America History and Life with Full Text
Provides access to books and journals on history and culture of the United States of America and Canada.
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Genealogical database containing billions of civil statistics, census and military records from Canada, the USA and some European countries.
Log inARTSTOR
Image database featuring images from some of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in an easily-navigated repository.
Log inCBS News 60 Minutes
Provides access to the archives (1977-2014) of the American newsmagazine television programme 60 Minutes. The database contains video files and their transcripts.
Log inChicago Tribune
Investigative and famous American newspapers (24 Pulitzer prizes since 1932).
Log inEncyclopaedia Britannica
English-speaking encyclopaedia of reference. Gathers generalist articles, atlases, primary sources, definitions of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and English-speaking periodicals in the field oh humanities and social sciences.
Log inEncyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
Gathers articles about African-American history, from the colonial period to the age of Frederick Douglass.
Log inEncyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
Gathers articles about African-American history, from the Reconstruction Era to today (2008).
Log inGale Primary Sources Unavailable – Please see The Making of the Modern World.
Platform that allows to search in reference works and ancient sources in the various fields of the humanities.
Log inGlobal Newsstream
Provides access to the most important international and contemporary newspapers and their archives since the eighties, such as The Financial Times, El Mundo, South China Morning Post, etc.
Log inThe Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition
Online dictionary on music in all its forms.
Log inThe Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Encyclopedic articles on American art.
Log inThe Hartford Courant
The archives of this historical newspaper, available from 1764 to 1990, gives access to documentation of the movement for independence, the Revolutionary War, slavery in early American life and the writings of Mark Twain.
Log inHistorical Newspapers
Database providing access to the full text of the archives of several Anglo-Saxon newspapers of international audience such as The Guardian and The Observer, The Hartford Courant, The New York Times with Index, The New York Tribune and Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
Log inInternet Archive
Digital Library dedicated to archiving the web. It contains more than 735 billion web pages, 41 million books, 22 million multimedia documents (audio and video), 4 million images and 890.000 software programmes from all over the world. Internet Archive includes:
- The Wayback Machine: web pages
- Books to Borrow: digitised books subject to copyright
- Open Library: free access digitised books
- TV News: TV broadcasts
- Understanding 9/11: archive of TV programmes about 9/11
- Live Music Archive: filmed music concerts
- The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection: audio recordings of public domain texts
- Internet Arcade: online video games from 1970 to 2000
- Console Living Room: video games on home consoles
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: museum image gallery
- Cleveland Museum of Art: museum image gallery
To access all these document on the Internet Archive, it is necessary to create a free user account.
Log inLos Angeles Times
One of the largest American metropolitan newspapers that have won numerous journalism awards, including 37 Pulitzer prices.
Log inMLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography with Full Text
Annual bibliography of books and articles from around the world on languages, modern literature, linguistics, folklore, etc.
MLA with Full Text MLA Directory of PeriodicalsThe New York Times
The renowned American newspaper gives access to its archives (1851-2013) and to early 20th century news. The newspaper publishes all important texts, including speeches and presidential press conferences. An index for politics, economics, art, culture, history, sports and public affaires is available.
Online archives (1851-2016) Online newspaper (1980-2019)The New York Tribune and Herald Tribune
The archives of these annexes to The New York Times, available from 1841 to 1962, cover major events at the turn of the 20th century. Texts by Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Fuller, Karl Marx and Frederic Engels are also included.
Log inOpenBook Publishers
OpenBook Publishers is an academic Open Access publisher. Thanks to KBR’s partnership, you have access to all the e-books available on the platform, both in streaming, in ePub and PDF.
Log inThe Oxford Companion to American Law
Encyclopedic articles on American law.
Log inThe Oxford Companion to American Military History
More than 1000 encyclopedic articles on American wars through various themes: history, literature, arts…
Log inThe Oxford Companion to American Politics
Encyclopedic articles on all aspects of American political life.
Log inThe Oxford Companion to the American Musical
Encyclopedic articles on the American theatre scene.
Log inThe Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2nd edition
Encyclopedic articles on legal decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Log inThe Oxford Companion to the United States History
More than 1500 encyclopedic articles on American history, politics, culture, arts, sciences, …
Log inThe Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
Encyclopedic articles on American economic history.
Log inThe Oxford Encyclopedia of American Culture and Intellectual History
Encyclopedic articles on American values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs.
Log inThe Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
Encyclopedic articles on key points of American military history.
Log inThe Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
Encyclopedic articles on American legal and political history.
Log inThe Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
Encyclopedic articles regarding American social history.
Log inThe Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Online dictionary of military terms, weapons, vehicles, medals, famous people and battles of the American army.
Log inThe Oxford Guide to the United States Government
Contains all biographies of American political figures.
Log inUS Major Dailies
Gathers the five most respected American national and regional newspapers and their archives : Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
Log inUS Newsstream
Gathers recent American news with archives from the 1980’s. The database contains the full text from more than 590 newspapers such as The New York Times, Los Angeles, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, etc. US Newsstream includes the following collections:
- US Hispanic Newsstream
- US Major Dailies
- US Midwest Newsstream
- US North Central Newsstream
- US Northeast Newsstream
- US South Central Newsstream
- US Southeast Newsstream
- US West Newsstream
The Wall Street Journal
American newspaper considered as the leading publication for economic news and information on global financial makets. The archives (1889-1999) cover international and American business, financial news and in-depth financial analyses on the world’s stock market.
Online archives (1889-2003) Online newspaper (1984-2019)The Washington Post
American journal well known fot in-depth news and analyses of American politics. The archives (1877-1999) provide political and governmental news. This newspaper won Pulitzer prizes for its articles on the Watergate scandal (1972-1974).
Online archives (1877-2003) Online newspaper (1984-2019)* Resources marked with an asterisk (*) can only be consulted on site at KBR for legal reasons.