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Electronic Databases and Indexes

Many of these databases require a password for off-campus use.

America: History and Life

Covers U.S. and Canadian History. Indexes articles from 1964 to the present. Does not have full-text.


Historical Abstracts

Covers World history (except U.S. and Canada) from 1450 onwards. more==>


Iter

Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources. more==>


Greenwood Daily Life Online

Greenwood Daily Life Online is an interwoven collection of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations, and time lines depicting essential activities of daily life across the globe and throughout history. more==>


History Reference Center

Includes full text for more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. more==>


Encyclopedia of American Studies

The Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an interdisciplinary approach to the complexities of American culture. With over 660+ searchable articles and bibliographies, the Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplinary lines


Oxford African-American Studies Center

The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.


Royal Historical Society Bibliography

The Royal Historical Society Bibliography, hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day.


Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

A collaborative work of over 600 scholars from more than forty countries, the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages provides 3,000 concise and detailed articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. more==>


Historical Statistics of the United States: Millenial Edition

The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history...more==>


History Cooperative

The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. more==>


Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

5 volume e-book
Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music, and religion from a specific period, each volume in this fully searchable five-volume e-book helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture. more=
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Covers history among other subjects. Indexes articles from 1980 to the present. Does not have full-text.


New York Times Historical Newspapers

This database offers full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times dating back to the 1851 and covering up to 1999. more==>


America's Newspapers

Fully searchable database covering 581 United States newspapers, including the fulltext of both the Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-current) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978- current)


The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 (phase 1)
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. more==>


ProQuest Digital Dissertations

ProQuest Digital Dissertations database gives online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. more==>


JSTOR

JSTOR : a collection of fulltext online scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines. more==>


Project Muse

Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. more==>


Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)

Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased...more==>


Facts.com

Extensive full text coverage of the events of the past thirty years, with historical data going back to 1940.


Corbis Images for Education


ProQuest

Covers history among other subjects. Has extensive full-text.


Oxford Reference Online


WorldCat

All material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. more==>


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