Research Resources: History
Listed below are selected resources to help you with your research. The first section details history resources selected from Woodbury's Databases. You must be affiliated with the university to access these services.

There is also a list of World Wide Web Resources, carefully selected by the reference librarians. These are available to everyone.


Woodbury's Databases: History

American Broadsides and Ephemera Full-text. Images of broadsides (from 1820 to 1900) and ephemera (from 1760 to 1900). Useful for research of 19th century American cultural and social history.
ANB Online (American National Biography)Full-text. Deceased accomplished Americans.
Biography Resource Center Full-text. International, historical, contemporary, living, and deceased persons from all fields.
Article First (Part of FirstSearch) Citation Index. Business, humanities, popular culture, science, social science, technology. 1990-present.
Biography Resource Center Full-text. International, historical, contemporary, living, and deceased persons from all fields.
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876 Full-text. Reproductions of over 650 historical American newspapers.
Electronic Collections Online (Part of FirstSearch) Full-text. Scholarly journals.
Encyclopedia Britannica Full-text. Online version of the complete encyclopedia.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest):
Christian Science Monitor
Full-text, (1908-1991). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page of every issue.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest):
Los Angeles Times
Full-text, (1881-1984). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page of every issue.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest):
New York Times
Full-text, (1851-2001). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page of every issue.
History Resource Center Full-text. Themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
Project Muse Full-text. Scholarly journals. Arts, humanities, social sciences.
ProQuest Direct Full-text. Business, social sciences, and humanities.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select Full-text. Science, humanities, education, law, business.

World Wide Web Resources

American Folklife Center
"Collections of published & unpublished books, manuscripts, images, sounds, photographs, texts, art, and more...access to primary documents [where] researchers can read original handwritten letters, hear the stories of veterans, or listen to original sound recordings. An abundance of ethnographic material." (C&RL News, Oct. 2003)

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
"The ASWWWVL provides an authoritative, continuously updated hypertext guide and access tool to scholarly information resources on the Internet. It deals with the Asian continent as a whole, as well as with individual Asian regions, countries, and territories."

Best of History Websites
Links to "best" sites, arranged by time period from pre-history to WWII; art history; general; maps.

The Bucknell Russian Program
This resource provides links to resources and original materials concerning Russian history, culture and media.

Documenting the American South
"Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century." First-person Narratives, North American Slave Narratives, and more.

Documents for the Study of American History
This resource acts as a bibliography of primary documents, fundamental in the study of American history, that are freely available on the Internet.

Encyclopaedia of British History, 1700-1980
This resource contains over 2,000 entries and is intended for an audience of British history students.

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Provides links to primary sources for European history.

Famous Trials
"Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous trials," ancient (Socrates) to recent (O.J. Simpson).

Historical Census Browser
"The data presented here describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960."

The Historical Text Archive
"The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects."

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
"Historical texts in the public domain (together) with texts for which copy permission has been granted." (Library Journal 4/15/03 p. 43)

The Making of America (University of Michigan documents)
The Making of America (Cornell University documents)
"A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints."

The National Archives and Records Administration
"An independent federal agency, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) preserves documents relevant to US history and oversees the management of all federal records." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Nazi and East German Propaganda
"The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists."

The Oyez Project: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
Multi media materials related to the U.S. Supreme Court, including recorded oral arguments, virtual tour of Supreme Court Building, information on the Justices, cases by subject.

Rutgers University: History - American and British
This resource "lists several hundred history-related Internet resources organized by type and subject." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

WESSWEB: Western European Studies Section
This site is dedicated to acquiring and organizing information resources for use pertaining to Western European countries.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
"Organized around 49 document projects with over 1150 primary documents, the Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History."

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