History Databases

Connect to American Song on the Web
African American Song
Included in American Song
A streaming music service containing over 50,000 tracks reflecting the music of all American ethnic groups and regions, from the Revolutionary War to the present. Includes all the music formerly available in the African American Song database. Updated continuously.
Connect to America: History and Life on the Web A mini-guide on searching America: History and Life is available
Article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory-present. Includes works published 1964-present.
Connect to American Song on the Web
Includes African American Song
A streaming music service containing over 50,000 tracks reflecting the music of all American ethnic groups and regions, from the Revolutionary War to the present. Includes all the music formerly available in the African American Song database. Updated continuously.
Connect to Année philologique on the Web
Also known as L'Année philologique
Number of simultaneous users limited, please logoff when finished.
Indexes journals, books, dissertations, and book reviews on all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity (2000 B.C. - 800 A.D.). 1949-present.
Connect to APS Online (American Periodical Series) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A collection of full-text periodicals and primary source materials related to the American experience from the colonial days to 1900. The database is divided into 3 series : 1741-1800, 1800-1850, and 1850-1900.
Connect to CQ Almanac on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
This is a great source for information on Congress. You can search across all years from 1945 on, by decade, or by individual sessions of Congress.
Connect to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Dictionary of National Biography
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A collection of biographies of over 55,000 noteworthy people in British history. The biographies, covering people from all walks of life who died through the end of 2001, provide up-to-date scholarship and are written by worldwide experts.
Connect to Digital National Security Archive on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Comprehensive collection of over 35,000 significant primary documents concerning events in United States' foreign policy. Documents date from 1945 forward and relate to major foreign policy events of the Cold War period.
Connect to Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A fully searchable collection of virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800, based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography.
Connect to Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A fully searchable collection of more than 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America between 1801 and 1819, based on Ralph R. Shaw's and Richard H. Shoemaker's American Bibliography.
Encarta Africana - CD-ROM available at the Circulation Desk. Click to see a full list of CD-ROM databases.
Encarta Africana
Multimedia encyclopedia on the history, geography, and culture of Africans and people of African descent.
Connect to Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
A database of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers published between 1808-1980 from 22 states, many of which are from California, Texas, New Mexico, and New York. Many newspapers are bilingual.
Connect to Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) on the Web
Includes citations for documents, journal articles, and original literary works on Latin American topics in the social sciences and humanities from 1970 to present. Over 500 journals, published worldwide, are indexed. Includes citations for articles and documents on Mexico, all Central American and South American countries, and the Caribbean. Hispanics/Latinos in the United States are also included.
Connect to Historical Abstracts on the Web A mini-guide on searching Historical Abstracts is available
Article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the U.S. and Canada, from 1450-present. Publications from 1967-present.
Connect to Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective on the Web
Indexes nearly 1200 scholarly journals covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences from 1907-1984. Also covers many important scientific journals through the 1950s. For indexing of articles appearing 1985-present., use Social Sciences Full Text and/or Humanities Full Text.
Connect to Humanities Full Text on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching Humanities Full Text is available
Indexes and abstracts English-language articles in the most important journals in the humanities, from 1984-present. The full text of many of these articles is available online from 1995 forward. Updated daily. For indexing of articles appearing prior to 1984, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
Connect to IMB (International Medieval Bibliography) on the Web
Indexes the international literature on European Medieval civilization, 450-1150, from over 800 journals in all European languages as well as festschriften, conference proceedings and collections of essays. Coverage is 1976-1995; annual updates increase coverage back one year and forward one year.
Connect to Iter: Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe on the Web
Includes articles and reviews published in over 300 journals from 1843-present, covering the cultural aspects of the Renaissance in Europe from 1300-1700. Eventually will cover all aspects of the Renaissance and Middle Ages (400-1500), published since 1700.
Connect to Making of America on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. It includes approximately 16,000 books and 50,000 journal articles published in the 19th century, searchable by subject.
Connect to New York Times Archives on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching New York Times Archives is available
Full text of The New York Times newspaper from 1851-2003. The full-text of more current articles is available via LexisNexis Academic.
Connect to 19th Century U.S. Newspapers on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Connect to Oxford African American Studies Center on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides access to more than 7,500 articles focusing on African American history and culture. The articles come from major reference sources and are written by leading scholars in the field. Also includes primary sources, images, and maps.
Connect to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Also known as Dictionary of National Biography
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A collection of biographies of over 55,000 noteworthy people in British history. The biographies, covering people from all walks of life who died through the end of 2001, provide up-to-date scholarship and are written by worldwide experts.
Connect to Political Reference Suite on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Provides access to many political science resources such as the CQ Almanac, California Political Almanac, the Contemporary Middle East, Politics in America, Supreme Court Compendium, etc. You can search all the sources at once or search them individually.
Connect to Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
Collection of primary documents and secondary sources related to U.S. women's history. Includes 63 document projects that interpret and present documents, more than 22,000 pages of documents, a dictionary of social movements and organizations , a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools and materials.
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