America: History and Life - Some Full Text
Citations and abstracts of sources on the history of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts - Some Full Text
References to articles, books and dissertations on world history from 1450-present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).

History Cooperative - Full text
Recent issues of several full-text history journals including American Historical Review and Journal of American History.

Making of America - Full text
A collection of digitized primary sources in American history from 1815-1926.

CQ Congress Collection - Full text
Provides a wide variety of information and analysis of legislation, members of Congress, congressional votes, and the legislative branch (1969-present).

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) - Full-text
Declassified government documents from the National Security Archive on U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. To date, the DNSA includes 20 collections on topics such as Afghanistan, Iran and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Historical Statistics of the United States
A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources. HSAS includes over 37,000 data series and topics, among them slavery, American Indians and poverty, spanning Colonial times to 1970.

Slavic/East European Studies - Citations only
References to sources about East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1990-present).

Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) - Citations only
Citations to articles on a variety of topics from the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.

JSTOR - Full text
Scholarly journal articles in the social, general, and life sciences.

Project Muse - Full text
Full-text journals in literature, performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and more.

Alternative Press Index Archive - Citations only
Index of journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change (1969-1990).

Academic Search Premier - Some full text
General interest and scholarly articles on a variety of topics (dates vary, some journals back to 1975 or earlier).

Expanded Academic ASAP (Academic OneFile) - Some full text
Articles in a variety of subject areas from scholarly journals and general periodicals in a variety of subjects.

LexisNexis Academic - Full text
Full-text of national and regional newspapers, business publications, federal and state codes, case law and reference information (1990-present).

Contemporary Women's Issues -Some full text
Global information on women's issues in health and human rights.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Citations only
Index of reference books covering contemporary and historical figures.

Arts & Humanites Citation Index - Citations Only
Cited reference searching and bibliographic information in over 1100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. (1975-present)

Ingenta - Citations only
Article citations in a variety of subject areas and tables of contents for periodicals.

WorldCat (OCLC Union Catalog) - Citations only
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

Journal Citation Reports (available through ISI Web of Knowledge).
Journal citation data including most frequently cited, highest impact and largest journals in a field from JCR Web Science Edition 2004 and JCR Web Social Sciences Edition 2005

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JournalInfo

Best of History Web Sites (http://www.besthistorysites.net/)

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html)

Medieval and Renaissance Web (http://www.library.jhu.edu/departments/rsc/other/wessubj/WESSMedRen.html)

NYPL Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm)

Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home (http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/)

The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975 (http://vietnam.vassar.edu)

Woodrow Wilson Center - Publications (http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=publications.welcome)

American Memory Project (http://memory.loc.gov)

In the First Person (http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx)

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Countries and Their Cultures - Full text
Entries contain descriptive summaries of countries around the world, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.

Dictionary of American History - Full text
Coverage of a wide variety of topics in American history.

American Decades - Full-Text
Decade-by decade 20th-Century historical and biographical entries in 13 categories, including the arts, government, religion and science. Photos, illustrations and text are used to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.

Historical Statistics of the United States
A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources. HSAS includes over 37,000 data series and topics, among them slavery, American Indians and poverty, spanning Colonial times to 1970.

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy - Full text
Essays and articles about concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History - Full text
Brief descriptions of legal issues, profiles of U.S. laws and regulations, details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state, and comprehensive bibliographies.

Chronology
Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1997 (3 vols.) (D11 .C57 1997)
The Timetables of History. 3rd ed. (D11 .G78 1991)
The Big Book of Dates (D11 .R69 2001)

Historians
The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians (D14 .B58 1988)
Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (D14 .G75 1991)

Medieval History
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (D114 .B86 1995)
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (13 vols.) (D114 .D5 1982)
Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia (D125 .M42 2001)
Medieval France: An Encyclopedia (DC33.2 .M44 1995)
Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (DD157 .M43 2001)
Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia (DL30 .M43 1993)
Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia (DP99 .M33 2003)

Military History
Dictionary of Wars (D25 .A2 K63 1999)
Magill's Guide to Military History (5 vols.) (D25 .A2 M34 2001)

Asia
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (6 vols.) (DS4 .L48 2002)
The Encyclopedia of Asian History (4 vols.) (DS31 .E53 1987)

Great Britain
Dictionary of National Biography (32 vols.) (DA28 .D4)
Handbook of Dates for Students of English History (DA34 .H29 2000)
The Columbia Companion to British History (DA34 .H64 1997)
The Oxford Companion to British History (DA34 .O93 1997)

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College of Notre Dame History/Political Science Dept.

Loyola College History Dept.

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History 426

Newspapers

CompanyInfo

InternationalInfo

Books
Early English Books Online - Full text
Digital Library of the first 125,000 books printed in English from 1475-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online - Full text
Searchable full-text access to works published in Great Britain from 1701-1800. Based on the English Short Title Catalog, this digital library now covers works in history, geography, literature, social sciences and fine arts. Philosophy and religion will be added in the spring of 2004.

Middle English Compendium - Some full text
Middle English resources including the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a collection of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to other electronic resources.

NetLibrary - Full text
Electronic books covering a wide range of scholarly topics, including history.

Journals & Newspapers
American Periodical Series 1740-1900 - Full text
American magazines and journals from 1741, including over 1,100 periodicals ranging from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

New York Times Historic (1851-1998) - Full text
Full-text archive of the New York Times.

Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
Complete digital edition of The Times (London), with keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

The Pennsylvania Gazette - Full text
Newspaper from 1728-1800.

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective - Full text
Newspaper articles published during the Civil War in the New York Herald, Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer (1860-1865).