History
Recommended Databases
- America: History and Life
Description : Indexes publications devoted to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Coverage: 1954 -
- History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Coverage: varies
- JSTOR
Description: JSTOR is unique because the contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.
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Project Muse
Description: Project Muse provides the full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Coverage: 1995 -
- Humanities Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting of English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately 1990 to the present.
- Historical Newspapers - The New York Times
Description: Historical Newspapers-The New York Times has full text and full image articles from the New York Times dating back to the 19th century.
Coverage: 1851-2001; more recent articles can be found in ProQuest Newspapers.
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Reader's Guide Retrospective(Wilson)
Description: historical coverage of popular articles
Coverage: 1890-1982
- NewspaperArchive.com
Description: NewspaperARCHIVE includes fully searchable newspaper pages from more than 400 cities and towns—from The Washington Post to the Stevens Point Gazette (see full title list). An excellent tool to research genealogy, history, culture and newsworthy events in a local context. Years of coverage vary, but some newspapers go back as far as the 1700s and include titles from the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. Pages are reproduced in PDF format.
Coverage: 1700s - (updates vary)
- Belgian - American Collection
Description: One of the country's largest concentrations of Walloon-speaking Belgians is found in northeastern Wisconsin, resulting in a unique cultural and social flavor. The largest wave of Belgian immigration to Wisconsin occurred in the mid-1850s. While the 1850 U.S. Census lists only 45 persons of Belgian nativity in the state, by 1860 the number had increased to 4,647. The 1890 U.S. census also shows that 81% of Belgians in the state lived in the northeastern counties of Brown, Kewaunee, and Door. The Belgian immigration into northeastern Wisconsin came to an abrupt halt in about 1858, when word reached the homeland of the physical and economic hardships and the cholera epidemic sweeping the settlement.
- Brown, Door, Kewaunee, and Shawano Counties:Historical Atlases, Directories, and Plat Maps
Decription:This historical collection focuses on northeastern Wisconsin and provides information on changing names and neighborhoods.
- In The First Person
Description: close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world, including diaries, letters, and oral history interviews.
Coverage: 1500's to date
- North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
Description: Provides a historical record of what it was like to immigrate to the United States and Canada.
Coverage: 1840-present, with the majority of the coverage from 1920-1980.
- Early Encounters in North America: People, Cultures, and the Environment
Description : Documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. It focuses on personal accounts and provides wide range of perspectives.
Coverage: 1534-1850
- The Gilded Age, 1865-1902
Description:Immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment are just a few of the issues that came to the fore during the Gilded Age. 40,000 pages of texts, photographs, songs, and primary materials together with 5,000 pages of reference and secondary materials.
Coverage:Approximately 1865-1902.
- Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000
Description: Documents woman and social movements.
Coverage: 1600-2000
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Description: Includes the immediate experiences of women, as revealed in diaries and letters.
Coverage: Colonial to 1950
- Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
Description: Contains publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945 that trace the evolution of feminism movement.
Coverage: 1543-1945, with the majority of the coverage from 1860-1900.
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Description : The initial database contains writings of 91 women from Great Britain and Northern Ireland from diverse backgrounds, and is expected to grow to over 1,000 authors.
Coverage: 1500-1900
- Early English Books Online
Description : From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition.
Coverage: 1475-1700
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Description : Contains searchable pages based on the English Short Title Catalogue, a machine readable union list of holdings of the British Library, as well as holdings from university, private and public libraries worldwide.
Coverage: 1701-1800
- Ancestry Library
Description: A geneological database that includes Cenus, Birth, Death and Marriage records, Military records and much more.
Coverage: Varies depending on type of search.
- HRAF - Ethnography (eHRAF)
Description: eHRAF is an acronym for Human Relations Area Files, which indexes the information in its collection of ethnography by culture and subject. Using a systematic listing of the cultures of the world search for information on hundreds of cultures worldwide.
Coverage: varies
Guide: Human Relations Area File
- MasterFILE Premier
Description: Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals.
Coverage: 1984 -
- Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Description:. Conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature reveal how society grappled with these changes during the rapid and drastic cultural changes of American life in the 20th century. Focus is on gender roles and relations, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, class relations, and adjustments to new technology.
Coverage1890's-1990's.
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rev. 20 August 2009