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American History

  • America: History and Life
  • Index to journals on U.S. and Canada.
     
  • Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Series 1 - 5) Searchable full text of hundreds of newspapers.
     
  • American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
  • Full text of over 1,100 journals and magazines both scholarly and popular.
     
  • Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
  • Full texts of all the books published in America from 1639 until 1800.
     
  • Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819  Full texts of all the books published in America from 1801 until 1819.

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  • In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
  • Database of full texts, maps, images, and lesson plans sponsored by the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library.
     
  • CQ Historic Documents
  • Full text of thousands of U.S. documents since 1972, including presidential speeches, treaties, Supreme Court decisions and various government reports.
     
  • Lexis-Nexis History Universe
  • Full text of primary sources in African American history, American women's history, and U.S. Presidential history.
     
  • American National Biography
  • Lives of over 18,000 deceased Americans published by Oxford University Press.
     
  • Who's Who in American History
  • 130,000 brief biographies.
     
  • Early Canadiana Online
  • Full text of Canadian books and documents including Jesuit correspondence. Covers up to the early 20th Century.
     
  • National Atlas of the United States

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  • Historical Statistics of the United States
  • The standard source for the quantitative facts of American History.
     

    World History

  • Historical Abstracts
  • Abstracts for over 2000 journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
     
  • World History Collection
  • Full text of historical journals going back to 1964.
     
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of science)
  • Indexes over 1,725 journals in the social sciences.
     
  • Credo Reference - History
  • Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of history.
     
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: History
  • Full text of recently published books on history.
     
  • Humanities E-Book collection
  •    Full text of over 1,500 scholarly books in most humanities disciplines and area studies.
     
  • Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  • Full texts of medieval historical documents.
     
  • Early English Books Online, 1475-1700
  • Full texts of books and pamphlets printed in English in the British Isles and other countries. When complete it will contain over 125,000 titles. Presently it contains over 100,000.
     
  • Original Sources
  • Primary sources and other documents in world history, American history, politics, social sciences, and other subjects.
     
  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery
  • Over 500,000 digital images of posters, prints, dust jackets, maps, photographs, etc.
     
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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  • The National Archives of England, Wales, and the United Kindom
  • Catalog of over 9 million documents. Some historic documents are in full text. Copies of documents may be ordered using a credit card.
     
  • Royal Historical Society Bibliography
  • A comprehensive guide to books and articles about Britain, Ireland and the British overseas.
     
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Index to over 1,500 journals and 3,700 scholarly collections with full text of some articles.
     
  • Military and Government Collection
  • Full text for over 300 military journals and general interest magazines.

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