Research Resources: Subject Guides: History

Contents

1. Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
2. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks
3. Selected Online Resources
4. General Resources
5. Specialized Resources
6. Full-Text Resources

Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases

• ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
• America History and Life
• America's Historical Imprints
• America's Historical Newspapers
• American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
• Archive Finder
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement
• Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
• Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement
• Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, see America's Historical Newspapers
• Historical Abstracts
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Humanities Full Text
• ITER Bibliography
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Bibliographies

• Ancient Europe, 8000 BC to 1000 AD: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World
• Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History
• Companion to British History
• Concise Atlas of World History
• Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
• Dictionary of African Biography
• Dictionary of British History (Market House)
• Dictionary of British History (Oxford)
• Dictionary of British Place-Names
• Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
• Dictionary of Contemporary History 1945 to the Present
• Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• Dictionary of English Folklore
• Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology
• Dictionary of London Place-Names
• Dictionary of World History
• Dynasties of the World
• Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Encyclopaedia of Islam *Limited to 3 Simultaneous Users.
• Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
• Encyclopedia of North American Indians
• French 17
• Great American History Fact-Finder
• Guide to the Ancient World
• Index Islamicus
• Kings and Queens of Britain
• New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
• New Dictionary of Eponyms
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Oxford Companion to American Military History
• Oxford Companion to Australian History
• Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
• Oxford Companion to Black British History
• Oxford Companion to British History
• Oxford Companion to Canadian History
• Oxford Companion to Irish History
• Oxford Companion to Military History
• Oxford Companion to Scottish History
• Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
• Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
• Oxford Companion to United States History
• Oxford Companion to World War II
• Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
• Ships of the World
• Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
• Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History From Antiquity to World War II
• Who's Who in the Roman World
• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century

Selected Online Resources

General Resources

The American Historical Association

The professional association for all historians.

Historical US Data Census Browser

The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. A powerful tool for identifying population trends.

The History Index

An amazingly complete site to find links to history related topics based on region, time or subject.

Horus' Web Links to History Resources

An award winning sites comprised of reputable links for scholars of history.

Specialized Resources

African American Voices: Digital History

A simple database edited by Steven Mintz of the University of Houston. The plain web appearance belies its usefulness as each excerpt is given full citation. Excellent for locating primary resources.

The American Civil War Homepage

The American Civil War Homepage is an excellent place to begin Civil War research because it gathers together in one place to the most useful identified electronic files on the subject.

American Memory

The American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections. Note the database of battlefield photos from the Civil War.

Americanpresident.org

Comprehensive non-partisan resource on the history and function of the American presidency. Facilitated by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors

This National Park Service site provides the most complete information on individual soldiers, sailors, individual regiments, battles, prisoners of war, and cemeteries.

The Constitution of the USA

This site provides an analysis and interpretation as well as annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Documenting the American South

Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established to capture the essence of the post Civil War social revolution by depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

Harvard University Libraries online access to U.S. immigration resources, which include approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets, 9,000 photographs, and over 10,000 pages from manuscripts and archival collections. "Highly recommended" by Choice Reviews for Academic LIbraries.

Institute for Global Communications

Connecting the people who are changing the world.

Life Photo Archive Hosted by Google

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Miller Center (University of Virginia)

The Miller Center is a nonpartisan institute that seeks to expand understanding of the presidency, policy, and political history, providing critical insights for the nation's governance challenges.

Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive

Serves as a research facility for scholars of U. S. public policy. The Library1s collection is a specialized one focused on American politics and history with special attention paid to the American Presidency. Produced by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs

Women in America 1820-1842

The writings and observations of eighteen travelers, Irish, German, Scotch, English, and French, are pieced together form a more complete and varied picture of the life of 19th century American women than can be gleaned from their compatriots.

The Valley of the Shadow

The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, through the experience of the American Civil War via thousands of sources including newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.

Full-Text Resources

Accessible Archives

Primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals. Includes Godey's Ladies Book (1830-80), The Pennsylvania Gazette, Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, PA Newspaper Record: Delaware County (1819-70), and PA Genealogical Catalog: Chester County (1809-70).

American National Biography

The American National Biography includes more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped this nation.

Archiving Early America

Although a commercial site, you can access primary sources from 18th Century America; newspapers, maps and writings to get ideas and support your research.

The Avalon Project, Documents in Law, History and Government

Although a commercial site, you can access primary sources from 18th Century America; newspapers, maps and writings to get ideas and support your research.

Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England

Digitized version of all 36 volumes, from 1066-1803.

Hansard Parliamentary Debates

Digitized Official Report of debates from the British Parliament, from 1803 through the present.

HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857-77

Access to a 21-year period of Harper's Weekly covering the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Provides both text and image searching capabilities.

Making of America (Cornell)

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Making of America (University of Michigan)

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Nineteenth Century Documents Project

This collection includes accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity.

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