Policing and Social Justice Lab (ONGOING)
Professor Lassiter, Fall 2025, Winter 2026, and Spring/Summer 2026
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Key Archives
Key Digitized Archives & Databases
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National Criminal Justice Reference ServiceIncludes historical documents from police departments and government-funded studies of crime and policing.
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Nexis UniFull-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
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ProQuest History VaultKeyword searchable database of digitized collections from the Library of Congress and the National Archives.
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Archives UnboundDigitized collections include FBI surveillance records of civil rights and black power groups.
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ProQuest CongressionalIndexes and abstracts Congressional committee publications, including hearings, committee prints, reports, documents, and public laws
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HathiTrust Digital LibraryIncludes FBI Uniform Crime Reports and other public domain and government documents from U.S. research libraries.
Additional Legal Archives
Finding Newspaper Articles
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers27 U.S. and 32 international English-language newspapers. Includes mainstream titles as well as African-American and Jewish-American papers.
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Black Historical NewspapersProvides full-text access to the complete backfiles of nine major African American community newspapers.
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ProQuest NewsstandFull text of 1,300+ English-language newspapers from across the U.S. and around the world.
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Nexis UniFull-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
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Access World News [NewsBank]Full text of 600+ U.S. newspapers and 260+ English-language newspapers from other countries worldwide.
Video and Visual Database Resources
Finding Scholarly Articles
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America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)Index of scholarly literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
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Black Studies CenterCross-searchable gateway to historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO)Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
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JSTORProvides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
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Social Sciences Abstracts (with Full Text)Covers 625 of the most important English-language journals across all the social sciences.
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Sociological AbstractsProvides access to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.
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U-M Library Articles SearchUse Articles Search to locate scholarly and popular articles, as well as reference works and materials from open access archives.
Making Maps
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Social ExplorerProvides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. Create maps and reports.
Last Updated: Sep 22, 2025 12:37 PM
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