The History collection supports research programs in American History, Medieval History, and Modern European History. Our holdings are particularly strong in the history of American Catholicism.
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Coverage:
1954-
Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, American periodical series, I, II, and III. When completed in 2003, this database will have more than 7,000,000 pages of full text periodicals.
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Directory of primary source material from repositories and collections in the United States. Features the entire collection of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present. Records include descriptions of holdings, detailed indexes, hours of service, and contact information. For maximum coverage of archival and manuscript collections found in the United States, ArchivesUSA should be used in conjunction with two other online catalogs: RLG Union Catalog AMC File and OCLC Mixed Materials File.
RLG Union Catalog AMC File
OCLC Mixed Materials File
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Indexes reference works (biographical dictionaries, who's who editions, subject encyclopedias, etc.) containing multiple biographies on individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity worldwide. Usage info: Licensed for two concurrent users.
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Coverage:
1680s to 1930s
"... provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. ... British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals ..."--Home page; "about" page.
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Contains a comprehensive collection of primary documents, including more than 43,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
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Coverage:
1969-
Provides indexing and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, and essays on European and world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in: America: History and Life). Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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Coverage:
1863-1905 and 1913-Sept. 1922
Fully searchable database of index entries to the New York times for the available date range; valuable reference material for students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.
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Presents searchable and browsable resources for the study of world and U.S. (national and local) history. Includes full texts of documents and journal articles, multimedia resources, and links to other sites of interest to historians. A project of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press.
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Provides bibliographic descriptions of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
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Index islamicus on CD-ROM
Call Number:
HESB RES Electronic Z 3013 .L6
Coverage:
1906/2002
Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to 2,000+ journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews from 1906. Accompanied by printed user guide.
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Coverage:
1967-
Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
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Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
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Coverage:
1851-three years before present
Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
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Provides indexing to English language oral histories held in repositories and collections; includes interview-level records (some with full text; some with links to audio or video on external websites).
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Coverage:
Beginning thru 1995.
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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Coverage:
Beginning thru 1995
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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Provides full-text online versions of back issues of selected French journals in the social and human sciences. Current issues are unavailable on this site.
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A database the aim of which is to record all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine textual sources, together with as many as possible of the individuals recorded in seal sources, for the period 641-1261.
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Coverage:
1785-1985
A complete digital archive of The Times (London), including every article, advertisement and illustration.
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Searchable registers of papal letters from the 13th- and 14th-century popes, based on Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siecle (32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ) and Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siecle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- ). Access info: "Enter databases" then select Ut per litteras apostolicas ...
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Coverage:
1975-
"CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy"--Online factsheet.
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