Research Guides : History
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JOURNAL ARTICLES (General sources)
Academic
OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's
leading journals and reference sources. Coverage of the physical sciences,
technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and
other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back
to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic
Search Premier
This is a multi-disciplinary index/abstract for 7,106 journals, contains
full text for 3,950 journals, and places an emphasis on scholarly, peer-reviewed
publications. Over 100 of the journals have backfiles going back to 1975
or before.
Columbia
International Affairs Online
Provides full text journal articles, policy briefs, working papers, and
other sources covering theory and research in international affairs. Indexes
1996-current.
Infotrac
OneFile
Multi-disciplinary index with abstracts for 8,500 magazine, journal, and
newspaper titles. Full text from 4,900 titles. Covers wide range of topics.
Can limit searching to scholarly journals.
JSTOR
Provides full text scholarly journal archive going back to the 1600s. Vol
1/ no.1 forward. Covers all subject areas with a large collection of history
journals.
New
York Times (Historical)
Provides full-image archive of the entire historical run of The New York
Times from 1851-2001.
Project
Muse
Provides nearly 250 quality full-text journal titles covering the fields
of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.
Social
Sciences Full Text
Provides indexing with abstracts of sources covering the latest concepts,
trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical
aspects of the social sciences. Subset of Wilson OmniFile Full text Mega.
Indexes 1983-current, full text 1993-current.
Wilson
OmniFile Full Text Mega
Combines full text, abstracts, and indexing from these databases: Education
Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide
Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Other full
text titles are available as well. Full text coverage begins in 1994, while
abstracts go back to 1982.
REFERENCE (General sources)
Countries
and Their Cultures
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays focusing on cultures and countries around the
world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who
live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the
country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic,
religious, and political information.
Encyclopædia
Britannica
Provides full text encyclopedia entries plus a dictionary, a thesaurus,
and an Internet guide.
In the First
Person
Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries,
memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories -- from hundreds of published
volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that
are held by repositories and archives around the world.
Science
and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study
of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work.
Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with
overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements.
World
Book Online Reference Center
Includes the complete World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Dictionary, World
Book Atlas, a Spanish-language encyclopedia, Web links, periodical links,
primary sources from World Book yearbooks since 1922, U.S. state resource
guides, and special reports
Oxford
Reference Online Premium - History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Provides full text articles from a core collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries,
guides, companions, and other reference sources.
Oxford
Companion of Canadian History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Dictionary of Local and Family History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Companion to the History of Modern Science
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Dictionary
of World History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Dictionary
of Contemporary World History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Dynasties
of the World
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Hutchinson
dictionary of world history
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically
arranged
REF D21 .E578 2001
Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations
( Waiting to be reclassed )
UNITED STATES HISTORY
SUBJECT HEADINGS
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United States--history
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Dictionary
of American History
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text of entries covering a wide range of topics in American
history with more than 800 new entries covering recent events and topics
not covered previously. A revision of a classic reference source originally
published in 1940.
American
National Biography
Provides full text biographical profiles on more than 18,000 men and women
from all eras who have influenced and shaped the nation.
American
Periodical Series
Provides a searchable collection of digitized images of the pages of American
magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Indexes 1,100
periodicals spanning nearly 200 years.
Oxford
Guide to the United States Government
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Companion to United States History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY HISTORY
Columbia
International Affairs Online
Provides full text journal articles, policy briefs, working papers, and
other sources covering theory and research in international affairs. Indexes
1996-current.
Oxford
Companion to American Military History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Companion to Military History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Companion to World War II
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Essential Dictionary of U. S. Military
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Hutchinson
dictionary of ancient and medieval warfare
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
The Harper encyclopedia of military history : from 3500 BC to the present
Fairmont Reference / REF D25.D86 1993
The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present
Fairmont / 355 D929e2
The American consul: a history of the United States consular service, 1776-1914
Fairmont / 327.2 K381a
Professional diplomacy in the United States, 1779-1939; a study in administrative
history
Fairmont / 341.7 Il1p
HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN
American
Women Writers
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides biographical and critical essays on 1,328 American women writers
covering all genres and all periods of American history.
Gerritsen
Women's History Collection
Provides indexing of sources for the study of international women's history
and the feminist movement.
Gender
Watch
Provides full text of unique and diverse publications that focus on how
gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas 3.
Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth
century
REF CT3260 .N5725 2004
Women's studies encyclopedia
R 305.403 W8429 1999 v. 1-3
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
African-American
Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides a chronology presenting the history of African Americans from pre-colonial
times to the present. Includes overview essays, sidebars, and primary sources,
and over 200 images that chronicle the story of African Americans.
The African-American almanac
R 301.45196 Af83 needs reclassed
The African American encyclopedia
REF E185 .A253 1993 v.1-6
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history
REF E185 .E54 1995 v. 1-5
Black women in America: an historical encyclopedia
R 920.72 B561 needs reclassed
Microsoft Encarta Africana
960.03 M5837
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
: the concise desk reference
REF DT14 .A474 2003
WORLD CIVILIZATION
Countries
and Their Cultures
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays focusing on cultures and countries around the
world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who
live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the
country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic,
religious, and political information.
Concise
Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Companion to Archaeology
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
EUROPE
Renaissance
and Reformation Reference Library
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides extensive background information on the period, approximately 50
biographies of people of the era, and includes full or excerpted speeches,
diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, poems, and documents.
A-Z
of modern Europe since 1789 (ebook)
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
One
Europe, many nations : a historical dictionary of European national groups
(ebook)
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
ENGLAND
Dictionary
of British History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Oxford
Companion to British History
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Kings
and Queens of Britain
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
The dictionary of English history, originally compiled by Sir Sidney Low
and F. S. Pulling
REF DA34 .L9 1971
The Columbia companion to British history
REF DA34 .H64 1997
AUSTRALIA
Oxford
Companion to Australian History (ebook)
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
Historical
dictionary of Australia (ebook)
[ Available in Oxford Reference Online Premium - FS Only ]
RUSSIA
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union
REF DK14 .C35 1994
AFRICA
Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays covering 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.
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience:
the concise desk reference
REF DT14 .A474 2003
The
encyclopedia of African-American heritage (ebook)
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
Microsoft Encarta Africana
960.03 M5837
ASIA
Encyclopedia
of Modern Asia
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
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.
The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Bhutan, and the Maldives
REF DS334.9 .C36 1989
Modern
China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism (ebook)
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
Encyclopedia of China: the essential reference to China, its history and
culture
REF DS705 .P47 1998
Japan: an illustrated encyclopedia
REF DS805 .J263 1993 v. 1-2
LATIN AMERICA
ClasePeriodica
Provides indexing of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing
in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing
in science and technology. Together they index 2,600 scholarly journals
published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages from
24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from
publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Clase indexes 1975-current,
Periodica 1978-current.
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture
REF F1406 .E53 1996 v. 1-5
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
REF F1406 .C36 1992
MIDDLE EAST
Dictionary
of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays covering the history of the conflict, going back
to the birth of Zionism at the end of the 19th century. The two-volume set
covers five Arab-Israeli wars, and provides biographies of political personnel
in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and the occupied territories.
Encyclopedia
of Islam and the Muslim World
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays covering 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.
Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays covering 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.
Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East
REF DS43 .E53 1996 v. 1-4
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