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HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE RESOURCES
Titles with or (L) beside them indicate NCLive or LMC resources, accessible from campus computers or by password only.  LMC students, faculty, and staff may obtain passwords by contacting the library.


General and Interdisciplinary Databases from NCLive

Academic Search Premier Provides abstracts and indexing for over 8,200 scholarly journals covering a wide variety of subject areas from 1975 to present.  
Annals of American History 
Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.

CQ Researcher Online Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Updated 44 times per year, the single-issue reports offer non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
CQ Weekly  Your complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and more. Updated weekly and includes a searchable archive back to 1983.
Historic Events of the 20th Century  A collection of 5 individual source books covering The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, The Civil Rights Movement, The Holocaust, World War I and World War II.
MasterFile Premier  Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present.
WorldCat
Union catalog of materials held in libraries world-wide.

Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of British History
HyperHistory Online
Timelines


(L) JSTOR

Metasites
History Guide
Political Science Resources on the Web
The Victorian Web
Best of History Web Sites

Primary Sources
The American Memory Project
American Slave Narratives
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
The Historical Text Archive
Historical United States Census Browser

Other Scholarly Resources
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Governments on the WWW
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
The Library of Congress: Country Studies
Political Database of the Americas


 

 


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