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Please contact the Herskovits Library of African Studies for information and research assistance on all aspects of African studies. A full listing of online catalogs, databases, and other research materials is available at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/index.html
 Northwestern
Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students,
and staff)
- ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
Formerly known as the History e-book project, the Humanities e-book project (HEB) now includes access to electronic versions of about 1,500 books in most humanities disciplines and area studies. Titles are cataloged individually in NUcat.
- Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 (Middle East Online, Series I)
Fully searchable database of primary source documents from the British National Archives that chronicle the politics, wars, administration, and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Topics covered include the background to the establishment of the State of Israel, Black September, the Border wars of the 1950s, the British capture of Jerusalem, the Cold War in the Middle East, the formation of the United Arab Republic, Jewish terror groups, and milestones in the Palestine-Zionist tension and their impact on British policy leading to the Partition of 1948.
- ebrary
- Foreign Relations
of the United States (FRUS)
Official documentary historical record
of major foreign policy decisions, from the State Department's Office
of the Historian. Site is part of
University of Wisconsin's Digital Collections project, working in collaborators
at University of Illinois Chicago. Site includes volumes published
from 1861-1960.
- Gutenberg-e
- Iraq 1914-1974 (Middle East Online, Series II)
Fully searchable database of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.
- netLibrary
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online
A growing collection of content, including more than 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields, and much more. Qur’anic studies resources, including two Oxford World’s Classics translations of the Qur’an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur’an by Hanna Kassis. Primary source documents with editorial introductions. Timelines covering major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in general world history for context. Images provide useful visual perspectives on Islam. Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur’an and Concordance, and much more.
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
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