Databases

The Middle English Dictionary provides a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. It includes all entries from the 15,000 page printed Middle English Dictionary, and tools to search for words, headwords, phrases, and quotations.

The library also provides access to the Oxford English Dictionary online. This major reference work provides a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The online edition is based on the 2nd edition and supplements published from 1993-1997, and now includes regular updates of new and revised entries.

Additional general and specialized dictionaries are available on the library web site. All can be used by currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online is an important source for the quantitative facts of American history. Last updated in 1975, this new edition includes statistics from over 37,000 data series collected from over 1,000 sources. Topics include population, work and welfare, economics, government, international relations, and more. Data tables are accompanied by essays that provide the context for these statistics.

This online edition offers advanced features such as the ability to create custom charts, graphs, plots, and tables and to download tables in Excel or CSV.

Historical Statistics of the United States is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.

Black Studies Center is a source for scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and other resources for researching African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa. It combines several important research collections: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) Full Text, The Chicago Defender historical backfile, (1909 - 1975) and Black Literature Index (1827 - 1940.)

Black Studies Center is available to currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty, and staff, from both on-campus and off-campus locations.