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*Key database for History* Indexes and abstracts articles in 2000+ journals, plus books and dissertations on the history of all parts of the world except the United States and Canada from 1450 to the present.

Comprehensive academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis

Indexes over 800 Canadian current affairs and general interest periodicals and eight daily news sources. Full text of over 150 titles.

Key database for Sociology* Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.

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Essential for understanding Black history and culture, African Diaspora, 1860-Present allows scholars to discover the migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent. With a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France, the collection includes never-before digitized primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

Contains 795 sources with 434 authors which includes the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

This primary source collection details the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings of the activists themselves. Black Abolitionist Papers represents a huge effort by a scholarly team, headed by C. Peter Ripley and George E. Carter, who recognized that African Americans were a pivotal and persuasive force in the 19th-century anti-slavery movement.

This research tool for African American history and culture provides information from authorities in the field, and allows African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 300 titles, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

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

Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.