Databases / Course Guides / Internet Resources  

Below is a select list of recommended resources for research related to History. For further assistance, please contact Michelle Millet, liaison librarian for History. Library resources for Medieval Studies and the Medieval ages can be found here.

Databases

JSTOR
Full-text article backfile of scholarly journals, 1995 and prior, covering a wide variety of subjects including African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, science, sociology, and statistics.

History Cooperative
Current full-text content for several top history journals, including the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, and William and Mary Quarterly.

Project Muse
Full-text scholarly journals from various University Presses that cover literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies and more. Most journals are only full text back to the late 1990's.

Humanities Abstracts
Index to popular and scholarly periodicals and books; contains limited amount  of full text. Covers archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, food, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, space, world history, and world literature.

Academic Search Complete
Excellent general purpose index to scholarly and academic titles. Covers the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Many full-text articles.

HAPI Online
Index to Hispanic-American periodicals. Contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Coverage is 1970-present.

Course Guides

HIST 1340: Metcalf's Final Paper

HIST 1371: The African American Experience Since 1877 (Latimore)

HIST 3300: History of Africa (Ejikeme)

HIST 3392: History of the US West (Williams)

HIST 3334: History of Russia (Bayer)

HIST 1340: Latin American Cultural Traditions (Metcalf)

HIST 4420: Modern Korea (Clark)

Internet Resources

American Memory Project
A gateway to over 7 million primary sources in American history, from the Library of Congress.

British History Online
Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, this is the pilot digital library of British historical sources for historians of Britain located worldwide seeking access to, and cross-searching of, an interconnected range of historical sources.           

European Library
Combined resources of the national libraries of Europe, including digital images.

Guide to History on the Web
Searchable database of more than 5,000 US and world history sites.

The American Civil War Homepage
A comprehensive directory of hypertext links about the Civil War period (1861-65).

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Citations to print and Internet sources, as well as primary source material.