Welcome to the History Research Guide!
Welcome! This guide is intended to gather Library resources that are essential to your History Research.
Questions? Please contact Virginia Young, the Librarian assisting with History classes for Fall 2021.
Looking for a guide for your History course? See the links below!
Best Bets for History Research
Below is a list of Best Bets for searching for historical sources.
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Historical AbstractsOn-campus link to the database
Subject covers the history of the world (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Indexes/abstracts: 1955 to present. -
Academic Search PremierOn-campus link to the database
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 3100 journals, including more than 2700 peer-reviewed titles. It covers information in nearly every area of academic study. And, it also access to 77000 video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. -
America: History and LifeOn-campus link to the database
Includes: topics about the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to date. Coverage: 1955 to present. -
American Memory (Library of Congress) - Home PageIncludes: collections of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music from the Library of Congress and other institutions that document the American experience
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European Views of the Americas, 1493 to 1750Citations of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750"
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and RenaissanceOn-campus link to the database
Includes: index to scholarly articles about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. -
JSTOR. Archival JournalsOn-campus link to the database
Provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles and books in 75 subject areas.
Coverage: The availability of most journals on JSTOR is controlled by a "moving wall," which is an agreed-upon delay, usually three to five years.
Find all JSTOR journal titles in library's catalog
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HathiTrustHathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law.
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Project MuseProject MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world. For more than 25 years, Project MUSE has been the trusted and reliable source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies.