Research Guides: History: Databases

World History Databases

Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
JSTOR
A multi-disciplinary database containing full text journals in disciplines such as History, Economics, Asian Studies, Classics, Archeology, Ecology, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population, Sociology, and Statistics as well as core titles in African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern studies.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Sections Cover e.g.,: (1) British Politics and Society; (2) Asia and the West; (8) Europe & Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest.

Project MUSE
Slavery and Anti-Slavery, A Transnational Archive
Slavery & Anti-Slavery is a four part archive. It covers: (1) Debates over Slavery and Abolition; (2) Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; (3) Institution of Slavery; (4) Age of Emancipation.

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks, slavery and more.

World History Collection
This compilation of journals provides robust and balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
From EBSCO, a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with over 7,000 scholarly publications.
Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online (AVON) is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary) features a growing selection of more than 150,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, scientific, technical, medical, and professional publishers. You will need to sign in to view the ebooks. Go to Downloading ebooks for more information.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Guide to history of the world from 1450 to the present, this authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Coverage extends to related disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, and sociology.
Kanopy
Streaming service that offers must-watch movies and videos, documentaries, and classic films. Includes the full Criterion Collection and selections from PBS.

How Faculty Can Request Streaming Media:

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Making of the Modern World I and II, The
Includes over 62,400 books, serials, pamphlets, essays and more sourced from leading collections at major libraries around the world. It tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Titles are in English as well as many other languages.
New York Times: Historical Newspapers
The New York Times (1851-2017) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
War and Terrorism This link opens in a new window
Selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, social science.
Gale Primary Sources: Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Serves needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and newsfeeds covering region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video.

U.S. History Databases

African American Periodicals (1825-1995)
African American history, culture and society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Features over 170 periodicals by and about African Americans. The publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports, etc.

Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture provides monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.
Chronicling America -- Historic American Newspapers
Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Founders Online
Spanning the Colonial through Early Republic years, this database from NARA, NHPRC,and the Univ. of Virginia contains some 120,000 papers and correspondence sent and received by our nation's founders.

New York Times: Historical Newspapers
New York Times articles from 1851-2008.

Independent Voices: An Open Access Colltn. of an Alternative Press
Independent Voices focuses on alternative publications from the 1960s-1980s giving voice to feminists, anti-war activists, Black Power, campus radicals, etc. All content will be open access in 2019; try some sample searches for what is available now.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery, A Transnational Archive
Slavery & Anti-Slavery is a four part archive. It covers: (1) Debates over Slavery and Abolition; (2) Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; (3) Institution of Slavery; (4) Age of Emancipation.

Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000
Resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about womens history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. Also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Those subscribing to Scholar's Edition can access online version of Notable American Women or database on Commissions on Status of Women.

Working Women, 1800-1930
Contains approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images of selected rare and historical books, institutional papers, personal papers, diaries, and photographs from Harvard's network of libraries, archives, and museums.

African American Studies Center
Features the new Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History 1896-present, African American National Biography, Dictionary of African Biography, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. It also includes entries from the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.
America: History & Life with Full Text
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Ebook Central
Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary) features a growing selection of more than 150,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, scientific, technical, medical, and professional publishers. You will need to sign in to view the ebooks. Go to Downloading ebooks for more information.
Kanopy
Streaming service that offers must-watch movies and videos, documentaries, and classic films. Includes the full Criterion Collection and selections from PBS.

How Faculty Can Request Streaming Media:

Go to Request Streaming Media
Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Contains comprehensive indexing of most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. and reflects the history of 20th century America. Complete database covers years 1890-1982.
Salem History
Access to following eBooks: The Sixties in America, Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, The Value of a Dollar, 1860-2014, Famous First Facts.
U.S. History
Provides well-rounded coverage of both current thinking and events in U.S. history, as well as scholarly work being established in field.

New York Slavery Records Index
Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 though the Civil War.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online (AVON) is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.