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A handy-dandy list of databases and other materials for faculty in specific subject areas!

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Databases Recommended for World History

  • Archives Unbound Best Bet
    Primary source documents with topically focused digital collections. For more information see the Archives Unbound guide!
  • Gale OneFile: World History Best Bet

    World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

  • Global Breaking Newswires Best Bet
    In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe.
  • International Newsstream Best Bet
    International Newsstream provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades. The comprehensive collection features newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites in full-text format.
  • Middle East & Africa Database Best Bet

    The Middle East & Africa Database features ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in the countries of these regions. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

  • Slavery in American and the World Best Bet

    Brings together a multitude of essential 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. Our case coverage extends into the 20th century because long after slavery ended courts were still resolving issues emanating from slavery.

  • Continental Europe Database
    The Continental Europe Database a multidisciplinary collection of ongoing full-text academic journals, the Continental Europe Database features content that is locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many European countries. All major subject areas of study are represented including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities allowing researchers in all fields to access the latest scholarly articles from their region.
  • East & South Asia Database
    The East & South Asia Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in East and South Asia countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, political science, law, and humanities.
  • East Europe, Central Europe Database
    The East & Central Europe Databases features ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions located in the East and Central Europe region. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, education, arts, literature, history, and others.
  • Gale In Context: Biography

    Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries covering figures from all time periods and areas of study. Providing coverage of the most searched and studied people, Biography In Context includes over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. It offers authoritative reference content alongside videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers.

  • Gale in Context: Global Issues

    Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context is a truly non-U.S. centric resource that ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues; providing information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.

  • Gale in Context: World History

    Gale World History in Context offers primary sources materials, reference materials and multimedia content.

  • Gale OneFile: War & Terrorism

    The War and Terrorism Collection is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals providing insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

  • Global Newsstream
    Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content with archives that stretch back into the 1980s; from over 2,800 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, transcripts, video, and digital-first content in full-text format.
  • History Reference Source (EBSCO Explora)
    This interactive, browsable database is a full-text history reference resource designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books, and history periodicals as well as thousands of historical documents, biographies of historical figures, photos, maps, and over 80 hours of historical video.
  • Latin America and Iberian Database
    The Latin America & Iberia Database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in Latin American countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, medical, social sciences, education, arts, anthropology, law, and humanities.
  • Latin America And The Caribbean Regional Portal
    Latin America & the Caribbean brings together a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news-feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and much more. World Scholar covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology.
  • Military And Intelligence Database
    Military and Intelligence Database Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
  • Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
    The database provides information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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