LibGuides: HIST 432B / WMST 342B: Library Guides

Recommended Resources

America: History & Life with Full Text

Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Social Explorer

Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information.

An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago

GenderWatch

1974-
Access is limited to 2 simultaneous users.
Publications on gender issues. International publications as well as reports, pamphlets, papers, and conference proceedings devoted to gender issues.

LGBTQ+ Source

Provides an index to the world's literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 full-text monographs/books.

Journal articles

Academic Search Premier
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.

Update frequency: Updated daily
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.
America: History & Life with Full Text
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Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.

Scope: U.S. and Canada only
Languages: Abstracts of articles in 40 different languages
This index includes almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Books, media reviews, and dissertations are also covered, and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. The Get Text button links to online full text when available and offers access to UNLV print collections and document delivery options for books and articles not available online.
GenderWatch
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1974-
Publications on gender issues. International publications as well as reports, pamphlets, papers, and conference proceedings devoted to gender issues.

Update frequency: quarterly
LGBTQ+ Source
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Provides an index to the world's literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 full-text monographs/books.
SocINDEX with Full Text
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1895-
Indexes the literature of sociology and related disciplines.

Includes full text for selected journals, monographs, and conference papers and contains full text for over 325 journals dating back to 1895. Encompasses all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, and many others.
Women's Studies International
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1972-
Scholarship in gender studies and feminist research.

Update frequency: quarterly
Use this database to find journals, newspapers, books, book chapters, proceedings, dissertations, NGO studies, websites, grey literature concerning feminist research.

Collections

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (parts I and II)
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1940-present
Primary sources from more than 35 countries related to LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Defining Gender
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1500s-1920
Primary sources selected to illustrate changing views about gender, themed around conduct, domesticity, consumption and leisure, education, and the body.
Everyday Life and Women in America
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1800-1920
Primary source material for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Gender: Identity and Social Change
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1800-present
Primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations, like women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, family and the body.
Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945
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1543-1945
Books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
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1770-1950
Diaries, journals, and letters written by famous and not-so-famous North American women.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
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1600-2000
Books, images, historical documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies which document reform activities by and affecting women.

Statistics

Social Explorer
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Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical U.S. census data and demographic information.

The easy-to-use web interface lets users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change. In addition to being a comprehensive data resource, Social Explorer also offers features and tools to meet the needs of both demography experts and novices. It creates reports at all geographic levels including the state, county, census tract, block group, zip code and census place. Included are over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data.
Historical Statistics of the United States
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1775-2000
Tables of data related to population, work and welfare, and international relations.

A source for quantitative indicators of American history, this database of almost 2000 tables covers nearly every quantifiable dimension in American history, including population, work and welfare, and international relations from the earliest times to the present. Chapters are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation.