World History Resources
Databases
America: History and Life
Index to articles on all topics of history in the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage includes all key English-language historical journals as well as selected state, local, and international historical journals.
Off campus access available to WSU Vancouver students, staff and faculty.
Historical Abstracts
Index to articles on all topics of history from the Middle Ages to the present, excluding the Americas, which are covered in America: History and Life.
A&H Search
Citation index to 1,300 leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage includes selected articles from social science and science journals. Updated weekly.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Index of articles, interviews, and book reviews in the humanities and social sciences, including antropology, economics, psychology and sociology.
Iter (Medieval and Renaissance)
Index of journals and monographs pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
JSTOR
Provides access to articles published more than 2 years ago in over 100 scholarly journals.
Project MUSE
Collection of close to 250 full-text journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more.
MLA Bibliography
Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide.
PAIS Archive
Index to books, articles, government documents, etc. on topics related to public affairs. Coverage ends in 1976. For newer material, use PAIS.
Philosopher's Index
Index of books and journals related to philosophy including ethics, aesthetics, logic and the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education and language.
World Biographical Information Services
Contains biographical profiles of people from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide. Compiles biographical articles from printed reference works and reproduces these original documents as facsimile images on the screen.
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Primary Sources
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Archive of digital facsimile images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
OffCampusAllowed
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
Gallica
Gallica is a digital library of French and Francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Includes full-text materials, some searchable. In French.
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
French National Library. Links to the online catalogs, online exhibits, a digital library of French and francophone culture, an image bank, and other resources and information. In French, English, and Spanish.
Art Museum Image Gallery
Collection of art images gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Includes cultures and time periods ranging from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japa
Proceedings of the Old Bailey
Digital collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings. The Proceedings included accounts of trials that took place at the Old Bailey.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Index of television news broadcasts, including evening news and special news programs from major U.S. networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. Includes more than 725,000 entries and includes online video for CNN news broadcasts from 1999 - the present.
Other Online Resources (includes some Primary Sources)
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
Contains some primary sources
History Internet Resources
Many of these sites contain primary resources: photographs, recordings, monographs, news clippings, etc.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
This site focuses on online texts, which, for the most part, means public domain texts translated more than 75 years ago; includes links to visual and aural material, since art and archeology are far more important for the periods in question than for later history.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The largest collection of online medieval texts.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Oxford Reference Collection
Text from over 30 history-related titles by Oxford University Press.
Sage eReference
Collection of online encylopedias and reference books covering a variety of subject areas, including history and the social sciences.
Reference Books
The Encyclopedia of world history : ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged
WSU Vancouver Reference D21 .E578 2001
Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.--A.D. 1000 : encyclopedia of the Barbarian world
WSU Vancouver Reference D62 .A52 2004 v.1 & v.2
The Middle Ages
WSU Vancouver Reference D114 .M54 1996 v. 1 - v.4.
Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world
WSU Vancouver Reference D209 .E97 2004 v.1 - v.6
Modern China : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism
WSU Vancouver Reference DS755.2 .M63 1998
The timetables of history : a horizontal linkage of people and events
WSU Vancouver Reference D11 .G78 1991
The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation
WSU Vancouver Reference BR302.8 .O93 1996 v. 1 - v.4.
Medieval France : an encyclopedia
WSU Vancouver Reference DC33.2 .M44 1995
History in dispute
Offers critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. The intent of this biennial series is to provide students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, help stimulate critical thinking and provide ideas for papers and assignments.
WSU Vancouver Reference D20 .H543 2000
Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol empire
WSU Vancouver Reference DS798.4 .A88 2004
Slavery - US & World
Slavery
Resources compiled by Sue Peabody, professor of History, Washington State University Vancouver: links to Documents, Narratives, Texts, Academic Centers, Media, Museums and Sites.
A historical guide to world slavery
WSU Vancouver Reference HT861 .H59 1998
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery
WSU Vancouver Reference HT861 .H57 1997
The Atlantic slave trade
WSU Vancouver Reference HT1322 .P67 2003
Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro
WSU Vancouver Reference KF4545.S5 J83 1998
Library Catalogs
To Search For Primary Sources in Catalogs
To find primary sources: search for books written by key participants and organizations; do a keywords search and limit your search by publication date; do a keywords search for your subject and add special terms that designate primary sources: sources, personal narratives, diaries, correspondence, interviews, church records and registers, wills, probate records, sermons.
Griffin
Catalog of the items owned by the WSU Libraries. Includes all four campuses (Vancouver, Pullman, Tri-Cities and Spokane).
Summit Catalog
Joint catalog of libraries across the Pacific Northwest. Includes items owned by over 32 libraries.
WorldCat
Over 35 million records of any type of material owned by libraries throughout the United States and several other countries.
Subject Librarian
Kathi Fountain
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last updated: March 23, 2009
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