Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
This primary source collection of the ACLU's records focuses on free speech, civil rights and the Civil Rights Movement, citizenship, race, gender, immigration, discrimination, and issues related to the U.S. Supreme Court and American legal history. Documentation includes information on the inner workings of the organization, case files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, manuscripts, and more, including the documents from the ACLU's Southern Regional Office.
Content includes primary sources regarding African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Ethnic Diversity Source provides 465 full-text, peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers; over 4,500 e-books; biographies; and over 6,300 primary source documents covering the lived experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and other ethnic groups.
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to thousands of full text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from the ethnic and minority presses in America. Of the more than 1.8 million articles contained in the collection, nearly a quarter are written in Spanish.
The impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas, including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender studies and women's and men's studies. Includes full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, newsletters, books and reports.
Databases composed of fully searchable image-based PDFs of original primary sources and retrospective legal materials. Documents are high quality and can be printed or downloaded.
• Civil Rights and Social Justice: Includes hearings, committee prints, legislative histories, CRS and GAO reports, Supreme Court briefs, scholarly articles, books, and prominent civil rights organizations.
• Gun Regulation and Legislation in America: Includes periodicals, federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and scholarly articles.
• LGBTQ+ Rights: Charts the gay rights movement in America, showing civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries and the inequalities still present.
• Open Society Justice Initiative: Provides expert legal support for Open Society's mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work.
• Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law: Includes colony status, federal statues, state cases on slavery, Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880, English-language legal commentary on slavery, 19th-century pamphlets and books, modern histories of slavery, and modern law review articles.
Race Relations in America houses an archive of documents in various formats including hundreds of hours of audio recordings and photographs covering topics including desegregation of schools, migration of African Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and racial tensions in the United States.