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The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is a collaboration of thirty-one learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division at the University of Michigan Library. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access. These titles are also accessible through RaptorSearch.
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Includes 2,000 total hours of streaming video content and more than 5,000 titles. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
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American National Biography (ANB) offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation.
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AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. Browse AP's comprehensive archive with millions of images in entertainment, sports, news, archival and creative content.
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Collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other topical areas.
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Contains 1,303 sources with 1,210 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.
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Cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, and moves from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture. Includes Daily Life in American and World Cultures Today.
Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digitization program of the Maryland State Library Resource Center, Enoch Pratt Free Library established to facilitate the digital exhibition of the historical documents, images, audio and video held by Maryland institutions. Digital Maryland hosts two digitized collections from Montgomery College's special collections.
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Published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement.
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The Intersectional LGBTQ Issues Digital Archive is a selection primary source centered Case Studies curated by scholars that features a closer look into the history of LGBTQ people and activism into the twenty-first century, including: ACT UP’s demonstration at St. Patrick’s Cathedral; the Comptom Cafeteria Riots; Stonewall; FBI Surveillance of LGBTQ Organizations; activism at the local level; and anti-violence efforts to protect LGBTQ people.
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Biography in Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources.
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Offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Global Issues in Context ties together a variety of sources to present analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural - and headlines in world hot spots.
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Covers world history, including some full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps & charts for the study of world history.
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ProQuest International Newsstand provides full-text articles from more than 660 of the world's newspapers.
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TIP: Use Chrome or Firefox when accessing videos for best viewing experience. Collection of streaming videos in all genres - from documentaries to movies to training videos.
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A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos.
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Full-text coverage for important literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Offering a variety of scholarly, popular and regional resources, it includes journals, books, magazines and more.
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The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
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Full text for the complete archive of The Nation, 1865 to present. The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion; it has long been regarded as one of the country’s definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books, and the arts.
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This collection brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazines along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos. This Virtual Library includes: National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994; National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current; National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World; and National Geographic Kids.
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Provides more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes Africana; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; and African American National Biography. In addition to the full-text of these works, the Center draws on other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and selected articles from other major reference titles.
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Digital library of information on American and world popular culture. This database can be searched or browsed by decade starting with the 1920's and moving up to the 2000's.
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Collection of over 160 multidisciplinary primary resources, including books, journals, dissertations, primary-source documents, and videos.
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Includes access to the Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive (including current issues), as well as digitized primary source materials from the Smithsonian Institution in two collections -- Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry & World's Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow.
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Intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. The database contains 75,000 pages of additional primary source materials related to the women's movement in the United States.
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Bibliographic database covering the core disciplines in women's studies and feminist research. It supports many fields of study, including sociology, history, international relations, humanities and more.

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