• Bibliographies and Guides to reserach in the field

• American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature
  Santa Abarbara: ABC-Clio 2003 2nd Ed edition
  2 vols. An exhaustive bibliography of the most important research on the subject, arranged by topic, with annotations.
  Location: Ref E 183.7 .A54 2003

• American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature
  New York: Oxford Unversity Press 1995 3rd Ed. edition
  Offers 27,000 citations to important historical literature, arranged in 48 sections covering theory, international history, and regional history. An indispensable guide; note it doesn't include the most recently published scholarship.
  Location: Ref D 20 .A54 1995

• United States History: A Selective Guide to Information Sources
  Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited 1994
  A selective and descriptive guide to research materials in U.S. history.
  Location: Ref E 178 .B53 1994

• Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide
  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio 1990
  Provides annotated listings of research sources in the field, including bibliographies, atlases, manuscript collections, and core journals. Useful for getting a grounding in research tools prior to planning a project.
  Location: Ref D 20 .F75 1990

• General and World History

• Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean
  New York: Scribner's 1988
  3 vols. Lengthy articles on such topics as "Language and Dialects," "Farming and Animal Husbandry," "Myths and Cosmologies," "Women in Rome," and "Roman Building Techniques" introduce the reader in some depth to many facets of the classical world. Each article is followed by a helpful bibliography.
  Location: Ref DE 59 .C55 1987

• Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
  New York: Scribner's 1995
  Essays on the culture and history of Egypt, Syro-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia. Includes some coverage of the Arabian peninsula, northeast Africa, and Aegean and Anatolian cultures. Provides excellent background papers on culture and society, with extensive bibliographies.
  Location: Ref DS 57 C.55 1995

• Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia
  Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio 2003
  3 vols. An interdisciplinary approach to "cultural concepts and intellectual ideas crucial to an understanding of colonialism in the modern world." Covers key geographical and cultural concepts, as well as significant individuals, movements, and events. A number of primary source documents are included in the third volume.
  Location: Ref JV 22 .C65 2003

• Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
  Routledge 1993
  A trove of information and insights into the history of the field. Includes essays on body systems and how they have been perceived through time, theories of illness, including history of specific diseases and their treatments, geographical essays, clinical history, and medicine in society and culture.
  Location: Ref R 133 .C66 1993

• Dictionary of Historical Terms
  New York: Peter Bendrick 1990 2nd Ed. edition
  Covers a wide variety of terms--events, places, institutions, and topics--in history for all periods and places in a remarkably small package. A good place to quickly identify terms in the field.
  Location: Ref R 133 .C66 1993

• Dictionary of British History
  New York: Oxford University Press 2001
  A compact companion to British history from 55 BC to the present, offering 3,600 entries contributed by over 100 scholars. Good for quick information.
  Location: Ref DA34 .D49 2001

• Dictionary of Contemporary World History
  In-depth coverage of the major historical figures and events from 1900 to the present day, including surveys of countries.

• Dictionary of the Middle Ages
  New York: Scribner's 1982
  13 vols. A scholarly, readable, and beautifully laid-out encyclopedia covering people, events, ideas, movements, texts, and cultural features of the medieval world. Articles are often illustrated with period art work and are followed by bibliographies of primary and secondary sources.
  Location: Ref D 114 .D5 1982

• Dictionary of World History
  Includes over 4,000 entries on people, religious and political movements, international organizations, and places.

• Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
  New York: Garland 2000
  Offers long essays on the countries and regions of Eastern Europe as well as shorter entries on history, geography, culture, concepts, and prominent figures.
  Location: Ref DJK 6 .E53 2000

• Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000
  New York: Scribner 2001
  6 vols. Offers substantial, well-documented survey essays on topics such as social change, urban and rural life, gender, popular culture, religion, and everyday life.
  Location: Ref HN373 .E63 2001

• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
  New York: Scribner's 1996 2nd edition
  The 5,000+ articles in this resource give a remarkably complete overview of current knowledge about the region. Entries are arranged alphabetically by country, by topic (such as slavery, art, Asians in Latin America), and biographically. Articles are written by experts and are followed by selective bibliographies.
  Location: Ref F 1406 .E53 2008

• Encyclopedia of Russian History
  Macmillan 2004
  Offers succinct but scholarly articles on events, cultural developments, ethnic groups, economic issues, organizations, prominent historical figures, and issues in Russian history.
  Location: Ref DK 14 .E53 2004 (4 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
  New York: Oxford University Press 2002
  Offers a broad range of entries about individuals and concepts related to the Enlightenment in Europe and America.
  Location: Ref B 802 .E53 2002 (4 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
  New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. 1990
  Offers lengthy articles on topics, each followed by a selective bibliography of useful sources. Covers people, places, events, and concepts.
  Location: Ref D 804.3 .E53 1990 (4 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
  New York: Scribner's 1999
  Covers nearly 1,200 cultural and historical topics relating to Europe from 1350 to the early seventeenth century.
  Location: Ref CB 361 .E52 1999 (6 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of World War I
  Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio 2005
  Location: Ref D510 .E53 2005 (5 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History
  Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio 2005
  These two specialized encyclopedias offer articles on a variety of topics related to the two world wars.
  Location: Ref D 740 .E516 2005 (5 vols.)

• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  New York: Scribner's 2005
  Covers a wide range of ideas historically and internationally. Particularly strong for overviews of current ideas taken in historical context, listing essential and significant texts that contributed to the development of concepts.
  Location: Ref CB 9 .N49 2005

• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
  New York: Oxford 2003
  Offers nearly 900 essays on issues in the field, from multiple perspectives including interdisciplinary approaches and global coverage. Entries cover broad topics such as "property rights" and "social mobility," significant figures, countries, industries, and technical terms.
  Location: Ref HC 15 .O94 2003 (5 vols.)

• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
  New York: Oxford University Press 1996
  Covers people, places, events, documents, and ideas relevant to the Reformation in lengthy, scholarly articles. Each reflects current research and interpretation and is followed by a selective bibliography.
  Location: Ref BR 302.8 .O93 1996 (4 vols.)

• U.S. History

• Dictionary of American History
  New York: Scribner's 2003 3rd ed. edition
  An encyclopedia of political, cultural, social, economic, and military history in the United States. The ninth volume contains historical maps and primary documents.
  Location: Ref E 174 .D52 2003 (9 vols.)

• Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States
  Danbury: Grolier 2005
  Covers Latinos in the United states in over 650 essays that tackle topics from baseball to Zorro, significant places, groups of people, event, and more. The fourth volume includes significant primary source documents.
  Location: Ref E 184 .S75 E587 2005

• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience in the Americas
  New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan 2006 2nd edition
  A wide-ranging encyclopedia covering people, places, events, concepts, and topics of all sorts. Articles are written by specialists and have useful bibliographies.
  Location: Ref E 185 .E54 2006

• Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
  New York: Scribner's 2001
  Provides in-depth articles on American thought and culture. Topics covered include historical approaches, cultural groups, major cultural regions, and political thought.
  Location: Ref E 169 .E624 2001 (3 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of American Social History
  New York: Scribner's 1993
  Filling in the holes left in conventional political/biographical history sources, this set covers topics such as religion, class, gender, race, popular culture, regionalism, and everyday life from pre-Columbian to modern times in lengthy and well-documented articles.
  Location: Ref HN 57 .E58 1993 (3 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
  Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference 2004
  Organized by topic rather than alphabetically, this set covers the antislavery movement, civil rights, the women's movement, labor, Native American, religious and Utopian, antiwar and student movements, LGBT, environmental, and global justice movements, each with in-depth chronological coverage and analysis.
  Location: Ref HN 57 .E594 2004

• Encyclopedia of American Studies
  New York: Grolier Educational 2001
  Published under the auspices of the American Studies Association, this est covers concepts key to the interdisciplinary field, issues related to class, race and ethnicity, cultural institutions, popular culture, social history and more.
  Location: Ref E 169.1 .E625 2001 (4 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the American Civil War
  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio 2000
  Subtitled "A Political, Social, and Military History," this source attempts to "fashion a comprehensive source for a boundless subject." It offers over 1,600 articles on topics related to the war and its context, events leading up to the war and its consequences. There is a special section devoted to primary sources, as well as photographs, drawings, and maps.
  Location: Ref E 468 .H47 2000 (5 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War
  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio 2006
  Covers the causes and results of the American Revolution in over 900 articles addressing people, events, organizations, and key ideas.
  Location: Ref E 208 .E64 2006 (5 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
  New York: Scribner's 2001
  Covers major ideas and issues in American social, political, and military history with articles as specific as "The Chinese Exclusion Act" and as broad as "Domestic Life."
  Location: Ref E 169.1 .E626 2001 (3 vols.)

• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
  New York: Scribner's 1996
  An ambitious survey of American cultural, social and intellectual history in broad articles arranged topically. Each essay/article is followed by a thorough and very useful bibliography for further research.
  Location: Ref E740.7 .E53 1996 (4 vols.)

• Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
  Oxford: Oxford UP 2001
  Solid, scholarly articles on a part of the world that has been the site of significant cultural developments in archaeology, history and the arts.
  Location: Ref F 1218.6 .O95 2001

• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
  Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press 2000
  A compendium of short articles on figures and ideas that were a common part of the American experience in the twentieth century.
  Location: Ref E 169.1 .S764 2000 (5 vols.)

• Biographical sources

• American National Biography
  New York: Oxford University Press 1999
  Offers over 17,000 scholarly biographical sketches of significant Americans who died before 1996. The definitive source for American biography.
  Location: Ref CT 213 .A68 1999 (24 vols + suppl)

• Black Women in America
  New York: Oxford University Press 2005 2nd ed. edition
  A scholarly compilation of biographical and topical articles covering key issues and the lives of women, celebrated and unknown, constituting a definitive history of African American women and their experience in America. Bibliographies are provided at the end of articles to lead the researcher to further sources, both primary and secondary.
  Location: Ref E 185.86 .B542 2005 (3 vols.)

• Women in World History
  Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications 1999
  A biographical encyclopedia offering entries on 10,000 women from around the world. Includes indexes by era, geography, occupation, and name.
  Location: Ref HQ1115 .W6 1999 (17 vols.)

• Chronologies

• American Decades
  Detroit: Gale Research 1994
  Presents social and cultural history in ten-year periods, covering the arts, business, fashion, law, medicine, religion, and more.
  Location: Ref E 169.12 .A419 1994 (10 vols.)

• The Columbia Chronicles of American Life
  New York: Columbia University Press 1995
  A year-by-year survey of information of all sorts, stressing popular culture, including top news stories, quotes, ads, movies, music, theatre, science, and fashion. Includes a "first appearances" section for new products and events.
  Location: Ref E 169.1 G667 1995

• Chronology of World History
  Santa Barbar, CA: ABC-Clio 1999
  Year-by-year world coverage of politics, science, the arts, and society in four volumes.
  Location: Ref D11 .M39 1999 (4 vols.)

• Historical Maps

• Atlas of Ancient America
  New York: Facts on File 1980
  Covers North, South, and Mezoamerican pre-Columbia history in text, maps and chronologies, with many photos art objects, and plans of archaeological sites.
  Location: Ref E 61.C66 1986

• Time's Atlas of World History
  New York: Hammond Incorporated 1993
  Geographic representations of historical periods and movements. Over 600 maps show changes and various perspectives on periods from prehistoric human life to the recent past. Supplemented by explanations and discussions of each period depicted.
  Location: Ref Atlases G 1030 .T54 1993

• Historical Statistics

• International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, and Oceania
  London : Macmillan Reference ; New York : Stockton Press 1998 3rd ed. edition
  Offers a wide variety of comparative historical statistics on population, labor force, agriculture, industry, trade, transport and communications, finance, rices, education, and national accounts.
  Location: Ref HA 4675 .M55 1998

• International Historical Statistics: The Americas
  London : Macmillan Reference ; New York : Stockton Press 1998 4th ed. edition
  Comparative historical statistics for North and South America.
  Location: Ref HA 175 .M55 1998

• International Historical Statistics: Europe
  London : Macmillan Reference ; New York : Stockton Press 1998 4th ed. edition
  Comparative historical statistics for Europe.
  Location: Ref HA 1107 .M55 1998

• Historical Statistics of the United States: earliest times to the present
  New York: Cambridge University Press 2006 Millenium ed. edition
  Revised update to Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial ed. Washington U.S. Dept. of Commerce:GPO Includes bibliographic references and index,illustrated with maps, updates previous publishing with U.S. Census 2000 data.
  Location: Ref HA 202 .H57 2006 (5 vols.)

• CB History of civilization
• CC Archaeology
• D History (General)
  • 51-95 Ancient
  • 111-203 Medieval
  • 204-475 Modern
  • 501-838 World War I,II
  • 839-850 Post-War history 1945-
  • 901-1075 Europe (General)
  • 890-893 Eastern Hemisphere
• DA-DR European States individually
• DS Asia
  • 35-392 Middle East and Central Asia
  • 401-486 India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal
  • 501-689 Southeast Asia
  • 701-799 China
  • 801-897 Japan
• DT Africa
  • 43-179 Northern Africa
  • 181-363 Central Africa
  • 365-469 East Africa
  • 470-720 West Africa
  • 727-971 Southern Africa
  • DU Oceania (south seas) and Australia
• E North American History (primarily United States)
• F 1-975 United States' local history
  • 1201-2191 Latin America
  • 2201-3799 South America
• G Geography
• HA Social Statistics
• HN Social History and Conditions

• The Popular Press

• New York Times Historical (1851-2005)
  The full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2005 - covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper back to the first issue. The newspaper text is fully indexed and searchable and the database also contains full-page images, including graphics. Available on the Web through ProQuest.

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
  New York: P. Smith 1938 Rev. ed. edition
  An index to the contents of periodicals published in the nineteenth century in England and America. Covers 1802-1881, with supplements that cover through 1906. Though less easy to use than later indexes, it offers access to articles in popular periodicals by subject. Headings are not always easy to guess--the Civil War, for example, is found under United States--Civil War.
  Location: Ref AI 3 .P7 1938 (6 vols.)

• Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
  H. W. Wilson Company 1900 -
  Indexes articles and reviews from a range of magazines. A separate book review index is located after the general index.
  Location: Reference A13 .R28

• Official Documents

• Records of the Confederate States of America, 1859-1872
  Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources 1967
  Known as Pickett papers. Accompanied by a guide. These records, consisting of about 18,500 pieces, span the years 1858-1872, with the bulk of the material falling in the period April 1861-April 1865. They relate completely to the Confederate States of America: its formation, and the conduct of its internal, external and military affairs during its existence.
  Location: Microfilm Room Main Level: JK9665 .C65 1967

• Foreign Relations of the United States
  Government Printing Office
  Collected correspondence, memoranda, treaties, presidential messages, etc., relating to relating to U. S. foreign policy, arranged chronologically and by region. This is a rich depository of primary source material on foreign relations and international issues.
  Location: JX233 .A3

• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
  Office of the Federal Register
  A repository of proclamations, speeches, statements, etc. of presidents, kept up to date by the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Volumes from 1992 on are available online.
  Location: shelved with the general collection at J80 .A283

• U.S. Serial Set
  Washinton, D.C: Government Printing Office 1789-1969
  This series is a compilation of various sorts of Congressional documents. The library owns papers in this series covering the 17th Congress (1798-1823), the 36th through 41st Congress (1859-1871) and the 42nd Congress (1871-1873). They are available on microfiche in the government documents area in a cabinet marked "American State Papers"; a printed index provides subject access to the microfiche by document and envelope number. (For example, an entry for "S.misdoc. 22 (39 - II) 1278" is referencing document number 22 in microfiche envelope number 1278; it is a miscellaneous Senate document from the second session of the 39th Congress.)
  Location: Lower Level- Government Documents Microfiche

• Reprint Series
  The EEBO (Early English Books Online) collection is an amazing collection of primary sources. It contains digital facsimile page images of nearly 100,000 books in English printed between 1473 and 1700 - virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, plus works in English printed elsewhere.
  

  In addition to EEBO, the library has many printed facsimiles. Each of the series listed below includes many books. You can see the contents and locations for any of these titles by searching MnPALS using the series name as a title.

  • The American Negro: His History and Literature
  • The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
  • The Black Women Oral History Project
  • The Early English Text Society Series
  • The Early Modern Englishwoman-a Facsimile Library of Essential Works
  • The English Experience, Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile
  • Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
  • The March of America Facsimile Series
  • Russia Observed
  • Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Women Writers

• Microform Collections

• American Culture Series
  Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International 1979
  A large collections of microfilmed books and pamphlets, with a printed index to its contents.
  Location: Shelved in Microfilm Room under Reprint Series Ref Z 1215 .A583

• American Periodicals Series
  Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International 1979
  A collection of periodicals reproduced on microfilm. This library does not own the entire set. A general index, covering the subject matter of different magazines, is available in print form.
  Location: Microfilm Room: PN 4877 .H66 1979

• American Women's Diaries
  New Canaan, CT: Readex 1984
  This collection of microfilm reproduces the diaries of women who lived and traveled in the western U.S., New England, and the South.
  Location: Microfilm Room - CT 3260 .A64 1984

• The Cornell University Collection of Women's Rights Pamphlets
  Wooster, MN: Bell & Howell 1974
  This collection of microfiche contains 117 pamphlets published between 1814 and 1912.
  Location: Microfilm Room - Microfiche HQ 1236 .C675 1974

• FBI File on Malcolm X
  Wilmington: Scholary Resources 1996
  An unusual primary source, reproducing the actual FBI file kept on Malcolm X. Additional FBI surveillance files are available under Microfilm E185.61 .M315 1978. The library owns a similar microfilm collection that covers the FBI file on W.E.B. Du Bois with information the agency collected from 1942 to 1963. These files, though declassified, have been heavily censored and many portions of text are blacked out. Provides not only what the authorities believed was significant evidence on these public figures and their behavior, but insight into how they interpreted that evidence.
  Location: Mircofilm E 185.97 .L5 F23 1996

• Papers of the NAACP: Part 4, Vorting Rights Campaign, 1916-1950 with supplement: General Office Files, 1956-1965
  Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America 1995
  A firsthand record of the activities of the NAACP in the fight for voting rights. Includes information on voter registration campaigns, reports on the political climate of the times, committee recommendations, accounts of resistance to voter registration campaigns, etc. Indexed by subject and by principal correspondent.
  Location: Microfilm E185.5 .N276 1986, pt.4

• America: History and Life
  Indexes literature related to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistorical times to the present. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide including all key English-language historical journals, selected historical journals from major countries, and state and local history journals, as well as books, dissertations and book reviews.

• Medieval Sources Online
  Medieval Sources Online is a web-based learning resource containing hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history.

• Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History
  A freely-accessible database of 300,000 references to publications from 1900 to the present, with selected older works included. Included are articles in journals and edited volumes.

• Web of Science
  The Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Besides indexing a wide range of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and history, this resource allows you to search for articles that cite a specific author or published work. Coverage from 1997 to the present.

Additional journals may be available in full text through various subscription databases . Use our journal locator list to scan journals, both print and electronic, by subject.

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW - library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR; current issues are available through The History Cooperative.
AMERICAN QUARTERLY - current issues available through Project Muse; back issues available through JSTOR.
CIVIL WAR HISTORY v.25, 1979-
COMMON-PLACE; current issues are available through The History Cooperative.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES - current issues available through Project Muse; back issues available through JSTOR.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW v.21, 1906; v. 29, 1914; v.94, 1979-; back issues available through JSTOR.
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY current issues available through The History Cooperative.
GENDER & HISTORY v.13, 2001-
HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: HAHR v.77, 1997-; back issues available through JSTOR.
HISTORIAN v.32, 1969-
HISTORY AND THEORY v.25, 1986-; back issues available through JSTOR.
HISTORY MATTERS v.1, 2005-
HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY -
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS v.1, 1961-
HISTORY TEACHER v.7, 1974-; current issues available through The History Cooperative; back issues available through JSTOR.
HISTORY TODAY v.6, 1956-
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY - library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR.
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY- library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR; current issues available through The History Cooperative.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY v.22, 1997-; back issues available through JSTOR.
JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY v.22, 1997-
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY v.5, 1979 - v. 18, 1992; v.23, 1997-
JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY v.28-33, 1997-2003; back issues available through JSTOR.
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES v.29, 1997-; back issues available through JSTOR.
JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES v.3, 1965 - v.7, 1969; v.13, 1975-
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY- library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY v.21, 1965-
JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY - library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR.
JOURNAL OF THE GUILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA - current issues available through The History Cooperative.
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS - current issues available through Project Muse; back issues available through JSTOR.
JOURNAL OF THE WEST v.1, 1962-
JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY v.9, no.1, 1997-
JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY - current issues available through The History Cooperative.
LABOR: STUDIES IN WORKING CLASS HISTORY v. 2, 2005-
LABOUR HISTORY - current issues available through The History Cooperative.
LABOUR / LE TRAVAIL - current issues available through The History Cooperative.
LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW - current issues available through The History Cooperative.
MAGAZINE OF HISTORY v.19, 2005- MINNESOTA HISTORY v.1, 1915-
NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY, LIBRARY RETAINS PAPER ISSUES FOR 10 YEARS OREGON HISTORICAL QUARTERLY - current issues available through The History Cooperative.
PAST AND PRESENT v.130, 1991-; back issues available through JSTOR.
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY - library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR
REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY - current issues available through Project Muse; back issues available throught JSTOR
RUSSIAN REVIEW v.38, 1979-; back issues available through JSTOR.
SPECULUM - library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR.
WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY v.9, 1978 - v.23, 1992; v.29, 1998-; current issues available through The History Cooperative.
WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY - library retains most recent ten years; back issues available through JSTOR; current issues available through The History Cooperative

Websites

• General directories to history resources

• History - American and British (Rutgers University)
  Organized by type of material, time period, and subject. Also contains a section on full-text documents (organized by time period).

• History Links Library
  From Bedford/St. Martin's.

• Voice of the Shuttle - History
  Resources are sorted by category, type, and geographic region (e.g. Military history, African history, conferences, et.).

• World Wide web Virtual Library - History
  Contains information on research methods, time periods, and historical topics. In addition, links are included for countries and regions.

• Primary Resources

• American Memory
  A database containing full text documents, spoken word and sound recordings, still and moving images, maps, and sheet music as a digital record of American history and creativity. From the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.

• American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
  Database of over 5,000 speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, and interviews.

• Avalon Project at Yale Law School
  Collection of documents pertaining to law, history, and diplomacy, organized by time period, topic, authors, and titles.

• Documenting the American South
  Primary sources from the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill including a collection of books, pamphlets, and personal narratives.

• Eurodocs
  Primary sources from Western Europe, organized by geography.

• Harvard University Open Collections Program
  A project to provide digital access to a variety of resources with a particular focus. The most developed collection thus far is the Women Working, 1800-1930 collection that features relevant manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, and books.

• Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millenium
  From the Library of Congress; provides cartoons and commentary on the context.

• Historic Missouri Newspapers
  Through a collaboration of several libraries, this archive reproduces selected contents of a variety of newspapers from one state, providing digital images of original and close-ups of specific stories. Searchable by keyword.

• Historical Maps
  From the University of Texas Perry-Castaneda library Map Collection, maps organized by region.

• History and Politics Out Loud
  An archive of audio files related to U.S. political history, particularly from 1960-1979.

• History Channel Speech Archive
  Browse by subject or author for over 500 speeches. Presented in video format.

• In the First Person
  Indexes over 3,000 collections of personal narratives from around the world, sometimes linking to free full texts available on the Internet. Search by subject, historical event, locations, or words used in the text.

• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
  A collection of texts and links edited by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.

• Making of America
  A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes the text of over 8.000 books and 50,000 journals.

• National Archives and Records Administration
  NARA is the official depository for U.S. government materials. From this site, you can access digitized copies of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and other important documents.

• NYPL Digital Library
  NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

• NYPL Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection
  Picture Collection Online presents more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

• September 11 Digital Archive
  An example of a project documenting recent history for the record.

• Using Primary Sources on the Web
  A guide to finding, evaluating, and citing primary sources on the Web, from the Reference and User Services section of the American Library Association.

• Valley of the Shadow
  An outstanding collection of primary sources from two communities in Virginia and Pennsylvania, from 1859 through the Reconstruction. A fascinating use of the Internet for historical research.

• Vietnam Project
  A major collection of materials, much of it available through the Web, from Texas Tech University.

• World History

• ABZU: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
  Ancient Near East resources from a consortium of ancient studies institutes and associations.

• Africa South of the Sahara 1994-2007
  Maintained by Karen Fung for the African Studies Association. Selected, annotated sites arranged by country and topic, with sources for current news from Africa.

• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  Resources on the study of women and gender in the ancient world.

• Labyrinth
  Resources for medieval studies from Georgetown University.

• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center 1992-2007
  From the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Provides over 12,000 links to quality Web resources for Latin America, arranged by country or by topic, such as economy, education, and government.

• Luminarium
  A collection of primary and secondary sources on medieval, renaissance, and 17th century Europe.

• Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC)
  Resources from the University of Texas, Middle Eastern Studies program.

• NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World 1994-2007
  A rich site for information on native peoples, particularly strong for Native North American, but global in scope; includes cultural, historical, educational, and current affairs information.

• U.S. History

• American Women's History: A Research Guide
  Contains a subject index, state and regional sources, and links to digital collections of primary sources.

• Encyclopedia of Chicago
  An online version of the print reference that includes images, maps, and more, prepared under the auspices of the Chicago Historical Historical Society, the Newberry Library, and Northwestern University.

• Latino American History
  From the University of Colorado.

• WWW Virtual Library: United States History
  A well-maintained selective guide to quality Web sites.

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