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
  • AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
  • American Memory from the Library of Congress
    Access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
  • The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
    Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
  • Digital History
    Designed and developed to support the teaching of American history.
  • EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
  • History Links
    Links to digitized primary and secondary sources from a archives around the U.S. (Pre-Revolutionary to Post-Reconstruction America).
  • Internet History Sourcebooks Project
    Public domain and copy-permitted historical texts.
  • Making of America
    Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  • WhiteHouseTapes.org
    Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

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 This page was last updated  7/17/2008 MW