The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal
SRU students, faculty, and staff may create free accounts to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. First-time users must register before they can access the content.
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New York Times This link opens in a new windowCurrent and past editions available. To access the NYT, follow the following steps:
1. Go to the New York Times website via link or go to (https://www.nytimes.com)
2. Click Login at the top right corner of the NYT homepage
3. Select the option at the bottom: “Continue with work or school single sign-on” 0
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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowAccess to the digital edition of the Wall Street Journal is available to all SRU faculty, staff, and students. Registration is required using an SRU email address. Click here to begin registering via https://wsj.com/sru.
Citation Assistance
As a History student, you will likely need to use Chicago/Turabian citation style in your assignments. You can find help with this by going to our Turabian Citation guide. You can also find the manual for Chicago style on reserve and in the Library's circulating collection.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
Call Number: Z253 .U69 2017Publication Date: 2017Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style.
Guides and Handouts
Resources
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full-text scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and book reviews in virtually every discipline.
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History Commons (Formerly Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new windowThe Accessible Archives provide access to historical primary source materials that provide eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, commerce as seen through advertisements, and editorial observations.
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Adam Matthew Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Adam Matthew collection provides access to primary source content in 78 collections, with a focus on historical and literary periods.
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America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers history and culture of the United States and Canada and selected articles from scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities.
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American National Biography Online This link opens in a new windowProvides biographical resource on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. It also includes information on the landmark events in U.S. history. (Note: This database can be accessed by only one user at a time.) Access to American National Biography will end on June 30, 2025.
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American Periodicals This link opens in a new windowContains digitized images from American magazines and journals between 1741 and 1940. Spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II.
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ARTstor This link opens in a new windowThis collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures, and includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and other forms of visual culture. Now available exclusively on the JSTOR platform!
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AVON (Academic Video Online) This link opens in a new windowIt provides streaming videos from a variety of content such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, from around the world and across all subject areas.
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Biography In Context This link opens in a new windowFull-text biographical information of people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowThis website features select primary source documents related to key people and events in African American history. Read more at https://blackfreedom.proquest.com/about/.
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Columbia International Affairs Online Journals This link opens in a new windowCIAO is designed to be the most complete source for theory and research in international affairs. Note: Access to CIAO will end on 6/30/2025.
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Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citations dating back to 1637.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowFilms on Demand provides high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.
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Gazetteer of the World This link opens in a new windowThe Gazetteer is a dynamic tool for understanding our changing world. The Gazetteer provides users with access to important information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the world.
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Unmatched in its scope and breadth of historical and related literature.
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History Collection This link opens in a new windowNew! With 21,100 eBooks, the History Collection provides a range of quality materials, including introductory texts for undergraduates and more detailed works for advanced scholars.
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Humanities Source This link opens in a new windowIt is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. Full-text articles and book reviews.
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Informe Académico This link opens in a new windowFull-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly articles and books in a wide range of subject areas, primarily social sciences and humanities. Also features an image search using materials derived from ARTstor.
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Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA video streaming with more than 30,000 documentaries, movies, and educational videos from producers such as Criterion Collection, PBS, Great Courses, Kino Lorber and more.
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Newspapers.com This link opens in a new windowOffers full page newspaper images with searchable full-text for millions of newspapers. The collection includes digital reproductions.
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
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Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowFocus on political science. Provides indexing and abstracts to scholarly and unique resources, full-text reference books, and conference papers.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowAn interdisciplinary collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, with an emphasis on the humanities and social sciences.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new windowIt provides access to citations to popular periodicals and magazines on history-making events like the Vietnam War, the Irish potato famine, Nixon's impeachment, and more.
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SAGE Premier This link opens in a new windowIt offers access to peer-reviewed journals in subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, medicine, and more.
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Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowNew! An online research tool that creates maps to analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history. Includes US Census history 1790-2000, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study 1980-2000.
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U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new windowGale in Context: U.S. History provides contextual information relating to hundreds of significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history.
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U.S. History OneFile This link opens in a new windowU.S. History OneFile is a Gale OneFile focusing on articles and periodicals related to the history of the United States.
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowWiley Online Library includes more than 1,400 journals with coverage from 1997-present. Access is provided for all Wiley Online Library journals; e-book access is not included.
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World History OneFile This link opens in a new windowWorld History OneFile is a subsection of Gale OneFile focusing on articles and periodicals related to the study of world history.
Subject Guide
Research Help
Research Services - Summer 2025
Summer research assistance is available via the Ask a Librarian e-mail form (you will receive a reply by the next business day).
You may also consider contacting your subject specialist librarian directly via the Find Your Librarian pages to ask a question directly or to schedule an appointment.
Service Directory
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Archives & Special Collections(724) 738-4295
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Circulation Desk(724) 738-2637
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Main Office(724) 738-2631
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Government Documents(724) 738-2665
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Instructional Materials Center(724) 738-2663
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Interlibrary Loan(724) 738-4457
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Information Desk(724) 738-2641
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Technology Learning Center(724) 738-2663
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Tutorial Center(724) 738-2845
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Writing Center(724) 738-2654