History 450 - History of American Foreign Relations Since 1914
Library Resources
Electronic Syllabus for HIST-450
ALL RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE LIBRARY’S HOME PAGE
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ARTICLES AND SECONDARY SOURCES:
Article abstracts and citations of reviews covering the scholarly literature of U.S. & Canadian history. Includes regional history journals, book reviews & dissertations.
Coverage 1954 to present.
Academic Search Complete
Indexes articles of news and other sources from 1980 to the present. Includes full-text for many articles from 1992 to the present.
Fully searchable and full image of complete runs of major periodicals. Does NOT include the most recent years.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This database includes abstracts of materials from professional journals, major news magazines, and books devoted to North American and international politics and political analysis.
International Political Science Abstract
Provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals and yearbooks all over the world.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (PAIS)
Index to articles from journals, books, hearings, reports on issues relating to public policy, politics, and social issues. 1915- present.
Index Islamicus
The database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library, material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. The database contains more than 241,000 records. 1906-present.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes all articles of 5 or more paragraphs in approximately 250 alternative, radical and left publications that focus on social, political, economic, and environmental causes. Covers 1991 - present
CONTEMPORARY NEWS
Access World News
Full-text content of local and regional newspapers. Papers for Africa and Asia available from 1996 onwards.
Full text, but not complete coverage of hundreds of U.S. and International newspapers, TV transcripts and periodicals. Coverage of newspapers vary. Some go back to the late 1980s, but not all.
Wall Street Journal. Coverage from 1984.
Includes some newspapers, some from 1980 to the present, more from 1990’s to present.
Facts on File World News Digest
World News Coverage from Facts on File News Service and Reuters, including the complete Facts on File World News Digest, 1940 to present.
Arizona Daily Star
Full text, but not full image of the Arizona Daily Star, 1991- present. Earlier years in Microfilm on 1st floor of Library.
Full text. American ethnic and minority groups newspapers, most beginning in early 1990s with a few going back to the 1980s.
OLDER NEWSPAPER COVERAGE:
Proquest Historical Newspapers (New York Times, 1851-2002, LA Times, 1881-1985, Atlanta Constitution,1868-1925, Chicago Tribune, 1849-1985, Washington Post, 1877-1989)
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of all these newspapers simultaneously.
FOREIGN SOURCES:
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Translations from foreign press sources
Coverage 1975-1996.
Full text of articles in 37 major Latin American newspapers and major international newswires covering Latin America.
Most coverage begins in 1995.
International news coverage of current issues and events from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Pacific Rim, Central and South America and the Middle East.
Coverage 1993 onwards
The Times (London)
Full text of all of the entire Times. Covers 1785-1984. One can view the entire page or specific article. The contents of this newspaper are completely searchable
IMAGES AND TELEVISION ARCHIVES:
Vanderbilt Television NewsArchive
Abstracts of evening news broadcasts and special news events coverage online video of CNN broadcastsSome available on-line; others must be requested from Vanderbilt. Searchable archive of abstracts (detailed summaries-not transcripts) of evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, as well special news reports, such as ABC's Nightline, selected coverage from PBS and FOX News, political conventions, Presidential press conferences, State of the Union Addresses, political campaign coverage, and national and international events. Abstracts include names of reporters, a summary of the event reported, and beginning and ending times for each news segment.
Contemporary and historical images from Associated Press.
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