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ABI
Inform
Online Provider: FirstSearch |
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Description: Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:
accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance,
financial services, human resource management,
industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management,
marketing, and risk management. Citations include abstracts
of articles from over 1,800 current business
periodicals.
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Academic OneFile

Full Text Available: Articles, Reviews
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Description:
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citations to articles in 8,000 scholarly journal titles, nearly 4,000 of which
afford full text. Full-text for some titles may be subject
to publisher-imposed embargo periods. Features a powerful
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Note: This database vendor recommends using MS Internet
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Academic
Search Premier

Full Text Available: Articles
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peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic
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Academic
Universe - Lexis-Nexis

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis
Description: Provides searchable access to a comprehensive
spectrum of full-text information from over 5,900
sources,
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medical, reference resources. Includes:
National and regional newspapers, U.S.
Federal and state case law; Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S.
Supreme Court cases; and
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Access
World News

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: Newsbank, Inc.
Description: Full text content for more than 2,400 local,
regional, national, and international newspapers, including the
following: Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to present), Chicago
Tribune (1985 to present), and New York Times (2000 to present). |
ACM
Digital Library

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: Association for Computing Machinery
Description: Full text for every
Journal, Magazine, and Transaction article ever published by
ACM. However,
the full-text of articles from the ACM's Special Interest Group
newsletters and conference proceedings are not available. For computer science, information systems,
telecommunications, and web technology systems research. |
AGRICOLA
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Description: Citations covering every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. |
Alternative
Press Index
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Required Description:
Citations for articles in almost 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information and hot links to Publisher websites.
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America:
History and Life 
Online Provider: EBSCO
Description: Abstracts only for over 1,700 periodicals covering U.S. and
Canadian history from prehistory to present. Some links to JSTOR.
For research in a variety of disciplines, including: popular
culture, economics, ethnic studies, history, literature, sociology, urban studies, women's and gender studies. |
American
Chemical Society

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: ACS Publications
Description: Now includes the journal archives which provides full
text
searching of over 35 journals from 1879 to current ACS Web Editions.
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American
National Biography
Full Text
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Biographical
entries
Online Provider: Oxford University Press
Description: Biographical
sketches of famous deceased Americans. Full text articles review subjects'
lives chronologically with a descriptive bibliography. |
Annual
Reviews
Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: Annual Reviews
Description: Full
text of scientific reviews published by Annual Reviews.
Biochemistry back to 1997; Cell and Developmental Biology back to
1996; Genetics back to 1996; Immunology back to 1996; Microbiology
back to 1996; Psychology back to 1996; Clinical Psychology back to
2005.
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ArticleFirst

Online Provider: FirstSearch Description:
Citations only for items listed in the table of contents
of over 12,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Offers searching and browsing of articles and journal tables of contents in one database.
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Arts
& Humanities Search

Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password
Required Description:
The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Citations only for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines.
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Biological Abstracts

Online Provider: EBSCO
Description: Complete collection of bibliographic references
covering life science and biomedical research literature published
from more than 4,000 journals internationally. It provides access to
the information in virtually every life science discipline and
contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as
1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year. |
Biology
Digest

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Description: Covers all of the life
sciences, including botany, environmental science, health,
medicine, and zoology. Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students. Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive subject-oriented abstracts. |
Black Thought and Culture
Full
Text Available: Essays Online Provider:
Alexander Street PressDescription: Approximately
100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major
African-American
leaders. Primary source materials including letters, speeches,
prefatory essays, political leaflets, oral histories, interviews,
periodicals and trial transcripts covering 250 years. Teachers,
artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans,
entertainers, and others are represented. |
Book Review Digest Plus Full
Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: H. W. Wilson
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citations, book summaries and review excerpts for more than 660,000
books, including more than 115,000 full text reviews. With coverage
back to 1983, this database pulls reviews from over 4,000 journals
in all subject areas covering arts, sciences, social sciences,
business and the humanities. |
Books
In Print

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Description: Contains citations to in print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books,
audios, and videos from North American publishers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews
from Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School
Library Journal. |
Business
Dateline

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Articles
Online Provider: FirstSearch |
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Description: Provides access to full-text articles from
over 500 regional newspapers, city business magazines and U.S. and Canadian wire services.
An essential business information tool for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more. |
Business
& Industry
Full Text
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Articles,
reports...
Online Provider: FirstSearch |
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Description: A multiindustry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information.
Full text of articles from over 1,100 trade magazines,
newsletters, and other sources. |
Business
Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory

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Brief
company information
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Description: A unique guide to international business information sources. Lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources. |
Business
and Management Practices

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Description: Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications.
Approximately 60% of the records include full text. Can
limit results to "Accounting & Finance", "Human
Resources", or "Marketing & Sales" in
"Department Phrase" field. |
Business
Source Premier

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: EBSCO Description:
Provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business
journals. With
full text back
to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998, this
database
covers all business fields: marketing,
management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional
full text, non-journal content includes market research reports,
industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT
analyses. |
Chemical
Abstracts
Searching Chemical
Abstracts
through SciFinder Scholar is available on selected computers in
libraries at both Downtown and Schaumburg Campuses.
See SciFinder Scholar
for more info. Online Provider: CAS.
Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try
again at a later time.
Note: Chemical
Abstracts is also available via STN Easy. Please contact the library for logon ID and
password.| Restrictions: Access only from 5:00
PM to 5:00 AM, Monday thru Friday. Access all day Saturday and Sunday. |
Chicago
Tribune
Full Text
Available:
Newspaper
Articles
Online Provider: NewsBank Inc.
Description: Complete full-text of Chicago Tribune
from 1985 to date. |
Choice
Reviews Online
Full Text
Available:
Articles
Online Provider: American Library Association
Description:
Authoritative reviews of academic books, electronic media, and
Internet resources with coverage back to 1988. |
Chronicle of Higher Education Online
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Available:
Articles
Online Provider:
The Chronicle
of Higher Education
Description:
The
Chronicle of Higher Education Online
is a primary source of news and information for the college and
university community.
It is published
every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest
issue, daily news, advice columns, discussion forums, current job
listings, etc. Articles published since September 1989 are fully
searchable. |
Contemporary
Authors
Full Text
Available:
Biographies
Online Provider: Gale Description: Contemporary Authors provides complete
biographies on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. |
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select
Full Text
Available:
Essays
Online Provider: Gale Description:
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each
CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study. |
Contemporary
Women's Issues

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Description: Full text is available from
more than 2,200 sources, including newsletters, fact sheets,
research reports, books, and journals published by more than 100 organizations
from around the world. Focuses on timely, relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including
health, human rights, the workplace, legal status, and more. |
CQ
Researcher
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Reports
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Press |
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later time. Description:
Explores a single current events topic in
depth each week. Reports range from social and teen issues
to environment, health, education, science and technology. Objective and balanced, reports feature comments, pro and con,
from all sides of an issue. Coverage back to October
25, 1991. |
CQ Weekly
Full Text
Available:
Reports
Online Provider: Congressional Quarterly
Press
Description:
CQ Weekly
reports non-partisan analysis of news & events happening in the US
Congress. Covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering
nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. |
Credo Reference
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Encyclopedic and Dictionary Entries
Online Provider: Credo
Credo
Reference is an online collection of many reference books
covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such
subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more, all
aggregated and integrated in a robust search engine. Searching
by keyword will yield results from a number of different
reference sources, and entries include cross references to
related topics. Credo Reference is your alternative to
Wikipedia.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Online Provider:
ProQuest
Description: Contains indexes
and summaries of international journal articles, books, and
governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics
in criminal justice such as crime trends, crime prevention and
deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts,
punishment and sentencing.
Coverage is from 1968 to present. |
Current
Biography Illustrated

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Biographies, obituaries...
Online Provider: EBSCO
Description: Full-text access to more
than 25,000 articles and obituaries on celebrities, politicians,
actors, sports figures, writers, etc. that were initially published
in the monthly magazine, Current Biography. Coverage is from 1940
to present. Features more than 19,500 images. |
Dictionary
of Literary Biography
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Essays
Online Provider: Gale Description:
The 11,000 essays of DLB outline the lives and careers of authors from
all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their
work. In addition, each DLB entry contains personal information, a
list of principal works, and suggested further readings. |
Digital Sanborn Maps
Online Provider: ProQuest Description:
Digital access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities. |
Dissertation
Abstracts

Online Provider: FirstSearch |
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Description:
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the US at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. |
Dissertations & Theses @
Roosevelt University
Full Text
Available:
RU
dissertations & theses published after 1996
Online Provider: ProQuest
Description: Full-text access to RU students' dissertations
and theses submitted to UMI by Roosevelt University after 1996.
Citations and abstracts are available for RU dissertations and
theses published in 1996 or earlier. |
DRAM
Online Provider: DRAM
Description: Listen to streaming audio on your computer of
important American music. DRAM contains folk, opera, Native
American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical
theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond. With over
1,500 CDs, DRAM includes recordings from labels
New World Records,
CRI,
Albany,
innova,
Cedille,
XI,
Pogus,
Deep Listening
and
Mutable Music
labels.
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EBSCOhost
Databases

Full Text
Available:
Varies
by database
Online Provider: EBSCO
Description: This link provides access to the EBSCO Homepage
of the EBSCO databases to which the RU Library subscribes.
From this Homepage you can select various databases to search
simultaneously. |
EconLit

Online Provider: FirstSearch |
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Description: Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from
over 600 economics journals. Also indexes many books and dissertation titles. |
Education Research
Complete
Full Text Available: Articles,
books and monographs, and conference papers
Online Provider:
EBSCO
Description:
Education
Research Complete
is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics
covered include all levels of education from early childhood to
higher education, and all educational specialties, such as
multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education
Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than
1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals,
and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and
for numerous education-related conference papers |
Electronic Collections Online (ECO)

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: FirstSearch
Description: Citations only.
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject
areas. Full text for articles is provided only when
available through another FirstSearch database. Articles from many journals can be purchased on a per-article use basis.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Encyclopedic
Entries
Online Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica
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online encyclopedia, features online versions of Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student
Encyclopedia, Britannica World Atlas, and Britannica
Year in Review. Includes the Britannica Internet
Guide with more than 300,000 links to Web
sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. |
Encyclopedia of Associations
(National & Regional,
State and Local Organizations of the U. S. - part of the
Gale Directory Library)
Online Provider: Gale
Description:
Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of
Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies,
trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious
organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas.
Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and
local organizations. |
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online
Full Text
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Encyclopedic
Entries
Online Provider: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience |
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concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a
later time.
Description: McGraw-Hill's
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online provides fully
searchable content to over 8,500 online articles in the 10th Edition
of the McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It covers
all major areas of science and technology. |
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ERIC

Online Provider: EBSCO | Note: ERIC is also available from Online
Providers
Ovid and FirstSearch. ERIC
from FirstSearch
Description:
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national
information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education.
ERIC contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for
additional
information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
EBSCO provides links to recent "ED" documents.
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FactSearch

Online Provider: FirstSearch |
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Description: Abstracts only for
articles providing statistical data to emphasize a point or
reinforce an argument. Each record contains a full citation
and a detailed abstract containing facts and statistics with references to
original sources. Information is excerpted from mainstream
and alternative serials, including the Congressional Record and
British Parliamentary Debates. |
Facts On File -World News Digest: 1940 to Current Year
Full Text
Available:
News reports
Online Provider: Facts On File Description:
Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World
News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other
core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues,
statistics and people.
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Facts On File -Issues & Controversies
Full Text
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Essays
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Full text essays on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the
day. A dependable online source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective
information. Allows keyword searching of full text on any
topic. |
Facts On File - World Almanac Encyclopedia
Full Text
Available:
Encyclopedic
entries
Online Provider: Facts On File Description:
Complete full text of the more than 26,000 articles in Funk
& Wagnalls New Encyclopedia with additional reports and
content. |
Facts On File -Today's Science
Full Text
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Brief
news reports
Online Provider: Facts On File Description:
Drawing on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in
the United States and abroad, this database covers all the topics
that today’s students study: health, the environment,
technology, life science, physical science, earth and space
science, and science and society.
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Film &
Television Literature Index with Full Text

Full Text
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movie reviews, and images Online Provider: EBSCO
Description:
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
is a comprehensive full-text database covering the entire spectrum
of television and film. The database will provide indexing and
abstracts for more than 600 publications, as well as full text for
more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books. It includes Variety Movie
Reviews and a collection of excellent motion picture images. |
FirstSearch Databases

Full Text
Available:
Varies
by database
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Does not include FirstSearch
databases requiring password access Description:
This link provides access to the FirstSearch Homepage of the
FirstSearch databases to which the RU Library subscribes.
From this Homepage you can search multiple databases
simultaneously. You can also view a table showing Available
Titles in FirstSearch. |
Foundation
Directory
Online Provider: Foundation
Center
| Note: Password Required | Restrictions: Faculty Use In Library Only.
Description: A
web-based subscription service, providing searchable access to the
Foundation Center's information database of foundations. |
Gale Literary Databases
 Full Text
Available:
Biographies,
Essays
Online Provider: Gale
Search up to
three databases at once; Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary
of Literary Biography.
Contemporary Authors provides biographical
and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and
international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select
collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary
authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and
further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography
provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the
lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from
all eras and genres.
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Gale's Literary Index
Online Provider: Gale
Description: Integrates indexes from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary
Biography and Gale's five Literature Criticism series. |
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Full Text
Available:
Encyclopedic
entries
Online Provider: GaleDescription:
The Gale Virtual Reference Library is
an online full-text collection of valuable reference books in
multiple subject areas. This collection includes many multidisciplinary reference e-books, including some with primary
source documents. The collection can be browsed by subject or
searched by keyword. Individual titles can also be accessed from
the RU Library Catalog.
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GEOBASE

Online Provider: FirstSearch |
Note: Password Required
Description: Abstracts only.
Covers worldwide literature from over 2,000 journals on geography, geology,
ecology and their related disciplines. |
Google Scholar
Online Provider: Google
Description: Google Scholar provides a broad search that
includes selected research papers, professional society and interest
group publications, conference reports, book summaries, and media
reports. Results include abstracts and citations, drafts,
works in progress, reprints, and peer-reviewed journal articles.
Not everything in Google Scholar is free. This link to Google
Scholar connects you to the full-text of articles provided through
RU Library journal subscriptions. |
Government Printing Office (GPO)
Online Provider: FirstSearch
Description: Providing citations only
for records published by the GPO since July 1976, this is the
online version of the GPO Monthly Catalog. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings,
judiciary materials, documents issued by executive departments,
and more. |
GreenFILE

Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: EBSCO
Description: Providing
indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as
Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Its collection of
scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes all
aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming,
green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable
energy, recycling, etc. |
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Grove Music Online (see
Oxford Music Online) |
HarpWeek
(Harper's Weekly)
Full Text Available: Articles
Online Provider: HarpWeek Description:
The full text of Harper's Weekly magazine, Ame | |