Historical Abstracts

Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, dissertations, books, and collections in world history (non-North American).

Historic Events of the 20th Century -- Full-text

"Historic Events of the 20th Century" is a collection of 5 individual sourcebooks and covers the following:

• The Civil Rights Movement (overview)

• The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union (overview)

• The Holocaust (overview)

• World War I (overview)

• World War II (overview)

Daily Life Through History -- Full-text

Using dozens of different source books, Daily Life through History provides text, chronologies and pictures on many different topics from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians to current topics in world history.

Primary Sources:

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

Indexed by narrator, interviewer, subject or county, these resources include full-text narratives of slaves and include pictures, sound and text.

Early American Imprints

The Evans Early American Imprints Collection is a microfiche collection of over 36,000 titles on over 26,000 fiche. The titles cover the years 1639-1800. The collection is based on Charles Evans' "American Bibliography" and Roger Bristol's "Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography."  It is considered to be the definitive source of information about life in 17th and 18th century America.

Foreign Relations Series
The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies.

Note: to see the series that is owned by the library do a catalog search for "Foreign relations of the united states." The link above includes indexing and some full-text.

WorldCat on FirstSearch via NCLive -- Abstracts only

WorldCat  is an online catalog containing all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide. Record types include books, manuscripts, journal and magazine articles, websites and internet sources, computer programs, maps, musical scores, sound recordings and videotapes. Locate books on your topic in other libraries, or search for primary source material.

LEXIS-NEXIS - Legal research
This database provides access to full text legal cases from the earliest dates of inception for all state and federal courts. Look at case law from all 50 states as well as Supreme Court and appellate court cases. Search by name of the case or the case citation.

Historic Documents Index -- Full-text at R917.3 H62h   

This cumulative index covers all primary documents presented in the twenty-eight volumes of Historic Documents, from 1972 through 1999.

In the First Person

A resource from Alexander Street Press that indexes and often provides full text access to letters, diaries and oral histories.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) on NCLive -- Full-text.

The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It includes some 300 biographies to enhance the use of the database.

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

This website makes available the text of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton.
The site features the full text of the journals and also includes a gallery of images, important supplemental texts, audio files of selected passages, and Native American perspectives.

Librarian's Internet Index

This page provides links to credible sites related to topics in U.S. History. Many links include full-text documents.

Electronic Reference:

Historical Statistics of the United States

The standard source for the quantitative facts of United States history. Allows for advanced searching of tables, documentation, and essays. Tables can be merged, downloaded, printed, or graphed. Also create custom tables.

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War -- Full-text

Full-text of the ABC-Clio multi-volume Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (R973.703 H36en 2000).

Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War -- Full-text

Full-text of the Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War (R956.70442 G91en 1995).

Virtual Reference Library from Gale

A multi-subject reference search that includes several titles in history, including American History through Literature, and New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

General Databases Useful for History Research:

JSTOR Arts & Sciences

Full-text access for 116 history journals and 76 political science journals, as well as journals with historical coverage for many subjects. Does not included recent issues of these journals.

Arts and Humanities Search
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Updated 02/13/2009
by David Bryden [dbryden@highpoint.edu]