Cambridge Histories Online has some volumes on British history and  information on French history and other European countries.

Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world (Ref. D 209 .E97 2004)

Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world : Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America  (Ref. DA 357 .W34 1999)

Library Catalog
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

.  Using WorldCat you will be able to fill a request from  Illiad, the library's interlibrary loan system.

Selected books on Western European history at KL:

Europe History
Civilization, Western History.
Europe, western civilization

JSTOR and Project Muse include the full text of numerous history journals.

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. How to export to RefWorks

ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. To find resources for specific countries, browse by Geography, select the country of your choice.

European History Primary Sources
Index to online repositories of primary sources for the study of European history

• The Journal of Modern History. The leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history.
• Past and Present. Scholarly articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world.
• The American Historical Review. The journal of the American Historical Association covers all fields of history and is the leading scholarly historical publication in the U.S.
• International Review of Social History. Global scope, research in social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective.
• European History Quarterly. Covers European history from the later Middle Ages to post-1945.

Books on French history at Kresge Library

• France History (browse the list  to see more specific subjects in French history)
   

Journals in French history

• France History Periodicals.
• Persee: this online repository has many French history scholarly publications (in French)
   

Primary sources online

• Gallica (digital library of the French National Library)
• INA (audiovisual resources)
• BDIC
• French Political Pamphlets (1547-1626)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• L'edit de Nantes et ses antecedents
• French Revolution Pamphlets
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
• 1789-1794: Notes et archives
• Culture.fr (digitized collections of dozens of French national and local cultural heritage institutions)
• Digital library of Lyon
• Paris: Capital of the 19th Century (books, periodicals, images)
• Images of the Siege and Commune of Paris
• L'histoire par l'image (images of French history, 1789-1945)
• Charles de Gaulle: Paroles publiques (audio and video of De Gaulle speeches)
• e-corpus: digital collections of many institutions in the Euro-Mediterranean region, including many French ones.

Books on the history of the British Isles at Kresge Library

• Great Britain History   (browse the list  to see more specific subjects in British history)                       
• Ireland History
   

Journals in the history of the British Isles

• Great Britain History Periodicals.
• Ireland History Periodicals.
• JSTOR includes several journals in British studies.
   

Primary sources

• English Historical Documents (3rd floor, DA26.E55)
• Early English Books (microforms)
• Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets
  Online access to the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Focus is on the political, economic and social issues of the time.
  
• British History Online (sources on medieval and modern history)
• Connected Histories (search for primary sources on British history from 1500 to 1900)
• British Newspapers, 1800-1900 (49 local and national newspapers - available for a fee through the British Library)
• The British Newspaper Archive (over 200 newspapers - available for a fee through the British Library)
• Guide to 19th century UK periodicals online
• British Library Manuscripts
• A Vision of Britain Through Time
• British Pathe (archive of Pathe films)
• Britannia History
• UK History at EuroDocs
• Histpop : online historical population reports
• Act of Union Virtual Library (pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain)
• Ireland collection in JSTOR
• 1916 rising : personalities and perspectives online exhibition (National Library of Ireland)
  
• Breaking the silence : staying at home in an emigrant society (oral histories about Irish life in the 1950s)
• Collins Collection of Irish political cartoons
• Database of Irish historical statistics
• Irish penal laws
• Murals of Northern Ireland
• Ulster covenant

Books on German history at Kresge Library

• Germany History  (browse the list  to see more specific subjects in German history)
   

Journals in German history

• German History
  
• German Studies Review
   

Primary sources online

• German history in documents and images
• Bundesarchiv
• German History sources at EuroDocs
• Digitized German newspapers
• Research reviews and literary journals of the 18th and 19th centuries
  
• Photographs of the Bayerishe Staatsbibliothek
• Reichstag proceedings, transcripts, 1867-1895
• Holocaust History Project
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (includes primary sources)
• Germany and the Soviet Union, 1937-1938 and 1939-1941
• Berlinische Monatsschrift, a periodical published between 1783 and 1811
• Berlin Wall Online (stories, photographs....) 
• German-American diplomacy, 1785-1868

If we don't have an item, you can request materials be sent to Kresge Library for you:

MeLCat is a catalog of Michigan libraries, where you can place a request.

Illiad is an interlibrary loan system, where you can fill out the details of the materials you want.

Kresge Library has pathfinders on French history, German history, British, Scottish and Irish history as well as by period.

Europeana: digital images of paintings, films, music and books from Europe's largest cultural institutions.

The European Library: gateway to the collections of the major libraries of Europe

Refworks allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.

Ask a Librarian

• by phone at 248-370-4426
• via chat with reference IM
• via email at Email Us!
• in person in Kresge Library.

Research Consultation
Request an individual session to get help with your research. You can expect the session within 2-3 days.