Subject: History
Key Databases:
America: History and Life
Indexes materials relating to United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present day.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes materials covering world history from 1450 through the present day.
History Resource Center: US
Provides access to full-text articles, reference resources, and primary documents relating to U.S. history. This resource also provides links to audio, video, maps, and images.
Related databases:
Academic Search Premier
This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.
African American Biographical Database
Contains biographies obtained from a variety of resources including slave narratives, biographical dictionaries, and obituaries.
America: History and Life
Indexes materials relating to United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present day.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Beta)
Sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site provides full-text images of newspaper pages from 1900-1910.
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Full-text access to articles appearing in the Charleston Mercury, New York Herald, and Richmond Enquirer between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 15, 1865.
Early American Newspapers (1690-1876)
Searchable images from hundreds of historical newspapers.
HarpWeek
Images of Harper’s Weekly magazine covering the years 1857-1912.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes materials covering world history from 1450 through the present day.
History Resource Center: US
Provides access to full-text articles, reference resources, and primary documents relating to U.S. history. This resource also provides links to audio, video, maps, and images.
International medieval bibliography - online
New York Times
Full-text coverage of the New York Times from 1995 to the present day.
New York Times (historical backfile)
Full-text coverage of the New York Times from 1851-2001.
PAIS International
The Public Affairs Information Service provides access to thousands of articles, books, documents, reports, and grey literature relating to social science and politics.
Reader's Guide Retrospective
Historical indexing to many popular magazines published in the United States since 1890.
Times (London, England) Digital Archive
Full-text coverage of the Times of London newspaper from 1785-1985.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes more than 1600 journals in political science and related fields.
E-journal collections:
Cambridge Journals Online
Searchable access to the journals from Cambridge University Press.
JSTOR
This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. A wide selection of disciplines are included.
Project Muse
Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities.
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