Background Information
NOTE: Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia can help you familiarize yourself with a subject, but are not considered appropriate, citeable sources for a college-level research paper.
Key Databases
- Academic Search Complete: Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.
- American National Biography: Biographies of more than 18,000 Americans.
- Facts on File: Current events database. Key People ,Key Events, and Key Issues.
- InfoTrac OneFile: News and periodicals.
- Issues and Controversies : Analysis of controversial topics. Includes statistical overviews of major issues.
- Issues and Controversies in American History: Explanations of contentious issues in American history.
- JStor:Core scholarly journals in a broad range of disciplines, including both interdisciplinary and discipline-specific journals.
- Opposing Viewpoints: Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites on current issues.
- Political Risk Yearbook: Country reports with political and economic risk analysis.
- Project Muse:Full-text online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Key Newspapers:
- Historical New York Times: Full text and images of the New York Times from 1851 to 2001.
- Historical Wall Street Journal: Full text and images of the Wall Street Journal from 1889 to 1987.
- Lexis Nexis: Full-text News from around the world. Includes radio and television transcripts.
- Proquest National Newspapers: Full-text access to 21 major U.S. newspapers including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, L.A. Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Recommended Websites for History
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History 's list of Historical Documents on the web is great place to look for Primary Sources in American History.
- Looking for more Primary Sources on the Web? This is a trusted site that offers helpful links and tips.
- Looking for information on Legislation? THOMAS provides information about current and past legislation from the Library of Congress.
- Check out the Smithsonian's History and Culture website for a wide variety of resources.
- The National Archives offers a wide range of Unite States research material by dates, periods, events, people, and places.
- Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Looking for maps? Try Historical Maps of the United States
- No search on Ancient Greece or Rome is complete without Perseus, from Tufts University.
- For more articles on Ancient History, see Livius.
- Looking for information on the history of Empires?
- Good website for timelines and synopses in World History.
- An interesting and informative website on the history of Africa
Recommended Websites for Current Affairs
Journals
- Key Journals Available Online in History or in Politics and Government
- Key Journals Available at the Library
- The Economist
- New Republic
- Current Biography
- Current History
- Journal of World History
- Vermont History
Books and E-Books
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