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  1. 1. ABC-CLIO Databases - ABC-CLIO
    EbooksRecommended for younger studentsProvides access to two cultural resources: The African American Experience and Daily Life Through History. Includes ebooks, interviews, maps, images, audio, music files, and timelines.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  2. 2. African-American Experience - ABC-CLIO
    Recommended for K-12Covers the African-American experience from its African origins to the present day, including contributions to science, business, education, the arts, the military, and politics. Includes primary source documents, photographs, maps, and other images.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  3. 3. America: History and Life - EBSCOhost
    Historical and cultural coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1,700 journals from 1910 to the present. Some full-text linking available. Also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  4. 4. American Civil War: Letters and Diaries - Alexander Street Press
    Contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a battles database, and more in a 100,000-page collection. The materials are indexed with dozens of search fields, and there are 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript images.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  5. 5. American History in Video - Alexander Street Press
    Over 1,000 hours of video for the study of American history.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  7. 6. Black Thought & Culture - Alexander Street Press
    Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  9. 7. Civil War : Sources in U.S. History Online - Florida Electronic Library Resource - Gale Cengage Learning
    Explore writings from the Civil War by those who lived it. Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War includes primary source documents ? personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, regimental histories and photograph albums, legal treatises and children's books ? that present readers with a rare chance to learn firsthand what life was like when the violent divide between north and south threatened to destroy the United States.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  11. 8. Daily Life Through History - ABC-CLIO
    Recommended for K-12Provides full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
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  13. 9. Ebook Central - ProQuest
    Ebook Central is the new platform for accessing the NSU Libraries EBL e-books and former MyiLibrary ebook collections. Subject content includes Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Health & Medicine. E-books are downloadable for offline reading in both PDF and EPUB or can be read online with the e-book viewer.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU Broward and Alumni.
  14. 10. Essay & General Literature (H.W. Wilson) - EBSCOhost
    Citations for essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works. Also provides full citations on collective titles indexed. Emphasis on the humanities and social sciences.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  16. 11. Filmakers Library Online - Alexander Street Press
    Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum including race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 1,019 titles, equaling approximately 806 hours.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  18. 12. Gale OneFile: High School Edition - Florida Electronic Library Resource - Gale Cengage Learning
    Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. The database offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  20. 13. Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) - EBSCOhost
    Provides citations for articles in the humanities and social sciences published 1907-1984.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  22. 14. LGBT Studies in Video - Alexander Street Press
    LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual people and the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. The collection will have cross-disciplinary relevance beyond LGBT courses, serving research and teaching in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, politica
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  24. 15. Making of America (Cornell University) - Making of America (Cornell)
    The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
    Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
  25. 16. Making of America (University of Michigan) - Making of America (Michigan)
    Making of America (MOA) represents a major collaborative endeavor to preserve and make accessible through digital technology a significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure. Funded originally by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA sought to involve research institutions and national consortia to develop common protocols and consensus for the selection, conversion, storage, retrieval, and use of digitized materials on a large, distributed scale.
    Local access for all users. Remote access is not available.
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  27. 17. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories - Alexander Street Press
    Provides more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories describing what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
  28. 18. North American Women's Letters and Diaries - Alexander Street Press
    Provides personal experiences of hundreds of women over 300 years. Contains approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 7,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts. More than 1,500 biographies enhance the use of the database.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  30. 19. Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) - EBSCOhost
    Provides 100 years of citations from leading U.S. magazines covering all subjects. Particularly useful for humanities and social science research, as well as for historical information on any subject.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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  32. 20. University of California Press Journals - University of California Press
    University of California Press Journals contains access to 31 peer reviewed publications covering humanities and the social sciences.
    Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU and Broward users.
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