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Databases starting with R

Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement

The Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection (formerly the Civil Rights Documentation Project) from the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center is a unique resource for the study of the era of the American civil rights movement. Included here are transcriptions of close to 700 interviews with those who made history in the struggles for voting rights, against discrimination in housing, for the desegregation of the schools, to expose racism in hiring, in defiance of police brutality, and to address poverty in the African American communities. Extent: 27,002 images

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Coverage:
1967-1973 (covers the 1950s through early 1970s)
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)

Indexes articles in the popular press. Includes citations to approximately 3 milliion articles from 375 leading magazines.

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Coverage:
1890-1982
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
No
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Enforcement of Federal Law in the South, 1871–1884

This collection on law and order documents the efforts of district attorneys from southern states to uphold federal laws in the states that fought in the Confederacy or were Border States. This publication includes their correspondence with the attorney general as well all other letters received by the attorney general from the states in question during that period, including the correspondence of marshals, judges, convicts, and concerned or aggrieved citizens. Source Institution: U.S. National Archives. Extent: 59,185 images

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Coverage:
1871-1884
Updated:
Static Archive
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Redalyc: Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal

Provides access to journals about Latin America in the social sciences and the humanities. Mainly published in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. User guide/tutorial

Coverage:
Varied
Updated:
Continuously
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Regional Business News

Regional Business News covers business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Many sources are full-text.

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Coverage:
Varies
Updated:
Daily
Fulltext:
Yes, selected
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society

Orderly Books were the controlling document of day-to-day military life. Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books from the New-York Historical Society is a unique archive of Orderly Books from between 1748 and 1817. An orderly book included official orders from upper chains of command to the lower units, and served as a way to transmit essential information to the troops in an era before mass communication.This primary source collection provides unique insights into how soldiers lived everyday life, as well as information about the particular locations the military units were camped and where they marched, offering first-hand accounts of towns and geography.

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Coverage:
1748-1817
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Routledge Handbooks Online Social Sciences

65 Online Handbooks covering subjects areas in the Social Sciences.

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Coverage:
2018
Updated:
N/A
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
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