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	America: History and Life	Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database covers 1700 journals, and in addition to its historical coverage, the database includes citations to related materials for...	Connect
	Historical Abstracts	Bibliographic information pertaining to world history from the 15th century to the present—excluding the United States and Canada.Historical Abstracts is an exceptional bibliographic database that covers the...	Connect

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange	Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history....	Connect
Google Scholar	Leddy Library has registered its holdings with Google Scholar. Google Scholar indexes the scholarly press and university websites and with this link, adds "Get It!" for locally licensed content.For more...	Connect
Historical Abstracts	Bibliographic information pertaining to world history from the 15th century to the present—excluding the United States and Canada.Historical Abstracts is an exceptional bibliographic database that covers the...	Connect
Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada	(For enriched Hansard Debates see LiPaD) These Historical Debates represent a free searchable database of digitized versions of the debates of the Senate and the House of Commons of all debates from Parliament 1,...	Connect
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003	Represents more than 150 years of social, political and cultural history in the form of the world's first illustrated newspaper! From war and disasters to politics and the arts, it provides a vivid view of the people,...	Connect
Indigenous Peoples: North America	Primary source materials pertaining to Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States including historical experiences, traditions, political status, and more. Indigenous Peoples: North America provides access to...	Connect
Intelex Past Masters	An interdisciplinary resource comprised of humanities and social science databases.A comprehensive resource that is comprised of humanities databases—in both original language and English translation—of...	Connect
ITER: Bibliography	Access the ITER Bibliography through the ITER Gateway portal. This unique bibliography contains over 1.1 million citations for secondary source material from over 400 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Users...	Connect
John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera	Scanned documents from the 18th through 20th centuries pertaining to crimes, advertising, booktrade, and more.This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed...	Connect
JSTOR	Over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs, primary sources and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always...	Connect
JSTOR: 19th Century British Pamphlets	Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by...	Connect
Liberty Magazine 1924-50	A record of the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America through its three most significant decades. Liberty represents the USA's growing involvement in world affairs during a time when...	Connect
London Low Life	Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and...	Connect
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries	The personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts. Semantically Indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely...	Connect
Mass Observation Online: British Social History 1937-1972	Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. This collection covers the end of the 'Hungry Thirties...	Connect
Medieval Travel Writing	A collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Featured authors include Ambassadors,...	Connect
Music Index	A guide to scholarly musicological literature including periodicals, book reviews, performances, reviews of recordings, and more.Music Index provides access to over 640 international music periodicals offering the...	Connect
National Film Board of Canada	Registration is required for some features in this resource. See description for more info. Full-length films, trailers, and clips online for use in educational institutions. NFB showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians: stories about the environment, human...	Connect
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition	A collection of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. It includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible,...	Connect
Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue	Covers printed record of the English-speaking world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the First World War, comprising more than 1.2 million records drawn from eight copyright and research...	Connect