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Published since 1964, the index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, with over 1,700 indexed journals dated as far back to 1910.

The collection of art, newspapers, maps, records, journals, and treaties span from the first contact between American Indians and Europeans up to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and 70s. Searches can now be expanded, by clicking “Cross-search with American West” under the Quick Links section on the home page.

The American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism includes FBI documentation on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and valuable documentation on the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff.

Including national periodicals to local community and student publications, the database contains a diverse collection of print journalism from the indigenous people of U.S. and Canada. It contains more than 9,000 individual editions published between 1828-2016, with 45 unique titles that are bilingual and indigenous-language editions, such as the Hawaiian, Cherokee, and Navajo languages.

The database covers all aspects of indigenous culture, history, and life in North America, with more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, books, journals, etc. dating all the way back to the 16th century,

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,200 journals and 2.8 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for nearly 1,200 journals.

Full-text access for over 17 million journal articles, books, documents, and research reports in a variety of disciplines.

Full text access for about scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press (43 titles). Coverage generally ranges from 1993 to present.