History – Best Bets
- America: History and Life with Full Text
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. More info - Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations covering world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. More info - JSTOR
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info - Project Muse
Provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more, in the humanities and social sciences. More info
History – Also Useful
- ABC-Clio eBook Collection
Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism, including a large collection of narratives by enslaved people. More info - African American Communities
Presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. More info - African American Historical Serials Collection
Documents the history of African American life and religious organizations from materials published between 1829 and 1922. More info - African American Newspapers
Provides primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary, and social history, ethnic studies, and more (1827-1998). More info - American Broadsides and Ephemera
Primary source materials printed between 1760 and 1900 that range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War to theatre programs and menus. More info - American History in Video
More than 7,000 videos including commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. More info - American History, 1493-1945
Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of primary source documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. More info - Ancestry Library
Billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. More info - Archive of Americana
Now part of Readex AllSearch. Features over 1,375 newspaper titles from all 50 states, more than 100,000 books, broadsides and pamphlets, and much more. More info - Archives Unbound
Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. More info - Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1
Presents a collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture. Content written in Spanish (80%) and English (20%). More info - Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more. More info - Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Limited to 1 user at a time. Find citations for documents, articles, and other sources covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. More info - Black Life in America
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 1975. More info - Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Includes Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury Fashion Photography and Video Archives, and other fashion-related e-books, reference works, images, and more. More info - British History Online
Nearly 1,300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. More info - British Library Digital Collections
Temporarily unavailable (see https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available). Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world. More info - British Library Newspapers
Delivers a wide range of local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. More info - Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies Library & Catalog
Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies was founded in 2002 to develop new educational opportunities for students, teachers, and the community. More info - China: Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980
This collection provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West. More info - Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle (NAACP Papers)
Internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the NAACP. More info - Colonial America
Colonial America consists of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London. More info - Credo Reference
Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. More info - Digital Library on American Slavery
Offers a searchable collection of public records concerning enslavement. More info - Digital Theatre Plus
Gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials. More info - Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Virtually every work printed before 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere. More info - East India Company
Unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. More info - Economist Historical Archive
Complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015. More info - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth century books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, printed ephemera, and more. More info - Empire Online
Contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires. More info - English Historical Documents (EHD)
Comprehensive, annotated collection of over 5,000 documents on British history. More info - Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. More info - Fold3 – Historical Military Records
Provides access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. More info - Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996
English-language full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world. More info - Gale Digital Scholar Lab
A research and learning platform that allows students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR text) from all of Gale's primary source collections. More info - Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources searches 18th Century Collections Online (ECCO), 19th Century Collections Online (NCCO), the Making of the Modern World, and Sabin Americana (1500-1926). More info - Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange
Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. More info - Hispanic Life in America
The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 2009. More info - History Study Center (ProQuest)
A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day. More info - Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact. More info - Indigenous Newspapers in North America
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the U.S and Canada (1828-2016). More info - Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922)
Provides access to more than 280 Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1922. More info - Making of the Modern World
A digital collection of primary sources covering the history of Western trade. More info - Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
Insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting documents. More info - Migration to New Worlds
Explores the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe, and Asia to the New World and Australasia. More info - Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Focuses on primary source collections including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. More info - Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
A free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. More info - Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. More info - Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Covers the events, lives, values, and themes that shaped the 19th century world. More info - North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
Primary sources on the experiences of over 1,000 North American women as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries, letters, and manuscripts. More info - Oxford Reference
Provides access to nearly 100 online encyclopedias covering history and culture, literature and language, arts, law, and the social sciences. More info - ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers (1764-2005). More info - Religions of America
Traces the history and unique character of religious movements that originated in or were re-shaped by the U.S. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More info - Sabin Americana
Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s. More info - Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. More info - Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice
Online primary source materials including manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and other documents for the study of slavery, abolition, and social justice. More info - State Papers Online
Provides access to the papers of the British Secretary of State from 1509 to 1782, concerning administration of the country, foreign affairs, marriage alliances, treaties, and wars. More info - The Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive (London) provides access to the entire newspaper including all illustrations and photos (1785-2011). More info - Women’s Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities
Presents primary source materials covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. More info
