This multidisciplinary database covers magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers and is a good place to start for any subject.
A vast scholarly database for finding published material from the 12th century through 1960.
Multidisciplinary collection of selected scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources in humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Criticism published from an author's own time to the present as well as biographical and bibliographical information. Browse by topic, author, and popular literature works.
A collection of English and American poetry, drama and prose. Plus, biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.
Index of research in literature, language, and folklore. Also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus. Coverage from 1920 to present.
Books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, statistics, and other primary source documents from the 19th century. Focus is British.
Full-text of scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.
Indexes scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada. Some access to full-text articles is available.
Primary source material addressing 19th and early 20th century issues including politics, social and gender issues, religion, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, pastimes, and more.
Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Primary source documents from 1490 to 2007 related to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world.
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes projects and archives with reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
UTK Libraries has access to the basic edition and content added through 2019.
Unique materials on the Civil War can be found in the Libraries' Special Collections, first floor Hodges Library. Additional items may be located by searching the Libraries' catalog.
Access to these databases, except when noted otherwise, is limited to UTK users.
A collection of 19th century newspapers, including U.S. political party newspapers and news dailies that shaped the nation.
A collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century African American newspapers. In 2024, database moved from the Accessible Archives platform to History Commons platform.
UTK has access to parts 1-13 & part 12 supplement (1927-1909)..
Full-text of Civil War newspapers (The NY Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer). In 2024, database moved from the Accessible Archives platform to Coherent Digital's History Commons platform.
