History Subject Guide

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Contains citations and abstracts for articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations.
Covers: Articles written 1964 - present.
America: History & Life
Citations and abstracts covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), indexing more than 2300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 
15th century to present
Historical Abstracts
Older full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals.
Coverage: Latest 3-7 years not available.
Full text articles of 400+ peer-reviewed journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Coverage varies, mid 1990s to the present.
Full-text of african american 19th century newspapers: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder,
Coverage varies, 1827 - 1902.
Full text electronic access to encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works in all academic subjects. Individual titles are searchable, though the collection is not cross-searchable.
Searchable database of text of early American newspapers. Articles and pages can be viewed as images in a Web browser, or downloaded as pdf documents. Part of the Archive of Americana collection from Newsbank/Readex.
Covers: 1690-1876.
Collectively search "Early American Imprints: Series 1 1639-1800" (Evans), "Early American Imprints: Series 2 1801-1819" (Shaw-Shoemaker), "Early American Newspapers 1690-1876", "American State Papers 1789-1838", and the "US Congressional Serials Set 1817-1980". Publisher is Newsbank.
Coverage varies, 1639-1980.
Searchable index to archives, official publications, books, periodical articles, and newspapers published in the 19th century. Text is not included.
Covers: 1770-1919.
The database from Accessible Archives contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
Covers: 1860-1865
Full-text digitization of 36,000 American books, pamphlets, broadsides, state papers, and other print genres published from 1801-1819. Based on microform set Early American Imprints, Series II, 1801-1819.
Covers: 1801-1819.
Full-text facsimile images of newspapers published in the U.S. between 1690-1876.
Covers: 1690-1876.
Primary documents from early recorded history of North America. Includes transcriptions of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
Covers: 1542 - 1900's.
Digitized original documents relating to Empire Studies from 1492 - 2007. Images of the texts without transcriptions. Includes thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies.
Covers: 1492-present.
Digital facsimiles of literature on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. The collection contains materials on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport; documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth. Formerly: Making of the Modern Economy
Covers: 1450-1850
Primary source material comprised of thousands of images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.
A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Database of digitized images of primary documents from American history. Subjects include agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.
Covers: 1639-1800
Complete, searchable digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785-1985.  Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.  Provides facsimile images of individual articles or a complete page.
Covers 1785-1985.
Searchable database that documents the key events and movements in 1960s America. Contains letters, diaries, and oral histories, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and audio and video materials. Also includes analysis and interpretive essays by leading historians.
Covers 1960-1974.
Carrasco, David. 2006. The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures. New York: Oxford University Press.
Online video collection of documentaries on human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. Global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

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