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Designed for academic institutions, this database is the leading resource for scholarly research with more full-text journals and more peer-reviewed journals than any other database available. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more.
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Contains biographical data on influential people
Britannica Escolar This link opens in a new window
Contains 145,000 encyclopedic articles in English or Spanish
Britannica Library This link opens in a new window
Contains historical timelines and topical overviews
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Contains over 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 100,000 full-text authoritative ebooks on a wide range of subjects.
Fuente Académica This link opens in a new window
Fuente Académica provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 9,000 full-text magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals
U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new window
Offers reference and scholarly publications for the study of U.S. history
World History in Context This link opens in a new window
Offers reference and scholarly publications for the study of world history
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
This Web site contains historic documents primarily from Colonial times to the end of the 1800's. They are organized in chronological order.
American Memory
American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library.
The American Presidency Project
An in-depth collection of digital documents on all US presidents and summary data for many presidential topics.
The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project is a digital library from Yale University's Lillian Goldman School of Law that provides linked full text of documents relating to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Documents range from the ancient (4000 BCE) to important legal documents of the 21st century, and include the Athenian Constitution, The Mayflower Compact, all of the Hague Conventions, and the Executive Order that established the Department of Homeland Security.
Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories. BOHWS has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students, but general history enthusiasts will benefit from the site as well. Best of History Web Sites is ranked #1 by Google for "history web sites" and receives upwards of 140,000 visitors per month.
Digital History
Includes primary sources, ethnic voices, history reference room, multimedia resources, and more.
Documenting the American South
Texts, images and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes slave narratives, southern life during the civil war, and the church in the Southern Black community. Documenting the American South is a digital publishing initiative From the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes thirteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Freedom: A History of US
A companion site to the PBS special, where visitors can play interactive games, browse a photo gallery, or explore 16 "webisodes" ranging in topics from the American Revolution to the turmoil of the 1960s. "Webisodes" feature text, photographs, and video images with sound.
Historic Government Documents from World War II
Historic government documents from World War II including monographs, pamphlets, and photographs.
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and earning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
History World
HistoryWorld’s aim is to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. Written by Bamber Gascoigne, it consists of about 300 narratives ( the alphabetical list runs from Aegean Civilization to Zoroastrianism) and some 10,000 events on searchable timelines.
Making of America
(MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Mapping History
Socio- and political maps of 18th and 19th century United States; classical age Mediterranean.
Our Documents
Explore 100 milestone documents of American history. The Our Documents initiative is a cooperative effort among National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps.
Presidential Speech Archive
The Scripps Library, University of Virginia, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in full audio. Recently they have expanded the collection to include video speeches from President John F. Kennedy through President Barack Obama.
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Provides to a selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives, including documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video.
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress that makes available significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
