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Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Dallas Morning News Archive A unique historical digital image collection accessible by keyword and date searching. It documents major events in Texas, the United States, and the world, providing valuable primary source information. Classified and display advertising, photos and graphics also included.

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Credo Reference Center Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries and information centers. By using unique proprietary technology that integrates information through a network of intelligent, multi-dimensional cross-references, Credo Reference delivers real added value to students, researchers, businesses and reference help desks worldwide.

Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.

Global Issues in Context is a media-rich, content-driven e-resource that spans the globe as a new tool to help researchers understand the world of today, which is changing at an almost incomprehensible pace. Information professionals and students designed Global Issues in Context, with contributions from subject experts from around the world, to facilitate the development of global awareness, critical-thinking and information-literacy skills.

History Resource Center: US History Resource Center: U.S. is a diverse, electronic multidimensional collection of uniquely combined current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents. This virtual library of the essential tools is valuable for the study of U.S. history via extensive inter-linking and cross-referencing. History Resource Center: U.S. unites a broad collection of facts, primary documents and scholarly analysis.

History Resource Center: World is a newly updated version combining a comprehensive and unique global collection of resources with easy-to-use search functionality supporting undergraduate research and curriculums. World seamlessly integrates Gale secondary sources, primary sources and full-text articles from academic journals and periodicals from around the world. Along with scholarly analysis, "day-in-history" reviews and sources encouraging additional and future study, this online tool offers integrated access to a virtual library of resources needed to study the history of the world.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

Journals

JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including history journals. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

Project Muse Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.

SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including history (formerly Kluwer Journals).

Reference Works

A to Z Maps Online is the worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.

Cambridge Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS): Millennial Online Edition This reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) The AASC provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, published in March 2005, the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from much-anticipated forthcoming print publications including the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works. Enhancing the core content will be the latest in online reference technology, granting users easy access to the valuable material included in the resource center. Core reference content will be enhanced by material and features that help students expand their research, including bibliographies, interactive timelines and maps, thematic photo essays and image collections, key primary source documents, and editorially selected links to Internet resources.

NOTE: The AASC allows for one login at a time. If the resource is unavailable when you first try to access it, please try again later.

Genealogy and Local History A Comprehensive treasury of family lineage and local histories, including materials for tracing family lineages and American culture, beginning with the 13 original colonies. This database contains genealogies, local histories, third-party histories, and primary source materials of not only towns and families of all 50 states, but also includes information for Canada, England, and Ireland. Access to the information can be achieved by searching for title, family name, geographic area, or subject.

Handbook of Texas Online A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. Provided by the Texas State Historical Association in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.

ICPSR is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. It provides social science data and resources for researchers.

Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview Revolutions to establish self-determination Ö wars to protect or expand a homeland Ö movements to promote a unified identity within a country. So many of historyís most dramaticóand tragicóevents have been fueled by the cause of nationalism. From the French Revolution to Nazi Germany to Rwanda and the Balkans, nationalism has reshapedóand continually redrawnóthe worldís political map.

Texas Almanac Search by subject and limit your search to "Tables" to locate statistical data about Texas. Data from previous years is included in many tables.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities. One can see everything from building outline, size and shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers, and more. Symbols for stables, garages, warehouses, and other commercial sites are also included. Factories are often labeled with the owner's name, as well as the products manufactured there. Also depicted are pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, and dumps. Search for the maps by typing in the state or community. Once a map is obtained, they pinpoint the streets, landmarks, and other places noted in the map's index. Once displayed, the maps can be manipulated, expanded, printed, and downloaded.

Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty How are certain Indian tribes able to operate casinos in states that outlaw gambling? Hunt whales where international laws prohibit it? Profit from oil leases on federal land? Govern themselves as nations? All of these privileges are guaranteed by treaties, and, while the broken treaty remains a valid symbol for the treatment of Native Americans, many of the 370+ pacts with the government were and are still honored.

Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, Second Edition From Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors to the dawn of the 21st century, the Americas have rarely been conflict-free. From explorers and empire-builders confronting indigenous peoples while looking for wealth in the New World to revolutionaries and nationalists seeking to redefine their countries, these conflicts have had consequences well beyond the boundaries of the Western Hemisphere.

Women in the American Civil War Except for those named HarrietóTubman and Beecher Stowe, to be preciseówomen are invisible in Civil War history. The traditional treatment focuses on the men who directed and fought the war. This encyclopedia lifts the curtain on the untold stories of women as warriors, spies, fundraisers, and propagandistsóthe whole range of war-related activity.

Books

netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

You are allowed to print one page at a time using your Web browser's print function or the print function on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar. Printing the entire eContent item violates copyright laws and precautions are taken to protect those copyright laws.

About the Catalog

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Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog. Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

Texas--History--To 1846 Europe--History--1789-1900 World War, 1939-1945

America--Discovery and exploration

Internet Sites

General

• Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts This is a catalogue of almost 1,000 digitized medieval manuscripts from Europe, Australia, North America, and Japan.

• Center for Military History of the United State Army.

• Cold War International History Project is provided by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and "disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War."

• Discovering American Women's History Online provides access to collections of primary sources related to American Women's history. Topics covered are broad and range from the 17th to the 21st centuries.

• Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

• Early Americas Digital Archive  This text-based website is user friendly with material dating back to 1492 through the 1800s, all written in or about the Americas. This rich resource offers online, free of charge, the original words of the first people to explore and settle the Americas.

• Eighteenth-Century Resources, maintained by Jack Lynch at Penn.

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe, based at Brigham Young University.

• European NAvigator is a database that provides access to documents and multimedia files on the development of European integration from 1945 to present. Visitors are able to search for files from five different categories.

• Gallup Poll Gallup has studied human nature and behavior for more than 70 years. Gallup's reputation for delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel is the cornerstone of the organization.

• GPO Access This online catalog is the finding tool for federal publications and provides direct links to documents available electronically on a wide variety of subjects. It includes descriptive records for both historical and current publications. To access only electronic documents, click on the Advanced Search tab, then select Internet Publications from Catalogs to Search at the top of the screen. Note: GPO Access is migrating to a new website, GPO FDsys. When the migration is complete the information here will be updated.

• Historical Text Archive U.S. and World history texts.

• Imperial War Museum collections on-line is a digital repository of items in the Imperial War Museum's collection.

• The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use and compiled by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. There are sourcebooks in the following areas: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet Medieval Sourcebook and Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

• Keesing's World News Archive is an archive of articles covering world events from 1931-present. It is different from daily newspaper content in that it provides high-quality, comprehensive, objective articles on historically important events.

• National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. The National Archives has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1000 years of British history, from Domesday Book of 1086 to government papers recently released to the public.

• Southeast Asia Visions is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia with online access to 130,000 pages of text from the the John M. Echols Collection at Cornell University. There are also about 10,000 images, as well.

• The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Timeline now extends from prehistory to 1600 A.D., and will continue to expand in scope and depth.

• The USGen Web Project provides links to genealogical websites and information and links to archival records, cemeteries, etc. It is categorized by state and county.

• Using Primary Sources on the Web "Users of web resources must now consider the authenticity of documents, what person or organization is the internet provider, and whether the electronic version serves their needs." Written by the Instruction and Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association.

• WWW-VL The History Index This Index's original author, Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas, launched this site in 1993. It is now maintained by Serge Noiret and Inaki Lopez Martin at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. A USA Mirror is also available.

• Yahoo's History sites a directory to sites relating to history

Africa

• Africa: South of the Sahara is detailed site of internet resources maintained at the Stanford University.

United States

• AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History.

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library from the Library of Congress. One of the most important sites for primary documents.

• American Women's History: A Research Guide: A guide provided by Ken Middleton, Reference and Microforms Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University, provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.

• Archiving Early America: Historic Documents from 18th century America, such as the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, etc. Also includes portraits of key individuals and even crossword puzzles for history buffs.

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Journals of the Continental Congress through The Congressional Globe, which ceased publication with the 42nd Congress in 1873.

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers is presented by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the Library of Congress. Search a directory of 23,000 American Newspaper titles from 1690 to present. Search and view digitized content from regional newspapers, comprising 226,000 pages and 36 titles published between 1900 and 1910 in California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, and Washington D.C.

• Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents provided by the University of Oklahoma Law Center.

• Civil Rights Digital Library The University of Georgia digitally publishes this collection of primary source material featuring unedited film archives of WSB-TV in Atlanta and WALB-TV in Albany and other educational resources.

• Documenting the American South : The Southern Experience in 19th Century America is a project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.

• Gammel's The Laws of Texas provided by the University of North Texas' Government Documents Department. Nineteenth century Texas law online.

• The Making of America Project (MOA) is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. It is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

  • University of Michigan's MOA Project

  • Cornell University Library's MOA Collection

• The Presidential Timelineof the Twentieth Century consists of documents, graphics, and audio files from the presidency of Herbert Hoover through that of Bill Clinton.

• Westward by Sea : A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 is a selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels. The unique maritime perspective of these materials offers a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences associated with the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest.

Texas

On the History Subject guide there are some divisions of the internet resources. If there isn't a specific one for Texas, would you make one and include the following:

Texas beyond history (TBH). Archeological and historical research concerning the cultural heritage of Texas. Covers prehistoric Native Americans; Spanish, French, Mexican, and Anglo explorers, missionaries, settlers, soldiers, and traders; German farmers; African-American freedmen; Mexican-American laborers; and others. Tips on use are provided. A joint project of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory of the Univ. of Texas at Austin and the Texas Archeological Soc.

Texas historic sites atlas. Over 200,000 historical site records include data on historical markers and the National Register of Historic Places in Texas. Search by county name, historical marker text, site name, or address. Limit by site types. Information includes everything from structural data for buildings to the development of businesses to the wording on historical markers. Location maps included.

Texans one and all. Online information is available on the Anglo-American Texans, the Danish Texans, the Dutch Texans, the Filipino Texans, the Lebanese and Syrian Texans, the Norwegian Texans, the Scottish Texans, the Spanish Texans, the Mexican and Tejano Texans, the Swiss Texans, and the Wendish Texans through the Institute of Texan Cultures.

Medieval Studies

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a clearinghouse site maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson

The Middle English Compendium The Middle English Compendium, developed at the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, provides easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. Hypertext links offer quick connections between, e.g., an MED citation, bibliographical information about its source, and an electronic version of the source, if one is included in the collection, with the hope that eventually electronic versions of all the source texts will be available.

• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web.

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Citing Sources

Various Style Manuals may be used in the field of History.  Check with your professor to determine which format you should use for a particular class. Whether you're using Chicago, Turabian, or some other style, you will find instructions on our Style Manuals link and and from print copies of various style manuals on Abell Library's Reserve Desk.