History
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: -- locate materials in Reed Library
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• America History and Life: Locate research articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations, summaries, and links full text articles are available.
• American National Biography: Locate full text biographies for over 17,400 American men and women. Includes images. 
• Historical Abstracts: A guide to content covering the history of the world from prehistory to the present (EXCLUDING North America).
• JSTOR: Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany,        
• World News Digest: This database compiles major headlines from around the world, and dates from 1940 - present

Reference

• The Annals of America: Reference E 173 A793
  Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, and more.
• Dictionary of National Biography: Reference DA 28 D45
  Biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to 1980.
• Dictionary of American Biography: Reference E 176 D56
  Biographical sketches of Americans who died in 1980 or earlier.
• Oxford Reference: includes over 175 titles language and subject reference works from the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and the Encyclopedia of Mammals
• Other History Titles in the Reference Collection: Browse the collecton

Other Guides

• Medieval History 
• Middle East History
• U.S. Colonial/Revolutionary History 
• U.S. Civil War
• World War I
• World War II
• Holidays History

Other Tools

• In the First Person: Indexes and provides the full text of primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, and personal narratives.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States: Contains primary documents and images pertaining to women and social movements, 1600 to present.
• American Memory Project: Access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Freely available on the Web.
• History Matters: Serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. Freely available on the Web.
• The National Archives: A repository of documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government. Freely available on the Web.