LibGuides: History 401: The Resurgent Revoluton: The Making of Modern Nicaragua (Meyer): UR Research Resources

Reference Resources

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
250 volumes from the renowned Cambridge Histories series, including extensive bibliographies.
PDF full-text; 1960 - present
Fuente Académica This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary full-text index of Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly journals covering all major subject areas in humanities, social sciences, sciences, and law.
Citations and abstracts with full-text; 1920s - present
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Specifically the Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture

Background/Secondary Source Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of journal articles and book reviews for United States and Canada history.
Historical coverage from America's Pre-Columbian period to the present.
Abstracts of articles, dissertations, and reviews of historical literature; 1954 - present
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of scholarly journal literature
Interdisciplinary journal archive of titles in the arts, botany, business, ecology, general science, history, mathematics, and the social sciences. Many journal runs go back to the 19th century and before with subject coverage going back to the medieval period and up to within 3-5 years of current (depending on journal title).; Full-text and full image; Varies by title; current within 3-5 years; Coverage is constantly expanding with the addition of more scholarly journals to the collection. Moving wall publishes to within 3-5 years of most titles that are still in publication.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access journal articles, dissertations, and reviews of historical literature on world history, from 1450 to the present.
Excludes the U.S. and Canada, which are included in the American History & Life database.; Abstracts; 1969 - present
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Resource of journals in humanities, social sciences, & mathematics
Coverage of journal articles in the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.; Full-text; 1993 - present

UR Resources of Interest

Digital National Security Archive: Nicaragua: The Making of US Policy, 1978-1990
Note, the microfiche is also available on B2.

Latin America and the Caribbean (World Scholar) This link opens in a new window
Primary, secondary, and reference sources covering the history, culture, peoples, and societies of the region
Full-text; 1492 - present; Additional Information: Includes academic journals, news, primary source documents, maps, statistics, audio and video on many subjects, including politics, economics, history, culture, international affairs, science, and technology.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
Broadcasts and news of selected non-U.S. media sources translated into English by the CIA.
After 1996, the resource World News Connection took over this service.; Full-text; 1974 - 1996
American History, 1493-1945 This link opens in a new window
Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this resource documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century.
Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice This link opens in a new window
Primary and secondary resources including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology, and bibliography.
Women's Periodicals: Social and Political Issues This link opens in a new window
Provides an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for womens rights grew in the United States and England.
Images; 1786-1933
ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
Provides centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives from around the world.
Index

Newspaper Databases

Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
Provide access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.
Full-text; 1827 - 1998
New York Times Historical Newspaper & Index This link opens in a new window
Full-text (with illustrations and graphics) since 1851, with additional years added as they are digitized.
Full-text; 1851-2019 (full-text); 1851-2019 (index)
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text archives of six national papers of record and five historically Black papers.
Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, The Atlanta Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times with Index, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post; Full-text; Dates vary with each newspaper.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full-text of major newspapers with separate resources for environment, government, statistics, and legal information
Online access to current and back issues of major newspapers, journals, newsletters, and news sources from around the world. Full-text of legal materials (court cases, legislation, statutes, regulations, law reviews, and more). Congressional information back to 1789.; Full-text; Varies by title; 1980 - present

Other Database Resources

Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
Topics range from American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, ethnicity, migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.
Full-text and statistical data; 2006 - present
International Historical Statistics This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of statistics covering Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania from 1750 to the present. [user guide]
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
Includes a wide range of documentaries (like those from The History Channel), newsreels including the complete series of both Universal News and United Newsreel and other contemporaneous films.
The technical features make it easy to zoom in on exact moments of footage, make clips, create playlists (of clips by theme, entire films, and anything else anywhere on the web) and share them with a class, for example. There are synchronized scrolling transcripts for every video (and those are searchable, too).; Streaming video; 1900 - 2009

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History 401: The Resurgent Revoluton: The Making of Modern Nicaragua (Meyer): UR Research Resources

Reference Resources

Background/Secondary Source Databases

UR Resources of Interest

Newspaper Databases

Other Database Resources