Choosing the best database for your Hudson River research
Choosing the best database depends on the particular topic of your River research. For example: Focus on the visual arts databases when studying the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting.
Art & Architecture
Literature
Estuaries, Science, Wildlife
History
Newspapers
From Readex. Hundreds of newspapers chronicling the evolution of American history, culture and daily life from 1690-1922.
News dispatches of the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the Associated Press (AP) spanning 1915-1930 and consisting of 375 volumes (387,082 images), housed in 254 boxes at the Library of Congress, the contents of which provide an unbroken chronology of world and national events as reported by the news agency.
Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Full text of The New York Times for 1851-2017.
Note: The digitized Index allows users to search on and view terms exactly as they appeared in the New York Times print index and newspaper articles.
Full text from 1980 to the present on the ProQuest platform.
Multidisciplinary Databases
These databases have articles on all subjects.
Hundreds of academic journals in full text from v.1: n.1. Primary source materials include 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. All Open Content, Journal Collections, and Reports are available to Fordham users. Artstor database of visual media is now accessible from the JSTOR platform. Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources). Fordham does not subscribe to the Constellate text/data analytics service. Users can download full datasets with up to 25,000 items. CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION.
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