Research Guides and Class Pages: Applied Social Justice : Databases

Suggested Databases

ArchiveFinder
Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland). Detailed information about holdings and contact information for repositories.
Catholic News Archive
Full-text digital archive of historical Catholic newspapers from cities across the United States. The content is fully searchable and the platform offers browsing features for newspaper title, date, and diocese.
CARLI Digital Collections
CARLI Digital Collections is a growing image and special collections research resource. By combining digital collections from a number of CARLI member institutions into a seamless environment, researchers are guaranteed richer search results on a variety of topics.

New York Public Library Digital Collections
Over one million digitized items from the The New York Public Library's vast collections with an emphasis on New York and American history and culture, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Chicago Tribune
Local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries and people in the community. Includes complete full text, excluding paid advertisements.
Global Newsstream
Global Newsstream provides today's global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,800 news sources including newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video, and digital-first content in full-text format. The subscription includes full-text access to the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, as well as international newspapers from Europe, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
New York Times
Online edition of the New York Times, including full-text coverage from 1996 to the present.
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

African American Experience

The African American Experience is an authoritative research tool for African American history and culture, providing information from contributors who are experts in the field,. This vast and accessible database covers history, biographies, literature, arts, music, popular culture, folklore, business, slavery, the struggle for civil rights, politics, sports, education, science, and other themes. Contains primary documents, including slave narratives, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other documentation from 1492 to the present.
African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center is the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The center ncludes articles from Oxford University Press reference sources, primary sources, images, maps, charts & tables, multimedia, timelines, and biographies.

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Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection
The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection is an archive of publications focused exclusively on U.S. Hispanic history, literature, and culture from colonial times until 1960. Series 1 focuses on the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics. Series 2 considers Hispanic American civil rights, religion, and women’s rights from the 18th through the 20th century. This link searches Series 1 and 2 together.
Black Thought & Culture
Contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material
HistoryMakers
The nation's largest African American Video Oral History Collection. Includes over 93,139 stories from oral history interviews with 1,789 historically significant African Americans.
Latino American Experience
Latino American Experience is the first-ever online resource dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos—the largest minority group in the United States. Featuring more than 200 volumes of unique content, the database includes hundreds of primary source documents like maps, images, audio clips, interviews, music files, speeches, documents, links to relevant websites and other material.

GreenFile

Content: EBSCO database that covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Purpose: Informs users of environmental topics with a collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest sources.

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers an essential guide to available resources.

SocINDEX with Full Text
This database is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.

Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
American History in Video
Streaming video of news reels, archival footage, documentaries, and interviews showcasing American history.
Black Studies in Video
Black Studies in Video brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. At completion, the collection will contain 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Film Platform Collection
The Film Platform Collection, available through the Alexander Street Press platform, includes leading documentary films from across the world. The collection is curated by film experts especially for an academic audience. The documentaries on this platform address social, political, and cultural issues across a variety of academic topics.