Welcome to the History Research Guide!
Welcome! This guide is intended to gather Library resources that are essential to your History Research.
Looking for a guide for your History course? See the links below!
- HST 110: Work Civilizations I
- HST 111: World Civilizations II
- HST 211: American History Survey
- HST 212: American History Survey
Questions? Please contact Christina Swendsrud, the librarian for history.
Best Bets for History Research
Below is a list of Best Bets for searching for historical sources.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes/abstracts: 1955 to present.
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. - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowAcademic 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 Life This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1955 to present.
Includes: topics about the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to date. - American Memory (Library of Congress) - Home Page This link opens in a new windowIncludes: 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
- European Views of the Americas, 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new windowCitations 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"
- Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new windowAn Open URL- and Zotero-enabled bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes citations for books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues), journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), and dissertation abstracts.
On-campus link to the database - JSTOR. Archival Journals This link opens in a new windowProvides 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.
- 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.
- 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.