Research Guide for History

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• History Reference Center
  Full text journals, encyclopedias, and historical documents, with biographies, photos, maps, and historical video.
• History Cooperative Journals
  Includes 25 full text history journals, with coverage from 1999-present. *No full text access to The William and Mary Quarterly, The Western Historical Quarterly, and the most recent two years (2008-2009) of American Historical Review.
• Ancient & Medieval History Online
  Search digitized reference books covering Ancient and Medieval history (5000 BC - 1500), with coverage of key events and individuals, plus primary sources, timelines, images, maps and videos.
• Modern World History Online
  Search digitized reference books covering Modern world history (1450-present), with coverage of key events and individuals, plus primary sources, timelines, images, maps and videos.
• African American History Online
  Search digitized reference books covering African American history, with coverage of key events and individuals, plus primary sources, timelines, images, maps and videos.
• American Indian History Online
  Search digitized reference books covering Native American history, with coverage of key events and individuals, plus primary sources, timelines, images, maps and videos.
• American Women's History Online
  Search digitized reference books covering the history of women in America, with coverage of key events and individuals, plus primary sources, timelines, images, maps and videos.
• Humanities Full Text
  Index to humanities journals, with some full text.
• GenderWatch
  Search ProQuest's gender and women's studies database.
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Research court cases and decisions, biographical information, and recent news articles.
• Clase Periodica
  Over 450,000 citations from scholarly Latin American journals; most entries are in Spanish, though some are in Portuguese, French and English. Full text not included, but may be available through other sources.
• ARTstor
  Searchable database of images, including portraits and photographs of historical figures, artistic interpretations of historical events. See ARTstor Resources in History for more information.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Over 750,000 downloadable full text dissertations and theses, covering a wide range of graduate research topics, including history.
• ArchiveGrid
  Search through historical records, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.