LIBRARY GUIDE TO History

Library OneSearch
Search Kresge Library's print and electronic collections.

Cambridge Histories Online
Over 260 volumes covering American and British history, world history, and more.

Blackwell Companions to History
A series of volumes on the history of various countries and topics.

Hathi Trust
A searchable database of digitized books from the University of Michigan libraries, some of which are full text.

To request an item from another library, use:

MelCat (Michigan libraries)
or  
ILLiad (libraries worldwide), using the WorldCat catalog to find books.

America: History & Life
The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Provides indexing for 1,700 journals. How to export to RefWorks. Coverage: 1964-present

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

JSTOR
Archives the full-text of articles from numerous history journals.

Project MUSE
Project Muse provides full-text access to the content from over 400 scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences. How to export to RefWorks

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Provides indexing coverage of the journal literature in the arts and humanities, including literature, music and film studies. Provides information on who has cited a researcher's work. Coverage: 1975 - present. How to export to RefWorks

Women's Magazine Archive
Full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines from the late-19th century through to 2005

American Memory: the online collections of the Library of Congress, organized by theme and by period.

Chronicling America: historic American newspapers (1836-1922) at the Library of Congress.

Digital Public Library of America: a portal for a large number of primary sources held across the U.S. The Primary Source Sets offer online access to archives on various historical topics.

The Making of America: primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

DocsTeach: thousands of historical documents to be used in the classroom

National Archives Online Public Access search (For an overview of the holdings at NARA, see their Research topics pages)

Michiganology: digital collections of the Archives of Michigan (maps, photos, pre-statehood documents, civil war records...)

Internet Archive: a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

World History Sources: primary sources to support world history teaching.

History Matters: compilation of primary resources by topic and period.

Social Explorer: Census data presented in interactive maps. Contains historic socio-economic and demographic data (free trial).

Hathi Trust: Books, journals and more. Works in the public domain are available full text.

Note:

• More primary sources are listed in other history guides.

• ArchiveGrid: catalog of the collections of many libraries, museums, and archives in the US.
• Archives Hub: gateway to archival collections of over 300 institutions in the UK, including digital ones.
• WorldCat: search the collections of libraries around the world. Restrict search to archival materials.
• Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
• Archives Portal Europe
• DPLA: portal for digital collections of major collections across the US.
• NCPH Project Directory: the National Council on Public History guide to history-focused digital projects

Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 (U.S. Census)

Statistical Abstract of the United States (Proquest)
Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Includes some historical data.

Social Explorer
Some statistics available for free.

American Demographic History Chartbook
Graphics portraying the demographic history of the United States, as shown by the decennial census of population

In addition to the digital collections of primary sources listed above, images can be found in 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.

Reviews in History: an e-journal edited by British historians containing reviews by experts on all topics.

H-net reviews: online reviews of the latest scholarship in all fields of history. Complemented by the H-net Book Channel

New Books in History: discussions with historians about their new books.
 

• America History and Life: How to Limit the Search to a Specific Historical Period
• Citing Archival Sources in a Paper
• Early American Imprints: Search Options
• Early American Imprints: What's in it?
• Finding an Article Based On Its Citation
• Finding Primary Sources at Kresge Library
• Locating Historical Newspapers Online
• Locating Primary Sources for a History Assignment

Research guides:

• colonial and early U.S. history
• 19th-century American history
• 20th-century American history
• African history
• Asian history
• Latin American history
• Middle Eastern history
• Western European history
• Eastern European history
• History of Michigan
• History of Oakland County, MI
• American labor history
• historical maps and atlases
• government documents for historians