Subject Librarian
Food, Hunger, and Power in the Modern World
Choosing a History Database
Select a history-focused research database using the lists linked below:
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly journal articles and ebooks related to the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage: 2-5 years from current.
- LUC Library Catalog Advanced Search This link opens in a new windowA search tool for finding books, journal articles, media, and other materials in the library collection. The advanced search provides filters and scopes to narrow your search results.
- WorldCat Discovery Advanced Search This link opens in a new windowAdjust result list sort to relevance in order to eliminate weighting of locally-held titles.
- Alexander Street Press Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowVideos and audio covering a wide variety of subjects. Individual collections include Black Studies in Video, Black Thought & Culture, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Vols.1-3, Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Ethnographic Video Online :Vols.1-2, Filmmakers Library Online: Vols.1-2, LGBT Studies in Video, New World Cinema: Major Independent Features and Shorts, Nursing Education in Video, and Theatre in Video: Vol.2.
- Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, independent and classic feature films, educational videos, and award-winning films and shorts. Distributors include PBS, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Psychotherapy.net, and more.
- Oral History Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text primary sources including audio and video files with transcripts on American history.
Newspapers, Databases, and other Collections
- AdForum This link opens in a new windowA searchable library of commercials, ad campaigns of all media types and a directory of advertising and marketing agencies. Also includes case studies, advertising awards information, industry news, and job resources. Coverage: 2000 - present. Limited to 10 concurrent users.
- African American Newspapers 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowFull-text content from African American newspapers published nationwide. Coverage: 1827 - 1998.
- African American Periodicals 1825-1995 This link opens in a new windowFull-text content from African American magazines and journals published nationwide. Coverage: 1825 - 1995.
- Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text bibliographic containing journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from alternative, radical, and left sources with focus on socialism and revolution, ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples, and gays/lesbians. Coverage: 1969 - 1990.
- American Periodical Series I, II & III (1741-1940) This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of full-text articles from American magazines and journals, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historical sources. Coverage: 1741-1900.
- Chicago Tribune Historical This link opens in a new windowDigitized images and full-text articles related to Chicago news, history, and advertising. Coverage: 1849-2012.
- Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull-text historical newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune (1905 - 1975), the New York Times (1850 - 2001), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), and the American Periodical Series I, II & III (1741-1900).
- Indigenous Peoples: North America Archive This link opens in a new windowCovers the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada. The archive includes monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections. Sources include the National Archives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library, the Alaska Indian Language Collection of Gonzaga University, and the W.S. Prettyman photograph collection of Wichita State University.
- New York Times Historical This link opens in a new windowFull-text archive of the New York Times with Index. Coverage: 1851 - 2018.
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull-text news articles from 19th century newspapers published in the United States.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text and full-image content from Vogue magazine (US edition). Coverage: 1892 - present.
- Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text archive of consumer magazines aimed at a female readership including Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Woman's Day. Also includes titles such as Parents, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Essence. Coverage: 19th century - 2005.
- Historical newspapers and magazine databasesBrowse a list of databases for historical newspapers and magazines.
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowFull-text newspapers, magazines, web-only content from U.S. and international news sources. Coverage: 1978 - present.
- Alternative Press Index 1991-Present This link opens in a new windowComprehensive index of alternative sources, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering international and interdisciplinary subjects. Coverage: 1991-present.
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Provides access to current, full-text newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and Los Angeles Times as well as over 80 Gannett regional and local titles. In addition, Global Newsstream content also includes newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites.
- Latin American Newspapers - World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text content from Latin American newspapers. Coverage: 1805 - 1922.
- Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991 This link opens in a new windowComplete archive of The Listener, a BBC weekly periodical. Coverage: 1929 - 1991.
- Mideast Wire.com This link opens in a new windowA daily email newsletter of translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media within 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Images printed in Newspapers and Periodicals, as well as other audio and video recordings.
- AP Newsroom This link opens in a new windowPhotographs, graphics, charts, news stories, and audio clips provided by The Associated Press. International in scope. Coverage: 1826 - present.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text and full-image content from Vogue magazine (US edition). Coverage: 1892 - present.
- Oral History Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text primary sources including audio and video files with transcripts on American history.
- Media Burn Independent Video ArchiveArchive of documentary films on topics in cultural history, including a Chicago-focused collection.
- Image and sound CollectionsFurther resources to find image collections.
- American Folklife CenterProvides digital primary source collections from this unit in The Library of Congress.
- EuropeanaExplore 51,532,090 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe
- Internet ArchiveContains digital images, sound recordings, videos, and texts.
- NYPL Digital CollectionThe New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Collections platform is the primary portal for engaging with our digitized collections and their descriptions, over 922,495 items and counting.
- United Nations Digital LibraryPlatform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format free of charge.
Statistics and Data
- Food Access Research AtlasPresents an overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility; provides food access data for populations within census tracts; and offers census-tract-level data on food access that can be downloaded for community planning or research purposes.
- Food Systems DashboardThe Food Systems Dashboard combines data from multiple sources to give users a complete view of food systems. Users can compare components of food systems across countries and regions This may be the first dashboard that collects country-level data across all components of the food system.
- HungerMap LIVEThe World Food Programme (WFP)’s global hunger monitoring system.
- UNdataThe data can be searched by individual country or a general region.
- United Nations SDG Global DatabaseSDG Global Database gives you access to data on more than 210 SDG indicators for countries across the globeby indicator, country, region or time period.
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator websiteHome page for the United Nations SDG reports, data, and more.
- UN Statistical YearbooksThe Statistical Yearbook provides in a single volume a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and economic conditions and activities, at world, regional and national levels each year. From the United Nations Digital Library
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatistics, reports, infographics, and surveys on business, media, finance, politics and a wide variety of topics. Includes industry and consumer reports, market outlooks, and country reports. Coverage: focus is on current (not historical) statistics.