History Resources: Databases

Suggested Databases:

America: History and Life
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present.

History Resource Center: US (Gale)
This database provides access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database.

JSTOR - Note: you must first select the journals you want to search! From the pull-down menu you can select full-text (least focused search); author; title or abstract.

Project Muse
Worldwide networked access to the full text of over 100 journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and 9 other university presses.

NY Times (Current) and NY Times (Historical 1850-1999)

Ethnic Newswatch
This database includes full text for newspapers, magazines, and journals of the Ethnic, Minority, and Native Press.

Digital Collections (primary source and other archival/historical research materials)