History & Humanities

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America: History and Life
This resource contains over 490,000 bibliographic entries from 1,700 journals dating back to 1954. The historical coverage of America: History and Life is the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. There are some links to full-text articles through the History Cooperative, JSTOR, and Project Muse.

ACLS is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history recommended and reviewed by historians. This is a collection of over 1,000 e-books with links to book reviews from JSTOR and Project Muse. The user is able to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.

This database is a collection of 17,400 American biographies from throughout American History. ANB is the electronic version of the 24 volume print collection of American National Biography. It is updated quarterly with several hundred biographies and revisions added yearly. Each entry also provides links to related web resources and a bibliography.

This database is an online collection of over 330,000 art images. ARTstor contains ten collections from art repositories from around the world. The collections are fully searchable by many different fields, such as title, creator, or location. ARTstor has a large collection of medieval manuscripts and historical photographs.

The Oxford DNB is a collection of over 50,000 illustrated biographies of prominent British figures. The Oxford DNB is an expanded version of the Victorian Dictionary of National Biography with revisions and the addition of 16,500 biographies.

Advanced Placement Source
This database is a collection of full-text articles from over 6,100 journals from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspaper articles. Advanced Placement Source contains over 400 journals that focus on the humanities. APS has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.

History Reference Center
This database is a collection of 1,000 history reference books and encyclopedias. Additionally, there are 60 history journals; 58,000 primary source documents; and a large collection of photographs, maps, and historical video. To access History Reference Center click on “EbscoHost Web” and replace “Advanced Placement Source” with “History Reference Center” in the drop down menu.

Humanities International Complete
HIC provides full-text material from humanities scholarly journals, books, and other published sources. To access HIC click on “EbscoHost Web” and replace “Advanced Placement Source” with “Humanities International Complete” in the drop down menu.

FirstSearch is a collection of databases that contain popular and scholarly journals with some links to full-text articles. There is a large collection of journals with a focus on the humanities.

Historical Abstracts
This resource contains over 500,000 bibliographic entries from 2,000 journals. The historical coverage of Historical Abstracts is world history from 1490 to the present (excluding United States and Canadian History, which is found in America: History and Life). There are some full-text links to articles through the History Cooperative, JSTOR, and Project Muse.

In the First Person
This database is an index of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. In the First Person contains the voices of more than 300,000 individuals from 2,500 collections. An added feature is 2,500 audio and video files. The index is searchable by keyword and subject.

The Journal of Modern History — The University of Chicago Press publishes The Journal of Modern History. The digital collection contains issues from 1997 to the present. There are links to back issues from 1929 to 2000 provided by JSTOR.

JSTOR is a collection of over 900 full-text scholarly journals. JSTOR contains complete backfiles for each journal with a moving window that averages around 5 years (current issues are not available). Subject areas vary in JSTOR, but its main focus is on the humanities.

Under the Legal Research section, Lexis-Nexis has all of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1789 to the present. Each case contains a full record with a summary of the case and the opinions. The cases can be searched by keyword or citation. Additionally, Lexis-Nexis contains 450 full-text scholarly law review journals.

The Nation Archive
The Nation is the United States’ oldest weekly magazine. The Nation covers foreign affairs, local and national politics, education, law, literature, and the arts. The digital archive contains every issue of The Nation from 1865 to the present. The articles are in PDF format with full color images.

This database lets the user search over 100 Oxford University Press reference books at the same time. Oxford Reference contains over 20 History titles, such as The Oxford Companion to United States History, The Oxford Companion to World War II, and The Oxford Companion to British History.

Project Muse is a collection of over 300 full-text scholarly journals. The coverage in Muse is current (five to ten years). As with JSTOR, Project Muse focuses on the humanities. Muse has the ability to search by Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Historical Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers the historical full-text backfiles to four of the most prominent U.S. newspapers: The Boston Globe (1872-1923), The New York Times (1851-2003), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), and The Washington Post (1877-1999). The newspapers are searchable by author, title, historical era, prominent person, and date.