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America in the 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and 90s (Salem Press)
This resource is a survey of North America in the 20th century, with sharp focus on each decade. It examines the iconic personalities and moments that marked each ten-year period and defined each decade. The sets cover events, movements, people, and trends in popular culture, literature, art, sports, science, technology, economics, and politics in both the United States and Canada.
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American History in Video
See history in the making. There are 622 newsreels today and more are being added all the time. The only online source for the entire series of both United News and Universal Newsreel, this collection lets you see events as they happened and as they were packaged and interpreted by commentators of the day. Also included in this collection are 350 high-quality documentaries from The History Channel® and other leading video producers.

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Biography Reference Center
This database offers a comprehensive collection of over 450,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies from addition sources.

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CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher is a resource for in-depth analytical reports on current and controversial issues. CQ Researcher's reports provide balanced, objective, forward-looking information that's written to encourage reader discussion, critical thinking, and facilitate further research. Each report gives the reader a broad overview of the issue, including the historical background and a discussion of current controversies and initiatives.

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The Encyclopedia contains articles written by leading scholars of Oklahoma's past and culture. Articles can be searched or browsed by subject and historical period. The Encyclopedia is published by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

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Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale Reference)
This resource contains over 21,000 articles that provide an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge. Entries chronicle Jewish history, archaeology, literature, culture, theology, and practice from the distant past to the present. The Encyclopaedia includes extensive entries on Holocaust studies, the Bible, women's studies, Jewish mysticism, and social history.

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Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

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GreenFILE
This resource offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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History Resource Center: United States
This resource provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

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History Resource Center: World
This resource is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

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Hospitality and Tourism Complete
This resource covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. It includes the full text for 480+ publications, including periodicals, company and country reports, and books.

Issues and Controversies (FACTS.com)
Issues and Controversies provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. It combines objective analysis with clear explanations of opposing points of view. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.

JSTOR Journal Archive
JSTOR is a full-text scholarly journal archive. JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text. Searching is possible within each title and across the whole database.

LexisNexis Academic
LN Academic provides searchable access to a wide spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news

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Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
This resource provides full text from over 340 military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 380 magazines. Some titles included are Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense.

New York Times, 1851–2004
Search or browse the full text of the New York Times from 1851–2004.

North American Indian Thought and Culture
This resource integrates writings, images, and oral histories to cover the entire history of North America; from 17th century accounts of the first encounters involving Indians and European colonists to the stories of aboriginals living in a 21st century world. The database is dedicated to telling the life stories of both the well-known historical figures such as Pocahontas and Sitting Bull, and also the lesser-known men and women whose day-to-day experiences give an equally valuable portrayal of Indian culture. Click here for a detailed description of this resource.

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Oklahoma Periodicals Index
The Oklahoma Periodicals Index provides a searchable online index to articles about people, places, history, culture, wildlife, and natural history in the state of Oklahoma with some coverage outside the state. The index consists of four key periodicals: The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Today, Outdoor Oklahoma, and Persimmon Hill.

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Oxford Reference Online Premium (including Literature and Western Civilization Collections)
This resource contains titles from the Oxford Companion series, as well as
 · 130+ subject dictionaries and the Oxford World Encyclopedia
 · English dictionaries, and bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian
 · Timelines linking over 2,000 key events in 20th-century history
 · 12,000 images and 500+ color maps

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Pop Culture Universe
This database includes more than 250 volumes of reviewed, published material that offer thousands of overviews of pop culture from the 1920's through the present, including TV shows, awards, fads, fashions, and news.

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Project Muse
Project Muse contains the full text of over 40 Johns Hopkins Press scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

SocINDEX with Full Text
his resource is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. SocINDEX contains full-text for 428 core coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for over 6,700 conference papers.

TOPICsearch (EBSCOhost)
This database contains articles from more than 2,700 sources, including international and regional newspapers, magazines, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Each article is associated with a main topic or current event which can be selected from drop down menus on the search page.

Social Science Net Resources
A directory of social science-related Internet sites.

Social Work Net Resources
A directory of social work-related Internet sites.