PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

LexisNexis® Primary Sources in History will expand the scope of your students' research exponentially with direct desktop access to selected primary and secondary sources and essential reference information. Scholars at all levels may search by subject and controlled vocabulary or browse collections by document type.

The following optional modules have been developed by distinguished historians and provide unprecedented flexibility, thoroughness, and depth:

• Access to Presidential Studies – NEW
• Access to African American Studies – NEW content nearly doubles depth
• Access to Women's Studies
• Guides to Microforms

Subscribers to all modules can access the entire LexisNexis Primary Sources in History database to research thousands of documents with just a few clicks. Quarterly updates keep modules dynamically expanding with additional information.

FEATURES

Comprehensive resources for in-depth American history research from your students' desktops

LexisNexis® Primary Sources in History provides optional modul's that open an ever-expanding universe of authoritative, comprehensive, Web-delivered research sources in the following areas:

Access to African American Studies

Get access to a database of essential sources that every scholar in this field will turn to again and again, including:

• Full-text of all Federal legislation pertaining to race through 1995
• Full-text of all U.S. Supreme Court cases pertaining to race through 1995
• Expanding collection of colonial legislation and case law regarding race and slavery
• Growing database of U.S. government documents on race drawn from the massive compilations of LexisNexis CISbranded collections.

Wide range of sources include over 1,100 reference articles on key subjects, individuals, and organizations from the colonial era through late 20th Century. Select anthology includes hundreds of essential scholarly articles in full-text, as well as government and private manuscripts exploring civil rights, NAACP's legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th Century peonage cases in the South, and much more. Hundreds of images of African Americans from the 18th through 20th Centuries, seminal autobiographies of African Americans, and public speeches by prominent African Americans are included.

Access to Presidential Studies

This optional module provides access to a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary sources of essential information about U.S. Presidents, including full-text versions of:

• Scholarly articles on specific Presidents and presidential powers
• Reference articles for background information
• Autobiographies and contemporary accounts
• Manuscripts, including letters and office diaries
• Speeches, including all inaugural addresses and all State of the Union messages
• Executive Orders and proclamations

Access to Women's Studies

This innovative optional module provides a combination of important reference tools, premiere secondary sources, and illuminating and unique primary documents suited to all levels of scholarship. Students may use it to explore personal and institutional forces that shaped the lives of American women in the 19th and 20th Centuries and investigate vital gender issues that profoundly mobilized social and political movements. It provides access to full-text versions of:

• Laws and court decisions that define women’s opportunities and rights
• Sources about women, including scholarly articles that give insight and analysis and reference
• Articles that bring context to new research
• Sources by women, including manuscripts on political and social change
• Autobiographies of prominent activists and representative women

Guides to Microforms

This module provides search capability for the most popular University Publications of America branded microform collections from LexisNexis. It empowers researchers to identify primary sources in microform quickly, thoroughly, and precisely. Cross-discipline research is also easier because it includes guides to thousands of primary source documents in multiple fields, including African American studies, southern history, political history, women’s studies, and many more. Current coverage includes 195 research collections and is scheduled to expand by 50 collection titles annually.

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PRICING/SUBSCRIPTIONS

LexisNexis® Primary Sources in History is available in a variety of pricing options to accommodate budgets large and small. Pricing information is available online or by calling the LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions Customer Service Department at 800-638-8380.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in History is a Web-based product.