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The records of the ACLU on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination, immigration, labor, radicalism, and related topics. Documents include newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, court files, memorandums, telegrams, minutes, and legal case records (Opens a new tab).

This collection includes the proceedings of the 1832-1988 Democratic National Conventions, providing gavel to gavel coverage, including speeches, debates, votes, and party platforms (Opens a new tab).

The collection includes the proceedings for 1856-1988 of the Republican National Conventions, providing gavel to gavel coverage of the conventions, including speeches, debates, votes, and party platforms (Opens a new tab).

A collection of essential materials for the study of the early development of the Civil Rights Movement-concerned with the issues of Lynching, Segregation, Race riots, and Employment discrimination. This collection from FDR’s Official File provides insight into his political style and presents an instructive example of how he balanced moral preference with political realities (Opens a new tab).

This collection comprises the entire contents of the Primary Source Media microfilm product entitled "National Security and the FBI Surveillance of Enemy Aliens" from the FBI Headquarters Library (Opens a new tab).

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Committee on Un-American Activities (later called the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC) developed a working relationship in the period 1938 through 1975 that increased the authority of the committee and gave the bureau power to investigate suspected communists (Opens a new tab).

Covers essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline. Coverage goes back to 1990. Full-text access is limited (Opens a new tab).

Covers the history of the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada beginning in the 1600s and continuing through the present. Materials in this resource include full-text access to magazines, journals and government documents (Opens a new tab).

Provides in-depth themed reports on controversial social, political, and cultural topics. Each report thoroughly analyzes all of the important aspects of the given topic, and also provides relevant graphics and sources for further research. Full-text reports are available from 1991 to the present (Opens a new tab).

Offers high-quality, full-text content from a wide variety of disciplines. For the most part, extremely recent publications are available (Opens a new tab).

Hosts and disseminates content to the widest possible audience by partnering with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of more than 1500 journals, reference works, books, and proceedings. Over 2,000,000 current, free, full-text articles are available (Opens a new tab).

Provides high-quality full-text journal articles relating to nearly every field of scholarly study. This database specializes in historical content, with some articles dating back to the late 1800s. In most cases, the most recent one to five years are not available in full-text (Opens a new tab).

Contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world (Opens a new tab).

Contains indexing and full-text for the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines, regional newspapers, and books relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered issues. Selective coverage dates back to 1914 with a majority of the resources dating between 1970 and current (Opens a new tab).

Using a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse, PSC covers areas of law and legislation, political theory, international relations, and humanitarian issues. Indexing dates back to 1911, with full-text coverage back to 1922 (Opens a new tab).

Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology and many more. Full-text is available for journals dating back to 1908, and abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895 (Opens a new tab).