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A collection of full text journals that cover Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies. Journals include scholarly, peer-reviewed titles, as well as selected trade and consumer titles. Journal contents reflect the full interdisciplinarity of contemporary study in the arts and humanities.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off campus with Network ID.
Vendor: ProQuest
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, this database contains full text historical reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off campus with Network ID, as well as to Indiana Residents via INSPIRE.
Vendor: EBSCO, INSPIRE
A multidisciplinary collection of full text articles and books covering the humanities, arts, sciences, and business. Indiana University Alumni Association members may access this resource by logging in to MyIU at http://alumni.indiana.edu/my-iu/index.html.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off-campus with Network ID Indiana University Alumni Association members may access this resource by logging in to MyIU at http://alumni.indiana.edu/my-iu/index.html.
Vendor: JSTOR
Social Science Database offers full text articles for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off-campus with Network ID.
Vendor: ProQuest
A collection of more than 2100 e-journals covering Science & Technology, Social Sciences & Humanities, and Medical disciplines. Subjects include Biological, Earth, Environmental & Food Sciences, Media, Cultural & Communication Studies, Sport, Leisure & Tourism, and Allied & Public Health.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off-campus with Network ID.
Vendor: Taylor & Francis Group
Use BrowZine to locate journals which publish article relevant to your area of study. History journals are distributed across many databases, so this can be a helpful starting point for locating specific journals and sub-disciplines.
Includes thousands of US and global news sources, including print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and more.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off campus with Network ID.
Vendor: NewsBank
Search across 12 newspaper and journal archival collections at once. Includes: GenderWatch; The Baltimore Afro-American; The Baltimore Sun; The Boston Globe; Chicago Tribune; Detroit Free Press; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; New York Tribune / Herald Tribune; the The Washington Post; and US Major Dailies (current content for Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post).
Access available at IU Kokomo and off-campus with Network ID.
Vendor: ProQuest
These primary resources from AP bureau records bring to life historical events from around the world through news coverage, imagery, and behind-the-scenes context. Materials include actual wire copy (including never-before published materials), intra- and inter-bureau correspondence, personal papers from reporters and photographers, and photo and video footage. Includes six collections: News Features & Internal Communications; U.S. City Bureaus; European Bureaus 1937-2003; Middle East Bureaus; and Washington, D.C. Bureau, parts 1 and 2.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off campus with Network ID.
Vendor: Gale
Indiana Memory provides access to a wealth of unique primary sources on Indiana's history and culture. It includes digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media. This database is the result of a collaborative effort between Indiana libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
Find peer-reviewed historical articles, research notes, annotated primary documents, reviews and critical essays relevant to midwestern and Indiana history.
The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1700 to the 1950s.
The Digital Sanborn Maps is a collection of fire insurance maps that provide house by house or business by business details for cities and towns across the United States. View, download, and integrate maps, as well as integrate them into various GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off-campus with Network ID
Vendor: ProQuest/UMI
These topical databases from Adam Matthew cover a wide range of historical eras, places, and groups of people. Notable collections include African American Communities; American Indian Histories and Cultures; China: Trade, Politics and Culture; Defining Gender; Food and Drink in History; Foreign Office Files; London Low Life; Medieval Family Life; Meiji Japan; North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories; and World's Fairs.
An unparalleled genealogy collection comprising billions of records from census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. This resource is powered by Ancestry.com and includes document collections from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off campus with Network ID.
Vendor: ProQuest
Digital collections of historical documents. Access includes: Afghanistan and the U.S. 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files; Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe,1940-1945; Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984; Feminism in Cuba, Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents; Liberation Movement in Africa and African America; Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950; The Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations,1917-1970; The Middle East Online, Iraq, 1914-1974; and Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement.
Access available at IU Kokomo and off campus with Network ID.
Vendor: Gale