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History

History Onesearch

Search for articles across these databases:
Historical Abstracts, JSTOR, Ethnic NewsWatch, American History and Life .

Article Databases - Most Useful

America: History and Life: Bibliographic database covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Americas Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922: Includes Early American Newspapers (Series I,II, and III), 1690-1922 and offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 650 historical American newspapers, focusing on titles published in the 18th century. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Arts & Humanities Citation Index: The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,100 arts and humanities journals, as well as relevant references from over 6,800 science and social sciences periodicals from 1975- Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Historical Abstracts: Abstracts and indexes literature 1964 - date covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history, the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450 - present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
JSTOR: A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia

Article Databases - Also Useful

African-American Biographical Database: Biographies of African Americans living between 1790 and 1950. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
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. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Archives USA: A current directory of 5,500 repositories and 141,178 collections of primary source material across the United States. Using ArchivesUSA Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Biography and Genealogy Master Index: A comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in over 3400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Biography Index: (Changed to H.W. Wilson Jan 2004)Cites more than 2,700 periodicals and 1,800 books, including individual and collective biographies, as well as juvenile literature from 1984-Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Biography Resource Center + the Complete Marquis Who's Who: Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Dictionary of American History: The first comprehensive revision of this classic reference source, originally published in 1940, features updated and revised entries from previous editions, as well as more than 800 new entries covering recent events and topics not covered Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
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. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
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. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Contains records describing journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, medicine and allied historical fields. Citations reflect the contents of more than 1,000 journals, and partial contents of several hundred more. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
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. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is a major resource vital to the study of 19th century Britain, its colonies and the wider world. The papers are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the 19th century. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Humanities and Social Sciences Full Text (plus Retrospective): Periodical coverage in Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984) includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
LLMC Digital: LLMC is a non-profit cooperative serving member libraries' needs for preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and on-line. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500 titles, some 90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history. Its backfile comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform. That backfile, and future filming of some 10,000 volumes per year, are being made available for on-line access on this web site. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
New York Times -- Historical: Offers full-page-images and article images from the New York times from its first issue in 1851 to two years before the current date. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: When complete, this collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Official Index to the London Times (1906-1980): Provides valuable reference material for students of nineteenth and twentieth-century history. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Social Sciences Citation Index: A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia

eJournals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): The directory contains 350 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The directory resides at Lund University and is supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II: Civil War and Reconstruction content from Harper's Weekly, 1857-1877, with index. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
History Journals at FSU: Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Oxford University Press: Online fulltext access to journals published by the Oxford University Press. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Project MUSE: http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals Mirror server if link above is not working.Provides access to the full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture and society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine and health, philosophy, politics, religion, science, sociology, etc. Coverage varies according to title (1993-) Also called Project Muse. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia

eBooks

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 Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans (1639-1800): Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Contains over 36,000 imprints and more than 2.5 million images. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw Shoemaker (1801-1819): Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw Shoemaker (1801-1819) Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Early English Books Online (ProQuest): Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Eighteenth Century Collections Online is based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. This includes over 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800. This online collection is divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and fine arts; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; and reference. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
netLibrary: netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Language may be limited to Spanish. netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: Contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars. Save to del.icio.us Save to Ma.gnolia