History Information Sources

Articles     Best Sources for this Subject   America: History & Life     1960-current Articles, dissertations, and reviews on U.S./Canadian history. Limited to 6 simultaneous users. Database details..   Historical Abstracts     1970s-current World history, 1450-present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users. Database details..   Issues & Controversies in American History   Contain in-depth explorations of the great issues in American History, such as religious freedom in the colonies, Civil War Reconstruction, and women's suffrage. Database details.   Journals in History Determine access to online and printed journals, magazines, and newspapers.   JSTOR       Varies by title Back issues of core journals history/other fields. Database details..     Find Articles in Other Databases   19th Century Masterfile     1774-1906 A collection of 19th century indexes. Database details..   Academic Search Premier       1975-current Good coverage of history. Database details. Help with this database   General OneFile (formerly Infotrac)       1980-current Good coverage of history and other academic fields. Database details..   History Cooperative Current issues of selected journals (e.g., J.of Amer.Hist.).   Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective     1907-1984 Good index to older journal issues. Database details..   IterGateway Index covering the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Database details..   OmniFile Full-text Mega Edition       Indexing 1984-present, Full-text 1994-present Good coverage of history and other academic fields. Database details..   Oxford Journals   A collection of over 200 scholarly journals from Oxford University Press. Database details.   Project MUSE       Mid-1990s to present Some core history / interdisciplinary journals. Database details..   Reader's Guide Retrospective     1890-1982 Indexing of leading popular periodicals. Database details.. Primary Source Materials     Archival Directories   Archive Finder (formerly Achives USA) Information about collections from 5,500 U.S., and thousands of UK/Ireland repositories. Database details.   ArchiveGrid Searches historical documents held in archives across the world. Database details.   Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries   National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections   Repositories of Primary Sources Links to websites describing holdings at archival institutions.   WorldCat (traditional) Searches can be limited to manuscript collections. Database details..     Digital Collections   American Civil War: Letters & Diaries   100,000 pages from over 2,009 authors. Database details..   American Memory A collaborative collection of digitized materials related to American history and culture. Hosted by the Library of Congress.   American Periodicals Series       1740-1900 Digital images of pages from 1000 titles. Database details..   Black Thought and Culture       Colonial period to current Books, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews Database details..   China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980   Collections of unique manuscript materials detailing China's interaction with the West from 1793-1980. Database details.   Digital Sanborn Maps     1867-1970 Maps of over 100 Tennessee towns and cities. Database details..   Discovering American Women's History Online Database that includes links to digital collections of primary sources (photos, diaries and letters, oral histories, etc.).   Early Encounters in North America       1600s- Letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Database details..   ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)       1701-1800 A digital collection of 47,000 books published during the 18th Century, with full-text searching of each page. Includes books in the subjects of literature, language, history, and geography. Database details.   EEBO (Early English Books Online)       1475-1661 Early English Books Online. Database details..   Evans Digital Edition of Early American Imprints       1639-1800 Books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in America. Database details..   Everyday Life & Women in America       1800-1920 Resource for the study of 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. Database details.   Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online       1543-1945 Books and periodicals published in the U.S. and Europe. Database details..   Heritage Quest       1700s-early 20th century Includes digital images of U.S. federal census records, U.S. Serial Set, genealogy sources, local history collections, and other primary sources. Database details.   In the First Person Index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English.   Nixon Years, The       1969-1974 Files from the National Archives relating to the Nixon Administration. Database details.   North American Indian Thought and Culture   Contains over 100,000 primary source texts and images related to Native American history. Database details.   North American Women's Letters & Diaries   150,000 pages of diaries and letters by 1,325 women. Database details..   OAIster   Catalog of digital resources. Database details.   Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974   150,000 pages of primary documents related to 1960s America. Database details.   Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice       1490-2007 Includes documents and collections chronicling the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Database details.   Volunteer Voices Photographs and a wide variety of primary source documents from archives, libraries, and museums in Tennessee.   Women and Social Movements in the United States, Scholar's Edition       1600-2000 History of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Database details.   World History Sources Guide to best world history websites with primary sources.     Historical Newspapers   Historical Atlanta Constitution       1868-1942 Full-text access to Atlanta Constitution Newspaper. Database details..   Historical New York Times       1851-2006 Full-text access to The New York Times. Database details..   Historical Washington Post       1877-1993 Full-text access to Washington Post. Database details..   Microtext Newspaper Collections at Walker Library   Newspaper Collections on the Internet     Local Collections   Albert Gore Research Center   Center for Popular Music, MTSU   Microtext Subject Guides   Special Collections, Walker Library Selected Resources     Biographical Sources   American National Biography   Over 18,300 biographies of deceased American men and women. Database details..   Biography and Genealogy Master Index Index to reference sources covering biographical information. Database details..   Biography Resource Center   Biographical information on more than 340,000 people from Gale biographical sources, and an additional 1 million brief biographies from Marquis Who's Who. Database details..   Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture       Book Reviews   America: History & Life     1960-current Offers "Limit to ... Reviews" option. Limited to 6 simultaneous users. Database details..   Book Review Digest Plus       1983-current Citations and full-text book reviews from leading publications. Database details..   Book Review Index     1965-current Index of book reviews from thousands of publications. Database details..   Books in Print   Database of books in print with book reviews. Database details..   ChoiceReviews Online       1988-Current Fulltext for reviews published in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Limited to 1 simultaneous user. Database details     Career Information   Careers for Students of History (American Historical Association)     Dissertations and Theses   Directory of History Dissertations   Dissertations and Theses Full-text from Proquest       1861-current Index to dissertations and theses completed in the United States. Database details..     E-Books & Books   ACLS Humanities E-Book       1950-current Formerly History E-Book. Fulltext of scholarly titles in American, European, and Middle Eastern history. Database details.   Google Book Search   netLibrary   Collection of full text electronic books. Database details.. Keyword Search Title Title Keyword     Encyclopedias & Dictionaries   History Resource Center U.S.   Combines reference sources, primary sources, and periodical articles in a single interface. Database details.   History Resource Center: World   An integrated collection of reference works, primary sources, scholarly journals. Database Details   Oxford Reference Online: History Reference sources for the study of world history. Database details..   Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture       Library Catalogs   Voyager Catalog search Library Catalog: by: Keyword Search Title Author Journal Title Browse Subjects Browse Authors Browse Call Numbers   WorldCat (traditional) Over 1 billion records that describe books, manuscript collections, etc. held at libraries worldwide. Database details..     Statistics & Data   Historical Census Browser   Historical Statistics of the United States   The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Registration recommended.Database details. Also in print - 1st Floor - Ref 317.3 Un3su 2006   Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts     Videos & Films   American History in Video   Collection of video available online for the study of American history. Database details. Websites     Academic Department   History Departments Around the World   MTSU History Department     Associations, Agencies & Organizations   American Historical Association   Organization of American Historians     Blogs, Listservs & Discussion groups   H-Net Discussion Networks   History Research @ MTSU Blog     Internet Guides   Best of History Web Sites   WWW.History (from History Matters) Page Maintained By: Ken Middleton