Topic Databases

General Databases

The general databases provide access to e-articles on multiple topics. The databases listed below contain articles related to the topics for this project.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary database of academic journals. Offers browsable topics and a visual search tool.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

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The topic specific databases provide access to e-articles on a on specific topics. The databases listed below contain articles related to the topics for this project.

REMINDER: Sample search terms are available on the Palomino Search page of this guide.

History Databases

U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new window Access to documents, reference articles, and full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. History from pre-colonial times to the present.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window Academic database for U.S.History
Handbook of Texas This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary encyclopedia maintained by Texas State Historical Association. Free access to topics on Texas history, geography, and culture. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.
It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps This link opens in a new window Provides historical, large-scale maps of Texas cities and towns, showing street blocks and building numbers. Coverage 1867-1970. Valuable tool for social historians and genealogists. Maps can be manipulated, magnified, and printed for off-line use.
ProQuest's Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to large-scale maps of Texas towns and cities. In electronic form, Sanborn Maps take on much improved value over the microfilm versions of the same maps, allowing for greater flexibility of use and improved viewing possibilities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections.
World History in Context This link opens in a new window From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, an array of primary sources, images, maps and charts provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history.
Gale OneFile: World History This link opens in a new window Scholarly and popular articles covering world history
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window A comprehensive, academic-focused video collections providing unlimited access to thousands of videos on a wide variety of subjects.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window Streaming videos and movies.
Kanopy Streaming offers full streaming access to films fromto a broad film collection thatincludes top producers such as Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber and many new releases.

Family History Databases

HeritageQuest Online This link opens in a new window Genealogy database is known for its collection of the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 through 1940. Powered by Ancestry.
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sourcesrich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
ProQuest African American Heritage This link opens in a new window This database offersprimary sources devoted specifically to African American family history, including census records, vital records, freedman and slave records, church records, legal records, and more.
Fold3 Library Edition This link opens in a new window Fold3® features premier collections of original military records. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military.

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