History Databases
Entries marked with
link
to full text articles online.
Interdisciplinary
Databases
- Academic
Search Premier
References to articles from approximately 8,000
scholarly journals (about half of them full text) covering a wide range of
academic areas, 1975 to current (coverage varies). Included is a searchable
collection of images.
- Encyclopædia
Britannica Online
Includes the complete encyclopedia, the Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica
Book of the Year, and thousands of links
to World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.
- LexisNexis
Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal, and reference information.
- Reference Collections
Online
- Credo
Reference
Online access to a selection
from 240 reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books
of quotations, as well as many subject-specific titles) from the world's
leading publishers.
- Oxford
Reference Online
Online access to over 170 cross-searchable
dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford
University Press, one of the world's most trusted reference publishers.
For access to more complete list of general
interest resources see the General Interest
Databases page.
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Specialized Databases
- America:
History and Life
References to articles from over 1,700 journals
on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present,
1964 to current. World history is covered in Historical Abstracts,
which can be accessed from this link.
- American
National Biography
The premier biographical resource for notable
people in American history (only deceased figures are included).
- AmericanPresident.org
A comprehensive resource on the history of the presidency and
the nature of policy making (Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University
of Virginia).
- Anthropological
Index Online
References to articles covering all branches of
anthropology and archaeology.
- Chicago Tribune
- Chicago
Tribune (1985 - current)
Full text.
- Chicago
Tribune (1849 - 1985)
Historical collection offers full page and article images with searchable
full text.
- Essay
and General Literature Index (EssayGenLit)
References to essays and articles
contained primarily in books published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada,
with a focus on the humanities and social sciences, 1985 to current. Library
use only--ask for assistance at Library Reference desk.
- HAPI:
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Authoritative index to worldwide information
about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the
United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
- Historical
Abstracts
References to articles from over 1,700 journals
on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States
and Canada), 1954 to current. The history of the United States and Canada
is covered in America: History and Life, which can be accessed from this
link.
- HLAS
Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
References to journal articles,
books and book chapters, and conference proceedings published worldwide on
Latin America, 1936 to current. Volumes alternate annually between the humanities
and social sciences.
- Humanities
Abstracts
References to articles from leading
English-language periodicals on literature and language, history, philosophy,
archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts,
history, religion and theology, 1984 to current.
- Iter:
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
References to scholarly journal
articles and books pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
- JSTOR
- The Scholarly Journal Archive

An interdisciplinary archive of
over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Includes information by and about
Congress including: indexing of hearings from 1789 forward; full text of bills
from 1989 forward, laws and legislative tracking, and more. See Lexis-Nexis
Academic for case law and state codes.
- Military
and Government Collection

References to journal and magazine articles (some
full text) and government-issued pamphlets (full text) pertaining to all branches
of the military. Coverage varies.
- New
York Times
Full text 1/1/2000 - current. Note: see also LexisNexis
Academic for 6/1/1980 - current.
- New
York Times Historical (1851-2004)
Historical collection offers
full page and article images with searchable full text.
- Primary Sources Online
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