Databases
Use our subscription databases to find citations and full text articles. To get started, just click on the database that you would like to search. If you're outside the library, you may need to enter your library card number and PIN in order to access the database.
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Asian Life in America
This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Asian American history and daily life – as well as the ways popular culture has portrayed and perceived people of Asian descent.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Black Life in America
This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Free Library of Philadelphia Podcasts
The Free Library Podcast is an easy way to participate in the author events and lectures that take place at the Central Library. Visit Author Events for upcoming events and information.Available To: Unrestricted, free web resource
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Gale Literature
Cross-search all of Gale’s literature databases from a single digital space. Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author, LitFinder, Literature Criticism Online, and Literature Resource Center.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy
A comprehensive collection of periodical content covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Gale Primary Sources: American Fiction, 1774-1920
American Fiction, 1774–1920 contains more than 17,800 titles and is comprised of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Gale Primary Sources: British Literary Manuscripts Online
British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials for research and teaching.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Hispanic Life in America
This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Hispanic American history, culture, and daily life – as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of Hispanic descent.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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Indigenous Life in America
This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Indigenous history, daily life, traumas, and triumphs.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection
Includes 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa.Available To: All Free Library locations
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an authoritative, comprehensive Web-based reference work about philosophy, useful to scholars of all levels as well as the general public.Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.
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