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History Resources

Databases

African-American Biographical Database
Offers biographical information, including photographs and illustrations, for African Americans.

Biography Resource Center (DISCUS)

Black Thought and Culture
This resource provides access to the non-fiction published works of 1100 leading African Americans from Colonial times to the present. The database also contains interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, and letters among other material.

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1871)
An internet resource providing access to Harper’s Weekly, a 19th and early 20th century American news magazine. Currently available: Reproduction of all pages of issues published between 1857–1871. HarpWeek is searchable by date, index terms, literary genre and
occupation/role.

Historical Census Browser
Compiled by the University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, this resource presents data and terminology drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing describing the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790–1960.

History E-Book Project
A collaboration of eight learned societies, sixty contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history.

In the First Person
Indexes more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. With upcoming releases, the index will broaden to cover other formats (letters, diaries, autobiographies, and so forth) and the proprietary content in the Alexander Street collections. By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections-more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.

New York Times - Historical 1851-2001 (ProQuest)

Wall Street Journal - Historical 1889-1987 (ProQuest)

Washington Post - Historical 1877-1988 (ProQuest)

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Use this resource to find material dealing with the history of women in the U.S. (1600–2000). The database contains:

More than 22,000 pages of primary source documents
Images
Links to relevant websites
A dictionary of social movements and organizations
A chronology of U.S. women’s history
Reviews of books and websites dealing with women and social movements
Teaching tools

General Databases Which Cover History

JSTOR
JSTOR is a collection of over 160 scholarly journal titles including more than 2,000,000 full-text articles on a wide range of topics. Both current articles and extensive backfiles are available.

History Resource Center: US
Hsitory Resource Center: US provides access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents; articles from more than 30 reference titles, and indexes over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Project Muse
Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community’s primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Database for research in all academic disciplines including astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology, religion, social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology. Publications: National news magazines, general interest magazines and the New York Times. Coverage combines indexing, abstracts, full text, and images.

Academic Search Premier (Collegiate DISCUS)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Internet Resources

Using Primary Sources on the Web - The ALA Reference and User Service Association’s History Section wrote this brief guide to “provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online.”

Biography.Com - use this research site to investigate people throughout history.

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