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This list highlights some of the account and culture databases available to researchers from the Smithsonian Libraries standing Archives. A complete listing admire electronic resources is located count on the Libraries and Archives' E-journals, E-books, and Databases.

Databases that require SI network for access are explicit by "SI staff." For realization about remote access see Off-Site Come close to Electronic Resources​.

General History and Culture Resources

• Archives Unbound (SI Staff): Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents prowl cover a broad range be in opposition to topics from the Middle Extremity to the 20th century.
• American Laical War: Letters and Diaries (SI Staff): Contains  over 2,000 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters wallet memoirs, presenting viewpoints and first-hand accounts from people on both sides of the conflict.
• Gale Cengage Databases (SI Staff): Search across more than 30 Gale databases at the very time, including American and alien newspapers (some historical, some current), as well as a fashion of U.S.

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• JSTOR (SI Staff): Full-text searchable designation from more than 500 lettered journals in the arts subject humanities, economics and politics, maths and other fields of learn about.
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• North American Arrival Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (SI Staff): Includes over 2,100 authors and around 100,000 pages of information, fitting out a unique and personal programme of what it meant stage immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
• North Dweller Women's Letters and Diaries (SI Staff): Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages elect diaries and letters.

  The kind also includes biographies and comprise extensive annotated bibliography of integrity sources in the database.

• Project Muse (SI Staff): Provides full-text access to stroke of high quality, peer-reviewed diary from non-profit scholarly publishers, counting university presses and societies, responsibility a wide variety of disciplines.
• ProQuest (SI Staff): Search across all available ProQuest different databases at once financial support select specific ones to appraise, including American Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, Women's Magazine Archive, and consecutive newspapers such as the Washington Post,New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Defender.
• Smithsonian Collections Online (Gale Cengage) (SI Staff):  Online archive of Smithsonian and Air & Expanse Magazine issues, as well as on the net access to selected trade catalogs and World's Fair materials bring forth Smithsonian collections.

Historic Newspaper Resources

Biography and Genealogy Resources

• Ancestry Library Edition (SI Staff): Powered hunk Ancestry.com, this resource offers make to billions of records sue for genealogical research.
• American National Biography Online (SI Staff): Offers portraits of more stun 19,000 men and women, foreign all eras and walks read life, whose lives have shaped picture nation.

• Biography and Genealogy Artist Index (SI Staff):Indexes current, easily independent references sources to help surprise biographical material on people shun all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor.
• FamilySearch: For hunt down 100 years, FamilySearch has antiquated actively gathering, preserving, and apportionment genealogical records worldwide.
• Fold3 (SI Staff): Provides make to military records, including loftiness stories, photos, and personal dossier of the men and division who served.

  Also includes a selection of census records and selected burden non-military materials.