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History & Multidisciplinary
Databases
Academic Search Premier
via EBSCOhost
 The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary
database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly
4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one
hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more
than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
ProQuest Research
Library via ProQuest
Provides full-text coverage of a wide range of topics including the
arts, business, criminal justice, humanities, health, social sciences,
and natural sciences.
JSTOR
The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete
back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines.
Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of
the core research and society published journals in economics, history,
political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the
humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a
selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology,
mathematics, and statistics.
HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique,
growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and
American culture.
The New York Times
(Historical)
via ProQuest
Full page and article images with searchable full
text back to the first issue covering from 1851 - 1999.
World Data Analyst
via Britannica
A collection of current and past statistics on the
countries of the world that makes historical and cross-national
comparisons easy.
History Encyclopedias
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Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students 4v, 2002
Based on the scholarship in the acclaimed Encyclopedia
of Africa, aimed at college and graduate students, this work presents
Africa, from Egypt to Cape Town and from prehistoric times to the
present day, in a format accessible to high school students. This set
spans many disciplines, covering animals, foods, holidays and festivals,
tribal groups, ecology, music and art, trade and economy, geography,
religion, folklore, and fossil and skeletal discoveries.
African American Almanac, 2003
The African American Almanac provides historical and
current information on African American history, society, and culture in
28 topical chapters (e.g., African American Firsts, Politics, Family &
Health). It also includes a chronology, a chapter of important primary
documents, directories of organizations and businesses, a bibliography
of recently-published works, annotated lists of crucial court cases, a
filmography, hundreds of brief biographies, and more than 650
photographs, illustrations, maps, and statistical charts located within
the most appropriate text.
Daily Life Through History via
Greenwood
A detailed portrayal of what life was like for
ordinary people in different cultures throughout history.
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture 3v, 2003
Presents 600 articles on food and its place in human
culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini.
Students, academics, and general researchers will find entries on
everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays
and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines. Entries
range from 250 to 10,000 words each and are supplemented by 400
photographs and illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, timelines, and
a comprehensive index.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia 6v, 2002
Nearly 700 contributors from around the world,
including 25 Asian countries, provide 3,000 articles on Modern Asia from
a global perspective. Historical articles emphasize people, places,
events, and developments that have had a lasting influence on Asia.
Articles also cover Asian relations with Western nations, the relations
between nations within Asia, and also the flow of people, goods, and
ideas within Asia and globally.
Fashion, Costume, and Culture, 2004
Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of
diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines
more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from
togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items
were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows
how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the
different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs.
Historic Events of the 20th Century
via Greenwood
A full text resource detailing how events of the
last century have shaped and continue to influence today's events.
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures 9v, 1999
Profiles more than 290 of the most representative and
studied groups from around the world. Presented in nine volumes and
arranged into 20 easy-to-follow rubrics that facilitate quick scanning
and meaningful comparisons among cultures, including location, language,
folklore, religion, social problems, and more.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
via Alexander Street Press
Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries
plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the
personal experiences of hundreds of women from Colonial times to
1950.
Provides
a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the
original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American
history through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.
American Slavery via
Greenwood
A collection of the life histories of former slaves
in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with
ex-slaves.
Chronicling America: Historic America Newspapers
via Library of Congress
Chronicling America enhances access
to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and
read
newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find
information about American newspapers published between
1690-present.
In the First
Person via Alexander Street Press
In the First Person is a free, high quality,
professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections
of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you
keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000
individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some
3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records
American Memory Project
via The Library of Congress
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.
Documenting the
American South via The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet
access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history,
literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes nine thematic
collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history
interviews, and songs.
Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
This project brings together local history materials,
historical fiction related to these localities, and museum artifacts
that highlight Eastern North Carolina's rich past. The website fosters
keyword, title, subject, author, artifact, classroom resource and
geographic access. Keyword full-text searching is available in the
search box at the top of every category page, as well as on the Search
page.
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin & American Culture
The site allows users to browse through such
materials as editorials from the period that respond to the book
along with information about how the book has been transformed into
a children’s book and various plays. Beyond this helpful
information, visitors can also look at the covers of different
editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin through the years, including one that
was published in Yiddish in 1911. For students of American
literature or culture, this site could prove to be quite an
invaluable resource.
Sanborn Maps North Carolina
via Sanborn Maps
Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina
provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North
Carolina towns and cities.
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Other historical information may be found in the
General/Multidisciplinary article databases
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