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19th Century African American Newspapers
see African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. more info
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African American Experience
Covers African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day, in addition to a collection of over 500 searchable titles. more info
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Searchable full-text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
African-American History Online
Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies, primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts. more info
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
African-American Poetry
African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Alternative Press Index
Indexes and abstracts alternative, radical, and leftist publications. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
America: History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present. more info
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
American Broadsides and Ephemera
Digital collection of broadsides printed between 1820-1900 and ephemera, such as invitations, menus and programs, printed between 1760-1900. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
American Film Scripts Online
Current edition includes 823 authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays, formatted in the conventional screenplay format. Also includes a bibliographic and biographic database of directors and writers. Search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, and year of writing, as well as by author and title. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
American Indian History Online
Covering more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders of over 500 Native American groups, this database provides entries on primary source documents, biographies, maps & charts, images, and timelines. It also features searchable tribe and culture area indexes, as well as the ability to search for tribes by region.
more info
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American Memory
A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. more info
American Periodical Series Online
APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,100 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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American Women's History
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history.
more info
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America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922. more info
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Amnesty International Library
Provides full text of many of the human rights organization's recent publications, including annual reports back to 1993, country reports, and thematic reports. more info
Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
Contains citations to books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 to the present. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Anthropological Index Online
Indexes articles in journals received by the British Museum's Department of Ethnography library. Particular emphasis is given to social and cultural anthropology and the archaeology of Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. more info
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ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
Provides access to the tables of contents of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. more info
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Atlas Etnograficas De Cuba
Provides an historical and ethnographic overview of traditional and popular culture in Cuba.
more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Bar Ilan's Judaic Library -- Only available in HSSL Room 111
Full-text, searchable versions of the Bible, Targum, and medieval rabbinic commentaries; Palestinian Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and Rashi, halakhic and aggadic midrashim; codes of Jewish law; and responsa. more info
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Citations to literature about native peoples of North America, including Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Complete bibliography of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino printed books, 1469-1960. more info
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
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Black Studies Center
This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies combines: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Black Studies on Disk
Black Studies on Disk. Publisher's last update: 2004 more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
China Academic Journals
Full-text articles from Chinese academic journals. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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Chinese E-Journal Collection (Qikan)
Provides access to full text of 200 popular journals in Chinese language. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Chronicling America is a prototype Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program. more info
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. more info
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Digital Scriptorium
Images of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. more info
Digital South Asia Library
On-line information about contemporary and historical South Asia – including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and pedagogical resources for language instruction. more info
Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies
Directory includes: Scholars who teach Brazilian Studies at the college/university level; Scholars who have published in the field of Brazilian Studies; and Ph.D. candidates in Brazilian Studies (ABD)
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Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Provides full text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published in America from 1639-1800. more info
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Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Provides full-text, digital images of books, pamphlets, broadsides, state papers and government publications published in America from 1801-1819. more info
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Early American Newspapers
see America's Historical Newspapers
Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports and Country Profile guides. more info
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Encyclopedia Americana
The online version of encyclopedia with an added news database. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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Encyclopedia Judaica
Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Ethnic NewsWatch
Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. more info
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
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Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874
Freedman's Bank Records are a great source for genealogists researching their African American heritage. This database is an index to registers of signatures of depositors and includes images of the original documents. more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Getty Provenance Index
Information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art; gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files. more info
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American Studies. more info
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Indexes books, articles, reviews, bibliographies, and literary works appearing in scholarly journals covering Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic America. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
HarpWeek
The online version of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of its day, covering political, military, social, and cultural stories. HarpWeek may be browsed by date or literary genre; the full text is searchable by keywords. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
HeritageQuest Online
Search U.S. Federal Census records, digitized family and local history books, an index to genealogical and local history periodicals, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files and the Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874.
more info
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Historical Abstracts
Abstracts of journal articles on world history since 1450, excluding U.S. and Canadian history, which is covered by America: History and Life. more info
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Mid-Manhattan Library;
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
History Resource Center: US
Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Index to Jewish Periodicals
This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
International Index for the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA)
IIPA covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound,theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Contains over 172,013 records providing current and retrospective coverage, with citations dating back to 1864. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
International Index to Black Periodicals
see Black Studies Center
JapanKnowledge Classics
Includes Nihon daihyakka zensho, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Imidas, Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki, Nihon jinmei daijiten, JK Who’s Who, Japanese-English dictionaries, and full-text journal Shukan ekonomisuto (April 2002 – current); full-text of books in the Toyo bunko series; and other fully searchable sound and visual databases. Requires Japanese capable browser. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Jerusalem Post -- Only available in SAS Room 111
Full-text, searchable database of the daily newspaper. more info
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Jerusalem Report -- Only available in SAS Room 111
Full-text, searchable database of the bi-weekly news magazine. more info
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources or the Black Studies Database (BSD) includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience from 1948-1986.
more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Lands & Peoples
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events geared to student readers. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
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LANE - Latin America North East Libraries Consortium
Provides information about the availability of Latin American research resources in the region. more info
LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center
A selective guide to Latin American internet resources organized by subject and country. Provides access to a wide variety of full-text resources. more info
Latin American Newstand
ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format. more info
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Bronx Library Center;
Mid-Manhattan Library;
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
St. George Library Center;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Latino American Experience
Contains the history and culture of Latinos from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas to the present. more info
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Mid-Manhattan Library;
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Left Index
Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization. more info
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LGBT Life with Full Text (formerly GLBT Life)
LGBT Life provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in over 230 journals, magazines, and newspapers. more info
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Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
First hand coverage of the grass-roots struggle against the racially restrictive housing covenants of the 1940s. Considered to be the major newspaper of the Black community in Los Angeles during the 20th century. The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Los Angeles Times archive. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Making of America (Cornell University Site)
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. more info
Making of America (University of Michigan Site)
Materials accessible here are University of Michigan Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. more info
Nation Archive (1865-present)
The archive contains PDF page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 to the present. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search
Search more than 80,000 records from the Catalog of American Portraits. more info
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Searchable full-text and page images of the leading Black newspaper of the 20th century. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York City Digital Collection of Historical Books
A subset of the Making of America digital library (the University of Michigan site), this collection consists of 335 volumes focusing on New York City, including several editions of the Directory of social and health agencies of New York City. The “Refine this search” link at the top of the page allows you to search by keyword within this collection. more info
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
A comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia. more info
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PAIS Archive
Provides historical perspective on many of the 20th-century's public and social policies. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
PAIS International
Indexes journals, reports, and other documents that cover public policy, cultural and social issues, and international relations. more info
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Mid-Manhattan Library;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
Digital library site devoted to Spanish exploration and settlement in North America from the 15th to the early 19th centuries. more info
People's Daily -- Only available in SAS Room 315(South Hall).
The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. With current circulation of 3 million, it offers the Chinese government's policies as well as selective national and international news. Provides full-text coverage of daily issues between 1946 to 2005. more info
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General Research Division (Room 315 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Periodicals Index Online
An interdisciplinary and international index to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Over 4,700 journals are included. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
ProQuest Historical African American Newspapers
Simultaneous search of the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002). more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
ProQuest Historical Database
Searchable full-text and page images from the Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942), the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Boston Globe (1872-1926), Chicago Defender (1905-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), the Guardian & Observer (1791-2003), the Hartford Courant (1764-1984), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2006), New York Tribune (1841-1922), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal (1889-1992), Washington Post (1877-1993), ProQuest Civil War Era database including New York Herald (1840-1865) and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
ProQuest Historical New York Newspapers & Magazines
Simultaneous search of the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), The New York Herald (1840-1865), The New York Times (1851-2005), The New York Tribune (1900-1910), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1990) and and thousands of magazine articles published from 1740 to 1940. more info
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Countee Cullen Branch;
Grand Concourse;
Parkchester;
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Seward Park;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
ProQuest Research Library
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
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St. George Library Center;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Rambi: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
A bibliography of articles on Jewish studies in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages. more info
Renaissance Dante in Print
An online exhibition of Renaissance editions of Dante's works. more info
Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
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Branch Libraries;
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
This resource provides a core collection of primary and secondary resources in Black Studies, including full-text articles, book chapters, dissertations, reference materials, timelines, images and multimedia. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Slave Trade CD-ROM
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database contains detailed information on two-thirds (27,227) of the slaving voyages that sailed between 1650 and 1867. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,700 leading social science journals in more than fifty subjects. Also includes articles from over 3,000 science and technology journals. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
SOCIndex
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. more info
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Mid-Manhattan Library;
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. more info
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Soncino Classics -- Only available in SAS Room 111
Full-text, searchable Bible, Babylonian Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, and Zohar in Hebrew or Aramaic and in English translation. more info
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
Spanish and Portuguese printing in the Northern Netherlands 1584-1825 -- Only available in HSSL Room 111
A descriptive bibliography of 816 printed works compiled by Harm den Boer, University of Amsterdam. more info
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Dorot Jewish Division (Room 111 at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building)
TOL: Transitions Online
Provides access to TOL, a news magazine that covers Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. more info
Twentieth Century African American Poetry
The Database of Twentieth Century African-American Poetry is a collection of poetry written by important and influential African-American poets of the 20th century. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography
Bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. more info
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Universal Database of Russian Newspapers
Provides access to the full-text of current issues of Russian newspapers. more info
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Science, Industry and Business Library;
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Victorian Women Writers Project
A full-text library of works by British women writers of the nineteenth century. more info
Washington Post (1877-1993)
Searchable full-text and page images from the Washington Post archive. more info
Availability:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Science, Industry and Business Library;
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
World Buddhist Directory
Directory of Buddhist organizations throughout the world. more info
