History Databases
Databases contain searchable collections of published resources, including articles, ebooks, images, and more! Use this page to select the database that best meets your information needs.
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Total results: 35
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America History & Life
History, culture, area studies, and current affairs literature of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
- Subject:
- History
H
Historical Abstracts
Index of historical articles from thousands of journals in a wide variety of languages covering world history from the 15th century to the present. Excludes the U.S. and Canada.
- Subject:
- History
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JSTOR
Scholarly journals in arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, excluding full text from the last 3-5 years. JSTOR Tip Sheet
- Subject:
- History
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Project MUSE
Scholarly journals, e-books, and reviews spanning the humanities and social sciences. Project MUSE Tip Sheet
- Subject:
- History
T
Taylor & Francis Journals
Scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
- Subject:
- History
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Newspapers.com: Southeast Collection
Provides access to newspapers from the southeast United States including 2000+ historical and recent newspapers in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
- Subject:
- History
A
Atlanta Daily World Historical Archive
Archive of the Atlanta Daily World, an African American newspaper, from 1931-2010
- Subject:
- History
C
Chicago Defender Historical Archive
Archive of the Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper, from 1909-2010.
- Subject:
- History
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New York Times Historical Archive
Full text to the New York Times from 1851-3 years ago. Also includes digitized NYT Index from 1851-1993, advertisements, & photos. New York Times Historical Archive Tip Sheet
- Subject:
- History
T
Tennessean Historical Archive
Archive of the Nashville Tennessean newspaper from 1812-2002.
- Subject:
- History
C
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American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
Comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912
- Subject:
- History
E
Europeana Historic Newspapers
Open access historical newspapers from a variety of European countries.
- Subject:
- History
H
U
UTC Echo Student Newspaper (Archive)
Issues of the UTC student newspaper dating from 1888 to 2015.
- Subject:
- History
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Archive index of subjects in the popular press from 1890-1982
- Subject:
- History
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19th Century British Pamphlets
More than 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven UK universities.
- Subject:
- History
A
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Contains over 3,000 primary source documents focused on Black Freedom from 1790-2000: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement, Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Crow Era, New Deal and World War II, Civil Rights Movements, and the Contemporary Era.
- Subject:
- History
Black Thought & Culture
Non-fiction published works (essays, letters, speeches, etc.) of leading African Americans.
- Subject:
- History
D
Digital Public Library of America
Portal that contains the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
- Subject:
- History
E
Early American Imprints, Series I
Contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Subject:
- History
Europeana
Portal for artworks, cultural items, and archival materials from participating institutions in Europe.
- Subject:
- History
F
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Video testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators.
- Subject:
- History
G
Gale Primary Sources
Large set of primary source databases. Includes archival newspapers, government documents, museum archives, and more.
- Subject:
- History
H
HathiTrust
Millions of published materials and records digitized by libraries and archives around the world, including books, periodicals, and federal documents.
- Subject:
- History
HeritageQuest Online
A collection of genealogy and local history (cities, towns, regions) research. Includes access to federal census data and images (1790-1940), full text to over 28,000 books, and more.
- Subject:
- History
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LGBT Thought and Culture
Documents LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
- Subject:
- History
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Digital collections from the Library of Congress on a wide variety of topics.
- Subject:
- History
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Patrologia Latina
Comprises works of the Church Fathers starting with Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
- Subject:
- History
Perseus Digital Library
History, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman, Arabic, Germanic, 19th Century American and Renaissance worlds, and more.
- Subject:
- History
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Catalog records and digital images representing still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.
- Subject:
- History
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Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
Primary source collection focusing on liberation struggles in Southern Africa, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. UTC access to this database ends on June 30, 2022.
- Subject:
- History
W
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Primary source documents that chronicle the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
- Subject:
- History