History Subject Guide
Library Databases for Historical Research
- America: History & Life
- Although not full-text, this is the best database for searching American historical subjects. Many of the journals abstracted here are carried full-text in other databases we subscribe to, or through FP journal subscriptions.
- Historical Abstracts
- Same user interface as America: History & Life, but this covers the history of the world outside of the United States and Canada.
- Academic Search Premier
- Contains many history journals in full-text covering a wide range of subjects and time periods.
- JSTOR
- Full-text journals in fields including history, anthropology, anthropology and more.
- New York Times Historical, 1852-2001
- Offers full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times dating back to 1852. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue. Use the database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
- History E-Book Collection
- Over 800 full-text history titles relating to various time periods and geographic locations.
History Web Links
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- Best of History Web Sites
- Carrie:
- a full-text electronic library
- Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
- Eurodocs:
- Primary historical documents from Western Europe
- Famous Trials
- Historical Maps Online
- History Co-operative
- includes online journals
- History of Maps & Cartography: THE Gateway To The Subject
- History Matters
- The Info please Timeline Collection
- International Institute of Social History
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
- Internet African History Sourcebook
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
- Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
- Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook
- Library of Congress: Country Studies
- NYPL Digital Gallery
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- The WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
- WESSWEB
- Western European Studies Section from ACRL
- What was the Exchange Rate Then?
- The World War I document archive
Ancient History
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures:
- an Introduction to Ancient World Cultures on the World Wide Web
- The Internet Classics Archive
- LacusCurtius:
- A Gateway to Ancient Rome
- Perseus Project
- Roman Emperors
- Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies
Medieval History
- Early Modern Women Database
- from the University of Maryland
- Feminae:
- medieval women and gender index
- Labyrinth:
- Resources for Medieval Studies
- NetSERF:
- The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
- ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
United States History — General
- Amistad Digital Resource
- A Civil Rights movement repository
- AMDOCS
- Documents for the Study of American History
- American and British History Resources on the Internet
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress
- American Women's History
- A research guide
- BlackHistoryPages.com
- Built in America
- Historic American Building Survey
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- from the U.S. Census Bureau
- Civil Rights Digital Library
- Core Documents of US Democracy
- Documents for the Study of American History
- From Revolution to Reconstruction...and what happened afterwards
- major documents and speeches in U.S. history — primary sources
- Historical United States Census Data Browser
- History and Politics Out Loud
- audio materials from the 20th century
- Mike Wallace Interview Archive
- Video and transcripts from Mike Wallace's early interviews in the 1950's.
- Through the Eye of Katrina
- A special issue from The Journal of American History
- Images of African-Americans from the 19th Century
- from the NYPL
- Making of America: Cornell Site
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Making of America: UMich Site
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
- National Commission on the Terrorist Attacks On the United States
- September 11 Digital Archive
- Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
- WWW Virtual Library- American Indians
- Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Civil War Links
- Civil War Women
- On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University
- Documenting the American South
- Gilder-Lehman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
- Lincoln/Net
- primary materials from Lincoln's time in Illinois
- Valley of the Shadow
- Two Communities in the American Civil War
World War II
- Densho
- The Japanese-American Legacy Project
- National D-Day Museum
- The Perilous Fight
- America's WWII in Color - from PBS
- Rosie the Riveter Trust
- Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home
- World War II
- links from Teacher Oz's History Page
- World War II Poster Collection
- Yad Vashem
The Vietnam War
- Declassified CIA Documents on the Vietnam War
- from Univ. of Saskatchewan Library & Texas Tech
- The Vietnam Project
- from Texas Tech University
- Vietnam War Bibliography
- by Edwin Moises, Clemson University
- Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
- The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975
World History
- Africa South of the Sahara
- selected Internet Resources
- African Studies WWW (University of Pennsylvania)
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
- Australian History on the Internet
- British History Online
- Cambodian Genocide Project
- Chronology of Russian History
- East & Southeast Asia
- Early Canadiana Online
- HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
- from the Library of Congress
- Holocaust Survivors
- Indigenous Studies
- from the WWW Virtual Library
- Irish History on the Web
- LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
- Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide
- Middle East Studies Internet Resources
- Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC)
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
- University of Texas Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC)
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