Databases for Appalachian Studies

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Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
Indexes journal articles, books, and other resources on folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature.
This collection consists of the diaries, journals, and narratives of explorers, emigrants, military men, Native Americans, and travelers.
Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications.

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Presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina.
Allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.
Covers over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays.
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Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more.
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Now part of Readex AllSearch.
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.
Indexes millions of nineteenth-century articles, books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers, and archives.
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S and Canada (1828-2016).
Holdings for Appalachian State, UNC-Asheville, and Western Carolina University.
Combines music, audio, and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.
Covers the New York Times Late Edition (East Coast) (1980-present), the New York Times Magazine (1997-present), and the New York Times Book Review (1997-present).
Provides full text coverage for 730 national and international newspapers, 16 North Carolina newspapers, and TV and radio news transcripts (2000-present).
Index of over 60 journals and magazines published in North Carolina.
Provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more, in the humanities and social sciences.
Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005).
More than 3,000 albums and 45,000 tracks representing musical traditions from all over the globe.
Contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports, usually from congressional committees dealing with proposed legislation and issues under investigation.
Newspaper known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigative reporting (1996-present).
Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings.