eResources by Subject : History

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  • This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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    1975 - present; updated daily

  • Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada

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    1964 - present

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

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    1975 - present

  • Historical Abstracts 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.

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    1955 - present

  • Covers journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.

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    1975 - present

  • Contains electronic resources for researchers in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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    400 - 1700

  • Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

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    varies by publication
  • Digital archives for the New York Times

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    1851 - (last three years not available)

  • Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

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    varies by title; updated monthly

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  • American Bibliography of Slavic and Eastern European Studies. Citations to journal articles, book chapters, book reviews and dissertations.

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    1939 - present

  • "American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography" is a collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States complied from nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

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    1600 - 1900

  • ARTFL consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.

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    Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries

  • Index to biographical information.
    2 simultaneous users

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    1993 - present

  • CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Contains bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. 

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    Clase: 1975 - present; Periodica: 1978 - present

  • The definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Search across all CQ Electronic Library collections: CQ Almanac Online, CQ Encyclopedia of American Government, CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition, The CQ Researcher Online, CQ Weekly. 

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    1972 - present

  • DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues since 1945. Over 55,000 of the most important, declassified primary documents – totaling more than 420,000 pages – are included in the database.

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    1945 - 2002; updated annually

  • This five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

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    Pre-Colonial America - present

  • DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues since 1945. Over 55,000 of the most important, declassified primary documents – totaling more than 420,000 pages – are included in the database.

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    1945 - 2002; updated annually
  • 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
    From the earliest times to the year 2000.

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  • Offers access to the following publications: American Foreign Relations Since 1600;American Slavery; Daily Life Through History;Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors; Historic Events of the 20th Century; Literature in Context.

     

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    varies by publication

  • Provides international and interdisciplinary in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical right and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

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    1991 - present; updated quarterly

  • Provides international and interdisciplinary in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Indexes alternative, radical right and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

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    1969 - 1990

  • ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

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  • Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

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    varies by publication

  • CenStats provides access to several popular Census Bureau databases, including: Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex, USA Counties, and 1990 Public Law 94-171 Data.

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  • Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

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    varies by publication

  • Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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    varies by publication; most begin 1990-95, some as early as 1960. Updated daily.

  • Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

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    updated regularly

  • Harper's Weekly;  the Civil War Era and Reconstruction I and II

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    1857 - 1876

  • HeritageQuest presents a varied and in-depth set of data for genealogists and historians. Includes data from all of the U.S. Censuses until 1930, an index of 6,500 local history and genealogy periodicals (PERSI), a database of Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant, plus the full text of 25,000 local histories and family histories.

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  • An in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

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  • Bibliography of articles in journals and conference proceedings, essay collections, etc. Worldwide coverage. Click on the Enter Databases button. On the next page click on the "Go" button.
    3 simultaneous users - Please log out when finished

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    1967 - present

  • Provides abstracts and indexing for multi-disciplinary periodicals, reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.

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    1975 - present

  • Full text of letters and diaries. The collection includes bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources.

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    Colonial to 1950

  • Collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.

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  • Palmer's Full Text Online gives students and researchers access to approximately one million articles from The Times®; covering almost a century of British and world history.

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    1875 - 1905

  • Published in Philadelphia The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.

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    1728 - 1800

  • Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. 3 simultaneous users.

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    1890 - 1982

  • The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available.

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    55 B.C. - present

  • Provides direct access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from, where data is available.

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    1960 - 2005

  • This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.

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    1799 - present

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  • Records describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. Includes thousands of full-text book reviews from sources including Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

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    1979 - present

  • Encyclopedia Britannica

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    current

  • CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

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    Sept. 1988 - present

  • Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

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    1861 - present; Abstracts 1980 - present; Thesis abstracts 1988 - present

  • Index of approximately 170 magazines and newsletters from U.S. government agencies.

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  • Encyclopedia of North Carolina - short entries

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  • Selective index of articles in North Carolina periodicals.

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    1992 - present; updated regularly

  • You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

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  • Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of US Politics; The World Almanac for Kids; and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.

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    1998 - present

  • Database of country profiles produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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    Current; Updated: Annually

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  • Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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    1200 - present; Updated daily

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  • This unique and valuable collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that first began publishing between 1741 and 1900, with content spanning 200 years.

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    1741-1900
  • Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.

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  • The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System is the National Counterterrorism Center's database of terrorist incidents.

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  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the exclusive digital archive for leading newspapers in North America that gives users ready access to the full content of each paper starting from their very first issues.

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