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History

Databases by Period

ITER Database & Journals
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A searchable bibliography of 225,000 plus records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journals, monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes access to ITER journals and free resources.
Note that only items marked as subscribed can be accessed.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
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Feminae covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. [Books written by a single author are not indexed in Feminae]. Bibliographic records only.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Database of primarily web-based resources for medieval topics, arranged by category and type of material. Sponsored by Georgetown University.
Monastic Matrix: a scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400-1600 CE
the Matrix includes information on the location and establishment of women's religious communities, primary and secondary sources on communities, biographical information on founders/membes, a glossary, bibliography, and an image file of related art.
British History Online
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A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. UMBC access is available only for the free content.
Voyages: the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Coverage: 1514-1866
A comprehensive database of statistics, primary source material, essays, maps, and instructional material on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Coverage: 1600-2000
Database of books, documents, images, scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies of all aspects of American Women's public lives and political activities.
Alternative Press Index [API]
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API is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
UMBC holds the Alternative Press backfile, with the print index for 1971-1990, in Special Collections. .

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