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History databases for NSU patrons

51 results. (See in alphabetical order)

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  1. 1. Shoah FoundationLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
    The Visual History Archive (VHA) includes both the monumental Holocaust collection that had its genesis from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and resources from other crimes against humanity. The vast collection includes the complete testimonies from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other notable genocides including the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Rwanda (1994), and Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996). The resource includes firsthand primary source accountings with 53,000 recorded testimonies, 112,000 hours of video, participants from 63 countries and 39 languages, 1.8 million names, and 700,000 images.
    Users must create a personal account to use this database. For more information about Visual History Archive see this guide. Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  2. 2. Visual History Archive (VHA) USC Shoah FoundationLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
    The Visual History Archive (VHA) includes both the monumental Holocaust collection that had its genesis from Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and resources from other crimes against humanity. The vast collection includes the complete testimonies from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other notable genocides including the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), Nanjing Massacre (1937), Rwanda (1994), and Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996). The resource includes firsthand primary source accountings with 53,000 recorded testimonies, 112,000 hours of video, participants from 63 countries and 39 languages, 1.8 million names, and 700,000 images.
    Users must create a personal account to use this database. For more information about Visual History Archive see this guide. Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  3. 3. America: History and LifeLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - EBSCOhost
    Historical and cultural coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1,700 journals from 1910 to the present. Some full-text linking available. Also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  4. 4. Periodicals Archive OnlineLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
    Periodicals Archive Online spans the humanities and social sciences, across 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles, of value both to customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Coverage is from volume 1 issue 1 of each journal and all issues are digitized from cover to cover.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  5. 5. ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online Collection 1.2Local access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
    Periodicals Archive Online spans the humanities and social sciences, across 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles, of value both to customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Coverage is from volume 1 issue 1 of each journal and all issues are digitized from cover to cover.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.

Also Recommended

  1. 1. ABC-CLIO DatabasesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - ABC-CLIO
    EbooksRecommended for younger studentsProvides access to two cultural resources: The African American Experience and Daily Life Through History. Includes ebooks, interviews, maps, images, audio, music files, and timelines.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  2. 2. Academic Video Online (AVON)Local access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
    This video collection includes 67,000+ films. Content comes from 60 Minutes, BBC, Broadway, CNN, DSM-5/ICD-10, Medical Imaging in Video, PBS, World Newsreels Online, and many more. Subjects include: the Arts, architecture, dance, fashion, music, theater and opera, business, environmental studies, feature films, health, history, education, counseling and therapy, criminal justice, and more. All films are available year round with unlimited use.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  3. 3. African-American ExperienceLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - ABC-CLIO
    Recommended for K-12Covers the African-American experience from its African origins to the present day, including contributions to science, business, education, the arts, the military, and politics. Includes primary source documents, photographs, maps, and other images.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  4. 4. American Civil War: Letters and DiariesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - 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.
  5. 5. American History in VideoLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Over 1,000 hours of video for the study of American history.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  6. 6. Archives UnboundLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  7. 7. Black Thought & CultureLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - 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.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  8. 8. Cambridge CoreLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - Cambridge University Press
    Cambridge Core includes content from Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books Online under one unified site. E-books include subjects in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Computer Sciences, and Sciences. E-books are presented in full image PDF using Adobe Reader and are supported by all popular browsers for viewing. The Cambridge Core also hosts the NSU Libraries full text journal subscriptions of almost 350 titles.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  9. 9. Chicago Complete Collection - Current AccessLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - University of Chicago Press
    The e-journals published by the University of Chicago Press include subject coverage for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Sciences. Content is viewable in both HTML and PDF using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  10. 10. Chicago Manual of Style OnlineLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - University of Chicago Press
    Chicago Manual of Style Online provides full-text access to the guide's 17th edition. Aside from the full-text, the site contains an extensive FAQ section and additional tools, such as sample letters to editors and a citation quick guide.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  11. 11. Civil War : Sources in U.S. History Online - Florida Electronic Library ResourceLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Explore writings from the Civil War by those who lived it. Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War includes primary source documents — personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, regimental histories and photograph albums, legal treatises and children's books — that present readers with a rare chance to learn firsthand what life was like when the violent divide between north and south threatened to destroy the United States.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  12. 12. Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science and HumanitiesLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - Clarivate Analytics
    Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science and Humanities, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  13. 13. CQ Press LibraryLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - CQ Press
    This database features content on Congress, voting and elections, the Supreme Court, public affairs, American government, and politics.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  14. 14. Daily Life Through HistoryLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - ABC-CLIO
    Recommended for K-12Provides full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  15. 15. Digital Sanborn MapsLocal access for all users. Remote access is not available. - Public Web site
    The Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. This digital collection contains Sanborn maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
    Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
  16. 16. dLOCLocal access for all users. Remote access is not available. - Public Web site
    The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. dLOC comprises collections that speak to the similarities and differences in histories, cultures, languages and governmental systems. Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts. The amount of open access content available through dLOC surpasses many commercial Caribbean collections and includes newspapers, official documents, ecological and economic data, maps, histories, travel accounts, literature, poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.
    Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
  17. 17. Ebook CentralLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - ProQuest
    Ebook Central is the new platform for accessing the NSU Libraries EBL e-books and former MyiLibrary ebook collections. Subject content includes Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Health & Medicine. E-books are downloadable for offline reading in both PDF and EPUB or can be read online with the e-book viewer.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  18. 18. Essay & General Literature (H.W. Wilson)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - EBSCOhost
    Citations for essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Also provides full citations on collective titles indexed. Emphasis on the humanities and social sciences.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  19. 19. Filmakers Library OnlineLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum including race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 1,019 titles, equaling approximately 806 hours.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  20. 20. Gale In Context: BiographyLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Provides coverage of the most searched and studied people throughout the world. It is built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Additionally, it offers authoritative reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. Users can search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  21. 21. Gale In Context: U.S. HistoryLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Gale In Context: U.S. History is an interactive experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history. This comprehensive, contextual, media-rich collection empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills. Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America to the first stirrings of the American Revolution and on through the Civil Rights movement, September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the War on Terror.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  22. 22. Gale In Context: World HistoryLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Gale In Context: World History offers a chronicle of the people, cultures, events, and societies that have formed the history of the human race from the ancient world to today. Covers a range of topics such as Aztecs, Industrial Revolution, Silk Road, the Buddha, Space Race, and more, providing a wide perspective across the globe.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  23. 23. Gale Literature: Book Review IndexLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Gale Literature: Book Review Index provides easy access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. A variety of publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers including: American Journal of Education, Belles Lettres, Books in Canada, Children's Book News, Choice, Essence, German Quarterly, Irish Literary Supplement, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Middle East Policy, Mother Jones, New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Times Literary Supplement, Village Voice, Women's Review of Books, World Literature Today, Yale Review, and many others.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  24. 24. Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors provides access to the most complete and current entries of biographical and bibliographical data on more than 164,500 modern authors. Find authors based on occupation, role, historical period, name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  25. 25. Gale OneFile: High School Edition - Florida Electronic Library ResourceLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. The database offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  26. 26. Gale OneFile: Pop Culture StudiesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that analyze and support popular culture. The database provides information useful for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  27. 27. Gale OneFile: U.S. HistoryLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines. This resource is updated daily and provides coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work in the field.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  28. 28. Gale OneFile: War and TerrorismLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Offers content on conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This collection is updated daily and includes more than 200 full-text periodicals relevant for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  29. 29. Gale OneFile: World HistoryLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines beneficial for researchers. The database provides coverage of world historical events and scholarly work well-established in the field.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  30. 30. Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - EBSCOhost
    Provides citations for articles in the humanities and social sciences published 1907-1984.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  31. 31. International Encyclopedia of Revolution and ProtestLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - Wiley - Blackwell Publishers
    This definitive 8-volume reference is a comprehensive print and electronic resource covering the history of protest and revolution over the past 500 years  throughout the modern era of mass movements. From the rebellion against the Peasant's Revolt in Germany to the Taiping Uprising in China, and from the Enlightenment-inspired revolutions in Europe and America to the anti-colonial revolts of Pancho Villa and the Mau Mau, it covers every major revolution that has altered societies or changed the course of history on a local, regional, national, and international scale. It presents major uprisings and protest movements, and the ideas, ideologies and activists that propelled them, chronicles the manner in which they unfolded, traces their roots, goals, tactics, and influence, and evaluates their successes and failures.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  32. 32. JSTORLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - 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
    To view full-text PDF articles, you must allow popups for this site. Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  33. 33. KanopyLocal access only for NSU. Remote access only for NSU. - Kanopy
    Kanopy is a video streaming database featuring more than 60,000 films. Subjects covered in our collection include the Arts, Business, Education, Global Studies & Language, Media & Communications, and the Social Sciences. Films range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, classics and blockbuster movies. Download the Kanopy app from the Apple App Store or Google Play store. Users must create an account to use as a login for the mobile app.
    Local access only for NSU. Remote access only for NSU.
  34. 34. LGBT Studies in VideoLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual people and the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. The collection will have cross-disciplinary relevance beyond LGBT courses, serving research and teaching in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, politica
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  35. 35. Making of America (Cornell University)Local access for all users. Remote access is not available. - Making of America (Cornell)
    The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
    Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
  36. 36. Making of America (University of Michigan)Local access for all users. Remote access is not available. - Making of America (Michigan)
    Making of America (MOA) represents a major collaborative endeavor to preserve and make accessible through digital technology a significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure. Funded originally by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA sought to involve research institutions and national consortia to develop common protocols and consensus for the selection, conversion, storage, retrieval, and use of digitized materials on a large, distributed scale.
    Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
  37. 37. MIT Press D20Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni. - MIT Press D2O
    Collection of Open Access (OA) ebooks from MIT Press on business, arts and humanities, education, computers and engineering, medicine, psychology, political science, social sciences and science.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Alumni.
  38. 38. National Geographic Virtual Library: People, Animals, and the WorldLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Gale Cengage Learning
    Provides access to digital content from National Geographic Traveler and National Geographic History magazine, full-text on travel, science & technology, history, environment, animals, photography, and peoples & cultures. Includes videos, full-color maps, and hundreds of National Geographic images.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  39. 39. New York Times (1851-2016) in ProQuest Historical NewspapersLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - 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 2016.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  40. 40. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral HistoriesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - 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.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  41. 41. North American Women's Letters and DiariesLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - Alexander Street Press
    Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years. Contains 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.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  42. 42. Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - EBSCOhost
    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.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  43. 43. Salem PressLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni. - Salem Press
    Salem Press provides ebooks for broad informational and educational purposes only. Readers will discover a wealth of information in the following subjects: history, health, environmental sciences, and literature. Find critical reviews for fiction, primary source documents from History and biographies. The platform includes access to Magill's Literary Annual from 1977 to present.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  44. 44. University of California Press JournalsLocal access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users. - University of California Press
    University of California Press Journals contains access to 31 peer reviewed publications covering humanities and the social sciences.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  45. 45. University of Chicago Press Complete JournalsLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - University of Chicago Press
    The e-journals published by the University of Chicago Press include subject coverage for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Sciences. Content is viewable in both HTML and PDF using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
  46. 46. Wall Street Journal, 1889-2010 in ProQuest Historical NewspapersLocal access only for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU. - ProQuest
    Online researchers have access to more than 100 years of The Wall Street Journal’s accurate reporting, exclusive analysis, agenda-setting editorials, and controversial opinions. In addition to the printed stories, researchers also can study the charts, stock tables, graphics, and illustrations featured in the publication.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.