Humanities

Provides digital humanities and social sciences content, including electronic journal and book collections from leading university presses and scholarly societies. Check out Muse in focus for curated bibliographies on newsworthy topics.

Includes more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. 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. It offers authoritative reference content alongside, videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers.

Digital library of books and journals scanned by a partnership of major research institutions and libraries.

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media from 1976 to the present.

This resource provides access to the largest collection of Spanish-language, historical newspapers from Hispanic publishers in the U.S. Content covers 1808-1980 and includes translations.

Based on James P. Danky's bibliography, AAN provides access to 280 U.S. newspapers from more than 35 states published by or for African Americans. Topics include life in the Antebellum South, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, and more.

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Includes reference works, newspaper and journal articles, and rare primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.

Includes rare primary sources, reference material, and multi-media content.

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes Document Projects and Archives, Documents, Full Text Sources, Bibliographies, Biographies, Social Movements, Chronology, Subjects, Book Reviews, Teaching Tools, and Back Issues.

Primary bibliographic database containing citations to articles regarding historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes journals and citations of book and media reviews. Some full text is available.

Covers a wide range of global historical topics and themes. Includes full-text journals and popular magazines.

Simultaneously searches , Gale LitFinder, Something About the Author and Gale eBooks. Provides access to full-text literary works (novels, plays, poetry and short stories), author biographies, literary movement information, literary work overviews and more.

LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Includes 500,000 primary texts 1,200 scholarly journals and thousands of ebooks and reference works. It also includes 1,300 video and audio recordings and the full text of 14,000 dissertations. ProQuest One Literature provides rare diverse primary sources as well as curated author/movement pages to help contextualize literary studies.

Note: ProQuest One Literature incorporates Literature Online (LION)

Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography

Features a selection of magazines and academic journals (everything from Anglican Journal to Zygon) covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. Can be used to study theological approaches to social issues and learn about the impact that religion's historical impact on literature, the arts, and language. Index coverage from 1980 onwards and full-text coverage from 1983 to the present.

This database combines indexing from the ATLA Religion Database (RDB) with ATLA's online full-text collection of over 600 major religion and theology journals.

Provides access to the five top US national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. Content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.