History & Political Science Databases
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.
Biography Resource Center - This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. For example, the collection includes writings by W.E.B. Du Bois from The Amenia Conference, an Historic Negro Gathering and from The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. The database offers unprecedented possibilities for the study of the historical development of black culture and will appeal to students and scholars alike. It will enable teachers to create new courses and to compile reading lists that refer to individual authors, issues, viewpoints, and common critical issues.
Census Data: An online database offered by the U.S. Bureau of Census, the database provides statistical information about census data.
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating Census 2000 data and U.S. demographic trends.
Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in CQEL (pronounced SEE´quell). It also offers researchers—whether students, scholars, professionals, or interested citizens—a range of tools for discovering, understanding, and making use of its authoritative content.
Congressional Quarterly Public Affairs Collection, a storehouse of public policy content organized by 22 key topics, pulls together CQ's wealth of historic documents and primary source materials, statistical overviews, directory contact information, and the very best in-depth reporting on current affairs to create a one-stop source for public policy content.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher is your complete source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
Congressional Quarterly Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
Congressional Quarterly Weekly is a complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Click here for the CQ Weekly index.
Early American Imprints, Series: Evans (1639-1800)--Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
FACTS offers users the depth of a 20-year news backfile and the timeliness of weekly updates (with hourly newswire feeds).
FindLaw: Focused on law and government, FindLaw provides access to a comprehensive and fast growing online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses.FindLaw Constitutional Law Center features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions. Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices.
GPO provides free electronic access to vast information products produced by the Federal Government, included Federal databases (Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations), Congressional Records and Congressional Bills, Commerce Business Daily (CBD Net), Catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT), The Sales Product Catalog (SPC) and Government Information Locator Service (GILS). Federal Bulletin Board provides access to Federal information in electronic form.
History Resource Center: US provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Start searching this collection.
InfoPlease (The world's largest free reference site): Here you can find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.
InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers: many with full text and images!
International Index to Black Periodicals: International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text brings together 150 of the most respected scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies.
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.
JSTOR provides back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Printing from the JSTOR database requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. For a current list of journals available, see Journals Currently Available.
Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.
Marcive Web DOCS-Express Search provides access to government documents. TSU Libraries are partial depositories for government documents. The Libraries' Marcive Enhanced GPO Database permits the users to see whether TSU Libraries select a particular item. Government documents are included in the online catalog.
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
SmartHistory is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture is a joint project of the Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. This fully searchable version of the print edition, originally published in 1998, contains over 1,500 entries. The online version has updates to existing entries, new entries, more than five hundred additional images, plus audio and video files.
Tennessee State Data Center is a state/Census Bureau cooperative program that disseminates census and other data to the public through a network of over 1,800 state and local agencies, libraries, universities, chambers of commerce, and others. Since 1978, the U.S. Bureau of the Census has provided state data centers with a wide range of census information and with technical assistance and training necessary to access the data.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.