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America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
America: History & Life with Full Text is the definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
Provides full text coverage of over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide and serves as the master index of scholarship on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.

The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Keywords: medical humanities, alchemy
JSTOR
Find full text for leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences, as well as scholarly eBooks. Most journals provide content from the first year of publication through 3 years ago.

Find Newspaper Articles

New York Times 1980 - Present
Full text of the New York Times from 1980 to present (no images). Full text of New York Times Magazine and New York Time Book Review from 1997 to present.

Keywords: Times, NYT, NYTimes, newspaper, newspapers
Philadelphia Inquirer 1983 - Present
Complete full-text content of local and regional news from 1983-present, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Please note, photos and some blog content for the Inquirer may not be available through this service

Previously available through Newsbank, now provided through Proquest Newspapers.
Philadelphia Inquirer 1860 - 2001: ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full text access to The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860 - 2001.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1786 - 2003: ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full Text access to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper from 1786-2003
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times 1851 - 3 years Ago
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Washington Post 1877-2000
Westlaw Campus Research
Contains legal, news, and business-related subjects. Newspapers & legal materials are featured, including cases, statutes, and regulations of the U.S. government and the various state governments; includes the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence 2nd and American Law Reports; case law from 1789 to present; current statutes and regulations.

Keywords: government, legal, legislation, news

Find Electronic Primary Sources

American History in Video (North America)
American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period. In addition to the officially received perspectives offered by newsreels, this collection includes some 200 hours of rare, hard-to-find, and diverse perspectives as captured in a wide range of short films.

DPLA: Digital Public Library of America
An ongoing project to develop, “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future generations.”

Nation Archive Premium Edition
All Nation articles from July 1865 through the present
ProQuest Congressional
Includes Serial Set, CRDC Historical, Statutes at Large, and Congressional Indexes from LexisNexis.

Find Primary Sources via Free Library of Philadelphia

Many significant primary source collections are available from the Free Library of Philadelphia. Drexel students and faculty are eligible for library cards from the FLP. Library card number and PIN are needed for remote access. Some resources are only available onsite at the FLP's Central Library. Follow this link for nformation about getting a library card.

Archive of Americana
Includes Early American Newspapwers, Series 1 (1690-1876), Early American Newspapers, Pennsylvania (1790-1922), Pennsylvania's Historical Newspapers 1719-1922, American State Papers 1789-1838.
HeritageQuest Online
Includes name index and page images for US Census records from 1790-1940. Revolutionary War records and Freedman's Bank records included also.
Declassified Documents Reference System
Rich collection of declassified U.S. Government documents.
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Digitized documents from the National Archives, the Library of Congress and others. Only available in-person at the Free library of Philadelphia's Central Library.

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Chicago Manual of Style (Print Copies)
Print copies of the Chicago Manual of Style are available at W.W. Hagerty and Hahnemann Libraries.

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Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Chicago Manual of Style Online
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is a searchable version of the manual with answers to style and editing questions, as well as the Q&A Content. The Chicago Manual of Style Online also provides Tools, such as sample forms, letters, and style sheets.