Suggested Search Terms
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Suggested Boolean Searches
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Suggested Subject Headings
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Suggested Call Number Ranges
Locate materials within the library in these call number areas.
History Databases
(Bloomsbury) - The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
(Infobase Publishing) - Exploring more than 500 years of the African-American experience, history, and culture.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
(Gale) - Sources in U.S. History Online is a series of archival digital collections intended for public library patrons as well as high school, community college, and university students. The Civil War digital collection contains nearly 500 significant documents of the time—personal narratives, monographs, regimental histories, collected essays, sermons, songs, legal tracts, and political speeches—enabling students, faculty and patrons to study one of the key events in American history.
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)
(EBSCO) - History Reference Center offers full text from more than 750 history reference books and encyclopedias, and cover-to-cover full text from nearly 60 history magazines. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)
(Bloomsbury) - This resource-rich reference and curriculum solution helps students understand the issues, perspectives, and history that have shaped our nation.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)
History in Dispute addresses heavily debated questions by offering users different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe.
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)
(Salem Press) - Online access to Salem Press award-winning, historical reference.
Funded by College
Florida News Resources
(NewsBank) - Explore Florida history through local news, events and people with the Florida News Sources. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
Full Text journals with a focus on the State of Florida
Funded by State Library of Florida (FEL)
(Florida) - Florida State Library and Archives
Funded by Other
(NewsBank) - Explore Jacksonville history through local news, events and people with the Florida Times Union Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Funded by Statewide Allocation and College
General Databases
(EBSCO) - Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
(JSTOR) - Access to back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Over 700 titles available.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
(EBSCO) - Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
Funded by Statewide Allocation
(ProQuest) - From business and political science to literature and psychology, this product provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. It includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.
Funded by College (FLVC Group License)