News, business, legal, medical, & reference information from nearly 5,000 sources.
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Nexis Uni provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text.
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
Subject Areas: General, Law, Political Science, Current Events
This site, maintained by Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute, offers Supreme Court decisions from the early court through the present; searchable by topic, author (i.e. justice who wrote the opinion), and party (to the case).
Note: Coverage prior to 1990 may not be complete for all times or topics
Up-to-date coverage of the Supreme Court, from live blogging of oral arguments to announcements of Supreme Court actions. Useful for links to key documents (petitions, briefs, motions, etc.) in cases going back to 2007, and a glossary of legal terms.
This is the only currently accepted "official" version of the Supreme Court decisions. According to the Supreme Court "In case of discrepancies between a bound volume and the materials included here (on their web site)--or any other version of the same materials, whether print or electronic, official or unofficial--the printed bound volume controls."
Access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress, 1824 to present.
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Subject Areas: Law, Political Science, U.S. History, Current Events
Previously known as Lexis-Nexis Congressional, ProQuest Congressional Publications offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress.
ProQuest Congressional provides access to:
- Congressional publications from 1824 to the present
- CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970
- Bills as they move through the House and Senate
- The Congressional Record and Federal Register
- Information about members and committees
- The National Journal
- Access to testimony in full text from Congressional Hearings, covering the years 1824 to present
The Government Publishing Office's (GPO) Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to government information, including Congressional bills, hearings, reports, and other documents.
The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database:
- Messages & Papers of the Presidents: 1789-1913
- The Public Papers of the Presidents: 1929-2007 & 2010
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: 1977-2009
- Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents: 2009-2012
This full text collection covers the policy and debate over civil rights legislation during the administration of President George H. W. Bush, both as President and Vice President.
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Subject Areas: Political Science, U. S. History
Bush Presidency and Development and Debate Over Civil Rights Policy and Legislation contains materials on civil rights, the development of civil rights policy, and the debate over civil rights legislation during the administration of President George H.W. Bush and during his tenure as vice president.
Contents of this collection includes memoranda, talking points, correspondence, legal briefs, transcripts, news summaries, draft legislation, statements of administration policy, case histories, legislative histories and news-clippings covering a broad range of civil rights issues.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: 1989-1991 Update Schedule: Completed Archive Database Producer: Gale / Cengage
The Presidential Recordings, Digital Edition consists of three series: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon White House Tapes.
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Subject Areas: U.S. History
The Presidential Recordings, Digital Edition currently consists of three series: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon White House Tapes.
Described as "a rich and engaging resource featuring annotated transcripts of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon White House tapes," this database of audiotapes includes specific coverage of the LBJ Administration, including tapes of discussions on the War on Poverty, 1964 (edited by Guian McKee); Civil Rights, 1964 (edited by Kent Germany); and Vietnam, 1964-65 (edited by Marc Selverstone and David Coleman).
The entire resource is fully searchable, accessible via a timeline view, and each transcript page includes the original audio. Parts of this resource are open access and available to all, while certain collections, particularly the LBJ Tapes are available to the Denison community through our subscription.
Format: Full text Dates of Coverage: 1962-1973 Update Schedule: Regularly Database Producer: University of Virginia Press.
Full text access to hundreds of U.S. newspapers, wire services, and broadcast news transcripts.
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Nexis Uni provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text.
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
Subject Areas: General, Law, Political Science, Current Events
Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six news-wires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers.
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Subject Areas: Current Events, Mass Media
Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 375 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six news-wires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers.
Format: Index to Journal Articles
Update Schedule: Daily.
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.
This historical newspaper provides online coverage from 1893 to 1988.
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Subject Areas: History, Black Studies
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1893 to 1988
Database Producer: ProQuest
Covers 1905-1975 of this leading African-American newspaper.
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Subject Areas: Black Studies, Mass Media, Communication
The Chicago Defender ( 1909-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of this leading African-American newspaper.
The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Issues of the Chicago Defender from 1999 to the present can also be found at the Ethnic NewsWatch database.
Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage:1909-1975
Update Schedule: Complete Archive
Database Producer: ProQuest
Covers 1934-1991 of this African-American newspaper.
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Subject Areas: Black Studies, Communication, History, Political Science
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
It includes the following three title variants of the newspaper:
- 1934 to 1962: "Cleveland Call and Post"
- 1962 to 1982: "Call and Post"
- 1982 to 1991: "Call & Post"
Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1934-1991
Update Schedule: Completed Archive
Database Producer: ProQuest
Covers 1911-2002 of this African-American newspaper.
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Subject Areas: Black Studies, Communication, Mass Media
ProQuest's Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) offers full page and article images with searchable full text for this African-American newspaper. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1911-2002
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.
Chronicles over a century (1827-1998) of the African American experience through 270+ U.S. newspapers.
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Subject Areas: U.S. History, Black studies
This invaluable collection provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998) and Series 2 (1835-1956), feature titles from more than 35 statesincluding many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.
Published by or for African Americans, these newspapers cover life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment and much more.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: 1827-1998 Database Producer: Readex Collection: Part of "America's Historical Newspapers"
American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. The original 10-volume set covers 1900-1999; the additional Volume 11 covers 2000-2009.
Online archive focused on African American culture, social conditions, and identity. Containing pamphlets, newspapers, correspondence, oral histories and archival ephemera from Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns in North Carolina.
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Subjects: African American History, US History
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina, this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community -- revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: 19th - 20th Century, varies by collection Database Distributor: AM (Adam Matthew Digital)
Selected primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
Off Campus Access: Open access. No authentication is needed.
Subject Areas: Black Studies
The documents presented here represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases. The databases represented in this website include American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture.
Format: full text
Dates of Coverage: 1790 - 2000s
Update Schedule: unknown
Database Distributor: Proquest
Contains US Justice Department and FBI reports on members of various protest groups who were deemed politically suspect.
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Subject Areas: History, Political Science
Between the early 1920s and early 1980s, the Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation engaged in widespread investigation of those deemed politically suspect. Prominent among the targets of this sometimes coordinated, sometimes independent surveillance were aliens, members of various protest groups, Socialists, Communists, pacifists, militant labor unionists, ethnic or racial nationalists, and outspoken opponents of the policies of the incumbent presidents.
Black Americans of all political persuasions were subject to federal scrutiny, harassment, and prosecution. The FBI enlisted black "confidential special informants" to infiltrate a variety of organizations. Hundreds of documents in this collection were originated by such operatives. The reports in this collection provide a wealth of detail on "Negro" radicals and their organizations that can be found nowhere else.
Includes 88,021 images from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library.
Format: Full Text Date range: 1920-1984 Database Producer: Archives Unbound, Gale.
Largest African American oral video history archive in the world.
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Subject Areas: Black Studies
HistoryMakers is the largest African American oral video history archive in the world. HistoryMakers provides access to over 119,684 stories from oral history interviews with 2,694 historically significant African Americans.
Format: video Dates of Coverage: current Update Schedule: unknown Database Distributor: HistoryMakers
Includes primary source materials, such as the papers of the NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bayard Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph.
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Subject Areas: History, Political Science, Women's Studies, Black Studies
ProQuest History Vault is an archival resource in progress. When complete, this database will contain 25+ modules of archival content covering many areas, including African-American studies, womens studies, history, political science, and more. This resource includes letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more.
Denison currently has access to the following modules: - Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, Organizational Records, & Personal Papers - NAACP: Major Campaigns, Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, & National Staff Files - Slavery and the Law (1775-1867) - Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy (1960-1975) - World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees (1920-1983) Format: Full Text Database Producer: ProQuest
US public opinion data from the comprehensive archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion, 1935 to present.
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Subject Areas: Communication, Political Science, Sociology & Anthropology
Search and retrieve US public opinion data from the comprehensive archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion. A full-text retrieval system, iPOLL is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935.
In order to create a personal login with this database, please follow the instructions found here.
Format: Statistical Resources, Archival Resources
Dates of Coverage: Varies
Update Schedule: Regularly
Database Producer: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
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