HIST 400 (Huey)

Digitized pages of every issue of the Chicago Defender from 1909 through 1975 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.

Digitized pages of every issue of the Chicago Tribune from 1849 through 2000 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.

Digitized pages of every issue of the Detroit Free Press from 1831 through 1999 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.

Manuscript, printed, and visual primary source documents on the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences from 1500 to 2000. Includes manuscripts, rare printed materials, letterbooks, periodicals, diaries, and photographs accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, interactive maps, and an interactive chronology.

Digitized pages of over 4,500 publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand from 1543-1945 on suffrage, feminism, and daily life in the English-speaking world.

Manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organizations around the world depicting the history of fifteen major commodities and examining the ways that they have changed the world. Commodities include chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.

Citations for millions of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments from 1976 to present.

Digitized pages of every issue of the New York Times from 1851 through 2020 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.

Digitized pages of over 1,500 American special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children’s and women’s magazines published between 1740 and 1940.

Digitized pages of every issue of the Washington Post from 1877 through 2008 including articles, editorials, ads, and obituaries.

Full text of over 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources including complete runs of over 2,600 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over 60,000 DRM-free ebooks and over 2 million primary sources. Supports text mining/analysis and digital humanities research by providing datasets for journals, books, research reports, and pamphlets in the digital library.

To use the AI Research Tool, you must create a personal JSTOR account with your ferris.edu email address. They do not sell your data nor do they use it to train the LLM. Conversation transcripts can be downloaded, but you must do so within three hours. (They recommend downloading before leaving the item page.) The tool can also be cited as can its individual responses. 

Full text articles and chapters from over 800 journals and over 100,000 books in the humanities and social sciences.