Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

America: History and Life
U.S. and Canadian History.  more info

Historical Abstracts
World history, excluding the Americas, from 1450 AD.  more info

More Databases

ArchiveGrid
Locate historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.  more info

Essay and General Literature Index
Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.  more info

Fuente Academica
Collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.  more info

Heritage Quest Online
Census records, family histories, and other genealogy resources.  more info

Historical New York Times
Full-text and full-image articles from 1851-2004.  more info

Humanities Abstracts
Covers a wide range of subject areas in the humanities.  more info

JSTOR
Electronic archive of journals in the arts, history, and sciences.  more info

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, and reference publications.  more info

New York Times - Historical
Full-text and full-image articles from 1851-2004.  more info

New York Times, free access 1851-1922 and 1987 to present.
Considered by many to be the newspaper of record for the United States.  more info

OAIster
Catalog of digital resources from open archive collections.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - History
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

Project Muse
Journals in humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.  more info

Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.  more info

Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia
The authoritative reference work on Southeast Asian history.  more info

ArticleFIRST
Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

Digital Librarian: History
A librarian`s choice of the best of the Web.  more info

American Civil War Homepage
Site developed by students at the University of Tennessee several years ago covering the calamitous events of the 1860's  more info

Ancient History Internet Resources
Some of the best sites in this topic.  more info

Chronology of US Historical Documents
Links to primary sources of selected documents.  more info

Discovering American Women's History Onlilne
Thie website from Middle Tennessee State University, provides access to digital colleections of primary source material  more info

Environmental History on the Internet
Overview of Environmental History links on the web  more info

Film History & Criticism
Selective guide to web sources in Film Criticism and History  more info

History Topics
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet.  more info

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
Comprehensive site covering many aspects of east asian history and culture  more info

Internet Women's History
Clear and comprehensive web index covering Women's history from ancient to modern times  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

Illustrated almanac of historical facts
By Robert Stewart.  more info

Story of civilization
By Will and Ariel Durant.  more info

Wilson calendar of world history
Edited by John Paxton and Edward W. Knappman.  more info