History
| * Search Multiple History Databases |
Search several databases at the same time; includes: America History and Life, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Historical Abstracts, Proquest Historical Newspapers and more. Access: John Jay |
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| Academic Search Complete (EBSCOHost) |
Access to articles from magazines and peer-reviewed journals, as well as books, conference papers and proceedings, and educational reports from almost all academic areas of study. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| ACLS Humanities Ebooks |
Collection of over 3,300 books of high quality in the humanities that are recommended and reviewed by scholars frequently cited in the literature. Access: John Jay |
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| America History and Life |
Index to journal articles and reviews on the history and culture of the United States and Canada and links to some fulltext from 1964 to the present. Access: John Jay |
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| American History in Video |
More than 5,000 hours of videos from commercial and governmental sources, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Access: John Jay |
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| American Memory Historical Collections |
Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program. Access: All |
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| Black Thought and Culture |
Contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, and includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other ephemeral material. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Burney Newspaper Collection--17th and 18th Centuries |
A comprehensive collection of early English newspapers from London, the British Isles, and colonies, including many American titles. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Early English Books Online |
EEBO contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Access: John Jay |
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| Ebook Collection from Ebscohost |
Access to thousands of commercially published electronic books in various disciplines, including recently-published titles in criminal justice. (Formerly Netlibary) Access: John Jay |
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| Ebrary |
A constantly expanding collection of thousands of ebooks on a broad variety of disciplines. Access: John Jay |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
A digital archive of 150,000 books published in the eighteenth century, covering a broad spectrum of topics like law, history, science, and art. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Ethnographic Video Online |
750 hours of videos from the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides Access: John Jay |
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| Films on Demand |
Over 7,000 documentaries, dramas, and newsreels from the world Access: John Jay |
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| Gale Academic OneFile |
Access to thousands of articles in scholarly journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Historical Abstracts |
Provides access to academic historical journals that cover the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage is from 1955 to the present. Access: John Jay |
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| History Cooperative |
Access to 25 history journals, generally since 2001, and the Booker T. Washington Papers. Access: John Jay |
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| In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries… |
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are either freely available on the Web or in subscription-only databases. (Note: The JJ library does not subscribe) Access: John Jay |
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| JSTOR |
A searchable collection of the complete runs (minus the most recent 2 to 5 years) of hundreds of the most significant scholarly journals. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Making of the Modern World |
Provides the full text of 61,000 works of literature in business, politics, and economics published from 1450 to 1850. Includes the full Goldsmiths Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| New York Times Historical File |
Full text of articles and page images of The New York Times from 1851 to 2008. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Over 200 reference books from Oxford University Press, including language dictionaries, and reference works in art, science, classics, business, history, law, literature, medicine, geography, performing arts, philosophy, and social science. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Project MUSE |
An interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals. Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
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| Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 |
Brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, audio recordings, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women Alternate access via library barcodeAccess: CUNY |
