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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
America: History and LifeIndexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, covering U.S. and Canadian history. Also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. EBSCOhost
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs OnlineWorking papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Full text coverage dating from 1991. Columbia University Press
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
HarpWeek: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1857-1877)Full-image reproduction of Harper's Weekly, with an index to the magazine. Includes illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and advertisements. HarpWeek LLC
Historical AbstractsOver 500,000 citations to articles, book reviews, and dissertations, covering world history from 1450 to the present (excludes the US and Canada). EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Oral History OnlineIndex of oral histories publicly available on the web. Alexander Street Press
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
Women and Social MovementsPrimary source documents covering women's social movements in the United States from 1600 to 2000. Alexander Street Press
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

D - History (General) E11-143 - America
E151-889 - United States General (includes: Indians of North America. Colonial History. Revolution. Presidencies) F1-975 - United States local history
F1001-1145.2 - British America (including Canada) F1170 - French America
F1201-3799 - Latin America. Spanish America JV - International Migration. Colonies and colonization. Emigration and Immigration.
U - Military Science V - Naval Science

Reference books

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Web resources

100 Milestone Documents that Shaped America
A Biography of America
Bibliography from the International Institute of Women's History
British History Online
Discovering American Women's History Online
Documentary Films about American Folk Culture
Documenting the American South
History Cooperative
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Library of Congress - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Library of Congress American Memory
Miller Center of Public Affairs - Presidential Recordings Program
Richmond Daily Dispatch (November 1860 through December 1865)
Smithsonian Institution
The "Second Wave" and Beyond: Primary Sources of the Women's Movement, 1960 to Present
The Valley of the Shadow
The Vietnam Center and Archive
The wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975
Their Own Words
Virginia Memory from the Library of Virginia
World War I Document Archive