Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr., The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter and female sportswriters, the paper contains the writings of writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy. This resource covers the years 1893 – 2010. For current Baltimore Afro-American content, please see ProQuest Global Newsstream.
This archive of Barron’s offers a vast collection of financial news and analysis dating from 1921 to 2010, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and students studying financial history, market trends, investment strategies, and the history of specific companies or industries. For current Barron’s content, please see: ProQuest Global Newsstream.
The Bibliography of Indigenous people in North America covers topics relating to native North Americans from the 16th century to the present, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, folklore, culture, history, and literacy. It contains hundreds of thousands of citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
This database contains the full text of hundreds of plays written from the mid-19th century to the present by hundreds of playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare or out of print. Information on related productions, theaters, and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs and other related material is also available.
The Bloom’s Literary Criticism eBook Collection includes more than 600 titles from a variety of series including Major Dramatists, Modern Critical Views, Literary Themes, and Shakespeare Through the Ages. The collection covers a broad selection of literary works, their authors, and genres. Each title in the collection was edited by Harold Bloom, a known American literary critic and Humanities Professor at Yale University.
Book Review Digest Plus is an index to reviews of fiction and non-fiction items published since 1903. The reviews originate from selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Border and Migration Studies Online includes hundreds of hours of video, thousands of images, and hundreds of thousands of pages of text surrounding issues related to border(land) and migration studies. The resources are from a variety of perspectives as well as historical contexts and address areas such as history, law, politics, diplomacy, area and global studies, anthropology, medicine, the arts, and more. Materials were selected and organized by an international board of scholars and focus around themes such as border identities, border enforcement and control, border disputes, and human trafficking.
Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900 provides a collection of primary sources from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs and conference proceedings. The personal experiences of more than 500 women are represented and include all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous.
This database provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical covers many aspects of business, including management, production and marketing as well as activities of specific businesses and trades. Full text of articles dates back to 1995, with indexing and abstracts dating back to 1982.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center is a full-text database designed to support continuity experts and information professionals. It covers subjects such as risk evaluation, emergency preparedness and crisis communications.
Alternate Name(s):formerly Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights Global provides current business, company, and industry content including: periodical articles, press releases, corporate structures, financials and earning estimates, investment reports, case studies, country profiles, and company histories. Sources include Market Share Reporter, Ward's Business Directory of U.S. and Private Companies, and other authoritative industry databases. Companies can be searched by name, ticker symbol, SIC/NAICS code, product/brand name or location.
Introduced as a single-database interface for business researchers, the functionality of EBSCO's Business Searching Interface (BSI) has been expanded to accommodate searching within multiple databases. This means that certain databases formerly available only via the EBSCOhost interface can be added to BSI profiles, providing additional convenience to users, while expanding the scope of BSI features and functionality.
The Company View component of Business Source Complete provides detailed corporation information for more than one million of the world’s largest public and private companies. Data includes financials, subsidiaries, products, employees, industry information and more. This database also provides access to industry profiles; case studies; SWOT analyses; articles from business journals, magazines, and trade publications; market research reports; product reviews; and country reports.