History (Selected Resources)

History (All Resources)

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project  The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is an online, fully searchable collection of 1,700 high-quality books in history and the humanities, recommended and reviewed by historians.

America: History And Life  Periodical index of U.S. and Canadian history.

American Civil War Letters & Diaries  Original letters, diaries, memoirs from the Civil War.

American Civil War Research Database  Online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Contains information on >4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, with 15,000 photographs.

American Memory  Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

American Periodical Series  Digital images of articles from “Indexes to Early American Periodicals” (1741 to 1935), thought to include all known periodical publications that had their inception & ending during this period.

American Periodicals Series II (1800-1850 Index only)  An American History index with extensive coverage of significant magazines and periodicals of the 19th Century. Includes pro-slavery and abolitionist periodicals as well as women’s and children’s magazines of the time. Coverage is from 1800 to 1850.

American Reference Library  Full text for over 250 volumes, including Public Papers of the Presidents, Supreme Court decisions, and National Party Platforms.

ArchiveGrid (RLG)  Archival collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers can learn about the items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.

British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries  Largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers.

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective  Full text of major articles from 2,500+ issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury & the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.

Early American Imprints (Evans 1639-1800)  A foundation set for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more.

Early Encounters in North America  Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between different groups of people in North America. Indians, Africans, Europeans, and Americans were working out their futures in a complex web of tribal and imperial rivalry, interacting with each other at the most intimate and personal levels.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)  ECCO contains English-language and foreign-language titles published in the UK between 1701 and 1800, plus thousands of important works from the Americas. 150,000 printed works (33 million pages) covering the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution.

Footnote (was iArchives)  Explore millions of original documents from the world's archives and from individuals. Annotate important information on the image, easily organize and share your findings or collaborate with people who have similar interests.

Hand Press Book Database (OCLC)  Includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries. Records come from national cataloging projects & individual libraries' databases.

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age   Web Access Agreement - HarpWeek: The Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age I, II, III & IV (1857-1901) (Full Text Search available from 1857 through 1912)

Heritage Quest (UMI)  Assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.

Historical Abstracts  Guide to the history of the world (except North America) from 1450 to the present.

JSTOR  Back issues of nearly 800 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from the first issue to 3-5 years prior to the current year.

Making of America  Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, & science and technology. Contains ~9,500 books & 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Making of the Modern World (Gale)  "The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images of 61,000 works of literature on economics & business published 1450-1850. Contains material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade & transport.

MasterFile Premier (Ebsco)  Designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for nearly 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more

New York Times - Historical Issues (ProQuest)  Full-text access to all issues 1851-2001. Issues from 1980 to today are in the Newsstand (ProQuest) database.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories  includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information which provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

Oral History Online  Indexing to >1,800 collections of oral history in English from around the world. By 4Q04, it will point to 300,000 pages of full text, 2,500 collections, 600 video files, and 1,600 audio files.

Original Sources  A compilation of thousands of historical sources, including original documents, eyewitness accounts, and classical historical accounts. Materials are arranged in 8 major categories: World History; U.S. History; Science and Mathematics; Social Science; Literature; Political Science and Law; Language; Philosophy & Religion.

Periodicals Index Online (was Periodical Contents Index)  Index to articles in the arts, humanities & social sciences (1770-1995)

Reader's Guide Retrospective  Indexing of general-interest periodical articles published in the U.S. from 1890 through 1982.

Sabin Americana, 1500-1926  Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection 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, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. Over 6 million pages from 29,000 works.

Testments to the Holocaust (Gale)  Electronic holdings of the Wiener Library in London, England. The collection includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; and a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism. The core of the collection is 1,200 eyewitness accounts dealing with the pogrom of 1938 through the scope of the Holocaust. Also included are photographic materials.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set  Reports, Documents & Journals of the U.S. Congress: 1817-1980

World History Collection (EBSCO)  Includes history from Africa, Asia, North & South America, Europe & the Middle East. Contains nearly 200 full-text titles, covering a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, sociology and more.