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History
Indexes & Databases
America: History and Life [info] America: History and Life
Coverage: From 1954
Licensed Number of Users: 6
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.
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Historical Abstracts
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Historical Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1969
Index to articles, dissertations, and books on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Works on U.S. and Canadian history are covered in America: History and Life.
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Academic Search Premier
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Academic Search Premier
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
« Hide Description American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography [info] American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Coverage: 1936-1938
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project hired field workers to collect the life histories of former slaves. Transcripts for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states, were then compiled by the Library of Congress. The collection and the index are now searchable online.
« Hide Description Annals of American History [info] Annals of American History
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Provides access to over 2,100 original full-text source documents on United States history from 1493 to the present. Includes speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, poems, interviews, and editorials from more than 1,500 authors.
« Hide Description Archives (Maine Collections) [info] Archives (Maine Collections)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
The Archives database is a catalog of three prominent archival collections on Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces: the Maine Folklife Center and Special Collections at Fogler Library located at the University of Maine, Orono, and the Acadian Archives/Archives Acadiennes located on the Fort Kent campus. Cataloging is incomplete for all three Archives.
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Military & Government Collection
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Military & Government Collection
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: varies by title; most indexing and fulltext starts in the 1990s
Search over 600 military titles, government periodicals, trade publications and newsweeklies for topics concerning all branches of the military. Full text is available for more than a third of the periodicals indexed. Over 240 pamphlets are also included.
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New York Times
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New York Times
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to and full text coverage of the US newspaper of record from 1999 to the present. Offers in-depth coverage of national and international news, plus transcripts of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conferences.
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Official documents of the United Nations
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Official documents of the United Nations
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1993
Official Document System of the United Nations(ODS)covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993, and selected earlier coverage
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Royal Historical Society Bibliography
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Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
The Royal Historical Society bibliography, which is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, is an authoritative guide to writing on British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. It contains over 300,000 entries including articles in journals and collective volumes, and including data from London's Past Online. You can SEARCH by author, by publication details, by subject or by period covered.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
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Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1600-2000
A collection of documentary projects pertaining to women and social movements in the United States. Primary source materials include books, images, manuscripts, journal articles, phamplets, letters, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. This database has been made available through USM Faculty Technology Grant awards to the History and Women's Studies programs.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1975
This database supplies citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law and public administration/policy.
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