Research Guide - History
Axe Online Catalog & Other Book Sources
Other Book Sources
- NetLibrary
- Library Catalogs Online
- WorldCat
- History E-Book Project
(HEB) - contains
over
500 books of high quality in the field of history. These are works of major
importance to historical studies-books that remain vital to both scholars
and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
- Internet History Sourcebook Projects -
Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Includes
complete and full texts of historical classics such as the Code
of Hammarabi, 1780 B.C.E., Laws of Manu, 1500 BCE, and
The Book of Ani, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- Making of America -
is
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.
Journal & Other Databases
Primary Databases
Multidisciplinary Databases Covering History
- With Full Text
- Indexing, abstracts, and occasional links to full text
"Serials Solutions"
Search by title, title keyword or subject group. The category
"Humanities and Reference" includes History.
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SEE ALSO: Online Journals
Online Reference Sources
Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources
Databases |
Writing Guides
Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources
Databases
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database -
Comprehensive database on the slave trade in the Atlantic. Find ships names
of captains, description of slaves, places of embarkation and landing.
Thorough and easy to use. Also includes links to other relevant sites and
lesson plans for secondary school students.
Writing Guides
Selected Sources in Axe Library
Related subject headings:
Associations and Societies
- American Historical Association -
Provides links to online journals and information about jobs, scholarships
and awards, and membership. Founded in 1884 for the promotion of historical studies.
- Organization of American Historians
(OAH) -
Largest
learned society devoted to the study of American history. Provides
links to three OAH publications. Must be an OAH member to view online articles.
- Phi Alpha Theta
History Honor Society - International honor society for students and
teachers of history. Web site provides information about membership,
publications, scholarship and awards.
- World History Association - Founded in 1982 to promote the study of
global
history by encouraging and supporting research, education, and communication.
Provides information about membership, scholarships, publications, and employment opportunities.
Selected Web Sites
Comprehensive Web Sites |
Archives & Primary Sources |
Historical Topics
(
Geographical or Cultural -
Military/Conflict
) |
Online Journals |
Government |
Colleges & Universities |
Career & Job Information
Comprehensive Web Sites
- Best of History Web Sites -
Provides links to over 800 "accurate and useful" history-related web sites.
Also features links to lesson plans, teacher guides, and activities and
games for history instructors.
- Digital History -
Includes
an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United
States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and
succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private
life, and science and technology. Visual histories of Lincoln's America and
America's Reconstruction contain text by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney.
The Doing History feature lets users reconstruct the past through the voices
of children, gravestones, advertising, and other primary sources. Reference
resources include classroom handouts, chronologies, encyclopedia articles,
glossaries, and an audio-visual archive including speeches, book talks and
e-lectures by historians, and historical maps, music, newspaper articles,
and images.
- WWW-VL History Central Catalogue -
World history links organized by country, era, and topic, with links to research
methods and materials.
Archives & Primary Sources
- AMDOCS:
Documents for the Study of American History - Collection of links to
400 plus full-text primary source documents relating to the study of American History
- American Colonists Library:
A Treasure of Primary Documents -
A
massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant
to the colonists' lives in America
- Chronicling America - provides
access to historical newspapers from across the country, currently over 1.2 million
pages. From the Library of Congress.
- Civil War
Primary Documents and Personal Diaries - Civil War Primary Documents,
Personal Diaries, Journals, Letters, Cartoons, Art, Images, Poetry, Literature, and Music
- David Rumsey Map Collection
has
over 10,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century
North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic
maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection
categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart,
state, county, city, pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical
Documents From Western Europe - Extensive links to Western European historical
documents that are transcribed or translated.
- Finding
Primary Sources - A guide to the basic resources and strategies for
finding primary sources.
- Historical Text Archive -
publishes
high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and
links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
- Historical
United States Census Browser - Contains data that describe the people
and economy of the United States for each state and county from 1790-1960.
- Library of Congress, American Memory -
Extensive primary source of materials on United States history. 7 million
plus digital items with 100 plus historical collections.
- Library of Congress, Special
Collections - Over 300 collections relating to various aspects of American
history. Art, folklore, geography, music and city life are a few examples.
- The National Archives and Records Administration
Archival Research Catalog (
ARC) -
Online
catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional
Archives and Presidential Libraries. There are also 529,321,233 Logical
Data Records and 214,261 Artifacts described in ARC.
- National Security Archive -
is
a non-governmental research institute and library that collects and publishes
declassified documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act,
a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government
information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents
in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.
- Office of
Coast Survey: Historical Map & Chart Collection Overview -
Contains
over 20,000 maps and charts from the late 1700s to present day. The Collection
includes some of the nation's earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys,
topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city plans and Civil War battle maps.
- 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." We want everyone -
students, teachers, parents, and the general public - to read these milestone
documents, consider their meaning, discuss them, and decide which are the
most significant and why. View scans of original documents, not only the
Declaration of Independence and Gettysburg Address, but also material such as the
original sketches of the Great Seal of the United States and the Aerial
Photograph of Missiles in Cuba.
- Papers of
the Presidents of the United States - Full text of selected documents,
including inaugural addresses, annual messages, proclamations, vetoes
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection -
Large collection of online maps of all types as well as a large collection
of online historical maps. (University of Texas at Austin)
- Primary Sources on the Web - History -
Links to web sites relating to United States and World History primary sources.
- Repositories of Primary Sources -
over
5500 web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books,
historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
(University of Idaho)
Historical Topics
Geographical or Cultural History
Kansas
- History Gateway at Kansas -
Numerous resources pertaining to Kansas history.
- Kansas History Websites -
Extensive web site that links to online resources about Kansas History.
Features web links to Kansas Native American history, Territorial and
Civil War, Pioneer, Cattle Town, and Railroad histories.
- Kansas State Historical Society -
Provides links to research sources. Extensive book collection, archival
collection, documents, and other materials related to the history of Kansas.
Link to Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains.
Some online articles available.
- Pittsburg State University, Leonard H. Axe Library,
Special Collections and Archives - The Special Collections and Archives
department contains material pertaining primarily to Kansas and Pittsburg
State University. Its specialty is printed materials from Southeast Kansas,
its culture and inhabitants, and the correspondence, libraries, business
files and memorabilia of significant Southeast Kansans. All printed items
are listed in the Library catalog.
United States
- African-American
Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture -
the
Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's
African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the
black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full
range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books,
periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
- From Revolution to Reconstruction...
and what happened afterwards -
The
main body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes
from a number of USIA-publications: An Outline of American History,
An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government,
and An Outline of American Literature. The text of these Outlines has
not been changed, but they have been enriched with hypertext-links to
relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other
Outlines.
World
- African History Sourcebook -
has
full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes the
Black Athena Debate, human origins, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Islam in Africa,
West African kingdoms, Great Zimbabwe, with topics up to the present
- Ancient Greece -
An
informative and well illustrated guide to Ancient Greece, covering art
and architecture, politics, 0lympics, geography, mythology, peoples,
war, history, and other topics.
- Ancient Mexico - Excellent
resource in the study of Ancient Mexico, Pre-Columbian period. Includes
maps, timelines, an informative bibliography, and features first-person
excerpts from historical sources. Example Hernando Cortez.
- East
Asian History Sourcebook - covers primary source materials for researching
the history of China, Japan, and Korea from ancient to modern times.
- History links at LANIC: Latin
American Network Information Center - links on all aspects of Latin
American Culture. Browsable by country, subject, and digital initiatives.
- Latin American
and South American History and Studies - Extensive links to web sites
pertaining to Latin America and South America
- Middle Eastern History - Extensive
links to web sites concerning Middle East history.
- World History Sources -
A
guide to the one-hundred best online primary source archives in world
history (Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia,
Middle East/North Africa, and Europe) with a review of each site's
merits, limitations, and teaching potential.
Military/Conflict History
- Civil War Homepage -
One
of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Civil War related
material available on the Internet
- Cold
War International History Project -
The
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP),
a program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has
been a primary agent in helping to make these new sources of information
accessible to Cold War researchers.
- Military History Encyclopedia on the Web -
Information
on battles, wars, generals and any other element of military history. At
the moment, our main strengths are the Second World War, American War of
Independence, Seven Years War, English Civil War and the First World War.
- Military History Online -
covers
synopses of battles of the various wars, including: the American Civil War,
WWI, and WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc.
- National
Socialism and World War II: Primary Documents - Links to primary documents
relating to the history of National Socialism and World War II. Documents
are in English and German.
- Vietnam
War Declassification Project -
Declassified
National Security Adviser files released by the Gerald R. Ford Library in
commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh & Saigon.
- World War II General Resources -
Comprehensive web site with links to maps, timeline, and primary sources
relating to World War II.
- WWW-VL: HISTORY: UNITED STATES -
Provides informative links to online sources relating to United States history.
Features research tools and aids. Covers varied historical topics, chronology,
and associations and societies. Special feature is a calendar that covers
special history events, conferences, etc. in the United States.
Online Journals
- Common-Place: A Common Place, an
Uncommon Voice Common-place
is a common place for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American
history and culture. A bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more
scholarly than a popular magazine, Common-place speaks--and listens--to
scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone
interested in American history before 1900.
- History and Theory -
An
academic journal which publishes articles, monographs, book reviews, summaries,
and bibliographies principally in four areas: theories of history, narrativism,
historical method, and related disciplines.
Government Documents
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - a
finding
tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical
and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available
online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general
key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
- GPO Access -
is
a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic
access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal
Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published
version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without
restriction, unless specifically noted.
Colleges & Universities
Career & Job Information
- Careers for Students of History
(American Historical Association) -
"What
can I do with a major in history?" Career counselors, job fairs, and even
college faculty are full of advice about the many careers open to students
who are contemplating or have completed an undergraduate major in history.
While all that advice can be valuable, it does not address or answer a
quite different question that many students who have chosen history as a
major or minor may ask: what careers are open to me if I want to be an historian?
- H-Net Job Guide -
posts
academic position announcements in History and the Humanities, the Social
Sciences, and Rhetoric and Composition, and serves a broad audience of
administrators, faculty members, archivists, librarians, and other professionals
in the humanities and social sciences.
- Organization of American
Historians-Jobs Online - Job listings in the field of history, provided
by the Organization of American Historians
Course Related Web Sites
PSU History Department
PSU 2007-2009 University Catalog - History
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