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: Full text biographies and images for over 17,400 American men and women. This source only includes those who are deceased.   
• HarpWeek: The full text, full image edition of Harper's Weekly, a civil war era magazine. Dates of coverage: 1857-1865.   
• Historical Abstracts: A guide to content covering the history of the world from prehistory to the present (EXCLUDING North America).
• Humanities International Complete : This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
• JSTOR:  Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, and Music.  Journals are not current, most having a "moving wall" or "embargo" of three to five years, depending on publication.
• Readers' Guide Retrospective:  Covers 1890-1982.  This standard source indexes popular publications, focusing on U.S. culture and history.
• 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 subject reference works.

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

• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy:  Yale Law School maintains this site containing documents from ancient times to the 21st century.
• Chronicling America:  Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory feature to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
• 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.
• Fulton History: Historical Newspapers from New York State.