FSU - resources by subject - American and Florida Studies

Article Databases - Most Useful

America: History and Life: Bibliographic database covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

American Periodical Series: Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900. Covers special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.

History Cooperative: A premier resource for history on the web, History Cooperative offers the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians journals online in full-text with a searchable database.

History Resource Center: US: The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Documenting the American South: A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals: Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

PALMM: Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials: PALMM (Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials) is a program of the libraries of the Florida Board of Education's Division of Colleges and Universities (DCU) designed to provide support to individual and cooperative digital library initiatives.

Social Sciences Full-Text: Covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations from 1983-Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

American Memory: A collection of digital texts and images, including books, manuscripts, photographs, and film created from the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress
Dictionary of American History: includes very brief to multi-page signed entries on topics in American History.