History - The Cold War

Insights into President John F. Kennedy's views on foreign affairs, U.S. leadership of the "West," and various worldwide crises. Dates of coverage: 1958-1964.

Documents originated by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation on operatives investigating politically suspect figures and organizations. Topics include A. Philip Randolph, the Black Panther Party of NC, the Committee for Public Justice, Malcolm X, Mississippi Burning, NAACP, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others. Dates of coverage: 1920-1984.

The confidential and subject special files of President Richard M. Nixon. Dates of coverage: 1969-1974.

FBI Library documents on civil rights activists, the Freedom Riders, who rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, which outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.

Brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database covers subjects in arts, music, and leisure, civil rights, counter-culture, law and government, mass media, new left and emerging neo-conservative movement, student activism, Vietnam War, women's movement, etc.

Full text of the newspaper from 1851-2017.

Full text coverage of the newspaper from 1785-1985.

Primary source material from leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II; to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports. 

Coverage of national leading newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and other US newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.

International, U.S., South Carolina, and regional newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos.

An archival database of primary source material that provides a rich collection of digitized magazines covering the film, television, music, and theater industries. Offers a unique historical perspective on the business and creative aspects of entertainment, featuring trade publications, fan magazines, and scholarly journals.

Includes scientific journals, Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, literary magazines, children's publications, women's journals, Civil War and Reconstruction era publications, works covering the settling of the American West, early professional journals, popular magazines, and many others. Coverage starts in 1740.

Provides full-text and images of over 1000 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in a variety of disciplines. Has best coverage in older volumes of journals.

Full text government document and legal research database containing scholarly and law journals, the Congressional Record (1789 -present), U.S. statutory materials, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law.

Scholarly/peer-reviewed articles on the history of the United States and Canada.

Provides full-text and images of over 1000 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in a variety of disciplines. Has best coverage in older volumes of journals.

Full text of scholarly journals covering the humanities and social sciences.

Articles from film and television journals.