Full Text Databases	Journal Indexes and Abstracts
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries	Internet Websites

Full-Text Databases

• Harpweek. Searchable scanned image of all pages of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War era. 

• History Cooperative.  Four leaders in historical scholarship and cutting-edge technology have joined forces to create the premier resource for historians on the Web.  The American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press have announced the launch of The History Cooperative on March 30, 2000.  For the first time, the full text of current issues of the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History will be available electronically to members of the AHA and to institutions that subscribe to the print versions of all the journals. 

• InfoTrac OneFile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, history, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily. 

• Oxford University Press Online Journals. The Oxford University Press is well-known for its excellence in research, scholarship, and education. The publisher is widely recognized as a premier publisher of journals. This database provides online access to 134 periodical titles in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Several full-text history journals are available. 

• Project Muse.  Project Muse provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. 

• Xreferplus. An online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri,and books of quotations. Includes several history encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Journal Indexes and Abstracts

• Historical Abstracts. Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.  Coverage for the United States and Canada are excluded. 

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• Almanac of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  Bramhall House, 1986. Although basically a chronology, this work also has introductory essays by renowned historians.  Divided into five time spans in U.S. history from 986 to 1982, each section contains an essay followed by a chronology of events.  Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF E174.5 A45. 

• Dictionary of American History by J. T. Adams. Scribner, 1976-1978.  Now in its second edition, this classic multi-volume set includes 7,200 essays on all aspects of American history, including political, military, social, economic, scientific, and artistic.  The authoritative articles, written by experts in the field, include suggestions for further reading. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF E174 D52. 

• Documents of American History by Henry Steele Commager. Prentice-Hall, 1988. The 695  documents included in this work, from 1492 to 1973, are designed to illustrate the course of American history from the Age of Discovery to the early 1970s.  Includes such things as the Stamp Act of 1765, the Articles of Confederation, the Missouri Compromise, the Homestead Act of 1862, and the Platt Amendment of 1903.  Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call number:  REF E173 D59. 

• Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates by Gorton Carruth. HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. This is the only encyclopedia of American history that is arranged in both concurrent and chronological order.  More than just a listing of dates, the entries are full of details about such things as business, entertainment, fashions, social issues, crime, science, architecture, philosophy, and religion.   Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call number: REF E174.5 C3. 

• Encyclopedia of American Social History by Mary Kupiec Cayton. Scribner, 1993. Presents essays on the major issues that have dominated historical writing since the advent of social history as an entity in the 1960s.  In the 3 volumes are such topics as periods and processes of social change: social identity: ethnic and racial subcultures, regionalism; work and labor; space and place; recreation; family history; social history; social problems; science; medicine; and technology; and education and literacy.  The extensive entries include significant bibliographies for further research. Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call number: REF HN57 E58. 

• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century by Stanley I. Kutler. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.  The in-depth articles in this 5-volume set narrate and analyze the major topics and themes of the 20th century, ranging from politics and government, to the effect of science and technology and America's place in the world.  Entries often include photographs and bibliographical references. Location: Reference Collection, first Floor, Call number: REF E740.7 E

• Reader's Guide to American History by Peter J. Parish. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.  Offers help to those who wish to explore the riches of American historical writing by presenting essays which describe and assess books on some 600 different topics, some specialized and others quite expansive.  Entries fall into three main categories dealing respectively with events, individuals, and broader themes and issues. Location:  Reference Collection, First Floor, Call number: REF E178 R43. 

• Academic Info's History Collection. This site contains World History Meta-Indexes, The Reference Desk; Digital Libraries & Archives; Digital Image Collections; Teaching Materials.

• All American: Literature, History, and Culture. All American is an internet encyclopedia designed to help locate thorough, accurate information about American literature, history, and culture.

• American and British History Resources on the Internet.  Extensive links to history resources in many categories:  Reference Resources (maps, statistics, documents, treaties, electric journals, , etc.), History Gateways, and Text Sites, including sites by subject or by period. 

• American Cultural History: the Twentieth Century.  Organized by decade through the 1990's, this guide offers a broad perspective on the twentieth century.  Each decade is broken down into subjects, such as: art and architecture, music, fashion, and historic events.  To further explore different subjects, there are lists of web links which take you off site.  There are recommended books for further research. 

• American Memory from the Library of Congress.  Hosted by the Library of Congress, this site makes available documents, speeches, sound recordings, photographs, and even some actual scanned manuscripts relating to American history. 

• American Memory Timeline. Primary sources for seven time periods of United States history are provided at this site covering 1783-1968.  Each period is subdivided into various topics and contains an overview.  Included are images, letters, lyrics, interviews, and more. 

• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy. An electronic collection of current and historical United States Government documents which define the American democracy.  Categories include legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic.  These documents are selected and authenticated by the Government Printing Office's GPO Access service, and they are intended to be freely available to the public on a permanent basis. 

• Decades in 20th Century America.  Students, or anyone else interested in American history and culture, will find a serviceable collection of print and online sources for each of the century's decades, as well as several more than one decade.  Annotated and regularly updated. 

• From Revolution to Reconstruction. An ongoing hypertext history of the United States.  The backbone of the document is a U.S. Information Agency document called "An Outline of American History."  The site covers the colonial period to the Bush Administration.  Links are made to hundreds of full text documents including Presidents' addresses, the Federalist Papers, the Confessions of Nat Turner, the Mayflower Compact, and the Northwest Ordinance. 

• From Slavery to Freedom. The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909.  This site presents 397 pamphlets from Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.  The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. 

• History Buff. Searchable database of articles written by members of the Newspaper Collectors Society, covering American and journalism history. Sections cover pre-18th century, American Civil War, baseball, engravings, journalism hoaxes, old West, crimes, presidential related news, and more. Their Historic Voices Library includes Real Audio sound files that include an Amelia Earhart speech, the first recorded commercial, the explosion of the Hindenberg zeppelin, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the first man on the Moon, among others. 

• Historical Graphics Gallery.  Political Graphics Gallery.  Political cartoons and cartoonists trace political cartoons from the beginning of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th, with cartoons by Thomas Nast and Honore' Daumier and portrayals of Theodore Roosevelt, Uncle Sam and woman suffrage. Other sections include: The Political Art of Dan Beard and Advertisements from the Spanish-American & Philippine-American Wars. 

• Historical United States Census Data Browser. The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.  Start with one of the decennial census pages, and then select the variables that you want to view.  Data is initially displayed by state.  County data can be displayed by selecting any or all states from the state display. 

• History on the Web. Allows browsing by topic or by region of the world to find websites on history. Can also be searched by keyword. Provided by the University of Washington.

• History World. Sponsored by Britain's Virtual Teacher Centre HistoryWorld contains over 400 separate historical articles and approximately 4000 events within its unique database. Visitors may begin by looking through the World History section, where it is possible to take any number of "tours through time," which essentially display a complete succession of events around a given theme, such as religion, science, or architecture. Students looking for a brief overview regarding any number of subjects may want to take a look at the article section which contains articles on various historical themes organized by region, contributor (in this case, the contributing agency or museum), and category.

• Making of America (University of Michigan).  Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the ante-bellum period through Reconstruction (19th century.)  The collection is particularly strong in the subject  area of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. 

• NARA. (National Archives and Records Administration) NARA ensures, for citizens and federal officials, ready access to essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. Access to historical documents, military service records, photos, maps, films and much more.

• New York Times Article Archive: 1851-1980. Search the Article Archive for more then 15 million articles from Sept. 1851 to Dec. 1995. Articles, including their accompanying photos, charts, and graphs, may be purchased in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader required.

• 19th Century American History. Excellent list of clickable categories for 19th century american history. 

• Nineteenth Century Documents Project. A collection of nineteenth century United States primary source material, including documents, editorials, speeches, and articles. Sections include: Early National Politics; Slavery and Sectionalism; Nebraska Bill; Sumner's Caning; Dred Scott Decision; John Brown and Harper's Ferry; 1850s Statistical Almanac; 1860 election; Secession and War; and Post Civil War. Some of the texts are searchable; there is a short list of related sites. From Furman University. 

• United States History Gateway.  Gateway to quality history resources.  Includes indexes and directories, History Reference Desk, History Digital Library, and gateway pages by subject categories.