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Historical News Sources

Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum--race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Coverage: Details not available
Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Kanopy Video This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more.

These are good general purpose sources that allow you to search across large groups of subject encyclopedias.

These sources will help you learn more about the specific US conflict you want to analyze for your final paper.

Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Handbooks Online includes a collection of the best Handbooks in 14 subject areas.

ZSR Library Catalog
Use this to find books, ebooks, government documents, and documentaries on your conflict.

Tips for searching the catalog:

"Vietnam War", "Iraq War", "World War II" can all be searched in quotation marks to make your results more relevant
Add in an additional term to narrow down your results even more "World War II" AND "resistance" for example
If it is a smaller conflict, you can try searching for the country name and "united states" i.e. Grenada "United States"
If you know the name of the military operation, try that "Operation Desert Storm"
Names of people can also be useful (Reagan, Duarte, Castro, etc.)
For larger conflicts you might want to add "strategy" or another term to limit your results

Databases for General International Politics and Government

ProQuest Political Science Database This link opens in a new window
This link cross searches ProQuest Political Science Database, PAIS Index, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Users can access hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals with full-text of many core titles. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. Coverage: 1985-
HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada. For similar coverage of the U.S. and Canada, use America History and Life. Coverage: 1954-

Databases for International Military and Security Issues

ProQuest Military Database This link opens in a new window
The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline. Coverage: 1987-
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides full text from military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. Includes full text country reports from CountryWatch Coverage: 1985-
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A compendium of materials available for scholarly research in the area of Homeland Security. The digital library collection is focused on strategy and policy in the various subject areas of Homeland Security Research. Sources of information include governmental departments and agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, conference sites, non-governmental organizations, institutes and organizations, and other entities. Coverage: Details not available

Databases for International Policy and Issues

ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and full text of federal bills, laws, and regulations as well as information on Congress, voting records, legislative histories from 1789 to the present, and current legislative activities. Also contains the full text of the U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers from 1789-2003. Also includes indexing and full text of published and unpublished Congressional Hearings from 1829 to present. Includes the Congressional Record from 1873-present and its predecessor publications from 1789-1873. Coverage: 1789-present
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Contains declassified documents that have been gathered through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Coverage: 1945-2002

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