner notes, songs, and discographies.
Songs covering all eras of American history from the Revolutionary War to twentieth-century anti-war protests; extensive liner notes included
Popular Music Library contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.

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Access to images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs and more. Instructions for use of images will be found on website.
Alternate Name(s):New York Daily Times
Searchable full text of the New York Times from the first issue in 1851 to 4 years ago. Includes full page and article images. Most recent years of the Times can be searched in US Newsstream or New York Times - Digital Microfilm.

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Integrated music resource including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Provides links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations.
Resource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.

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Search across our Gale primary source databases; find historical newspapers and primary documents, mainly from the United States and Great Britain.
Access to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

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Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare and community development.
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