Databases: American History

  • by Gale

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: This database offers full-text coverage of 19th century newspapers from across the United States. Florida newspapers include papers from St. Augustine, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Pensacola. For a complete title and date coverage list see: http://www.gale.cengage.com/tlist/NCNP.doc This database funded by the College of Law.


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  • by Gale

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: The Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) started in 1967 with six Vietnam veterans marching for peace in New York City. The purpose of the organization was to give voice to the returning servicemen who opposed the on-going war in Southeast Asia. From six soldiers in 1967, the ranks of the membership eventually grew to over 30,000. This publication consists of FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the VVAW. The collection also includes surveillance on a variety of other antiwar groups and individuals, with an emphasis on student groups and Communist organizations.


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  • by ABC-CLIO

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: The American Indian Experience (AIE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. Designed, developed, and indexed under the guidance of Loriene Roy, the first Native American President of the American Library Association, and a team of American Indian librarians and scholars, The American Indian Experience offers access to more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, AIE is meant for anyone wishing to learn more about Native Peoples of America.


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  • by ProQuest

    Description: Ancestry Library Edition, powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource to the library. It is an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more. Answers await everyone - whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian - inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.


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  • by ProQuest

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: Part 1: Organizational Records and Personal Papers of notable people and organizations in the Black Freedom Movement such as Bayard Rustin, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, the American Committee on Africa, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Black Power Movement (Revolutionary Action Movement). Part 2: Federal Government Records, including African Americans in the Military; Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929; Centers of the Southern Struggle: FBI Files on Montgomery, Albany, St. Augustine, Selma, and Memphis; Civil Rights during the Bush Administration; Civil Rights during the Carter Administration; Civil Rights during the Eisenhower Administration; Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration; Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration; Civil Rights during the Nixon Administration. Civil Rights Movements and the Federal Government, including Records of the Interstate Commerce Commission on Discrimination in Transportation, 1961-1970; Records of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, 1958-1973; Records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Police-Community Relations in Urban Areas, 1954-1966; Records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, School Desegregation in the South, 1965-1966; Records of the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights, Special Projects, 1960-1970. Department of Justice Classified Subject Files on Civil Rights, 1914-1949; East St. Louis Riot of 1917; FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations: COINTELPRO Files on Black Hate Groups and Investigation of the Deacons of Defense and Justice; FBI Files of Black Extremist Organizations: Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party; Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925): The First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement; Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI File; New Deal Agencies and Black America; Peonage Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1901-1945; President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights; Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practices, Racial Tension File, 1943-1945; Records of the Tuskegee Airmen.


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  • Daily Life Online

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    by ABC-CLIO

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: The Daily Life Online database moves seamlessly from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture. There is more to history and contemporary events than just the names of rulers and the rise of economic systems; Daily Life Online shows how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours. A dynamic and expanding database, Daily Life Online content is enhanced with new books, articles, images, maps, primary documents, and more on a regular cycle.


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  • by ProQuest

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: This historical archive includes full page images of newspaper articles, including advertisements. Indexing is keyword. Pages may be printed, emailed, or saved to disk. The library subscribes to the full package: The New York Times- 1851-2001 Library also has microfilm 1851 to date (1851-1856 published under title of New York Daily Times) The Wall Street Journal- 1889-1989 Library also has microfilm 1961to date The Washington Post- 1877-1988 The Christian Science Monitor- 1908-1991 Library also has microfilm 1968-2003 Los Angeles Times- 1881-1976 You may also limit your search to an individual newspaper by selecting it. For recent newspaper articles, see our Newspaper Databases.


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  • by Gale

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: This collection comprises materials on Santo Trafficante, Jr., Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano, including FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices including, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, New York City, New Orleans, Atlanta, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago; Justice Department memoranda, correspondence, and analyses; Newsclippings and articles; Domestic Intelligence Section reports; Transcriptions of wiretaps, typewriter tapes, and coded messages; Memoranda of conversations.


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  • by Gale

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: Access made possible through a cooperative agreement with the Stetson College of Law. Consisting of a century and a half of Supreme Court history, this archive is a comprehensive full-text collection. U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States.


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  • by Gale

    Type: Full-Text

    Description: The Minutemen was a militant anti-Communist organization formed in the early 1960s. The founder and head of the right-wing group was Robert Bolivar DePugh, a veterinary medicine entrepreneur from Norborne, Missouri. The Minutemen believed that Communism would soon take over all of America. The group armed themselves, and was preparing to take back the country from the subversives. The Minutemen organized themselves into small cells and stockpiled weapons for an anticipated counter-revolution.


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