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Quick History Search

This box searches these core History databases:
  • Academic Search Premier  
    Provides citations and some full-text for articles in journals and magazines, covering social sciences, humanities, education, arts, literature, ethnic studies, and more.
  • America: History & Life  
    Provides citations to articles on American and Canadian history. Articles date from 1964 – present. Includes some full-text links.
  • Historical Abstracts  
    Provides citations to world history articles, book chapters, books, and more on topics dating from 1450-present. Coverage excludes U.S. and Canada. Years of coverage: 1954-present.
  • JSTOR  
    Provides access to full-text journals articles across all disciplines. Years of coverage: varies by journal title.
  • MUSCAT  
      

Other History Research Tools

  • Encyclopedia of Islam  
    Provides the authoritative source on the religion of Islam, and also on the believers and the countries in which they live. 3 users.
  • Humanities Abstracts  
    Provides citations to articles covering all humanities subject areas. Years of coverage: 1984-present.
  • Humanities E-Books  
    Provides access to a digital collection of 1,700 full-text books of major importance in the humanities. 300 new titles are added every year.
  • WorldCat  
      
    Provides citations to books & other materials owned by over 10,000 libraries around the world (subject matter covers material from all time periods). Use to locate items that Musselman Library does not own.

Primary Sources

  • 19th Century US Newspapers  
    Provides access to approximately 28 million articles of from 19th Century United States newspapers. Content includes full-text articles, advertisements, and illustrations from a wide range of urban and rural American newspapers.
  • Accessible Archives  
    Provides full-text articles from 18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals, and Pennsylvania county histories, covering material from 1728-1900.
  • America's Historical Newsapers  
    Features full-text images of over 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
  • American Civil War: Letters and Diaries  
    Provides full-text of letters, diaries, and memoirs covering 1861-1865.
  • American History in Video  
    Provides access to historical events through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
  • American Periodical Series (APS)  
    Provides full-text articles on American social and political development from periodicals published in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes periodicals that commenced publication between 1740-1900.
  • American State Papers 1789 - 1838  
    Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.
  • Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment  
    Provides full text sources of Native Americans and their cultures and environment, and their encounters with Europeans. 1601 – 2003.
  • Evans Digital Edition  
    Provides full text resources about life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, etc. 1639 – 1800.
  • Harpweek  
    Provides full-text access to Harper's Weekly, America’s leading 19th Century illustrated newspaper. Years of coverage: 1857-1912.
  • Historical Newspapers - Chadwyck-Healey  
    Provides access to the New York Times (citations only from 1851-1922) and London Times (full-text available from 1785-1870, and citations only from 1871-1980).
  • Historical Newspapers - ProQuest  
    Provides full-text articles from the New York Times (1851-2004), Wall Street Journal (1889-1990), Washington Post (1877-1991), The Guardian (1791-2003), and The Observer (1791-2003).
  • Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters and Ephemera  
    Provides a vivid visual history of a nation in crisis. Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow researchers to experience the events of the war that tested and defined America.
  • In the First Person  
    Provides full-text access to English-language primary source material including diaries, letters, personal narratives, memoirs, and more. Years of coverage: 1550-present.
  • Niles' Register  
    Provides citations to and some full-text articles from the Niles' Register (also known as The Weekly Register, Niles’ Weekly Register, and Niles’ National Register), published 1811-1849. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
  • North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories  
    Provides full-text access to personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Materials date from 1784 – 2004.
  • North American Women's Letters and Diaries  
    Provides full-text access to letters and diaries of over 1,325 North American women. Materials date from colonial times - 1950.
  • The Avalon Project  
      
  • Times Digital Archive  
    Provides full-text, full-images of the London Times including articles, editorials and commentary, advertisements, and illustrations/photographs, 1785-1985.
  • United States Serial Set 1870 - 1975  
    Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.
 

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