LibGuides: Humanities: Background Information

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Suggested Databases for Background Information

Credo Reference - All Subjects Search
Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles.
World News Digest Online - Infobase
World News Digest includes current news, the Year in Review, World at a Glance, and World Almanac facts and statistics.
CQ Press Library
Includes CQ Global Researcher, CQ Researcher Plus Archive, CQ Almanac, The Contemporary Middle East, The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Encyclopedia of Religion in America, Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, and Historic Documents Series.
eHRAF World Cultures
eHRAF World Cultures contains ethnographic collections covering 281 cultures, including indigenous peoples and ethnic groups, as well as immigrant cultures in the U.S. and Canada. Comprehensive summaries cover topics such as economy, history and cultural relations, family and kinship, sociopolitical organization, and religion.
Jewish Studies Source EBSCO
Full-text articles from leading academic journals and newspapers offering a multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present.
Includes Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art & Visual Culture, Jewish Political Studies Review, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency database from 1922 to present - as well as biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews.
American Decades 1900 through 1999 - GVRL
Cross-disciplinary source for documenting and analyzing periods of contemporary American social history (1900-1999).
Encyclopaedia Judaica - GVRL
More than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.