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Databases
Find the best library databases for your research.
Interface for searching MEDLINE, the online index of biomedical journal article citations from 1950 to present. Premiere database of medical literature.
Free resource. Off-campus access to UAB licensed full text requires Blazer ID & password.
Four primary source collections on gender and sexuality, LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, health, political science, and policy studies.
Four primary source collections covering Civil Rights in Alabama, Vernon Z. Crawford Records, Integration of Alabama schools and Fannie Lou Hammer Papers
Includes content from the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive; decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
Covering the period 1830-1865, approximately 15,000 articles, correspondence, manuscripts, etc.and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists documenting the impact of African American activism against slavery.
Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books; includes The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.
Multiple primary source collections, including 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection; Archives of Sexuality & Gender; ACLU; Archives Unbound; AP Archives; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; Nineteenth Century Collections Online; Political Extremism; U.S. Declassified Documents
Access to international, national and local newspapers from more than 12,000 sources spanning 200+ countries and territories; includes the Birmingham News.
Coverage of the African American experience as depicted by news media; includes America’s ongoing conversation on race and historic changes; such as Barack Obama’s election, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
14 historical newspapers, including New York Times; Historical Chicago Tribune; Guardian & Observer, 1821-2003; Communist Historical Newspapers; and Black Historical Newspapers
Primary documents covering race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage in America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.
A comprehensive compilation of declassified documents from the executive branch; includes intelligence studies, policy papers, diplomatic correspondence, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, and domestic surveillance and military reports.