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Mary Linden Sepulveda
Mary Sepulveda
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Coordinator of Collection Development, Special Collections & Archives
Coordinator of Collection Development, Special Collections & Archives
History Databases
Welcome to the Guide for History Resources
Pharos at Alexandria. (1810) (Digital Collection NYPL)
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America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowComplete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistoric coverage of the world (excluding the US and Canada) from 1450. Citations and abstracts from 1954 to the present. Includes links to JSTOR and ProjectMUSE. (For research on the U.S. and Canada, use America: History and Life.)
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Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new windowArticles, primary sources with commentaries, images, maps, and timelines covering African American and African history and culture.
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Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowCollection of scholarly histories in 10 subject areas.
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International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new windowBibliography of multidisciplinary texts on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from AD 300 to 1500.
Other Databases
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Artstor This link opens in a new windowArtstor, part of JSTOR, provides digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. For more information, see Artstor on JSTOR: Working with Images LibGuide.
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Plus This link opens in a new windowCollection of full-text religion and theology journals from the American Theological Library Association, plus a complete index of their journal articles, book reviews, and essay collections in all fields of religion.
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Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
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Digital Public Library of America"The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world." Links to digitized books, manuscripts, photos, etc...A searchable database, results can be limited by time, location, subject, language and repository.
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Transatlantic Slave Trade Database This link opens in a new windowInformation about maritime voyages trafficking enslaved people between 1514 and 1866.
Best Places to Start - Interdisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary collection of full-text scholarly journals as well as magazines and newspapers.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly journal articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Web Digital Collections
See also History: Finding Primary Sources for Historical Research
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Perseus Digital LibraryPrimary focus on the Greek and Roman World, but expanding to other areas of history
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ehistory.orgeHistory projects involve “citizen historians” in the amassing and analyzing of historical data. Projects focus on United States history and center around slave narratives, civil war letters, smallpox during the 19th century and more
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Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and DiplomacyAn exhaustive collection of primary docs from late Roman through 20thc. Searchable by tile, keyword, category or chronologically.
Other History Resources
- Medieval Studies
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Online Reference Tools
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- Primary Sources for Research