LibGuides: History: Find Articles

Online Resources

HISTORYNET
National Museum of American History
Perspectives on History
The newsmagazine of the American Historical Association.

Scholarly vs. Popular Articles

JSTOR

Academic Search Complete

Digital Film Streaming and Video Tutorials

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary mediated streaming video service, licensed for classroom use, and viewable on a range of devices and platforms. Please note: Kanopy films without instant access are available upon request. Please fill out Kanopy's Request Form to request reactivation of titles. Only Faculty/staff requests will be considered.
Films on Demand Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Thousands of high quality videos, interviews, historical speeches and newsreels.

Library Databases

The following databases will help you find articles.

General Information

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles in over 375 core academic journals with back-files lacking only the most recent 3 -5 years.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Over 8,200 publications are available in this multi-discipline database, with full text for nearly 4,650 of those titles.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

Medieval & Middle Ages

Brill's Medieval Reference Library This link opens in a new window A resource dedicated to all aspects of medieval life, organized in eight sections: Society; Faith and Knowledge; Literature; Fine Arts and Music; Economy; Technology; Living Environment and Conditions; and Historical Events and Regions.

Slavery

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window Essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.

Newspapers, Statistics, and Letters

Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.
Baptists, Quakers, and Independent Church Periodicals, 1797-1881 This link opens in a new window
This collection presents the growth of the Baptist church, and demonstrates that the history of the Baptist church and the history of America are intimately related.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Letters and diaries depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Contains materials from Colonial times to 1950.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States This link opens in a new window
An authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
Undata This link opens in a new window
Brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point.

Genealogy

Ancestry.com This link opens in a new window
Containing 7 billion genealogical records from across the globe and millions of family trees, it is the world’s largest online family history resource.
HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window
Provides a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture.

Other Resources

Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
A leading database for the study of art and architecture, this database provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books.
Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History & Medieval Studies This link opens in a new window
Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
African Studies Companion This link opens in a new window
The African Studies Companion seeks to bring together a wide range of sources of information in the African studies field.
African American Poetry This link opens in a new window
Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.
Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new window
More than 450,000 biographies, including actors, authors, explorers, historical figures, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, scientists and many others.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples.
Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new window
Offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867–1970 This link opens in a new window
Delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in 158 North Carolina towns and cities across a century of change.