HIST 335: American History Through Music

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Includes a large collection of scholarly journals by historians. You can limit by "Historical Period." After searching, you can limit by "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."

Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.

Search the full text of journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. After searching, you can limit by subject, year, and more.

Find scholarly and popular articles from a wide range of music periodicals.

A comprehensive guide to popular and scholarly journals on performing arts--drama, theater, dance, film, television, and more, containing all of IIPA indexing plus the full text of current articles from over 80 journals.

E-reference materials from a variety of publishers.

An electronic (e-reference) collection providing access to entries in over 500 encyclopedias and other reference works. Also provides access to art, science, and medical images, audio pronunciation files and atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world.

Provides a single interface to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Search across a large number of historical U.S. and world newspapers, including major U.S. newspapers and important ethnic and cultural newspapers, such as Communist newspapers, African American newspapers and more. You can click on "Databases" (top of page) to view date coverage and adjust your database selection

Cross-searches Gale’s (British and U.S.) historical newspaper and periodical collections owned by the library. Provides access to more than 2,000 titles and over 10 million digitized facsimile pages.

A collection of 500 U.S. newspapers from the 19th century. Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five large U.S. national and regional newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1985-present), Los Angeles Times (1985-present), New York Times (1980-present), Wall Street Journal (1984-present), and Washington Post (1987-present).

A collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements. Over 200,000 pages of material will be available for research on the Alexander Street multimedia platform.

An archival research resource containing primary sources in the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies in the late 1800s through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Includes magazines in cinema, film, music, radio, television, and theater.

An archival collection of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive) including current events, international relations, and public policy. Date coverage varies and includes 1918-2015.

Contains news, articles, and book reviews about music, musicians, and the music industry from more than 875 periodicals. Current coverage with varying date coverage for backfiles.

Includes Better Homes and Gardens (1925-1961), Chatelaine (1940-2005), Good Housekeeping (1886-1972), Ladies' Home Journal (1887-1954), Parents (1949-1972) and Redbook (1903-2002). Note that select volumes may be missing. See "Change Databases" for more details.

Full text searching and PDFs of U.S. official documents, such as laws, Congressional debates and hearing, presidential papers and much more.

American Song is an eclectic collection of music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from America’s past and present.

Comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of the music databases from Alexander Street Press subscribed to by the library.

Online version of the Chicago Manual of Style.