HST 210: American Social History
Designed to help the HST 210 students find American historical & cultural artifacts for their research projects
General Cultural Materials and Artifacts Research
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowIndexes journal and magazine articles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowAn online academic encyclopedia and specialized references on any topic.
- Project MUSE Journals and Books This link opens in a new windowResearch support for literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many other cultural materials topics.
- Cultural Digital Collections at the LIbrary of CongressCollection contains cultural heritage materials on American cultural materials.
- AP Newsroom This link opens in a new windowCurrent and historic photographs. The archive includes contemporary news images, historical figures, celebrities, and images drawn from key events of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Coverage: 1840+
History Artifacts, US Culture
- America: History and Life with Full TextValuable database foir finding articles on historical artifacts. For example, cigar labels or cigar label art.
- American History in Video This link opens in a new windowProvides access to streaming video documentaries and newsreel footage of key historical events in American history from sources such as PBS, A&E, California Newsreel, and The History Channel.
- Documenting the American South This link opens in a new windowDigitized primary materials on perspectives on American history, literature and culture. Collection includes texts, images and audio files.
Coverage: 1800s+
English Literature and Fiction Artifacts
- Literature Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to articles for works of criticism, in all genres of literature, and it also includes author biographies and reference sources.Alternate titles: LION, American Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes books and articles on language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, world literature, folklore, and the dramatic arts.
See the list of all full-text titles
Film, Photography, Fashion, and Architecture Artifacts
- Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowA valuable database for finding articles, yearbooks, an d museum bulletins covering film, photography, folk art, and architecture.
Coverage: 9/1984+
- Artstor Collections on JSTOR This link opens in a new windowValuable tool to discover original images of artifacts in architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowProvides access to academic and popular film journals covering all aspects of film and motion picture industry.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of the entire run of Vogue magazine, and includes designers, photographers, stylists, and illustrators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
American Music Artifacts
- Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new windowSearchable database that includes streaming online music resources on range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Also includes liner notes to all the albums are included in PDF format.
Alternate titles: American Music, Music Online : American Song
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowIndexes music journals articles from scholarly studies to popular music,Alternate titles: International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Women & Gender Studies Artifacts
- Defining Gender This link opens in a new windowCollection of original documents relating to gender studies including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, & poetry. Covers 1450-1910.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowIndexes journal articles covering topics on political, economic, social & cultural issues, including political science, sociology, business, history, and education.