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Brief overview of Houston's history from 1836 to present.
Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Includes The Galveston Daily News from 1874 until 1897.
Full-text articles from scholarly publications.
The largest historic newspaper source online containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s.
The largest electronic collection of biographical information on African Americans from 1790 to1950.*
This comprehensive database includes subject entries, primary sources, images and videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies, maps and charts, and more.*
Online resource for researching the soldiers, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War contains indexed, searchable information on over four million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with fifteen thousand photographs.*
This database contains two thousand and nine authors and approximately one hundred thousand pages of diaries, letters and memoirs.*
Biographies, bibliographies, and timelines about American first ladies.
Contains records of architectural drawings owned by the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, primarily for structures in the Houston area.
Index of articles from thousands of journals.*
Contains citations covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.*
An electronic collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trail transcripts.*
Full page view of the Chicago Defender from 1905-1975.*
Includes the fulltext of 6 regional newspapers from all sides of the conflict from 1840-1865 as well as 2,000 slavery, anti-slavery and Civil War pamphlets.*
Indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals with CLASE specializing in the social sciences and humanities, and PERIODICA, science and technology. Documents indexed are in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.*
Cultural reports for more than two hundred countries each include 25 categories. Also includes state and provenience reports.*
Searchable archive of the Dallas Morning News.
Index to citations in electronic journals.*
Almost 40 million images of primary source materials. Many are available here for the first time.
Provides the full-text of Spanish language scholarly journals.*
Full-text reference books on topics including biography, business, the environment, history, law, social sciences, medicine, religion, the sciences, and multicultural studies.*
Uses magazine, newspaper, and original articles as well as images and videos to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events.*
Search the historical archives of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Defender, Atlanta Daily World, and New York Amsterdam News at one time.*
An online resource providing a vast collection of digitized primary and secondary sources for the study of global history from ancient times to the present day.*
The Houston Oral History Project is an effort to record and preserve the dynamic history of Houston through the stories and experiences of its residents. It is a collaboration between the Mayor’s Office, the Houston Public Library and the University of Houston.
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics.*
Scholarly journal archive.*
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Articles from general interest and current events magazines appropriate for school assignments.
Articles covering all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.*
Articles from periodicals related to the military.*
The Modern Language Association's definitive bibliography on topics related to language and literature. Some full text.*
Read and download e-books and audio books on Education, Science, History, Texas State etc.*
Full page view of the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2002.*
Download e-books, audiobooks, and videos.*
Contains records of over 2,200 images. This collection highlights historical events and glances of day-to-day life in Houston from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Articles from children's magazines and pamphlets; designed for the elementary school student.*
Table of contents records for papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Scholarly journals on a variety of topics.*
Articles on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.*
Full-text coverage of topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.*
Index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published between 1963 through 1982.*
Articles from regional business publications.*
This database provides extensive full-text coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.*
This digital archive examines the war; its battles and campaigns, the home front and the military campground, from its causes to its consequences.*
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.*
Offers a global look at history with full text content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.*
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