Guides: HIST 481 Senior Seminar (Davenport): Specialized Databases

Historial Newspapers and Magazines

Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Every issue from 1881-1990 with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Indexing includes full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™.
America's Historical Newspapers (“Early American Newspapers, Series 1”)
Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876
British Periodicals
Provides page images and searchable full text for approximately 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries (1681-1920).
The Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)
Complete digital edition of The Times (London), including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
World's first illustrated weekly newspaper, news coverage of British and world events, including war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science.
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Primary source material from 18th and 19th century including historical periodicals and books; eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, business advertisements, and genealogical records.
Nexis Uni
Good resource for famous cases and law reviews which provide analysis of legal issues.
Los Angeles Sentinel (ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers)
Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005.
New York Times (NYTimes.com)
**Access requires logging in with a Pepperdine email on the NY Times homepage. Find step-by-step log-in instructions on the access guide to log in. **
Latin American Newspapers: Series I
Provides more than 35 newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere in Latin America.

Specialized Secondary Sources

Nexis Uni
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
International Index to Music Periodicals
Articles on all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition.
IIMP covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential, and Rolling Stone. The database currently includes over 770,000 records, the majority of which index the most recent years of publication. More than 200,000 records in IIMP are from the backfile (up to 1995) and much of this coverage commences at the first issue of the journal run, some starting as early as 1874. Over 30 titles are indexed from first issue to last. IIMP is a dynamic database, with records added on a monthly basis.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Access to literature and resources covering education topic from pre-K through graduate school, sponsored by the US Department of Education.

Other Primary Source Databases

Loeb Classical Library
Greek and Latin texts with English translations. Requires profile sign-in.
First time users, to create profile and set password, visit https://www.loebclassics.com/
Digital National Security Archive
Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.
HeinOnline
Access to online research on legal history. Visit HeinOnline LibGuides for tips on searching this database.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Full-text items published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700.
It contains over 100,000 of the 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgraves's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
Historical books, pamphlets and broadsides from 17th and 18th century America.
North American Immigrant Letters & Diaries
Access to personal narratives including several thousand indexed and searchable pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, starting around 1840 to the present, focusing on 1920 to 1980.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Personal accounts, such as diaries and letters, of people in North America from 1534-1850, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Letters and diaries from colonial times to 1950 plus journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings
Making of America (Cornell University Library)
Primary sources on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Foreign Relations of the United States
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Collection of English or foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom from 1701-1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.