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Research Databases: History

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Background & Topic Overviews select to expand list

  • American History
    (Infobase) Provides topic pages and overviews for historical events, daily life in different eras, historical controversies, and multimedia supplements as well as primary sources. Covers the colonial/revolutionary period and forward.
  • Credo Reference
    (Credo) Includes materials from over 650 reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
  • Issues & Controversies in History    (LSC-University Park)
    (Infobase) Explores debates and conflicts in US and world history, as seen by key players or as interpreted by historians. Balanced articles provide pro and con arguments on hundreds of controversies, and each article is centered on original documents (primary sources).

Scholarly Articles (Secondary Sources) select to expand list

  • JSTOR
    (JSTOR) Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed  journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. Articles are typically more than 5 years old.
  • Academic Search Complete
    (EBSCO) Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers on a variety of topics.
  • Project MUSE
    (Project MUSE) A comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities, arts, and social sciences journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum.
  • Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence
    (Gale) Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
  • Gale OneFile: U.S. History
    (Gale) Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
  • Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism
    (Gale) Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.
  • Gale OneFile: World History
    (Gale) Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
  • Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law
    (Hein Online) Contains an extensive collection of essential legal materials (court cases, trials, statutes, etc.) on along with books, sermons, slave narratives, speeches, periodicals, pamphlets, poems & songs, and much more from the 18th century through the 20th century.
  • Texas Reference Center
    (EBSCO) Help
    Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.

Primary Sources select to expand list

  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    (ProQuest) Over 30 million digital pages of seventeen American newspapers dating back to the 18th century.
  • History Vault                                                                                                                                       (Proquest) History Vault unlocks the wealth of Key materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries and many primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. 
  • National Geographic Virtual Library
    (Gale) Search for articles and maps by keywords or browse full issues of National Geographic from its founding in October 1888 through December 2020.
  • Time Magazine Archive
    (EBSCO) Read digitized articles published in Time Magazine between 1923-2000, in their original layout with images.
  • Life Magazine Archive
    (EBSCO) Read digitized articles published in Life Magazine between 1936-2000, in their original layout with images.
  • Newsweek Archive
    (ProQuest) An archive of Newsweek magazine from 1933-2012, providing news reporting and commentary for key US and global events during this period. Beyond news and politics, it also offers insights for business, science/technology, arts, travel, and family life.
  • American History
    (Infobase) Provides topic pages and overviews for historical events, daily life in different eras, historical controversies, and multimedia supplements as well as primary sources. Covers the colonial/revolutionary period and forward.
  • Library of Congress Digital Collections - free web
    (Library of Congress) Provides access "to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience." Copyright information about works in the LOC website
  • Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
    (Sanborn Maps) Maps of property and land-use records for Texas towns and cities for over 100 years.
  • Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law
    (Hein Online) Contains an extensive collection of essential legal materials (court cases, trials, statutes, etc.) on along with books, sermons, slave narratives, speeches, periodicals, pamphlets, poems & songs, and much more from the 18th century through the 20th century.

E-Books select to expand list

Video select to expand list

  • Academic Video Online: Premium
    (Alexander Street Press) Full-length videos on various topics, documentaries, instructional materials and limited historical news reports.
  • Films on Demand
    (Films Media Group) High-quality, educational streaming video from companies such as Films for the Humanities, BBC, and PBS.
  • Kanopy
    (Kanopy) Classic cinema, independent films, and top documentaries in streaming video. Includes Media Education Foundation Collection.
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