Research Guides: Judaic, Holocaust &amp; Peace Studies: Books

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ABC-Clio eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism, including a large collection of narratives by enslaved people.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes millions of nineteenth-century articles, books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers, and archives.
CQ Press Library This link opens in a new window
Includes six titles: CQ Almanac; CQ Researcher; CQ Magazine; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; and Supreme Court Yearbook.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers.
Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers This link opens in a new window
Search by title: Critical Companion.
Each Critical Companion in this collection provides author background, character, plot, theme analysis, and a complete bibliography of books, selected reviews, and criticism.
Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly essays on 24 different cultures from ancient Greeks and Romans to Chaucer's England and Colonial America.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
Consists of more than 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides depicting every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Virtually every work printed before 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Includes over 140,000 titles in a wide variety of subjects, including literature, technology, career and self help, how-to books, and much more.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth century books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, printed ephemera, and more.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.
HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window
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Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Literature in Context This link opens in a new window
Search by title: Understanding.
Primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences.
Oxford Handbooks This link opens in a new window
Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Sabin Americana This link opens in a new window
Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects.

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