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Historical Abstracts from EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.
Humanities in ProQuest from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Searches magazine and journal articles in the arts and humanities. 7000+ sources, mostly full-text from 1986 - present.
JSTOR from JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.
PAIS Index from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Search for a wide range of documents related to current events, public policy, and social sciences. 1972 to present.
Indexes books, pamphlets, and publications of the U.S. government and of international organizations, in addition to selected articles in 1400 periodicals.

Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 from Adam Matthew
British Government documents from the National Archives UK give access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Included are letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies, first-hand accounts of events, and more.

Border and Migration Studies from Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
Historical background on thirty plus worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 from Adam Matthew This link opens in a new window
Includes the United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966. Topics addressed range from the French occupation of Algeria in the nineteenth century to Mussolini’s conquest of Ethiopia.
Empire Online from Adam Matthew This link opens in a new window
Full-text digital reproductions of primary documents relating to the British Empire. 1492-1969.
Documents are organized under five themes: Cultural Contacts, c. 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class & Colonialism, c. 1783-1969.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports from Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Online full-text translations of foreign-language documents from around the world used by U.S. government agencies in their intelligence work. 1941-1996.
World Newspaper Archive—African Newspapers from Readex This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to historical newspapers from Africa. 1800-1925.