A-Z Databases

A multidisciplinary database covering many subjects. The Library of Congress and GBH in Boston have embarked on a project to preserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting. The American people have made a huge investment in public radio and television over many decades, calculated at more than $10 billion. The American Archive will ensure that this rich source for American political, social, and cultural history and creativity will be saved and made available once again to future generations.

Approximately 30% of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) collection is accessible anywhere in the United States through the Online Reading Room on the AAPB website.

This collection provides in-real-time reporting of an event, place, or person. These articles take the reader from the Boston Tea Party to Turner’s Rebellion to the New York City Draft Riots to Haymarket Strike to the anti-Communist demonstrations of the early 1920s.

This collection offers both a historical overview and a framework for understanding protest and its movements in American history. Woven into the fabric of local and regional history, Part II provides an engaging narrative history on social, political, and economic movements and their actions.

The rich newspaper assemblage found in Part I will give researchers an unparalleled look at administrative and community responses to diseases devastating to public health as found in the press from colonial America through World War I. This database provides a vivid picture ripe for essential historic exploration to compare past outbreaks, civilian and governmental reactions, and disease control practices to what is happening today.

Part II: Books, 1823-1928 allows users access to monographs and county histories and the wealth of details these resources can provide on many aspects of public health and contagious diseases. Searches will retrieve results from books published in the 19th century through World War I.

The Medical Letter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases in its newsletter, The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics. Providing:

• Evidence-based, peer-reviewed evaluations of new FDA-approved drugs with conclusions reached by a consensus of experts
• New information on previously approved drugs including pivotal clinical trials, new indications, and safety warnings
• Consensus recommendations for the preferred and alternative treatments for common disorders
  Comparative reviews of drugs for a given indication with particular attention to clinical efficacy, adverse effects, drug interactions, and cost