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Historical Abstracts  (1955- )

This is the essential database for locating books, journals, and dissertations in the field of European, Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern and African History 1450 to the present. If studying the United States and Canada use the database America History & Life.

 

PAIS International(CSA): 1972--

PAIS Archive Online (CSA): 1915-1976

The PAIS database contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. Subject coverage: general social sciences, public policy, and social policy.

 

19th Century Masterfile

This is a good source locating periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and US/UK Government Documents published pre-1925.

Periodical Index Online formerly called Periodical Contents Index (PCI)

This is an index to articles published in 4,698 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects covered. PCI currently indexes 15.1 million articles published since the eighteenth century and every article in each journal is indexed.

 

Times of London Digital Archive 1785-1985

The entire newspaper full text, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

 

New York Times Historical (1851-  3 years ago)

The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every available issue up through the past 3 years.  To search the most recent years use either Newspaper Source or Lexis Nexis Academic both of which are listed on the library's News page.

JSTOR

JSTOR provides full-text to articles in 54 history journals, including American Historical Review, Church History, Economic History Review, Eighteenth Century Studies, English Historical Review, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Southern History, Reviews in American History, Russian Review, Studies in the Renaissance, Western Historical Quarterly, William and Mary Quarterly.

 

Project Muse (1995-    )

Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.  Can be cross searched with JSTOR.

 

History E-Book Project from ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies)

This is a collection of over 1,100 full text history books selected by committees from the American Council of Learned Societies and then evaluated by a panel of experts. Records have been added to the Library's catalog. Many of the titles duplicate those held in print by the library allowing students to browse content online prior to requesting the title from LASR or to have immediate access to titles which are unavailable.

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America: History and Life  (1964-   )

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present .

 

African American Newspapers: 19th Century

THIS COLLECTION OF AFRICAN- AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

 

Early American Imprints: Series I: Evans (1639 -1800)

Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, itself based on the renowned “American Bibliography” by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's supplement, Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 has been hailed as a definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. Documents include more than 36,000 items and 2.3 million pages.

Early American Imprints: Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Based on the noted “American Bibliography, 1801-1819” by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American imprints published in the early part of the 19th century. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker includes many state papers and early government materials which chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation. It contains more than 36,000 items and four million pages.

 

America's Historical Newspapers Series I (1690-1876), Series II, (1758-1900), and Series III (1829-1922)

Previously known as Early American Newspapers,  this database offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 650 historical American newspapers, focusing on titles published in the 18th century. Series I is for the most part complete and content will be added to series II and III throughout this year. To see a list of recently added newspapers click here and then click on "Product status" in the left hand navigation bar.

 

Early Encounters in North America (1534-1850)

Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this project documents the relationships among peoples from 1534 to 1850. The collection presents the perspectives of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, officials, and others. It includes works by American Indians, Canadian First Peoples, and many European groups, capturing first impressions, hundreds of years of observations of flora and fauna, descriptions of encounters with indigenous peoples, and new language elements as they evolved.

 

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

This is a massive, ongoing project to catalog and index American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. Researchers will have access to 150,000 pages of materials, including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts as facsimile images. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life, the writings are extensively indexed. Databases of women, sources, personal events, historical events, a geographical table, and other features make the writings useful to researchers in history, sociology, literature, genealogy, women’s studies, and related fields.

Medieval

ITER: The Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700

ITER's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues. 1,108 journal titles, published since 1784, have been indexed

 

International Medieval Bibliography

The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500)
Subject coverage: all aspects of Medieval history in Byzantium, Europe, and Russia.  The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies. Materials indexed: journals and essay

 

Parliamentary Rolls of Medieval England

The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 – 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 – 1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords and, somewhat later, of the commons. The rolls, which amount in total to over four million words, were first edited in the eighteenth century and published in 1783 in six folio volumes entitled Rotuli Parliamentorum ( RP) under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey. This new edition reproduces the rolls edited in RP in their entirety, plus those subsequently published by Cole, Maitland, and Richardson and Sayles as well as a substantial amount of material never previously published, together with a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks (Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English). It also includes an introduction to every parliament known to have been held by an English king (or in his name) between 1275 and 1504, whether or not the roll for that parliament survives.

 

 

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index