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Subject Guide: History INDEXES  |  REFERENCE WORKS   |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of History. INDEXES ARTFL Project Provides access to seven full-text databases in French: The Main ARTFL Database, containing 1,880 texts from the 12th to the 20th centuries; the ARTFL Encyclopédie, a complete on-line version of the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie; Provençal Poetry Database, containing 38 texts from the 12th and 13th centuries; French Women Writers Database, containing texts by 15 authors from the 16th to the 19th centuries; Textes de Française Ancien (TFA) database, containing 65 documents, covering the 12th-15th centuries; Opera del Vocabolario Italiano database, containing 1,369 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser- known texts; and Dictionnaires d'autrefois, containing Robert Estienne's 1552 Dictionarium latinogallicum, Jean Nicot's Threysor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne (Paris, David Douceur, 1606); and the Dictionnaire de l'Academie Française. Arts & Humanities Search Citations for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Covers 1980-present. Updated weekly. ARTstor The ARTstor image database is a searchable collection of downloadable high quality digital images for education and scholarship. The database documents artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. ARTstor is designed for researchers, teachers and students. Users can download individual images or use the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer to build a presentation using ARTstor images, arrange and caption the images, and deliver the presentation in the classroom.[ More infomation about using ARTstor.] Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition (includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary) Enhanced electronic version of the comprehensive multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica. Contains links to relevant Internet information resources. For Southwestern community only.* Handbook of Texas Online Full text searchable version of the complete six-volume edition (print copy in the Reference collection at 976.4003 N42) HeritageQuest Online 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. Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts indexes the world's periodical literature in history and the related social sciences and humanities from 1450 to the present. Articles in Historical Abstracts derive from over 2,100 scholarly journals published in more than 50 languages. HLAS Online, Handbook of Latin American Studies "A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources." Humanities Abstracts Periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Includes some full text. Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A growing online service that provides citations for published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through online bibliographic databases. Databases include "Journals" (citations for articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies from the full runs of 518 scholarly journal titles published since 1853), "Books," "Reviews," "Iter Italicum," "Scholars of Early Modern Studies," "International Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations and Institutions," and "Baptisteria Sacra: An Iconographic Index of Baptismal Fonts." JSTOR: Journal Storage Collection Online An electronic archive of scholarly journals from the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences. Each of the 100+ titles is an essential or primary one for its field. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals (excluding the most recent five years) have been digitized, starting with the first issues, many of which date back to the 1800s. Users canbrowse the complete table of contents for every volume and issue, or search for words or phrases in the full text of the article, author and abstracts. JSTOR displays articles in page-image format. WorldCat Access to listings of the holdings of library collections worldwide including Smith Library Center. REFERENCE WORKS To find printed reference material relevant to your topic start with the library's online catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords to describe your topic. You can also check the library's Web pages for subject guides for specific topics such as American Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, Economics, etc. to find other suggested sources. Below are a few titles to get you started. To find call number and location information, search the Voyager catalog. The Almanac of American History REFERENCE, 1st floor 973.02 Al62 American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Encyclopedia REFERENCE, 1st floor 973.303 Am34 Atlas of World Development REFERENCE, 1st floor 911 At652 Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850's in America REFERENCE, 1st floor 973.6 G131c Encyclopedia of American History REFERENCE, 1st floor 973.02 M833e2 Encyclopedia of the Confederacy REFERENCE, 1st floor 973.713 En19 Encyclopedia of Russian History REFERENCE, 1st floor 947.003 P289e Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War REFERENCE, 1st floor 959.704 En19 Encyclopedia of Women's History in America REFERENCE, 1st floor 305.4 C897e A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing REFERENCE, 1st floor 907.2 G51 Historic U.S. Court Cases, 1690-1990 REFERENCE, 1st floor 349.73 J633h Historical Abstracts REFERENCE, 1st floor. History of Humanity 909 H629 Macmillan Concise Dictionary of World History 903 W535m Nations Without States : a historical dictionary of contemporary national movements REFERENCE, 1st floor 909.82 M671n New Handbook of Texas REFERENCE, 1st floor 976.4003 N42 Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations REFERENCE, 1st floor 903 W893 1995 WEB LINKS 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa This site offers online viewing of antique maps of Africa collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University. Users can search or browse by title, cartographer, date, country or African region, or place of publication. African Studies WWW African Studies WWW, supported by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. American and British History Resources on the Internet Connections to over 80 other gateways providing access to U.S. and British historical data. American Historical Association The American Historical Association website includes a full-text version of PERSPECTIVES, the association newsletter. American Memory Historical Collections Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections. There are currently over 50 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections. American Studies Web Comprehensive list, by category, of historical sources on the Internet. Includes annotations. Ancient World Mapping Center The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies. Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Best of History Websites An online web directory to more than 700 of the best history-related Web sites. Biography.com A searchable database of 15,000 concise biographical sketches. The Booker T. Washington Papers The History Cooperative Web collection of the papers of Booker T. Washington contains the complete contents, both text and illustrations, of the 14-volume The Booker T. Washington Papers, published between 1972 and 1989 by the University of Illinois Press under the direction of Washington scholar Louis R. Harlan. British History Online British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, BHO supports academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA), 1690+ This online database allows users to search a directory of 23,000 American newspapers titles published from 1690 to the present, and to search and view digitized newspaper pages from select regional newspapers. Currently the project comprises 36 titles published between 1900 and 1910 in the six participating states of California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia. The database is still in BETA format. Nevertheless, its value is the promise of a free ever-growing digitized collection of historical newspapers. --Choice Reviews Cold War International History Project An intiative of the Woodrow Wilson Center, this site offers access to archives, museums, and websites devoted to the Cold War experience. Digital Roman Forum Launched by UCLA, Digital Roman Forum enables easy access to and exploration of detailed reconstructions of the Forum Romanum. This source is useful for students seeking to become acquainted with the topography of the social, political, and religious hub of ancient Rome. Eurodocs Links to primary historical documents from Western Europe. FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court Decisions page. Full text of over 7,000 Supreme Court decisions, covering the years 1937-1975. Searchable by name or key word. The First American West: the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 For this significant addition to the Library of Congress's American Memory project, the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, KY, have digitized 15,000 pages of materials, including books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal papers, ledgers, broadsides, pictorial images, maps, manuscripts, letters, journals, and physical artifacts. First World War.com This WWI site provides summaries, timelines, and essays. The site also includes a "vintage audio" category which includes audio clips of prominent statesmen of the era. Site designed by Michael Duffy. Historical Text Archive Country information, national histories, maps, and some electronic primary documents. H-Net Review Project Reviews from several historical areas, searchable by author, title, and reviewer, as well as by category. In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives In the First Person indexes more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. Users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Latin American Network Information Center Located at the University of Texas at Austin. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution This site is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York. It provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs. Library of Southern Literature This collection includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. It is part of "Documenting the American South", a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The Making of America A thematically-related digital library of primary sources documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.The project is a collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Middle East Network Information Center Located at the University of Texas at Austin. National Archives and Records Administration "Our mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience." Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674 to 1834 "A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." REESWeb Russian and East European Studies, sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Pittsburgh. Rulers A list of heads of governments, past and present. The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II Web Archive Collected stories of those who served in uniform or in some home front capacity during WW II. the project has expanded over the years to include interviews of Korean War veterans, and future plans call for interviews with Desert Storm veterans. Uniting the Kingdoms? A Pathways to the Past exhibition sponsored by the United Kingdom's National Archives. The exhibition is influenced by today's identity politics, especially Scottish and Welsh nationalism. University of Texas Electronic Historical Maps U.S. Census Bureau Statistical information from the census bureau, with the emphasis on data from the later half of the 20th century. Using Primary Sources on the Web Written by the Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association this guide is designed to provide researchers with information to help them identify internet sources, and the quality of primary materials that can be found online. WESSWEB Sponsored by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of Colleges and Research Libraries. PERIODICALS To find holdings and location information for specific periodicals titles (both print and online), search the online catalog. To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes.

For more information about History resources, call (512) 863-1559 or email libweb@southwestern.edu.