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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
- The Alamo (Daughters of the Republic of Texas)
- Bibliography on the Alamo. The majority of
the materials are books, pamphlets, and special issues of
magazines and newspapers.
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Search or browse a large collection of full text works, images,
videos, and audio recordings regarding aspects of U.S. history.
- American Slave Narratives
- Browsable index of full text first person oral histories of people in slavery in the U.S.
- American Women
- Library of Congress resouces for the study of women's history and culture in the U.S.
- Archiving Early America
- Searchable full text and facsimiles of important writings and papers from early America ( early American newspapers and magazines and include the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Northwest Ordinance, and Jay's Treaty, among others)
- Avalon Project (Yale University)
- Mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Search or browse the Federalist Papers, the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, Inaugual addresses of the Presidents, Colonial Charters and related documents, and hundreds of others from ancient to modern times.
- Bibliography of Anti-Semitism Throughout the Ages (Felix Posen Bibliographic Project, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)
- Three searchable databases, totaling approximately 30,000 items.
- Biographical Dictionary
- Short biographical information on 22,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by names, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-present
- Searchable biographies of members of Congress. Some have portraits and bibliographies.
- Biography.com
- Searchable short biographical information on over
25,000 people
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873.
- This searchable database will consist of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the Forty-second Congress. The first release contains the records of the first two federal congresses, 1789-1793, including the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1793) and the Senate (1789-1793), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1805); the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1838); and the
Journal of William Maclay (1789-1791), Senator from Pennsylvania in the first Congress.
- Chronicling America
- This site from the Library of Congress will ultimately contain the full text of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. It is currently in the process of being built and only some states and years are available.
- CIA Electronic Document Release Center
- Previously classified documents of the CIA are available at this site
- Classics Collections
- Databases, journals, etext, etc. on the ancient and medieval world.
- De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
- An encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees (stemmata) of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times.
- Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- Diotima includes searchable
bibliographies and links to related bibliographies
and links to full text
essays, lectures, and journal articles.
- Documenting the American South
- Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Church in the Southern Black Community, and other projects containing more than 300 fulltext electronic books and manuscripts.
- DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
- All approved joint definitions are contained in Joint Publication 1-02, DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. From this page you can either browse the dictionary or search for the definition and usage of individual terms.
- Femininae Medieval Women and Gender Index (Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship)
- Searchable index to recent years of journal articles from over 300 journals, book reviews, and book chapters related to the subjects of women, sexuality, and gender in the Middle Ages.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Fireside Chats
- Transcripts of FDR's fireside chats
- George Bush Library
- Thousand of searchable and browsable full text Presidential papers of George Bush.
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress 1741-1799
- Thousands of images of George Washington's papers from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
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Government Publications Catalog (Marcive)
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Searchable database of publications (1976-) of the U.S. government. Also freely available on the Internet from the Government Printing Office with items from 1994- indexed. For more government information, see the Government Pages.
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Handbook of Texas
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Provided by the Texas State Historical Association is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.
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Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Full text of about 350 Hispanic American newspapers from 1808-1980, some published only in Spanish and some published in English and Spanish. All areas of the country are represented but full runs of most newspapers are not included as they often do not exist.
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- From the Library of Congress, this is an " online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. "
- John F. Kennedy Library
- Speeches of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy; popular quotations, biography, and executive orders of JFK.
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JSTOR
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
- Lyndon B. Johnson Library: Oral History Transcripts
- Oral histories regarding the LBJ years available for downloading in Adobe Acrobat format.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
- Free with registration, access to the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as articles about him.
- Mexican Archives
- Online guide to finding aids for over 50 collections in the Benson Collection at the University of Texas includes some online biographical material as well as descriptions of the collections.
- Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
- " selections from two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation draft and accompanying documents are from The Robert Todd Lincoln Family Papers housed in the Manuscript Division. "
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Military and Government Collection
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Provides fulltext for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Links to primary resources, genealogy (including an online Soundex) and a searchable index.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress)
- Searchable catalog of manuscript collections held by U.S. libraries and archives. Searchable by person's name, organization's name, subject, geographic location, and more.
- Nineteenth Century Documents Project
- " transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from
nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity. "
- POW/MIA Database
- Search for information on Vietnam War-era POW's by last name, country name, and other keywords. Returns bibliographic information and documents may be obtained by interlibrary loan from the Library of Congress
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Project Muse
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
- Regional Oral History Office
- Oral history transcripts from UC Berkeley Bancroft Library; first to be completed was the Suffragists Oral History Project.
- Repositories of Primary Resources
- " Over 3700 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar "
- South Texas Border, 1900-1920, Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
- Searchable archive of 8,241 images of the people of South Texas, military preparations for the Mexican Revolution and World War I, and the environment of the time.
- Sparknotes
- Biographies and historical periods and events explained and summarized
- Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
- Wonderful resource, particularly for 18th and 19th century British history, though other topics are also covered. To date the encyclopedia contains these sections: Encyclopedia of British History: 1700-1900, Child Labour: 1750-1900, Parliamentary Reform: 1750-1900, The Peterloo Massacre, First World War Encyclopedia, Investigating the Vietnam War, and Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920. Contains much information from primary sources.
- Swiss Banks' Dormant Accounts
- Search or browse a list of the dormant accounts opened by non-Swiss individuals prior to the end of World War II (May 9, 1945)
- Television News Archive
- Searchable achive of over 30,000 nightly news programs and special news-related programs such as presidential press conferences, Watergate hearings, etc. Abstracts are available online and loans of the programs themselves for a fee.
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Texas Reference Center
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage.
- TheHistoryNet Articles
- Several hundred full text articles from history journals,
searchable by keyword or browsable by
journal.
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World History Collection
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
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