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200	Religion
206	Leaders and organization
207	Missions and religious education
323	Civil and Political Rights
371	School Managment (also used for Liberal Arts Education; Education, Humanist)
378	Higher Education
780	Music
810	American Literature
973	History - United States
975	History - Southeastern United States
976	History - South central United States

378.7691 B48 Berea College

Ideas for Placing Berea in a National Context

Southern Cultures
Quarterly journal published by the Center for the Study of the American South at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - includes articles on Southern Appalachia.
A History of Education in Kentucky by William E. Ellis
Link to e-Book
Print edition - 370.9769 E47h 2011
Database of the Smokies - UT
This Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project at the University of Tennessee Libraries database is a free online bibliography of Smoky Mountain material published since 1934. Compliments the print work Terra Incognita, which includes published material from 1544-1934.
Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America
edited by Laura Sayre and Sean Clark
Print edition - 630.71 F462 2011
Marching for Civil Rights
Selma, 1965: The March that Changed the Southby Charles E. Fager
American Fact Finder
Generate census fact sheets to find demographics by city, state, county, or zip code. Potential info includes: educational attainment, income level, gender, race, and ethnicity.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals and thousands of e-books across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch™, the current file, covers 1990 to present and includes newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The publications offer both national and regional coverage. Ethnic NewsWatch™ is the only current database devoted to presenting multi-ethnic and multi-cultural publications in one resource. Coverage begins in 1990 and is updated daily with new content. Many of the titles are not found in any other aggregated resource.
Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Project Muse Standard Journal Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of approximately 40 scholarly journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Coverage for some titles extends back to 1993.

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Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice This link opens in a new window
This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. (publisher's website)

The African-American Mosaic
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
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The Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the Library of Congress's African- American collections