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Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia
Available on-line through CREDO Reference, this is a comprehensive encyclopedia on all aspects of the production, consumption, and social impact of alcohol.
America: History & Life - EBSCO
Indexing and abstracts of 2,400 scholarly journals on U.S. and Canadian History. Links to some full text where available.
American Historical Review
Published by the American Historical Association, the AHR, along with the Journal of American History are the two primary scholarly journals in the field of history.
American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Cambridge Histories Online
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO Access)
Free index to federal government publications distributed through the Superintendent of Documents.
CountryWatch
Demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information about individual countries. Also includes daily news coverage.
CQ Researcher
Looking for a "hot topic" on which to do a research paper? This database is a great place to start! It offers pros & cons, background information, and in-depth analysis on a variety of topics, issues, and controversies currently in the news.
CREDO Reference
CREDO Reference contains a variety of reference sources in subjects ranging from Art to History to Law to Technology and almost everything in between. It is a portal to a multitude of highly regarded reference sources, drawing on 244 titles by 55 publishers and providing access to tens of thousands of images and audio clips. At a loss for a paper topic? Search the Concept Map for ideas.
CRS (Congressional Research Service) Reports
CRS Reports (Congressional Research Service) was established to provide members, committees and congressional staff with nonpartisan and objective research and analysis on all public policy issues. Research divisions include: American Law, Domestic Social Policy; Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade; Government and Finance; Knowledge Services; and Resources, Science and Industry. Many CRS reports are updated at varying intervals, so it is always important to note the exact date of issuance rather than just the title and year of publication.
E-Duke Scholarly Collection
Full-text of approximately 35 scholarly journals published by Duke University Press.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the single most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text coverage of 240 valuable resources for providing different viewpoints & perspectives from the ethnic, minority, and native press.
Evidence explained: citing History sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
Call Number D5 .M55 2007 REFERENCE, this will tell you how to cite anything you can think of. More comprehensive than the web or other style manuals, it deals specifically with resources that historians use and need to reference.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access over 100 standard Gale Reference works online! Includes reference materials in the subject areas of: Arts, Business, Education, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation & World, Religion, and Social Science.
Gender Studies - EBSCO
Gender Studies Database produced by NISC, combines NISC’s popular Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected and important websites. This database includes more than 696,750 records.(from publisher web site)
Historical Abstracts - EBSCO
Indexing and abstracts of over 2,100 scholarly journals in world history, from 1492 to the present, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Links to some full text where available.
History Journals available at Drake
A list of full-text journals in the Humanities and History available through Cowles Library. Try narrowing your search, for example, "French History."
Hutchinson Chronology of World History
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Available on-line from CREDO Reference, this is one of the most complete, detailed, and up-to-date chronology of world history available up to 2007.
Arranged in strict chronological sequence by decade or by year, these volumes detail both major and minor events that shaped every area of human achievement and concern.
Images from the History of Medicine
"The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine announces the launch of a new image platform for its premier database, Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). Using award winning software developed by Luna Imaging, Inc., NLM offers greatly enhanced searching and viewing capabilities to image researchers. Patrons can view search results in a multi-image display, download high resolution copies of their favorite images, zoom in on image details, move images into a patron-defined workspace for further manipulation, and create media groups for presenting images and sharing them via e-mail or posting on blogs.
Comprising almost 70,000 images from the Prints and Photographs and other collections held in the History of Medicine Division, IHM is one of the largest image databases in the world dedicated to images of medicine, dentistry, public health, the health professions, and health institutions. The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. Most types of printmaking are represented: woodcuts, engravings, etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, and lithographs. Also included in the collection are illustrations from the historical book collection. Newly acquired posters and other materials are continually being added to IHM. The collection is administered by the NLM History of Medicine Division."
Journal of American History
Published by the Organization of American Historians, the JAH is one of the leading scholarly publication in the field of American history. A major resource for students and scholars, it includes reviews of books, films, exhibitions, and Web sites as well as scholarly articles and historiographic essays.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History employs the methods and insights of multiple disciplines in the study of past times and to bring a historical perspective to those other disciplines.
Journal of Military History
The Journal of Military History, the quarterly journal of the Society for Military History, has published scholarly articles on the military history of all eras and geographical areas since 1937.





