LibGuides: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States: History and Politics

Suggested Databases For History And Politics

America's Historical Imprints
Americas Historical Imprints contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and ephemera printed in early America.
America: History and Life
This database contains articles on the United States, Canadian, and Mexican cultural, social, economic, diplomatic, and military histories. It covers periods from prehistory to the present and includes many full-text articles.
American Memory Historical Collection for the National Digital Library
These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America. They provide a useful digital archive of primary documents in American history.
CQ's Politics in America
CQ Politics in America offers comprehensive, nonpartisan commentary, and data about members of Congress. Detailed member profiles provide insight and analysis through biographical data, committee assignments, election results, and contact data, as well as legislative agendas, political ambitions and reputation.
Early American Newspapers
The America's Historical Newspapers database contains thousands of articles from historic American newspapers from all 50 states. Coverage begins in 1690.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An index (with abstracts) to journals published worldwide in many languages. Fields include all branches of world history, including, political, diplomatic, religious, economic, social, cultural, and military history. Many full-text articles are included. (NOTE: For U.S. and Canadian history, use America: History and Life.)
Shoah Visual History Archive
The Shoah Visual History Archive allows users to view more than 50,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. These testimonies were recorded in a variety of countries and languages. UTD affiliates must create a free login to use this database.
Social Issues POWERSEARCH This link opens in a new window
The Social Issues PowerSearch searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and PAIS International.
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2019)
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2011) contains digitized copies of the TLS published from 1902 through 2011.