History Databases

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.

African American Studies include:

Major federal legislation concerning slave trade, colonization, reconstruction, civil rights, affirmative action, and issues related to race relations, 1792–1994.
U.S. Supreme Court decisions on constitutional issues raised by slavery, reconstruction
programs, Jim Crow laws, school segregation, job and housing discrimination, and affirmative action programs, 1806–1999.
Autobiographies of prominent African Americans, including Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Walter F. White, and James Forman.
Manuscript materials on the crusade to ban the movie Birth of a Nation, NAACP legal
campaigns against segregated education and "white primaries," work of the "Black Cabinet" during the New Deal, and the surge of civil rights activities in the 1960s as seen from inside the Kennedy and Johnson White House.
Reference articles on major African American figures and key events and court decisions in the civil rights movement.
Scholarly articles from academic journals and anthologies on the African American experience.
Photographs depicting famous persons, events, and institutions in African American history, including Carl Van Vechten portrait images of famous writers, scholars, and artists; Hampton
University photos of the early experience in industrial education; and images from the Mary
McLeod Bethune Foundation. The Bethune Foundation images include depictions of student life at Bethune-Cookman College and its predecessor institutions as well as photos documenting the
political career of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who(r) Nov 2003 - 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. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.

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 Congress Collection presents a powerful research and reference tool that provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under Public Policy Legislation, Members of Congress, CQ Key Votes, and The Legislative Branch.

Congressional Quarterly Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government - A one-stop, easy-to-navigate reference on Congress, the Presidency, Supreme Court, and U.S. Election process, which is based on the award-winning A to Z Encyclopedia series.

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 Insider is a one-stop mega-database for national, international, and state level contacts. More than 10,000 federal offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, international organizations, and state government contacts at your fingertips.

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 Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

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.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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 or JPrint. 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.

Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

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.

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.