The Encyclopedia of Race and Crime covers issues in both historical and contemporary context, with information on race and ethnicity and their impact on crime and the administration of justice. Explores the similar historical experiences of varied racial and ethnic groups and illustrates how race and ethnicity has mattered and continues to matter in the administration of American criminal justice. – Publisher’s blurb.

The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 provides students and researchers with a much-needed, comprehensive resource on the subject of colonialism and expansion. From a global perspective, the set traces many facets of colonial growth and imperialism, and much more. – Publisher’s blurb.

Poe Studies provides a forum for interpretive, cumulative dialogue about Poe’s life and writings; about the cultural and material contexts that conditioned the production and reception of his work; and about his interrelationships with other writers, especially those who work in traditions of dark romanticism. – Publisher’s blurb.

Congress & the Presidency is an interdisciplinary journal of political science and history that features articles on Congress, the President, the interaction between the two institutions, and national policy-making. Created by the United States Capitol Historical Society, the journal has been published by the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies for over 25 years. The journal is a leading forum for important research on these two branches of government. – Publisher’s blurb.

Northwestern University Library has purchased the digitized backfiles of the journal Studies in American Political Development.   Access now covers volume 1 (1986) to the present.

Studies in American Political Development (SAPD) publishes scholarship on political change and institutional development in the United States from a variety of theoretical viewpoints.

This searchable database brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The database currently has over 34,000 pages covering subjects in Arts, Music, and Leisure, Civil Rights, Counter-Culture, Law and Government, Mass Media, New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement, Student Activism, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement, etc.

Focuses on the substance of American law, the processes that produce its legal principles, and the history of the Supreme Court, from its creation to the present. Overview essays address the history of such topics as citizenship, due process, Native Americans, racism, and contraception, emphasizing the social context of each and the social and political pressures that shaped interpretation. – Publisher’s blurb.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.

Formerly known as ArchivesUSA, Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland), previously available on CD-ROM.    ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,500 repositories and more than 161,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces on microfiche the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland. Used together in Archive Finder, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository’s holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.

Northwestern University Library has access to the latest update of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II.

In addition to over 46,000 new works and 6 million pages of material based on the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO II also provides your institution with a new user interface with a number of new enhancements, some of which are listed below:

• Research Guide section with contextual essays and chronology to serve as a starting point for beginning researchers
• Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents section
• Citation generator and bibliographic citation export functionality
• Expanded download and email features
• Keyword in Context feature from within the results list