| Interdisciplinary |
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. |
| OmniFile 1994-Present Topics: business, education, science, humanities, social sciences, general |
| ProQuest Direct Search several dozen ProQuest indexes to research and newspaper articles from 4,000+ periodicals. This link searches Research Library, ABI/Inform, Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest Newspapers, and many more. |
| SIRS Full-text articles on arts, humanities, government & general research. |
| Subject Specific |
| 19th Century British Library Newspapers parts 1 & 2 Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. |
| A to Z Maps Online The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. Updated monthly. |
| Access World News Research Collection (NewsBank) Find current & archived state, national & international articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text newspapers and other sources including the Idaho Statesman, New York Times, and the Washington Post. Also includes Access Business News, Access International News, Access Military, Government, and Defense, Access Newswires & Transcripts, and Acceda Noticias. |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book Project The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project is an online, fully searchable collection of nearly 2,000 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 County Histories The states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are included in American County Histories to 1900. New York & Pennsylvania are divided into 4 parts. Each part contains >12,000 pages of text, plates and maps from all counties. |
| American History in Video The largest & richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. Allows students & researchers to analyze historical events & the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial & governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage & important documentaries. This release includes over 3146 titles, equaling approximately 765 hours. |
| American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library |
| American Periodical Series Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. |
| 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. |
| Brill's New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World The best encyclopedia in English for classical studies. It covers both the ancient world and the reception of classics in the modern world. |
| 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. |
| Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 Original British Foreign Office documents from the National Archives of the UK, representing the majority of Britain's information flow from occupied territories in Europe, and from Germany itself after the cessation of normal peacetime diplomatic channels. Resistance, economic and social conditions and intelligence operations are all reported through telegrams, letters, coded messages and reports. |
| 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. |
| Eighteenth Century Journals Portal Rare journals printed between c1685 & 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political & literary life. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion. |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 A bibliographic database of European works that relate to the Americas. This resource comes from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750.” The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. |
| Films on Demand A state-of-the-art streaming video platform that makes it easy to incorporate educational programs from Films Media Group into your content management systems, online lesson plans, distance learning courseware, or electronic card catalog system. |
| Fold3 (was Footnote) United States Military records; non-military resources include: city directories, naturalizations, vital records, Native American records. |
| Foreign Office Files for China The complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1949 to 1980. |
| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies A collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. The interviews consist of over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. |
| 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 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. |
| Historic Map Works Library Edition Over 100,000 land ownership maps detailing the geographic & development history of the United States over several hundred years. There is extensive coverage of rural and suburban areas, as well as cities and towns across America. |
| Historical Abstracts Guide to the history of the world (except North America) from 1450 to the present. |
| Historical Newspapers (Accessible Archives) The Virginia Gazette: 1736 - 1780; African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Liberator 1831-1865; The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800; South Carolina Newspapers: 1732 - 1780 |
| Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines Contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers Covers 3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865 & originally printed in 16 different cities. |
| Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts A unique resource cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning series of local history books. It will include over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life. All of the images and texts have been indexed, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more. |
| Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Poster and Ephemera Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database holds >1400 images & will contain 75,000 when complete. |
| Iraq, 1914-1974: The Middle East Online An essential contemporary resource for the understanding of modern Iraq, this online archive of primary source documents delivers first-hand government records covering the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of the new state, up to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Major strategic issues and policy-making statements are set out in their full context, revealing the internal workings of the Mandate administration, international relations and treaties, the importance of oil, and all matters of local and regional importance. |
| 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 ~10,000 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. |
| Medieval Travel Writing Manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia. |
| 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. |
| Nixon Years, 1969-1974 These files enable researchers to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon's handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration's notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation. |
| 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. |
| North American Indian Drama Contains 172 plays by 33 playwrights, with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more. The only resource of its kind, documenting contemporary Indian Drama through original essays, reviews, interviews, photographs, production histories & articles. |
| North American Indian Thought and Culture The largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. With 100,000 pages of content when complete, including biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs, the database presents the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others. |
| 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. |
| Overland Trails: Travels in the West 1800-1880 (Gale) Comprised of selections from the microfilm collections Travels in the West and Southwest and the Plains and Rockies, this digital collection provides a unique window on Western History. Selections are based on the bibliographies, The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, and The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869. |
| Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700 The quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. This database from Adam Matthew Digital contains manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. |
| Periodicals Index Online (was Periodical Contents Index) Index to articles in the arts, humanities & social sciences (1770-1995) |
| Post War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 Essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. This online archive covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. From The National Archives of the UK, and The Wiener Library, London. |
| 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. |
| Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 Contains diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Currently has 35,000 pages; will expand to 150,000 pages of material at completion. NOTE: Some content might be offensive. |
| Slavery and Anti-Slavery A four-part collection devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery. It includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials. The first part documents the debates surrounding slavery and its abolition in the U.S. but also in the UK and other European countries, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. |
| Testaments 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 |
| Victorian Popular Culture An essential resource for the study of popular entertainment in the 19th & early 20th centuries. Includes spiritualism, sensation, magic, circuses, sideshows, freaks, music hall, theatre, and popular entertainment. |
| 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. |
| World History in Video (Alexander Street Press) Documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content is global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. |