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History (43)

Subcategories: US History - Primary Sources, US History - Secondary Sources, World History - Primary Sources, World History - Secondary Sources

Subject Librarian - Kendra Van Cleave

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1. America: History and Life info
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. ...
2. Historical Abstracts info
Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, wh ...
3. JSTOR info
Contains the full text of over 169 journals available from JSTOR....
4. International Medieval Bibliography info
All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa...

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5. 19th Century Masterfile (Poole's Plus)
Poole's Plus is a reference service for scholars, bibliographers, and students of the Nineteenth Century....
6. Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 1,560 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals...
7. America's Historical Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876)
Full-text reproductions of newspapers published in the United States and American colonies from 1690 to 1876. Documents are available as page images ...
8. American periodicals series online, 1740-1900
Over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and historically-signifi...
9. American State Papers, 1789-1838
Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817 ...
10. Annee philologique
A database published by the Societe Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, with the Database of Classical Bibliography....
11. Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: The Middle East Online, Series 1
Covers Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict a wide range of primary source material, at the National Archives, London, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1...
12. Bibliography of Asian Studies
This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social s...
13. Bibliography of Native North Americans
Contains more than 60,000 citations to books, essays, journal articles and dissertations on Native North American history, life and culture. Includes ...
14. Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Index to biographical sources on over 4 million people whose biographies appear in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries with a total of...
15. Black Thought and Culture
More than 100,000 pages of monographs, speeches, essays articles, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from earliest times to 1975...
16. Chicano Database
The Chicano Database is a comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics and the ...
17. Digital National Security Archive
contains comprehensive collection available of significant primary government documents central to U.S.foreign and military policy since 1945. The resource now includes 31 collections....
18. Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
Full-text reproductions of books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the United States and American colonies from 1639 to 1800. Documents are ava...
19. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Full-text reproductions of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the United States from 1801 to 1809 (collection will eventually inclu...
20. Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
is the fully searchable facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide...
21. GenderWatch
GenderWatch (enlarging the scope of Women 'R') is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, spe...
22. HAPI Online
"The Hispanic American Periodicals Index is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico......
23. Historical Statistics of the United States
Quantitative facts of American History. Data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, trade etc...
24. Humanities Full Text
Humanities Full Text contains abstracting and indexing coverage for all 400 periodicals included in Humanities Index as well as the full text of over ...
25. International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and n...
26. LexisNexis Congressional
Citations to U.S. Congressional Hearings, Documents, Reports and Committee Prints. Also includes legislative histories of public laws. Includes some ...
27. Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
systematic & non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. 1900 and earlier to present...
28. Nation Archive
The Nation Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of The Nation, beginning with its first issue in 1865 all the way to the present. ...
29. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's these...
30. ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue...
31. ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986)
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue....
32. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Chicago Defender(1910 - 1975)
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue....
33. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2005)
Full-text and full-image reproductions of The New York Times rom 1851 to 2005. Coverage is cover to cover, including advertisements. Documents are a...
34. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)
offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue....
35. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1991)
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue....
36. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877 - 1992)
The Washington Post (1877-1992) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. ...
37. Readers' Guide Retrospective
Reader's Guide Retrospective provides citations to articles from general interest magazines published from 1890-1982....
38. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's.Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration,...
39. Times Digital Archive
Access every complete page of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985. Every headline, article and image. Every front page, editorial, birth and death notice, and ad that appeared....
40. U.S. Congressional Serial Set
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes ...
41. Web of Science
The ISI Web of Science is the Web interface for institutional sitewide access to the ISI Citation Databases, which cover over 8,000 international jour...
42. Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
ncludes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography...
43. WorldCat
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century....
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