U.S. Environmental Inequalities (HIST 3573)

Coverage: 18th-20th centuries

Provides access to the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Includes a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, artwork, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources. Subjects include frontier life, Native American history and culture, vigilantes and outlaws, the gold rush, the growth of urban centers and railways, the environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands, and much more.

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Wiley's Environmental Science and History Digital Archive focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. The archive includes manuscripts, images, maps, and photographs covering topics such as deforestation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, ecology, botany, biodiversity, extinction, water sources, irrigation, wetlands, and hydrology.

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This open access database provides content covering important issues related to race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness in today's society. Resources include essays, journal articles, government agency reports, photographs, speeches, and other primary sources. A wide range of topics are covered, including affirmative action, food insecurity, environmental racism and environmental justice, the black lives matter movement, voting rights and voter suppression, police use of force, sports team branding changes, neighborhood gentrification, and much more.

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Shared digital repository of millions of library books and journals converted from print resources owned by research institutions around the world. HathiTrust Digital Library does not permit downloading or viewing the full text of books that are still under copyright. 

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Coverage: 1789-present

Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. This collection includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.

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Provides access to an electronic library of resources made available to Oklahomans through a collaboration between the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Resources include images, state archive materials, Oklahoma legal documents, governor biographies, Oklahoma almanacs, and documents related to events in Oklahoma history, such as women's suffrage, the Osage Murders, and the Tulsa Race Massacre. 

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Coverage: 1867-1970

Provides access to detailed maps of Oklahoma cities from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. View street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use and physical features, house and block numbers, pipelines, railroads, wells, and dumps. Special features include the ability to manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Dates vary by city.

An international, multi-disciplinary catalog of books, internet resources, audiovisual materials, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, and other materials held by over 20,000 libraries. Contains materials representing 400 languages.

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Coverage: 1890-present

Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource provides access to texts that document the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th century from the perspectives of men, women, and children. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to two modules:

• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records 
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers Part 1 

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Provides access to a comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. Each journal in the database begins from its inception. Also includes access to code of federal regulations, legal classics, treaties and agreements, U.S. Attorney General opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. statutes at large, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. 

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Coverage: 1789-present

Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service containing full-text publications generated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. public laws. Texts available include the full text of the public law itself, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, prints, and other congressional publications.

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Provides full text access to documents related to the U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.

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Coverage: 1789-present

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.

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Provides access to a wide range of previously classified federal records from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These documents cover significant foreign policy development and international crisis, as well as domestic issues. Materials include policy papers, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, military reports, diplomatic correspondence, CIA and FBI intelligence memoranda, and more.

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Access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, magazines, and archival materials from across Native North America.  

Coverage: 1741-1943

Provides access to over 1,500 periodicals published between 1741 and 1943, including special interest and general magazines, journals, and other historically significant periodicals.

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Coverage: 1690-1980

Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages of full text, searchable facsimile images. Collections include Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).

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Coverage: 1843-2020

Provides full text access to over 150 years of The Economist, a premier weekly publication providing timely reporting, concise commentary, and comprehensive appraisal of global news, spanning centuries and continents.

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Coverage: 1959-present

Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

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An online repository of Oklahoma history maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society. This resource includes historic newspapers, publications, maps, photographs, and other documents. Includes access to the Oklahoma Daily (1916-2017) the official University of Oklahoma student newspaper, covering local and campus news. Also includes access to The Oklahoman's pre-1984 evening supplemental edition, The Oklahoma City Times. 

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Coverage: 1808-1908

Provides access to more than 350 Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. These newspapers offer unabridged voices, ranging from intellectuals and literary notables to politicians, union organizers, and grassroots figures. Key titles include El Clamor Publico (Los Angeles), El Nuevo Mexicano (Santa Fe), Latin Times (Chicago), and El Misisipi (New Orleans). 

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Searches the full text of twelve historical newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, The Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian and The Observer, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, The New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

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Searches the full text of the Atlanta Daily World, The Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and The Pittsburgh Courier.

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Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Includes access to the Black American Series and the Native American Series. 

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Coverage: 1828-2016

This database offers a diverse collection of print journalism from Indigenous Peoples of the US and Canada. Resources include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. This collection is also bi-lingual and features editions in Indigenous-languages, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo. Subjects covered include the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, language revitalization, environmentalism, tribal laws, public health and welfare, and rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective. 

This resource has been developed with the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned.

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Provides full text to over 500 U.S. newspapers and over 600 international newspapers. Real time news updates are also available through newswires such as CNN Newswire, PR Newswire, and CNN. This database also provides access to over 1.6 million radio and television transcripts.

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Coverage: 1897-2024

This collection comprises work produced across various publications that chronicle the evolution of the University of Oklahoma since its earliest days. Includes access to The Daily all the way back to it's initial days as the University Umpire, the first student run OU paper. 

Coverage: 1846-2005

Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, education, psychology and health, politics, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies' Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman's Day (1937 to 2005), and Women's International Network News (1975 to 2003). 

Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.

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