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History Databases

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

America: History and Life EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life); provides coverage of 2,000 journals published throughout the world.

American West* Adam Matthew Digital
American West provides access to a vast body of original source material including original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works from 1722 to 1939. Topics include Native Americans, pioneers & homesteaders, mining, the Mormon Exodus, transportation, outlaws, environment, border issues and more.

American History in Video Alexander Street Press
American History in Video features commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries in American history ranging from 1492-2000.

Defining Gender 1450-1910* Adam Matthew
Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original source material from a wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Topics covered include conduct and politeness, domesticity and the family, consumption and leisure, education and sensibility and the body.

Eighteenth Century Journals I & II* Adam Matthew
Collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library (Section I) and the Harry Ransom Research Center (Section II). Topics covered include Literature, the Theatre, the origins and rise of Romanticism, Politics, Revolution and Rebellion, Social issues, Gender, Society Life, Religion and the influence of the Press.

Empire Online* Adam Matthew Digital
Contains primary sources spanning five centuries from a translation of Columbus's 1492 voyage to 21st Century works on Imperialism"; thousands of images of unique source material including maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books. All items are included in their entirety and the sources encourage multiple viewpoints. Includes detailed indexing that enables the sources to be explored in a variety of ways (by period, by date, by person and subject).

Everyday Life and Women in America* Adam Matthew Digital
Resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasizing contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857-1865*
An important primary source, this full-text weekly newspaper  includes editorials, news stories, illustrations, cartoons, and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion during the civil war years.

Historical Statistics of the United States Cambridge
An online and fully searchable version of the Historical Statistics of the United States. Contains statistics ranging from the earliest part of American history to present day, covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations.

Macmillan Cabinet Papers 1957-1963 Adam Matthew
This database provides historians and political scientists with direct access to documents from the highest level of the British government during Harold Macmillan's term as prime minister. Included are 30,000 images of original documents.

Oxford African American Studies Center
A comprehensive full-text collection of scholarly materials that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection*
This database will include full text indexing of articles, graphics, letters to the editor, and advertising for 44 of Colorado historical newspapers covering the dates from 1859 to 1880.

Selected General Databases

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Expanded Academic ASAP* InfoTrac 1980-
Use this database to find information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

JSTOR*
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

Project MUSE* John Hopkins University
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Mega* H.W. Wilson 1982-
Contains indexing, abstracting, and full-text for everything that was in Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index. In addition, the Mega edition contains Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.

Web Sites covering history

Best of History Web sites
Links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness.

History Cooperative 1999-
Full-text of seven American history journals including American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Laws and History Review, William and Mary Quarterly, History Teacher, Western Historical Quarterly, and Common-Place.