Article Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
- Alt-Press WatchFull-text database of approximately 190 newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. Coverage varies (oldest 1970; most publications 1995 - present)
- America: History and LifeThe premier database for research on the history of the United States and Canada. Please note: Subscription limited to six simultaneous users
- JSTORSearchable full-text journal backfile collection. Individual titles are listed in the E-Journals A-Z.
Specialized Database
- Notable Kentucky African AmericansContains short biographies of notable African Americans with Kentucky roots or ties, organized by profession or subject. Also includes entries for events and locations. Includes links to related resources.
Dissertations
- Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest)
As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day with over a million full-text dissertations. The database offers full text for most dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
Subject Terms for Searching in InfoKat
- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- History -- 20th century
- Migration, Internal -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
- Education -- Kentucky -- History
- Educators -- Kentucky -- Biography
- Literacy -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
- Strip mining -- Environmental aspects -- Kentucky
- Mountaintop removal mining -- Environmental aspects -- Kentucky
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky
- Natural History -- Kentucky
- Forest ecology -- Kentucky
- Kentucky Derby -- History
- Horse racing -- Kentucky
- Bourbon whiskey -- Kentucky -- History
- Distilling industries -- Kentucky -- History
- Tobacco industry -- Kentucky -- History
- World War, 1914-1918 - Kentucky
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Kentucky
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Featured Books
Barrel strength bourbon : the explosive growth of America's whiskey by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2017
Committed to Victory: the Kentucky home front in World War II by Call Number: Young Library, 3rd Floor D769.85.K4 H65 2015Publication Date: 2015
Dancer's Image: the forgotten story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby by Call Number: Special Collections Research Center, 019 Closed Stacks SF355.N38 T63 2011 Section 5-Shelf 4-Tray 2Publication Date: 2011
Freedom on the Border by Call Number: Young Library, 4th Floor E185.93.K3 F74 2009Publication Date: 2009
Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor by Publication Date: 2020
Kentucky and the Great War by Call Number: Young Library, 3rd Floor D570.85.K4 B48 2016Publication Date: 2016
A New History of Kentucky by Call Number: Special Collections Research Center, F451 .K665 2018 Tray 0303Publication Date: 2018
On a Burning Deck. the Road to Akron by Call Number: Special Collections Research Center, Closed Stacks F499.A3 J66 2017Publication Date: 20172 volumes
Our Rightful Place: A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880–1945 by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2020
The Politics of Despair: power and resistance in the Tobacco Wars by Call Number: Young Library, 4th Floor HD9137.K4 C36 2005Publication Date: 2005
Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown by Call Number: Special Collections Research Center, Closed Stacks SF355.S57 K45 2019Publication Date: 2019
Way up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970. by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2010
