Databases for History
Best Bets
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations. |
1955-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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| American History in Video |
Commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. |
1500s-present |
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| Ancestry Library |
Ancestry® Library Edition, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. |
1300-present |
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| Berg Fashion Library |
The Berg Fashion Library offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, |
1600-present |
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| C19: The Nineteenth Century Index |
C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodica |
19th Century |
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| 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." |
1990-present |
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| International Medieval Bibliography |
The International Medieval Bibliography comprises 365,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records. |
300-1500 |
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| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
The library's subscription includes the following databases: |
400-1700 |
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| PBS Streaming Videos |
A selection of nearly 250 PBS programs, including films from award winning documentarian Ken Burns, and series such as Scientific American Frontiers, American Experience, and Frontline. |
1990s- |
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Even More
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| 19th Century U.S. Newspapers |
Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Each newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. |
1800-1899 |
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| 19th Century UK Periodicals |
19th Century UK Periodicals covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. |
1800-1900 |
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| African American Newspapers |
Primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history; ethnic studies and more. |
1827-1998 |
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| Archive of Americana |
The Archive of Americana features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, essential collections of U.S. |
1639-1980 |
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| Archives Unbound |
The three major types of documents in this database are monographs of books and pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers and periodicals. |
1500-present |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| Early English Books Online (EEBO) |
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed |
1473-1700 |
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| Economist Historical Archive |
The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. |
1843-2003 |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera—with works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. |
1700-1799 |
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| Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996 |
FBIS Daily reports include English-language, full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, China, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, the |
1941-1996 |
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| Latin American Newspapers |
Latin American Newspapers provides access to more than 35 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
1805-1922 |
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| Making of the Modern World |
The Making of the Modern World: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature digital collection presents more than 65,000 titles from the period 1460-1914, and 466 pre-1906 serials |
1450-1914 |
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| Nineteenth Century Serials Edition |
A free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers: Monthly Repository, Northern Star, Leader, English Woman's Journal, To |
1806-1890 |
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| North American Women: Letters and Diaries |
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 1,017 women, as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, including 7,000 pages of pre |
Colonial to 1950 |
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| Oxford Reference |
Oxford Digital Reference provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences. |
Ancient world to present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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| Sabin Americana |
This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. |
1500-1926 |
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| Salem History |
Provides full text access to subject encyclopedias, primarily about American history. |
1700s-present |
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| State Papers Online |
Provides access to over 3 million pages of 16th- & 17th-century British government documents and over 200,000 searchable pages of Calendars and catalogues. |
1509-1714 |
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| The Times Digital Archive |
The Times Digital Archive (London) provides access to the entire newspaper, with all news articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, editorial and commentary, and features. |
1785-2006 |
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