Databases
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - Photos from The Associated Press, plus graphics, text and audio
America: History and Life - Index to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
American National Biography Online - Resource of more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
American Periodical Series Online 1740-1900 - Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Annals of American History - Full text of over 2,000 primary documents and multimedia files covering American history.
Bibliography of Native North Americans - Covers all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (Discontinue June 2007) - Index to books, chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies.
HarpWeek - Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Historic and Archival Images - Images from Ohio history, contributed by OhioLINK institutions.
Historical Abstracts - Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
ACLS Humanities E-Book - Electronic books of high quality in the field of history.
History of Science, Technology & Medicine - Index to journal articles, books, proceedings, and other literature in the history of science, technology and medicine, and allied historical fields.
ORACLE - Catalog of books and other materials held in the Besse Library as well as access to books and materials held at Ohio college and university libraries.
Women's Studies International - Produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Spans from 1972 and earlier to present.
Weblinks
U.S. and World History
AMDOCS: Documents of the Study of American History - Easily searched list of documents. Primarily from the Colonial period through the 19th century.
American Memory - A gateway to the Library of Congress's resources of digitized American history materials. Includes more than 9 million items documenting U.S. history and culture.
ASHA - American Soccer History Archives - A repository of information, statistics and essays relating to various aspects of the history of soccer in the United States from the 1860's to the present.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, and Diplomacy.
Best of History Websites - Contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
Center for History and New Media - Links to online projects and resources that include but not limited to 9/11, the French Revolution, world civilization, and History Matters. A site that offers a range of resources, including 1000 primary documents in text, image, and audio; an annotated guide to 850 of the best U.S. History websites, guides to online primary sources, and moderated discussions.
Cities Around the World - This website contains a number of photographic images drawn from the world's cities, past and present. Images are from the American Geographic Society Library. By clicking on the "Cities" section, visitors can browse around the cities with the most photographs. They may also wish to perform a detailed search.
EuroDocs - Primary historical documents from Western Europe.
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program - Site created through the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. Provides online access to historical resouces from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Links to slavery and Abolition resources. - Links to slavery and Abolition resources.
Historical Census Browser - Examines state and county population tables from 1790-1960.
In The First Person - An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and first person narratives in English from around the world.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collection of historical texts, primary sources and links to historical websites. Provided by the history department of Fordham University.
NARA: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Government documents and materials created in the course of business by the U.S. government.
National Library of Australia: Selected Websites. - Selected sites for researching Australian history on the internet.
Ohio History: The Scholarly Journal of the Ohio Historical Society - Ohio History was established in June 1887 as the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. For more than one hundred years, the journal has published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on topics spanning the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of our region
World History Archives - Provides documents on all aspects of world history from a working-class and non Eurocentric perspective.
WWW Vitrual Library History - Provides an index to websites for various historical topics.
Women's History
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States - This site contains a fully searchable version of the print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States. This site also contains tips on searching for women's history.
American Women's History: A research Guide - Covers 27 areas of women's history including African Americans, Native Americans, sexuality, historic periods and more.
Early Modern Women Database - Links to Web resouces useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. Created by the University Libraries of University of Maryland.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000 - Projects with accompanying documents.
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons, 1500-1650 - This site is a seminar on exploring the ways powerful women were depicted in the visual arts of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Women Working, 1800-1930 - Manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. Contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections.
