| General sources that cover History |
| Academic OneFile |
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| Academic Search Premier |
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Core sources for History |
| America: History & Life |
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| A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. Links to full-text via JSTOR when available. |
| American Civil War Research Database |
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| The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Millions of soldiers and thousands of battles and photographs can be searched in this powerful resource. |
| American History in Video |
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| This is the most comprehensive collection of history videos available online. The thousands of titles include archival materials, newsreels, documentaries, commercial and government videos and more. |
| ArchiveGrid |
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| ArchiveGrid provides a guide to locating historical collections around the world, with nearly a million collection descriptions. ArchiveGrid does not provide full-text, but does act as a guide for knowing where specific documents and collections are housed. |
| Arts & Humanities Search |
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| Arts and Humanities Search fully covers over 1,300 journals in the field. It indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals including selected articles from social science and science journals. |
| Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective |
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| This database contains the full-text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. |
| Early English Books Online |
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| Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital images of texts printed between 1473 and 1700. Included are virtually all texts printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, North America and other English language books. |
| Historical Abstracts |
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| Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online |
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| The online edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States provides detailed statistical information covering a vast array of topics, such as slavery, migration, poverty and much more. The resource is fully searchable and downloadable, with approximately 37,000 data series. This powerful tool allows users to create customized tables and spreadsheets using data that is fully accessible online. |
| History Resource Center: US |
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| History Resource Center: U.S., provided by DISCUS, is the most comprehensive online collection of historical information ever gathered into one source, is an integrated collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents. |
| History Resource Center: World |
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| This resource is provided courtesy of DISCUS – South Carolina's Virtual Library. History Resource Center: World offers students and researchers award-winning reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources, images, and maps, integrated into a comprehensive, cross-searchable database. Drawing on themes and trends from the current history curriculum and World History textbooks, History Resource Center: World provides coverage of the 20th century. |
| JSTOR |
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| JSTOR offers full-text on-line access to back issues of more than 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Issues are entered on-line after having been published for 2-5 years. The entire printed matter of the journal as published is included, and coverage for most titles begins with their starting issues. |
| New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) |
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| Proquest Historical New York Times provides full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to 1851. For most dates, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. |
| PAIS International with Archive |
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| The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records. |
| Project Gutenberg |
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| Project Gutenberg contains over 25,000 free full-text electronic books, including many titles from renowned authors. Most disciplines are included in this resource and books from many other languages are also available. |
| Project Muse |
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| Project MUSE provides only full-text articles from over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every title in Project MUSE is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. |
| Salem History |
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| Salem History provides online access to a wealth of historical information, drawing content from printed collections, such as Great Lives from History and Great Events from History. The database is fully searchable and continually growing. |
| United Nations Common Database (UNCDB) |
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| The UNCDB provides international data for all countries in fields for which information is available. This resource provides information such as country profiles, detailed statistical analysis, comparisons of data between multiple nations and much more. This powerful resource is provided free. |
| Women and Social Movements |
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| This site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. |