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Asahi newspaper articles from its first edition in 1879 to the present and articles from the magazines AERA and Shukan Asahi. Also includes Historical Photo Archive, English-language News Database, Asahi Graph, Who's Who database, Image Database of Regional pages, Overseas Editions and Contemporary Words Chiezo.
Primary source material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories. Trial access ends March 31, 2025.
Primary source materials from two collections: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870-1980; Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1993. Trial access ends March 31, 2025.
Apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sources in a single research platform. Trial access ends March 31, 2025.
Books, manuscripts, and ephemera that provide a historical view of disabilities from the seventeenth to twentieth century. Trial access ends March 31, 2025.
International import and export shipment records, including factory, product, arrival dates and port-of-entry details. Husky OnNet is required for off-campus access.
A comprehensive and unprecedented reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam in its formative period: from its beginnings in the eighth century up to the tenth century AD.
Primary sources documenting a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Trial access ends March 31, 2025.
Documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more. Trial access ends March 31, 2025.
The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a streaming collection of primary source video testimonies from survivors of and witnesses to genocide.