History and Social Sciences
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Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
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.
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.
Contains records of architectural drawings owned by the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, primarily for structures in the Houston area.
Directory of manuscript and primary source material across the United States. It contains the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present.
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.
Comprehensive U.S. legislative information. If fulltext is not available online, check with the Central Library's Social Sciences Department for print availability.
Major documents of the United States from 1776 to the present.
More than 100 countries are described and analyzed as to their political, economic and social institutions.
Searchable archive of the Dallas Morning News.
Index to citations in electronic journals.
Program details and application guidelines for leading foundations as well as sponsoring company information for corporate givers.
Find sources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards and other financial support for individuals.
Provides the full-text of Spanish language scholarly journals.
Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
Houston Public Library's catalog on the Web. Search for titles and place holds.
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics.
Scholarly journal archive.
Articles covering all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.
Articles from periodicals related to the military.
Full Text Journals about the military and intelligence.
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.
Scholarly journals on a variety of topics.
Articles on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Search full-text, peer-reviewed, scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, including general and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research.
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.
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.
Statistics concerning health, agriculture, business & industry, cost of living, demographics, the sciences, sociology, politics, foreign governments, and more.
Statistical Universe is the world's most comprehensive access to statistical information. If fulltext is not available online, check with the Central Library's Business Department for print availability.
Sanborn maps are large scale plans of a city drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property.
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.
Offers a global look at history with full text content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.
