Research Guides: HIST 302: Arab-Israeli Conflict: Commercial Databases

Commercial and Other Academic Databases

Numerous commercial databases and multiple archival sources can be used to find information on Middle East history and culture which are available through Purdue Libraries website. Examples include:

Aga Khan Documentation Center
The Aga Khan Documentation Center of the MIT Libraries (AKDC@MIT) is a research center focused on the built environment of Muslim societies, broadly defined.

America: History and Life
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.

Gertrude Bell Archive
The Gertrude Bell Archive contains digitised images of Bell's photographs, letters, and diary entries. In 2017, the archive was added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World register in recognition of its global significance as a heritage resource.

Historical Abstracts
Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of books, book reviews and dissertations on the history of all parts of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present.
Humanities Full Text
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Humanities Full Text™ provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.

King-Crane Commission Digital Collection: Oberlin College Archives
During Summer 1919, this commission led by Oberlin College President Henry Churchill King and Chicago businessman Charles R. Crane travelled to areas within former Ottoman Territories to gain information about the future political aspirations of this area's population as the regional future was being determined at the Paris Peace Conference.

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Collection of publicly available high quality and the most reliable historical economic data on nominal (current-price) measures and real (constant-price measures). Data presented here covers the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Spain. Examples of featured data sets cover topics such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Index (CPI), wages, earnings, interest rates, stocks, and currency exchange rates with coverage of these items varying from county-to-country.

The Military Balance
Annual reports and analyses on national and international military spending and personnel by Great Britain's International Institute of Strategic Studies (Purdue Career account login required).
Late Ottoman Empire & Early Turkish Republic: Primary Sources
Norwich University Kreitzberg Library research guide.
World War I in Palestine and the Sinai
Library of Congress photo archive.
American Colony in Jerusalem 1870-2006
Library of Congress photo archive.
Sources for Historical Photographs of the Middle East
Library of Congress compiled resource linking to various international repositories.

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Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis -- including US Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for newspapers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

London Daily Telegraph Archive
Features holdings from 1855-2000.
Times of London Digital Archive
Features holdings from 1785-1985.