Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology


Accessible Archives ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of primary source material from 18th & 19th century American periodicals and newspapers.

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African American Biographical Database ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Biographical information for more than 30,000 African Americans.

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African American Song (Requires Headphones) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, African American Music brings 50,000 tracks of music online to document the history of African American music in sound.

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American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications
Search the full text of the museum's scientific publications covering the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.

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American National Biography ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ANB contains biographical portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the United States.

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Anthropological Index Online
The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.

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Anthropology Journals Archive Project
Indexing and abstracts for the following journals: American Anthropologist (1888- ); Current Anthropology (a few selected years); Human Organization (a few selected years); and Anthropologica (1964 - with gaps).

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Anthropology Plus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains index to articles and essays in over 5,000 sources published in English and other European languages on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, ethnology, material culture, psychology, religious studies and sociocultural anthropology.

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Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women
An annotated bibliography of the more than 930 books published in English between 1830 and 1940 that collect three or more women's biographies in narrative form.

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Black Americans in Congress
Contains biographical profiles of current and former African-American Members of Congress.

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Black Studies Center Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
BSC combines three resources for research in Black Studies - the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender - to provide a fully cross-searchable gateway to scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and other related sources.

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Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, or the Black Studies Database (BSD), includes more than 170,000 citations drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports covering topics in African-American, African, and African Diasporan Studies.

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Black Thought and Culture ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975.

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Chicano Database Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Comprehensive index which identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos.

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Children's Bureau Publications, 1912-1969
Contains publications of the United States Childrens Bureau covering child health, child development, child labor and related subjects.

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Civil Rights Digital Library
Includes voices and images from the civil-rights movement featuring hours of historical news footage showing such events as the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock and Martin Luther King Jr accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Contemporary Women's Issues Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries.

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Corvey Women Writers on the Web
A database containing material on over 400 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and more than 1,000 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library.

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Credo Reference : Biography Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over a dozen biographical sources including information on peerage, scientists, and women.

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Credo Reference : Gender Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of major resources on women.

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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
John Montgomery’s Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs is a reference to the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Maya that presents over 1,200 hieroglyphs and glyph compounds.

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Documenting the American South
DocSouth is a collection of books, manuscripts, and other sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

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E-Journals in History & Archaeology ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in History & Archaeology.

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E-Journals in Social Sciences ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Anthropology, Education, Geography, Population Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics.

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Early English Books Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
EEBO contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

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Early Modern Women Database
Provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas.

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eHRAF World Cultures ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Human Relations Area Files Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database of primary source materials on all aspects of cultural and social life worldwide.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Online Version of Brill's 11 volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, containing more than 13,000 articles on every aspect of Islamic civilization and culture, from 'Abābda to Zurna.

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Ethnic News Watch Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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EUMC Database
The EUMC - RAcism and XEnophobia Network (RAXEN) contains data and information on organisations addressing the issues of racism, xenophobia and antisemitism, their activities and publications.

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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

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Freedom's Journal
Full text of the newspaper Freedom's Journal, which provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices.

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Gender Inn
A searchable database providing access to over 8,300 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.

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Gender Watch Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, and gender and women's studies.

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Gerritsen's Women's History ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers 4 centuries (1543-1945) of monographs and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights.

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Gutenberg-e
Scholarly e-book collection containing revisions of prize-winning dissertations.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies
HLAS is a multilingual and multidisciplinary database offering scholarly evaluations of social sciences and humanities books, book chapters, conference papers, and articles published worldwide in over 2,500 sources in Latin American studies.

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HarpWeek Features
Contains illustrations and the full text of specialized collections from Harpers Weekly and other sources chronicling American social, political, and economic history of the 19th century.

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Historical Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains annotated references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

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Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources containing over 37,000 data series and covering the social, economic, and political life of the United States.

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Humanities E-Book ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project contains hundreds of full text works of major importance in history, area studies, and the humanities.

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Indian Affairs : Laws and Treaties
Full text of documents dealing with the legal status and laws, government relations, and treaties of North American Indians.

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International Index to Black Periodicals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IIBP contains current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).

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LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US History ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A database of essential sources in African American Studies.

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LGBT Life Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
LGBT Life provides indexing and abstracts for over eighty magazines, academic journals, newspapers, and newsletters that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

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National Archeological Database
Contains over 300,000 reports on archaeological planning and investigation recorded by the United States National Parks Service.

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Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers 19th Century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions, and all aspects of nineteenth-century life.

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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories contains more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories.

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North American Indian Thought and Culture Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs presenting the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples.

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North American Women's Letters and Diaries ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full-text of diaries, journals, and letters written by 632 women visiting or living in North America.

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Oxford African American Studies Center ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
AASC contains over 7,500 articles as well as primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and timelines covering the African American experience.

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Sabin Americana 1500-1926 ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies.

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Sociological Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology, political science, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as policy areas in science.

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ViVa Women's History
ViVa is a current bibliography of more than 8,000 articles about women's and gender history.

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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Author index to articles published in the 19th century, including biographical information, pseudonyms used, and bibliography of articles written.

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Women and Social Movements in the U.S. ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
WASM includes tens of thousands of primary documents and images focusing on women's historical developments in the United States.

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Women in Congress
Contains biographical profiles of former women Members of Congress.

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Women Working, 1800-1930
This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.

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Women's Studies International Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.

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