America: History & Life 1954 -
Bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Comprises citations and abstracts to periodical articles, books and dissertations.

Historical Abstracts 1954 -
Guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Comprises abstracted articles to worldwide journals, and also citations to historical books.

Historical New York Times
ProQuest Historical New York Times provides the full image of articles published in the NYT from its first issue in 1851 through 2004. Includes illustrations and advertisements.
For more recent coverage use Lexis-Nexis which includes full text, but without illustrations and advertisements.

JSTOR
Full-image archival database of scholarly journals. The most current issues, 2-5 years, are not included due to publishers' restrictions.

Project Muse
Online collection of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. MUSE covers many different subject areas including literature, history, political science, economics, education, film, philosophy, religion, and womens studies.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier- Funded by the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative     
Indexes journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, ethnic studies and more. Provides full-text articles from more than 3200 scholarly periodicals.

Wilson OmniFile 1982-
Abstracts and indexing for over 4,000 periodicals in many subjects. Full-text for over 2,000 periodicals. To search the literature section of the database, click on the arrow to the right of the Subject Area box and select "Humanities.”

Related Internet Links

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Library of Congress national digital library project on American history and culture including primary sources in text, photographs, maps, music Learning Page has classroom ideas and plans, also how to cite electronic sources and copyright information.

Harvard Open Collection Program
Collections: Women Working, 1800-1930; Emigration/Immigration: 1789-1930

Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. It includes 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and 1,200 photographs.

Making of America (MOA)
Digital library of primary sources (books & articles) on U.S. social history (1850-77), specializing in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, science and technology.

National Archives and Records Administration
Federal database of documents, photographs, maps, recordings, transcripts Exhibit Hall spotlighting changing topics Digital Classroom for teachers and students (K-12).

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Wide range of legal, historical, and diplomatic documents from the Code of Hammurabi to colonial charters, treaties with Native Americans and foreign countries, up through the 2001 Attack on America.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
Electronic documents from Christopher Columbus in the 15th century to Bushs speech to Congress September 20, 2001.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
Designed for teachers includes primary documents in text and image, and oral histories also includes a guide to useful websites, web-based assignments, syllabi, links to resources & games.

Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
Historical documents from governments on all sides of the Cold War, including former communist bloc countries.

U. S. Census Historical Census Data Browser
Population and economic data from census years 1790-1970 for states and counties may be viewed and manipulated to create customized tables and graphs.

Subject Guide: History
A guide to web sites & print resources available in the S. Mary Joseph Cunningham Library.

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