ENC 1102 @ BBC - Research & Content Creation

Search across all or any combination of ABC-CLIO databases: American Government, American History
Daily Life Through History, Issues: Understanding Controversy & Society, Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas, The African American Experience, The American Indian Experience, The Latino American Experience, World at War: Understanding Conflict & Society, World Geography: Understanding a Changing World, World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras, World History: The Modern Era, World Religions: Belief, Culture, & Contoversy, World Folklore & Folklife

Historical periodicals and books; Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records are available in an online environment.

Coverage from 1690- Present; Local, regional, national and international news; Features most major U.S. news sources plus many hard-to-find local and regional titles; 139 countries on six continents are covered.

Covers history, biographies, literature, arts, music, popular culture, folklore, business, slavery, the struggle for civil rights, politics, sports, education, science, medicine, and more; Content includes biographies, overview essays, primary and secondary sources, and transcripts.

Contains information about cultural life and history during the 1800s with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion; The collection also provides a number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

Population, housing, economic, and geographic data in the form of maps, tables, and reports from a variety of Census Bureau sources.

The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.

Provides historical context and resources, representing both personal and institutional perspectives, for the growing fields of border(land) studies and migration studies, as well as history, law, politics, diplomacy, area and global studies, anthropology, medicine, the arts, and more. At completion, the collection will include 100,000 pages of text, 175 hours of video, and 1,000 images. In collaboration with an international board of scholars, materials were selected and organized around fundamental themes such as border identities, border enforcement and control, human trafficking, undocumented and unauthorized migration, among others.

Online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world; Based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than twenty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections.

Covering the written history of Florida beginning with the arrival of Europeans to Florida in 1513.

A research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010; The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

This resource investigates how society shapes and is shaped by controversy and helps users investigate controversial topics by framing thoughtful questions, revealing the background story behind the issues and providing scholars' perspectives and analyses.

Resource dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos; Includes primary source documents like maps, images, audio clips, interviews, music files, speeches, documents, links to relevant websites and other material.

Database covering viewpoints on a variety of social topics. It includes articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics court cases, profiles, and more.