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Logeion

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Logeion aims to provide access to Greek and Latin resources for everyone everywhere. Logeion provides simultaneous lookup of entries in the numerous reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection and many others. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Lynching in America

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The Equal Justice Initiative has created an interactive experience inspired by the original Lynching in America report. This project tells the story of racial terror in America and explores how its legacy continues to shape our nation today. The Lynching in America project includes audio stories from generations affected by lynching, an interactive map on the impact of lynching, and more. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.
 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Records

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The processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund consist of approximately 80,000 items of which more than 90% (251,413 images) have been digitized and open for research use. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Spanning the years 1915-1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the work and procedures of the organization as it combated racial discrimination in the nation’s courts, establishing in the process a public interest legal practice that was unprecedented in American jurisprudence. The organization’s records cover a host of topics, including segregation in schools, on buses, and in public facilities; discrimination in housing and property ownership; voting rights; police brutality; racial violence; and countless other infringements of civil rights.

National Congregations Study

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The National Congregations Study surveys a representative sample of America's churches, synagogues, mosques and other local places of worship. The NCS is based on in-depth interviews with congregational leaders in 1998, 2006-2007, 2012, and 2018-2019. It gathers information about worship, programs, staffing, community activities, demographics, and many other characteristics of American congregations. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Oklahoma Digital Prairie

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Oklahoma Digital Prairie provides visitors unique digital content spanning more than 100 years of rich, vibrant history from the 46th State. The resource areas include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, and audio/visual content. Content ranges from the late 1800s to the present day. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Collections include documents state government records from the Tulsa Race Massacre; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and publications for and against, women's suffrage in Oklahoma; documents related to the 1948 Ada Lois Sipuel legal case against the University of Oklahoma law school; and much more.

Oklahoma Historical Society

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The mission of the Oklahoma Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma and its people. The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) was founded on May 27, 1893, by members of the Territorial Press Association to preserve newspapers. Over the years the OHS has developed numerous collections, programs, research centers, museums, historic homes, and military sites across the state An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Pew Research

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Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Progressive Christianity

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Progressive Christianity offers thoughtful and practical resources for individuals, families, and communities to explore and affect progressive Christianity, spirituality, community life, social and environmental justice. Progressive Christianity is an open, intelligent and collaborative approach to the Christian tradition and the life and teachings of Jesus that create pathways into an authentic and relevant religious experience. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute)

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PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research at the intersection of religion, values, and public life. PRRI’s mission is to help journalists, opinion leaders, scholars, clergy, and the general public better understand debates on public policy issues and the role of religion and values in American public life by conducting high quality public opinion surveys and qualitative research. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

PubMed

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PubMed® comprises more than 39 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

RAND

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The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Shay Center - Moral Injury Resources

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Curated by Rita Nakashima Brock and Susan Diamond, the Shay Center resources on moral injury include videos and materials for those new to the subject, work in various fields, research on various populations, and materials for professional practitioners. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives

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The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives is a worldwide center for the study of Baptist history. Governed by the Council of Seminary Presidents, the SBHLA is one of the major denominational collections in the nation and serves, by assignment of the Southern Baptist Convention, as the central depository and archives of SBC records. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Digital resources include the Southern Baptist Convention Annuals (1845 - Current), Mission Journals, the Baptist and Reflector Newspaper, Pastor's Conference Sermons and SBC Presidential Addresses, and Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives Photographs.

Stone-Campbell Resources

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Stone-Campbell Resources provides primary sources that reveal the history and advocacy of the Stone-Campbell Movement across its many voices, in many places, from its inception until recent living memory. Included in the collection are books, periodicals, tracts, pamphlets and broadsides; photographs, portraits and artwork; audio and film recordings of sermons, lectures and other events. Everything is fully viewable or downloadable. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Turabian Citation Quick Guide

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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (commonly known as Turabian), is the authoritative resource on Chicago Style, tailored to the writing needs of students and researchers. This quick guide provides citation examples for commonly used sources. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Umbra Search African American History

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Umbra Search brings together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country to make African American history more broadly accessible. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and pays homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.

USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 provides authoritative documentation of camps, ghettos, and other persecutory sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies in a vast network that extended across the European continent and reached as far as the Soviet Union and North Africa. It is the most comprehensive resource on the Nazi camp universe, detailing the complexities of the camps and their impact on millions of inmates. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

The series comprises 7 volumes that will document approximately 6,000 sites in narrative format. Each volume provides foundational information on a particular subset of camps organized according to type, subordination, or distinct inmate population. Entries also describe the camps' evolution and their links to other sites to illuminate the persecutory system as a whole. Photographs, charts, and maps supplement the text.

Working Preacher

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Working Preacher is a ministry brought to you by Luther Seminary. The Working Preacher team believes that God uses good biblical preaching to change lives. They have enlisted biblical scholars, theologians, homileticians and pastors dedicated to the craft of biblical preaching to provide you timely, compelling and trustworthy content. On the site you’ll find exegetical material geared to the weekly lectionary, resources and insights on the Craft of Preaching blog, a scripture index, and podcasts. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

WorldCat

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By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy to browse the world’s libraries from one easy search box. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

WPA and the Slave Narrative Collection

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The Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves, today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA, Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Zinn Education Project

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The Zinn Education Project supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms. The website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and grade level. Based on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, the teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.