LibGuides: History: Databases

History Databases

These databases cover periodicals and other sources specificially related to history and the social sciences.

America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to over 1,700 journals published worldwide including selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, as well as a selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities relating to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) by providing citations to over 1,700 journals, books, and dissertations published worldwide in over forty languages.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162 scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,Ecology and Botany, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/ Demography, Sociology, and Statistics. Dates of coverage: Varies depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most recent 2-5 years of coverage. Includes Early Journal Content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere - nearly 500,000 articles from 218 journals.

Arts & Humanities Database
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This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM

New York Times Historical Collection - 1851-2020 This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to 1851. The historical collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. The database is an ongoing project with digitization being done by decade.
U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new window
Provides a complete overview of U.S. history with comprehensive coverage of the most-studied events, issues and current information. Coverage includes content that is 50% or more from primary source documents.
HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window
HeritageQuest is a genealogical database with government records, census data and auxiliary resources for family history research. It includes sources from over 60 countries. Records include U.S. Federal Census records; U.S. county records; birth, marriage, and death records; city records and directories; immigration records; cemetery records; family histories; military records; wills and probate records; Freedman’s Bank records; a subset of U.S. Serial Set records; maps; and photos. HeritageQuest contains some, but not all, of the data from Ancestry.com.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window
Gun Regulation and Legislation in America This link opens in a new window

Proquest Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
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The Black Freedom Struggle website features expertly selected primary source documents. Visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
World History Encyclopedia
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World History Encyclopedia is one of the world’s most-read history publications with over 25 million annual readers. The encyclopedia follows academic standards but is written with the general public in mind. Unlike Wikipedia every submission is reviewed before publication, and unlike Encyclopaedia Britannica everything is accessible for free (there are no hidden fees).
Our articles are also available in audio format, which is particularly useful for students with learning disabilities

World History in Context This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference titles, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts covering ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance.

These databases cover periodicals and other sources from a wide variety of disciplines.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
Academic OneFile Select This link opens in a new window
Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full-text for scholarly and general interest journals and magazine titles. Covers a broad range of academic disciplines from art and literature and theology to economics and the sciences. Includes vocational and technical titles.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
The largest aggregated full-text database with more than 8,400 full-text titles among the 11,500 titles covered. Over 160 subject areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences, sciences, etc.
ProQuest Social Science Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a variety of social science journals. The database includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text. Coverage extends back to the early 1990s.

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