Subject Guide: History
Databases
Gender Watch - focuses on how gender impacts broad subjects areas and offers an historical perspective on women's movement and gender roles. It includes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, as well as NGO, government and special reports (log-in required for off-campus access).
CQ Electronic Library - offers access to CQ Public Affairs Collection (public policy topics with historic documents and primary source material), CQ Supreme Court Collection (featuring analyses and commentary on decisions, biographical information on the Justices, court history), and CQ Researcher (complete source for in-depth analysis on current and controversial issues). Currently available only on campus; shortly to be accessible off-campus.
Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe provides full-text of many newspapers as well as full-text of legal, political and historical research. Statistical Universe is an excellent source of statistical information (log-in required for off-campus access).
ProQuest Research Library - full-text articles and citations to articles relevant to many subjects including history (log-in required for off-campus access).
General Websites
Trinity Library: Electronic Resources & Collections - Trinity library subscribes to electronic versions of many print journals. Access to many full-text electronic resources is available to Trinity College students, faculty and staff (log-in required for remote access).
African American History Month - Library of Congress web site, celebrating the contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - over 7 million digital items including multimedia formats, documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text highlighting important American historical events. From the Library of Congress.
Ancient Egypt - the University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology website that includes a color tour of a dozen ancient Egyptian sites and links to other Egyptian sites.
Eighteenth-Century Resources - cover Internet resources on all aspects of eighteenth-century life, including history, art, politics, and religion. Includes links to full-text electronic texts. Done by Jack Lynch at Rutgers.
Historical Text Archives - an extensive collection of historical documents in electronic format from several countries, including the United states, and several topical areas.
The History Net: Where History Lives on the Web - links to numerous sites on all aspects of history, including links to selected electronic journals, such as British Heritage, Military History Quarterly, Women's History, and World War II. Can be searched by publication title and by topical areas.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use. Includes separate "Internet Sourcebooks" on ancient, medieval, and modern history and "Subsidiary Sourcebooks" on African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, women's, global, and gay and lesbian history, history of science, and many more links. From Paul Halsall, editor at the History Department, Fordham University.
Keeping America Informed - from the United States Government Printing Office, this site provides links to federal government information from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and regulatory agencies, as well as links to such publications as the Code of Federal Regulations and the Congressional Record.
Rulers - contains lists of heads of state and government of all countries and territories, usually going back to at least 1800.
Voice of the Shuttle: History - comprehensive resource offering general history resources, resources by continent/country, type of history (e.g. economic, military, etc.), online journals, and much more.
WWW Virtual Library's History Central Catalogue - a vast list of links to sites of interest to historians, arranged alphabetically by general topic, including general research methods and materials, eras and epochs, historical topics, and geographical regions.
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - good for African American History, but also has many other useful history programs.
National Park Service - American History resources, including information on Civil War and the National Underground Railroad.
Massachusetts Historical Society - valuable American History resources, including Adams Family Papers and the Jefferson Electronic Archive.
Medieval Resources
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - "covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages." Citations only.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - "provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies." Sponsored by Georgetown University.
The Medieval Review - "Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible."
NetSERF - The Internet Connection for medieval resources - the site organizes available web resources in various categories (e.g. archaeology, architecture, literature, music, people, philosophy, women, etc.). Also features a medieval glossary and offers a resource center with information on associations, conferences, journals, and teaching materials.
The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) - "an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies." An excellent and thorough resource that includes the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, which features selected sources (selected and excerpted full-text resources), full-text sources, and a section on Saints' Lives.
WWW Medieval Resources - features a directory of information covering medieval literature and history; databases for text or images, glossaries as well as links to discussion lists.
Online Periodicals
History Today - "23 years of world's leading history magazine online". Features letters, articles, news, reviews, and much more.
Internet Public Library: Online Serials - This collection contains over 2,300 electronic titles that can be searched or browsed by subject or by title. Newspapers can be found separately in the "Newspapers" section.
The Medieval Review - "Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible."
Primary Source Documents
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - "is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States." Features over 7 million digital items including multimedia formats, documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text highlighting important American historical events. From the Library of Congress.
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - international in scope and features primary source documents from the pre-18th century and the 18th century through to the 21st century. Includes case law, treaties and international agreements, charters, constitutions and much more. Searchable and a very rich resource. From Yale Law School.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe - provides links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents, organized by country and period. By Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer at Brigham Young University.
Our Documents - "100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to 'form a more perfect union." Includes the Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, the Treaty of Paris, the Federalist Papers, and many more.
War Crime Material - features primary materials on War Crimes and from War Crime trials, information on tribunals, and courts, articles on Kosovo, genocide, research guides, and human rights links. Rich resource from the New England School of Law.