History Resources

Contains digital collections of historical documents including documents from the Bush presidency, Development of Civil Rights Policy, etc.

If you click on “collections” you can see all the resources for a specific topic.
Clicking on “learning center” allows you to look at more browsing tips and shows the history and context of the archive.
If you click on term frequency, you can search for a particular term and see all the articles that mention that term by publication year.
To find a topic, in the “topic finder”, you can input keywords and the database will generate a wheel of topics relating to those keywords.

Search the full text of the Austin American Statesman newspaper, 1880–1979, 1994.

The database automatically opens to the advanced search. If you want to use the basic search tool, you can click “ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Austin American Statesman” and it will pop up.
In the basic search you can limit your search to full text articles or peer reviewed articles.
If you want to use the advanced search, you can search by publication date, publication company, subject headings, source type (i.e., book, magazine, scholarly journal), and language.

Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

Under the “Handbook”, you can browse entries alphabetically by title, by place, time period, etc.
You can also browse the publications by books, art, maps, etc.
By clicking on the search bar in the upper right hand corner, you can search by title or key word.

Includes documents, letters, maps, etc from prehistory through the twentieth century in Texas.

In the main search bar, you can narrow down your search by type of resource (i.e., newspaper, book chapters, datasets, etc.).
If you scroll down a little, you can click on “explore by” in order to browse topics.
- You can browse by state, county, decade, subject, etc.

Includes balanced coverage of events from U.S. History.

If you sign in with your St. Edwards email address, you will be able to see search history, which could be helpful if you are doing research projects.
Search tools include topic finder, Subject Guide Search, and publication search.
- In the Topic Finder, you can input keywords and the database will generate a wheel of topics relating to those keywords.
- In the subject guide search you can search by subject as well as narrow your search to publication date, peer reviewed journals, and full text articles.
- In the publication search section you can search for specific publications as well as narrow your search by date, peer reviewed journals, type of publication, etc.

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