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This is a good source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects.

Need a scholarly journal article for your research paper? Search articles from academic and professional journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education, and more. This resource is great for college students or anyone conducting in-depth research.

Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable pages from more than 400 cities and towns from hundreds of newspapers dating back as far as the 1700s. The collection includes coverage from the United States, United Kingdom, and more than 15 other countries.

Access Video On Demand provides instant access to world-class documentaries, award-winning educational films, and helpful instructional videos covering a wide range of subjects, such as business, career planning, health, history, travel, and more.

Explore and stay informed on local, national and international topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more.

African American Music Reference contains more than 3,000 essays and images that offer coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Agriculture includes more than 400 titles focused on agriculture and its related fields, from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.

Explore early American history to support genealogical and local history research, school homework assignments and more. Includes hundreds of primary source historical newspapers from a variety of perspectives that challenge users to think critically. America’s Historical Newspaper is easy to use.

American Ancestors is only available at the Midwest Genealogy Center. American Ancestors offers thousands of searchable, digitized collections containing more than one billion records.

Find detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich database of battles, and more. These and thousands of other experiences are represented in this 100,000 page collection.

American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893 is a collection of almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians during the years from 1833 to 1893.

Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America.

American Music contains thousands of tracks that allow people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about Native Americans, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys.

This database includes biographies of more than 18,000 men and women from the past whose lives have shaped the nation. Search by name, gender, occupation, keyword, and more. Noteworthy individuals are only considered for inclusion in this database after their death.

This collection features more than 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children's and women's magazines.

The Graff Collection allows you to explore many aspects of the American West. Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources, this collection is a dynamic teaching and research resource.

Ancestry Library Edition is only available for in-library use. Research your family history with this enhanced library version of Ancestry.com. Search the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1940 as well as immigration, vital, military, court, church, and ethnic records.

Users can search from more than a million images selected from the Associated Press image library, featuring current and past news events, people, and places. This resource also includes audio files and text spanning more than 160 years of history.

This retrospective index covers periodical articles from 1913 to 1983.

Search holdings information from thousands of archival collections across the United States as well as throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

This index covers periodical articles from 1929 to 1984. Find information on fine, decorative, and commercial art. Art Index Retrospective includes American, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.

Asian Life in America provides access to primary source content on Asian American history and daily life. Explore content related to arts and entertainment, civil rights, activism, religion, science, and technology and culture.