ENGL 283.001 : Life Writing: Other Resources

Think Tank Search searches the websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses. Inclusion is based upon the relevancy of subject area to HKS coursework and scholarship, the availability of the think tank’s research in full-text on the website, and the think tank’s reputation and influence upon policy making. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.

Public opinion, research on population and demographic conditions and change.

Contains statistics, infographics, industry and market research reports and publicly-available data for over 25 countries.

Provides web-based access to United States Census data from 1790 to the present, and to other U.S. and international data, with the ability to make tables and interactive maps easily or export data for analysis. Data include the most commonly used variables and geographies.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data. ICPSR provides Web access to data files and documentation for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. The ICPSR data holdings contains more than 500,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Individual registration and adherence to responsible use statement are required.

A collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. With original page images for all documents, this resource contains over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and other expanding collections.

A guide to genealogy research at Wilson Special Collections Library

Alt-Press Watch provides full text access to alternative and independent newspapers, magazines, and journals, publications which bring perspectives, insights, and opinions not often found in mainstream journalism. This product offers over 600,000 articles from over 230 publications.

Contains over 20 historic newspapers, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, from major U. S. cities. Also icludes six major African American papers. Coverage is generally from the late 1800s to around 2000.

Provides access to hundreds of thousands of newspaper issues in two collections: Early American Newspapers Series I and Series II, 1690-1920 and African American Newspapers, 1827-1998.

Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. With more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, the collection provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included, along with thousands of political cartoons.

Collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights.

Watch full length documentary and educational ethnographic films online. The database is designed to use the films specifically for teaching and research and includes Study Guides, filmmaker biographies, interviews, release notes, etc. alongside many of the titles. Geographic and cultural group browses allow users to highlight sections of a map to find result sets, and searchable transcripts scroll with the films.

Provides citations and links to journal articles, reports, and commentaries for the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; also for ethnology, archaeology, folklore and material culture.

Librarian for Numeric Data Services
& Data Management

Social Sciences Librarian

North Carolina Research and Instruction Librarian

Full text of articles back to 2001.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. DocSouth includes seven digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana.

Three-year project to select, digitize and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP).