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History Research Guide

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Find Books

Library Catalog (CLIC): The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
Cambridge Histories Online: Historical reference compendium of over 250 scholarly volumes published since 1960, covering 15 academic subjects from American history to warfare.
WorldCat: Search for books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.

Find Articles

Academic Search Premier: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals in many different subjects, including history (1970s-present).
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America: History and Life *: Articles from several thousand scholarly journals covering U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to present (1954-present).
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Historical Abstracts *: Articles from several thousand scholarly journals covering world history from 1450 to present, excluding the U.S. and Canada (1955-present).
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Iter Bibliography: Articles, books, dissertations, and other literature pertaining to the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (years vary by source).
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JSTOR *: Archive of hundreds of scholarly journals in many subject areas, including history, political science, and economics (all years except most recent).
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LexisNexis Academic: Newspapers from the U.S. and around the world (1990s-present), including the New York Times (1980-present, indexed 1969-present).
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Readers Guide RETRO *: Primary news articles from hundreds of U.S. magazines, with coverage of historical events at the time they occurred (1890-1982).
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Encyclopedias & Reference

Encyclopedia of Asian History: Biographies, events, organizations, time periods, and places in Asian history.
Reference DS 31 .E53 1988 (4 vols.)
Gale Virtual Reference Library: History: Collection of encyclopedias and other reference sources in history, including American Decades. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Historical Statistics of Black America: Statistical information on African Americans from the 18th century to 1975.
Reference E 185 .H543 1995 (2 vols.)
Historical Statistics of the United States: Population, economic and other quantitative data on American history from colonial times to 1970, published by Cambridge University Press.
Oxford Reference Online: History: Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and companions on the people, events, and themes of American, European, and world history from antiquity to present.
SAGE Reference Online: History: Includes encyclopedias of activism and social justice, urban history, immigration and migration, and women in the American West.
Salem History: Profiles of great lives and great events in history, from the ancient world through the 20th century. Entries are signed and include further reading.

Biographies

American National Biography: "Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women--from all eras and walks of life--whose lives have shaped the nation."
Biography and Genealogy Master Index: Index to entries for contemporary and historical figures from biographical dictionaries, who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and Biography Index.
Biography Reference Bank Select (Wilson): Biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, reviews, and obituaries of current and historical figures.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: http://www.biographi.ca/EN/
Encyclopedia of World Biography: Lengthy entries on prominent historical figures, with selective bibliographies.
Reference CT 104 .E73 1998 (17 vols.)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles from the earliest times to the year 2003."
Salem History: Profiles of great lives and great events in history, from the ancient world through the 20th century. Entries are signed and include further reading.

Primary Sources

American Memory (Library of Congress): Digital collection of primary documents, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and photos, from the Library of Congress. http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
The Avalon Project at Yale University: Documents in law, history and diplomacy for the 18th through 21st centuries.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe: Links to Western European historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
Gallica - National Library of France (BNF): Digitized primary source documents from the National Library of France.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/default.htm
HeritageQuest: Genealogy collection of U.S. Census data (1790-1930), family and local history, Revolutionary War records and more.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Collections of public domain and copy-permitted primary source documents, many in full text. Organized by Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Features the full text of this definitive edition, also available in print.
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu
Making of America (MoA): "A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
The National Archives: Access to federal records from the National Archives, available in archival databases, the archival catalog, and museum exhibits.
http://www.archives.gov/research/tools/checklist.html
Nebraska Public Documents: "Digitized historic annual reports of state agencies" starting from the 1870s.
http://cdrh.unl.edu/nebpubdocs/
The New York Times Archive: Articles for 1851-1822 available at no charge in PDF format. Articles for 1987-present are also free, in text-only format. All others require purchase.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
Repositories of Primary Sources: Directory of physical (not virtual) collections of manuscripts, archives, rare books, photographs, and other primary sources. Arranged geographically.
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
The Valley of the Shadow: Hundreds of primary source documents from Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 1859-1870.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Web Sites

H-Net's Electronic Discussion Lists: "H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion." (Michigan State University)
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/lists/
Historical Text Archive -- History of the U.S.: Encompasses colonial through 20th century American history, local history sites, social and Native American history links, History Reviews On-line, a collection of American constitutions, and historical documents. (Mississippi State University).
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
National Center for History in the Schools (UCLA): The history standards are designed to be voluntary guidelines for teachers and administrators. Includes the revised edition of voluntary standards for teaching history.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
PBS Online History: Covers world history, American history, history on television, in the classroom, and biographies.
http://www.pbs.org/history
Today in History: A presentation of historic facts highlighted by items from the American Memory collections. This archive is updated every Friday afternoon. Use the Yesterday link on today's historical fact to access the current week.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

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