Research Guides: History
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Articles in Journals/Magazines
Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies 
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 books and articles for inclusion in the Handbook.
SocINDEX with Full Text 
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2,035,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 746 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 800 books and monographs, and full text for 11,991 conference papers.
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.
Arts & Humanities Search
Indexes many leading journals; online version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)
Brings together the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship.
Feminae : Medieval Women and Gender Index
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
The History Cooperative
Search the latest issues of 21+ history jounals.
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Index to journal articles (and some material in books) pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
JSTOR
Full-text back runs of major academic journals. The Arts & Sciences I Collection, to which Millsaps subscribes, includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Project Muse
Index and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
SIRS Researcher
Index of articles on social, political, historic and global issues. (Social Issues Resources Series, Inc.)
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)
This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The New York Times Online (1980 – present)
The complete text of articles back to 1980 is provided in text format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.
Civil Rights Digital Library 
The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. The initiative promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering resources such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities.
Victorian Web
Primary and secondary sources, photographs, essays and links about the Victorian Era.
African studies Internet resources
Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries.
America at work, America at leisure: motion pictures from 1894-1915
This Internet site, part of the Library of Congress American Memory collection, offers an interesting selection of 150 motion pictures from 1894-1915.
America in the 1930s
An introductory look at materials from the 1930s from the University of Virginia.
American Presidency Project
Online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database:
•The Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington - Taft (1789-1913)
•The Public Papers of the Presidents:
Hoover to Bush (1929-1993)
•The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:
Clinton - G.W. Bush (1993-2007)
An Gorta Mor: The Great Hunger Archive
Features summaries and scanned copies of the original minute books of Killarney Workhouse in Kerry for 1845-48. Workshouses where where the sdestitute, sick and poor were sent.
Asian studies WWW virtual library
ASVL offers an authoritative, large-scale, subject-oriented scholarly guide to over 10,000 Internet resources in Asian studies from around the globe, including archives, library catalogs, documents, bibliographies, electronic journals, registers, and mailing lists.
BlackPast.org
BlackPast.org makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location. These materials include an online encyclopedia, complete transcripts of speeches, full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines, and four gateway pages with links to digital archive collections, major African American museums and research centers, and hundreds of other website resources on black history.
British History Online
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.
Country Studies
The Library of Congress's Country Studies series online. Includes 101 countries and regions, describing and analyzing the historical settings and social, political, economic and national security systems.
France in America=La France en Amérique.
A bilingual digital library that houses books, maps, prints, and other documents, and provides an overview of the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
History Guide
A subject gateway to history-related Web sties and primary sources. Many in German.
International Institute of Social History
Covers the activities, collections, and selected publications of one of the most important historical organizations in the world dealing with labor history
LANIC Latin American Network Information Center
The Center's primary purpose is to provide access to Internet sources for academic information about Latin America.
MuslimHeritage.com
This Web site is sponsored by Britain's Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation. It contains many articles, some of them scholarly.
Theban Mapping Project
The Theban Mapping Project site features a good collection of photographs and plans with explanations of the individual tombs; aerial maps and short audio files by Weeks with movies explaining the tombs and memorial temples (there are also text files); summaries of the history of exploration; and a search engine for types of decoration, architectural forms and components, data organized by ruler or dynasty or period, graffiti, image, and sarcophagus.
The Making of America (Cornell)
Documenting American social history from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction, Cornell University selected, scanned, and made available through the present system 109 monographs (267 volumes) and 22 journals (955 volumes) with imprints primarily between 1840 - 1900.
The Making of America (University of Michigan)
Documenting American social history from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction, the University of Michigan selected, scanned, and made available through the present system approximately 1,600 books and ten journals with imprints primarily between 1850 - 1877.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Full text, online version of EB.
The History of the Supreme Court Encyclopedia
A part of the History of the Supreme Court PBS series site, this encyclopedia is searchable and offers general information about the Court, judges, important legal concepts, and landmark cases.
Eugenics archive: image archive on the American eugenics movement
A collection of historic photographs and images from the eugenics.
16th- Early 20th Century Maps of Africa
This site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to the early 20th Century.
Theban Mapping Project
The Theban Mapping Project site features a good collection of photographs and plans with explanations of the individual tombs; aerial maps and short audio files by Weeks with movies explaining the tombs and memorial temples (there are also text files); summaries of the history of exploration; and a search engine for types of decoration, architectural forms and components, data organized by ruler or dynasty or period, graffiti, image, and sarcophagus.
ArchiveGrid Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
Britannica's Original Sources
The site includes original source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Science, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It includes eleven thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.
EuroDocs: primary historical documents from Western Europe
European primary historical documents are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance , and Abolition
Provides a wealth of information on the history of Atlantic slavery and its aftermath. Over 200 primary documents.
Historic government publications from World War II: a digital library
More than 200 WW II-era pamphlets.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
em>Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
This site provides access to many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this collection.
A More perfect union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
Forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The National Security Archive
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
Rutgers oral history archives of World War II Web Archive
Over 250 oral history interviews, initially focused on alumni from Rutgers, the project has expanded to include others.
Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
This multimedia archive includes more than 2,500 hours of secret White House recordings, hundreds of presidential oral history interviews, audio and video recordings, and documents related to the executive branch of American government. The Library's digital archive on the American presidency is more than 3 terabytes in size and growing.
The Valley of the shadow: two communities in the American Civil War
The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Here you may explore thousands of original documents that allow you to see what life was like during the Civil War for the men and women of Augusta and Franklin.
Veterans History Project
Collection of wartime stories and memorabilia offers firsthand accounts detailing ordinary people's experiences serving in support roles and fighting in the US's 20th-century wars.
Victorian Web
Primary and secondary sources, photographs, essays and links about the Victorian Era.
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