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Databases

Most Important Resources
Additional Resources for Articles, Books, etc.
Primary Sources
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Biographies
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Library Catalogs
Dissertations

Most Important Resources

America: History and Life: Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on North American history and culture. The best source for finding journal articles on United States and Canadian history. Includes book reviews. 1964 - present.; More info on America: History and Life; Help using America: History and Life

Historical Abstracts: Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on modern history (1450 - present) from all regions of the world except North America. The best source for finding journal articles on non-North American history. Includes few book reviews. 1955 - present; More info on Historical Abstracts; Help using Historical Abstracts

Additional Resources for Articles, Books, etc.

Arts and Humanities Search: A citation index to arts and humanities journals.; More info on Arts and Humanities Search

Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale: Index to books on the medieval period.; More info on Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale

BREPOLS Databases: Latin texts and medieval history.; More info on BREPOLS Databases

International Medieval Bibliography Online: The world's leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; More info on International Medieval Bibliography Online; Help using International Medieval Bibliography Online

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Indexes journals, essays, books, and reviews covering European history from 400-1700.; More info on Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

JSTOR: Provides full-text and images of over 450 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines.; More info on JSTOR

Library of Latin Texts: The world's leading database for Latin texts, containing over 2800 works.; More info on Library of Latin Texts; Help using Library of Latin Texts

Monumenta Germaniae Historica: More info on Monumenta Germaniae Historic

Project MUSE: Full text of scholarly journals covering the humanities and social sciences.; More info on Project MUSE

Primary Sources

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American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography: Provides full text interviews of former slaves conducted by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in the 1930's. Indexed by subject, narrator, "master," interviewer, and location.; More info

Annals of American History

Provides full text of speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials from 1493 to present.
Also includes pictures, video clips, and audio of famous speeches.
Searchable by time period, author, or topic.

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Archives USA: Directory of American archives.; More info on Archives USA

British Periodicals: Provides the full text of hundreds of periodicals from the 1680's to the 1930's.; More info on British Periodicals

Dolley Madison Digital Edition: A complete edition of all of her known correspondence.; More info on Dolley Madison Digital Editio

Early American Imprints, Series I (Evans): Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in the American colonies and United States 1639 to 1800.Covers American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more.; More info on Early American Imprints, Series I (Evans)

Early American Imprints, Series II (Shaw-Shoemaker): Digitized texts of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in America from 1801 to 1810Covers American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more.; More info on Early American Imprints, Series II (Shaw-Shoemaker)

Early Encounters in North America: Reveals the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850.; Provides letters, diaries, memoirs, prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, photographs, and original facsimile pages.; More info on Early Encounters in North America

Eighteenth-Century Collections Online: Full text of 150,000 eighteenth century books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons and tracts.; Includes every significant work published in the United Kingdom and also thousands published in Early America and the United States; More info on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online

Gerritsen Collection: Provides digital images of books, pamphlets, and periodicals covering the history of women, women's rights, women's suffrage, and feminism for women's history, 1543-1945.; More info on Gerritsen Collection; Help using Gerritsen Collection

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Provides the fulltext of parliamentary papers from the British House of Commons since 1801.
These are the working documents of the British government, "covering all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed."
Debates (Hansard), the House of Commons Journal, or daily business papers, such as Order papers and Votes and Proceedings, are not covered by this project.
Guide to parliamentary papers.

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North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Full text of diaries and letters of 1500 American women, from the colonial period to 1950.; More info on North American Women's Letters and Diaries; Help using North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

Provides over 20,000 full text documents, plus images, a chronology, and a dictionary.
Includes both primary and secondary sources

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Newspaper & Magazine Articles

Accessible Archives: Full text of colonial and Civil War-era newspapers, 19th-century African-American newspapers, and more.; More info on Accessible Archives

American Periodicals Series: Full text of over 1100 American periodicals from 1740 to 1900.; More info on American Periodicals Series

America's Historical Newspapers: Full text of hundreds of newspapers published from 1690-1889.; More info on America's Historical Newspapers

EBSCO Premier Databases: Includes Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier, for periodical and journal articles during the last half of the Twentieth Century and the early Twentyfirst Century..

Ethnic NewsWatch: Full text of over 250 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press in the United States.; More info on Ethnic NewsWatch

Humanities and Social Science Retrospective: Indexes articles from English-language periodicals from 1907-1984.; More info on Humanities and Social Science Retrospective

The [London] Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985: Provides the full text of the newspaper from 1785 to 1985.; More info on The [London] Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985; For current coverage, see London Times, 1982-present

New York Times Historical: Provides full text of the newspaper from 1851 to three years ago.; More info on New York Times Historical
Periodicals Archive Online: Full text of nearly 400 magazines and journals. Please note: In order to use this database, you must enable pop-ups in your Web browser.; More info on Periodicals Archive Online

Readers' Guide Retrospective: Index covering 1890-1982 of over 500 leading magazines published in the United States.; More info on Readers' Guide Retrospective

Wall Street Journal Historical, 1889-1989: Full text of the newspaper from 8 July 1889 through 31 Dec 1989.; More info on Wall Street Journal Historical, 1889-1989; For full text of the newspaper from 1982 to the present, see Wall Street Journal

Washington Post Historical, 1877-1988: Provides the full text of the newspaper from 1877-1988.; More info on Washington Post Historical, 1877-1988; For full text of the newspaper from 1987 to the present, see The Washington Post

Biographies

American National Biography
Provides full-text biographical information on deceased figures from American history who have lived since 1450. Each entry contains a bibliography which includes citations for primary sources. More info

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 reference books. More info

Biography Resource Center
Current and historical full text biographies from Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. Includes Marquis Who's Who. More info

Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford)
Provides full-text biographical information on deceased figures from the UK and the British Commonwealth who have lived since the 4th century BC. Each entry contains a bibliography which includes citations for primary sources, as well as the location of any archives, existing likenesses, and, in some cases, wealth at death. More info

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

Daily Life through History (via Greenwood Digital Collection): Full text. Covers the ancient world, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and England and America.; More info on Daily Life through History

Gale Virtual Reference U.S. History Encyclopedias

Provides the full text of two encyclopedias and a history dictionary.

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Historic Events of the Twentieth Century

Full text. Covers the civil rights movement, the collapse of communism, the Holocaust, and both world wars.

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Historical Statistics of the United States

Provides thousands of statistical tables, which can be downloaded into Excel and viewed as graphs.

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Oxford African-American Studies Center

Provides articles, biographies, timelines, images, maps, primary sources, and more.

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Oxford Reference

Full text of over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works covering a variety of subjects.

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Library Catalogs

WorldCat: A catalog for the holdings of most academic and public libraries primarily in the U.S. and some foreign countries as well. Includes books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, films, videos, and maps in print, microform, and electronic format. Does not index individual periodical articles.; More info on WorldCat

Catalogs of Other Libraries

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