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Databases
General History
Academic
Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary
database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications,
including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic
study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
This database is updated daily.
Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text) 
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
JSTOR
(Full Text)
Full-text archive of scholarly journal literature from
the mid-1800s to the late-1990s. Historical coverage
includes American Historical Review, Joural
of American History, Journal of Contemporary
History, Journal of Southern History,
Speculum, William and Mary Quarterly,
and many others.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities
and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately
140 journals, including Central European History,
Current History, History Today, Journal
of Contemporary History, and more. PCI also provides
links to full-text coverage in JSTOR.
Historical Statistics of The United States
Contains annual, time-series data with national coverage on almost any aspect of United States economics, population or infrastructure since the government began recording statistics.
Oxford
Reference Online: History (Full Text)
Search and access the full text of a suite of Oxford
reference books including The Oxford Companion to United
States History, A Dictionary of World History, and many
more.
Project
Muse (Full Text)
Searchable access to scholarly journals in the arts
and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Full-text
history covereage includes American Jewish History,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Essays in Medieval
Studies, History and Memory, Journal
of Social History, Late Imperial China,
Reviews in American History and more.
Web of Science
Access to the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Please log out when you are finished.
Dissertation
Abstracts
The complete range of academic subjects appearing
in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
since 1861. Updated monthly.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.
WorldCat
Over 50 million listings of many types of material (books, journals, audiovisual, etc.) cataloged by libraries around the world. Updated daily.
American History
America:
History and Life
Includes citations to material about the history and
culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric
times to the present.
History Resource Center: U.S.(Full Text) 
Provides access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
The African American Experience
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 (Full Text)
Contains full-text images of virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages and is based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement.
Making
of America (Full Text)
The University of Michigan offers a full-text library
of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. Ladies'
Repository, Old Guard, Vanity Fair,
and a handful of other periodicals are offered in digitized
format. Several books are also offered, including Arthur
Mazyck's Guide to Charleston Illustrated.
Library
of Southern Literature (Full Text)
This collection of electronic texts from the University
of North Carolina documents the riches and diversity
of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of
its most important literary works from Mary Boykin
Chestnut, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington,
and others.
The
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Full Text)
Contains the full-text of articles in The Charleston
Mercury, The New York Herald and the Richmond Examiner
from Nov. 1860 through April 1865.
Dictionary of American History (Full Text)
Gale Virtual Reference Library.
World History
Historical
Abstracts
Covers all branches of world history (excluding
America and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
History Resource Center: World (Full Text)
Collection of resources providing coverage of events, themes and trends in world history from antiquity to the present, with a multicultural and global view. Contains full text articles from over 110 academic journals, more than 1,600 historical maps and atlases, chronological timelines and annotated web links to primary source special collection sites.
Annual Egyptological Bibliography Online
The AEB is the primary bibliographical resource for Egyptological research. It is published jointly by the International Association of Egyptologists and the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, and it contains abstracts (in German, French or English) of all Egyptological articles and monographs published from 1947 to 2001, some 46,000 titles in total.
ITER
A bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature
pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Citations for articles; bibliographies; catalogues;
abstracts; and discographies are included.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Covers 1994 to the present.
Biographical
Information
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Full Text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.
Biography
Resource Center (Full Text)
Indexes nearly 250 domestic and international English-language
periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects.
Includes book reviews. Covers July 1983 to the present.
American
National Biography (Full Text)
Biographical information on people from all eras who
have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
ANB contains profiles of more than 18,000 men and women
from all walks of American life, from the well-known
to the infamous to the obscure.
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
One of the largest indexes of sources of biographical
information on notable people.
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Print and Electronic Resources
Dictionary of American History (Full Text)
Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Oxford Reference Online: History (Full Text)
Search and access the full text of a suite of Oxford reference books including The Oxford Companion to United States History, A Dictionary of World History, and many more.
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Provides 3,000 articles on Modern Asia from a global perspective. Historical articles emphasize people, places, events, and developments that have had a lasting influence on Asia. Also covers Asian relations with Western nations, the relations between nations within Asia, and also the flow of people, goods, and ideas within Asia and globally.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
With nearly 600 new entries and 1,000 updates, this second editon reflects the far-reaching changes the Middle East has undergone in recent years, making it more relevant and necessary than ever before. Covers the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with major sections on Colonialism and Imperialism, the World Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the United Nations' involvement in the region. Each country in the region is reviewed, detailing its population, economy, and government.
Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
This set has been prepared especially for nonspecialists, focusing on Renaissance-era topics most studied in high school world history, art, literature, economics, and science curriculum. Includes entries on a range of topics, including Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. Includes a master chronology with topical timelines, a bibliography with age-appropriate further reading sources, and a comprehensive index.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Full Text)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
(Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs.
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security (Gale Virtual Reference Library) (Full Text)
Provides a comprehensive, subject specific guide to the history, uses, scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security, with special emphasis placed on the current ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding this very topical subject.
Great Lives From History Indexes
REF CT104 .D54 1998
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
REF D114 D5 1982
Camridge Modern History
REF D208 C17
Historical Abstracts
REF D299 H5
Facts on File
REF D410 F3
English Historical Documents
REF DA 26 E55
Oxford Companion to British History
REF DA34 O93 1997
Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
REF DG270 .B86 2002
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe
REF DJK6 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of Asian History
REF DS31 E53 1998
Cambridge History of Africa
REF DT20 C27
American
Eras
REF E169.1 A47 1997
Dictionary of American History
REF E174 .D52 2003
Encyclopedia of American Facts
REF E174.5 .C3 1997
Encyclopedia
of Southern History
REF F207.7 E52
South
Carolina: A History
CofC Stacks F269 .E34 1998
Atlas of World History
REF G1030.R36 1995
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Internet Resources
BBC
News Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics
and economic background of countries.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western
Europe
This wonderful site contains the text to numerous European
primary documents. The documents are arranged by period
and region.
La France en Amérique/France in America
La France en Amérique/France in America is a bilingual digital library exploring the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th Century to the end of the 19th Century.
The History
Net
Articles about every aspect of history imaginable. Easily
searchable due to its left-hand navigation bar and search
functions.
Hanover
Historical Texts Project
Started in 1995, this site from the history department
at Hanover College offers full-text primary resources
from all over the world.
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Greece, Hellenism, Ancient Rome, and the Ancient Near
East are all included in this expansive website. Full-text
primary and secondary sources are included.
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
This amazing website gives links to full-text primary
and secondary sources, maps, law texts, and much more.
It is the largest collection of online medieval texts.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
This site includes full-text primary and secondary documents,
links to "megasites," and beautiful color and b/w images.
Period covered: early modern Europe to present world
history.
Primary Documents in American History
Provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress that supplement and enhance the study of those crucial documents in American history. The initial release of this Web site contains documents from the years 1763 to 1877.
From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909(Full Text)
396 pamphlets published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington.
Words
and Deeds in American History
This site from Thomas, the Library of Congress Website,
gives full-text access in both scanned and electronic
formats to primary documents from America's history.
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Resources at the College
Current Print Periodicals
The
American Historical Review
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Current History
The English Historical Review
The Historian
The Historical Journals
History Today
Journal of Contemporary History
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The Journal of Modern History
Radical History Review
The William and Mary Quarterly
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