Articles and Databases

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Index of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830-1891 (before Ellis Island). Searching via Stephen Morse's One Step Search Form.

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Provides access to full text of 150 popular journals in Chinese language.

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A unique world encyclopedia of geographical places and features with over 170,000 entries.

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This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies, and literary glossary terms.

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Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.

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Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.

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Full text of Current Biography magazine. 

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