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This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Magazines revealing British life in the Victorian age and the events, lifestyles, values, and ideas that shaped the world during this milestone period.
Primary source documentation of the development of urban centers and of the major restructuring of society that took place during the Industrial Revolution. Includes government and archival collections.
Primary source documentation related to the “Scramble for Africa,” colonial conquest and the legacy of slavery, missionaries, explorers, economics, world politics, and international strategy.
Collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books, and texts on the early history of photography found in libraries and archives across the globe.
The AtoZ World Food database contains over 6,500 recipes from 174 countries, 884 articles on food cuisine, 545 articles about culture and special occasion foods, and a reference section for ingredients and recipe conversion.
An extensive collection of food content that combines comprehensive reference works with cutting-edge academic research, a wealth of educational resources, and primary resources.
Primary source collection for the study of China and its relations with the West in the late Qing and Republican periods.
The records included in this collection - official correspondence, despatches, reports, memoranda, and private and confidential letters - constitute invaluable and often unique evidence of Chinese life, the economy and politics through the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Revolution of 1911, the May 30 Movement, the two Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Chinese Civil War.
Dimensions, developed by Digital Science, is a new online database for searching and retrieving research papers, grant information, clinical trials, and patents.
The database provides 860 million abstracts and citations, which include altmetrics information. In addition, the database includes 34 million patents and 300,000 clinical trials.
Showcases thirty years of contemporary fashion history with more than 750,000 high-quality runway, backstage, and street style images, selected articles, and biographies
FBI records on billionaire Howard Hughes (1905-1976).
It documents Hughes’s activities in various enterprises including aircraft manufacture and aviation, the motion picture business, Las Vegas real estate, and the Nevada gaming industry.
1500-present
Primary source materials that tell the story of global trade in chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Records from the National Archives of the UK reveal challenges facing Displaced Persons, refugees and humanitarian aid organizations in the aftermath of World War II.
1490-2007
Primary source material documenting varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Includes in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.
Topics include the African coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); spiritualism and religion; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement; legislation; education; the legacy of slavery and slavery today.
1850-1950
Primary sources like catalogs, price lists, and brochures reflecting the history of consumer advertising and marketing and life and leisure in America. Includes department store catalogs, cosmetic advertisements, real estate brochures and much more.
Illustrations and advertisements for products in these industries: advertising, animal and agriculture, automotive and other transportation, clothing and accessories, construction and real estate, cosmetics and personal products, department store and mail order catalogs, crafts and hobbies, food and drink, household goods and appliances, and toys and games.
The Woman Suffrage collection comprises ephemera, pamphlets, books, and realia that relate to the campaign for women's voting rights.
Many of the materials are propagandistic in nature, including literature explaining the rational behind the idea of woman suffrage. The collection also includes various pieces of realia that represent the material culture of the movement. These include buttons, pennants, posters, and other objects such as a fan and a watchband.Most of the materials date from the 1910s and document the movement in the last decade before woman suffrage was achieved.
