All Library Research Databases

This resource contains both text and streaming video content. Search the collection or browse topics by clicking on the "My Collections" tab to view the list of historical primary source databases. Topics include early North American history, the Gilded Age, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Dance, and much more! This collection of primary sources includes rich information from books, government documents, original documents, documentaries, interviews, etc.

If you wish to work exclusively with streaming video content, then access those topics apart from the text resources in the Alexander Street Press-Video Collections.

Search the collection or browse streaming videos by topic. Environmental Issues, Food Studies, The Sixties, and Social Work Online contain primary source streaming video resources that are ready to be linked and/or embedded into your digital projects and Blackboard sites. AVON contains a broad spectrum of topics which also includes secondary sources in addition to primary source material which may be linked or embedded.

If you wish to work with content in addition to streaming videos, then access those topics in our full Alexander Street Press database.

Explore Congress in action with a comprehensive online resource for congressional publications and legislative research. Perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. Includes member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources in addition to the full text of publications dating back in some cases as far as the late eighteenth century in searchable PDF format. The full Content Coverage Chart will illustrate the depth of this resource.

Offers access to private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.

Collection of databases containing primary source content from newspapers, magazines, books, manuscripts, U.S. and UK Government Documents, and more.

This resource is a primary source database and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. There are 1400+ individually indexed tables with attached spreadsheets. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.

Provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. The database includes detailed primary source for the history of Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. This online resource contains a complete file of 18th to 20th-century papers, spanning nearly 11 million pages from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material dating back to 1688.