Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse.

Historical coverage of the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). This database contains over half a million entries in all. Links directly to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse.

Historical Statistics of the United States is a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources. Such topics as social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion and international migration, are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.

JSTOR is unique in that complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The archives extend to the early years of this century. The JSTOR archive presents high-resolution page images for viewing and printing articles in combination with a linked text file for each article that enables fulltext searching.

Offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering many fields, including history. Full-Text.

A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers issues published between 1890 and 1982.

This multidisciplinary database has extensive holdings in scholarly journals in history. Many of these are full-text. Some of these include: American Historical Review, Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Journal of History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Early Medieval Europe, European Review of History, Gender & History, Hispanic American Historical Review, Historian, History: Review of New Books, Journal of African American History, Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of Religious History, New England Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, and Social History.

This database indexes and abstracts U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and masters theses. 1861 to present indexed. Abstracts since 1980 and Thesis abstracts since 1988.

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Subjects covered include history.

A comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard?s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Readers' Guide Abstracts is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1983 through present.

Contains the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. It offers millions of bibliographic records, and includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Brooklyn College users can use WorldCat to request an interlibrary loan directly.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. The digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.

"Chronicling America" is an internet based, fully seachable news resource containing more than 226,000 pages derived from public-domain newpapers located in California, Florida, Kentucky and New York published between 1900 and 1910.

Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

The New York Times (1851 - 2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

NewspaperArchive.com contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.

This database from Rutgers is designed for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1714), two innovative eighteenth-century periodicals, both of which are completely available here.

Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785-1985, using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality full-text books (totalling nearly 1400) in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access. Select titles are available for purchase using Print-on-Demand. The ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, seventy-five contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office.

ebrary is an information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 60,000 full-text titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers.

Provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, this database provides access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

The Gutenberg E-Book Project provides award winning monographs. The works weave together traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories. The site is a collaboration of the American Historical Association and the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press.

NetLibrary offers an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.

Fifteen volumes of Brill's New Pauly are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Five volumes are uniquely concerned with the aftermath of antiquity and the process of reinterpretation and evaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.

Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.

The most comprehensive site on the Internet for presidential resources. The alphabetized subject headings are linked to most of the sites on the web that have information about the Presidents of the United States.

The CMS is the citation style used for history. This site will help students utilize and learn it.

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that allows you to format bibliographies and in-text citations automatically; create your own database of citations; import citations directly from library databases; organize your citations into folders; and access your citations from any computer, anywhere in the world.

Learn how to use RefWorks by attending a RefWorks Workshop at the library, signing up for a RefWorks Webinar, or watching the RefWorks Basics Tutorial, which has excellent step-by-step instructions.

Note: From off campus, you may be asked for Brooklyn College's Group Code: RWBrooklynC.

The Jewish History Resource Center is a project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. So far, over 3000 links to websites in 25 categories dealing with Jewish History are listed.

Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence.

Available through New York Public Library - barcode needed to access database - it's well worth it. Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps.

Available through New York Public Llibrary - NYPL Barcode needed to access it - it's well worth it. A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

This Economic History Association resource provides a wide range of internet-based services to economic historians, historians of economics, economists, historians, related social scientists and the public. These services include an Ask the Professor service, research abstract and book review series, a collection of course syllabi, a directory of economic historians, the EH.NET Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, several databases, numerous links to websites related to economic history, and the popular "How Much Is That" services - which allows users to easily look up historical prices, interest rates, wage rates, GDP statistics, exchange rates and inflation rates.

A nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Besides offering full-text journal content, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.

The title says it all. It is searchable.

Site has links to useful web sites relating to history.

A starting point for researchers, graduates, students, librarians, the site offers a guide to history journals, discussion lists, electronic journal articles, and online reviews.

Contains tens of thousands of pages of scanned reports, transcripts, and other documents, dozens of hours of audio, and a variety of photographic materials. It includes both old and new from reports published in the 1960s to formerly-secret records declassified as recently as the 2000. The goal of this web site is to serve as a repository and focal point for education and research on the subject of the JFK assassination and related topics in Cold War history.

Site from George Mason University?s Center for History & New Media that serves to expose politicians who misrepresent history, point out bogus analogies, deflate beguiling myths, remind Americans of the irony of history, put events in context, remind people of the complexity of history.

Provides almanacs, encyclopedias, and documents relating to history.

The title says it all.

Statisitcs and data on all aspects of American life from the Colonial Era to modern times.

Website reviews describe online primary?source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions.

Several ARTstor collections will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students in the field of History. Historians working with evidence derived from material and visual culture will find ARTstor?s collections especially valuable. The encyclopedic Image Gallery contains a vast array of primary source materials, ranging from postcards in the University of Miami?s Cuban Heritage Collection, early American funerary sculpture from the American Antiquarian Society?s Farber Gravestone Collection, historical photographs from the George Eastman House and the Library of Congress, and maps and travel photography from Cornell University?s Southeast Asia Visions: John M. Echols Collection. Images relating to world-historical events, such as scenes of the American, French, and Russian Revolutions, abound. So, too, do historical portraits from all eras and areas of human history. Political portraits range from Roman emperors to Charlemagne, from painted portraits of George Washington to Edgar Snow?s photographs of Chairman Mao. ARTstor also offers many images of propaganda materials, political cartoons and caricatures, as well as art works that are telling historical documents, whether Soviet Realist paintings, or works from the Nazi ?Degenerate Art? exhibition of 1937.

Newspapers can be really useful as primary sources, provided the article was written around the time of the incident. See a list of select online newspapers available by selecting this resource.

This collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals from the American Antiquarian Society, the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. includes some previously unpublished manuscripts. Documents and events can be searched using The Civil War Day-by-Day feature.

Extensive online collection of papers, speeches (audio and video), and documents relating to United States presidents and presidential elections.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School offers access to full text documents from the 18th to the 21st centuries relating to law, history and diplomacy.

Offers the British (from or living in the British Isles) and Irish diaries and correspondence of more than 1,000 women. The collection begins in 1500 and moves through to World War II. The collection continues to grow.

Brings together - online - the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75.

A digital collection created by staff at University of Connecticut Libraries and supported generously by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center and the Connecticut State Library. It provides online delivery of the complete, digitized volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776.

These documents are collected from various federal web sites including the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Many pages include not only the full text of these important documents, but facsimile copies so users can see what the original material looks like.

CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, brings Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts.

A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes full-text digital versions of literary works, Confederate documents, school books, letters, diaries and more.

Provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, this database provides access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library has built and maintained a collection texts and images on history. They provide public access to browseable and searchable texts, and have thousands available in this form, including the following highlights: African American, including Letters from Liberia; Native American; American Civil War; including the letters and diaries in the Valley of the Shadow, alongside the Booker and Nettleton collections; Thomas Jefferson; and Women Writers.

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking. FREE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist. Contains approximately 7,400 items (38,000 images) relating to Douglass' life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches and articles by Douglass and his contemporaries, a draft of his autobiography, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous items.

Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training presents a window into the lives of American diplomats. Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, critiques, personal analyses, and private thoughts.

Presents full transcriptions and images of all runaway and captured ads for slaves and servants placed in Virginia newspapers from 1736 to 1790. The project offers a number of other documents related to slaves, servants, and slaveholders, including court records, other newspaper notices, slaveholder correspondence, and assorted literature about slavery and indentured servitude.

The History Matters Archive contains tens of thousands of pages of scanned reports, transcripts, and other documents, dozens of hours of audio, and a variety of photograph ic materials. It includes both old and new from reports published in the 1960s to formerly-secret records declassified as recently as the 2000. The goal of this web site is to serve as a repository and focal point for education and research on the subject of the JFK assassination and related topics in Cold War history.

Provides free internet access to the full text of over 1,500 popular and scholarly books and nearly a dozen journal runs. Subject areas include applied arts and design; food and nutrition; child care and development; housing and furnishings; hygiene; home management; clothing and textiles; institutional management; and retail and consumer studies. This archive, containing materials published between 1850 and 1950, is searchable by author, title, and keyword.

In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narra tives from hundreds of published volumes?those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals.

Digitizes the distinctive, historical Americana materials from the Library's collections to make them available online to users worldwide. These materials include photographs, manuscripts, rare books, m aps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.

Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois. The site includes lesson plans, images, and supplemental video.

A guide for locating primary sources

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The co llection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

The site is organized in two sections, one devoted to the former German Democratic Republic and another much larger one dealing with Nazi propaganda, itself divided into three parts: pre-1933, 1933-45, and a separate collection of the works of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The internal search engine works well, but even more useful are hyperlinks that go directly to a listing of documents (also hyperlinked) that deal with visual material, propaganda by Nazi leaders, or instructional guides for would-be propagandists of the e ra.

Pr ovides access to over 363,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage poster, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

The personal experiences of immigrants provide insights into labor history, American and world history in general, women's and ethic studes, and a wide range of related disciplines. This collection brings together 100,000 pages of material, including Ellis Island Oral Histories, audio files, scrap-books, previously unpublished diaries (some translations), and more. Covers the years 1840 to the present representing many countries and groups.

American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. Researchers will have access to 150,000 pages of materials, including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts as facsimile images. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life, the writings are extensively indexed. Useful features include databases of women, sources, personal events, historical events, and a geographical table.

The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers the complete Papers released through 2005 in one online publication. You may search on full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series.

This site provides a complete database of all State of the Union Addresses from 1790-2006 plus seperate databases containing the 2005 and 2006 divided by subject.

The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you?ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents? lives.

Constitues, perhaps, the most complete site available for persons who desire a gateway into e-text and e-book materials relating to the third U.S. president.

Users of this site can search across all videos, texts, images and so forth as individual resources, or they can consult specific organizations of these resources constituting collections based on thematic or geographical criteria. Many useful features.

Provides students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online. The site includes links to major collections of primary sources (both text and images), metasites with additional sources and information on citing these sources.

The Virtual Archive currently includes finding aids for all Vietnam Archive collections and over 1.5 million pages of materials online, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and moving image recordings, artifacts, and oral histories. New items are being added daily.

Website reviews describe online primary?source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions.

Contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe, showing the progress of the Allied Forces as they push towards Germany. Some of the sheets are accompanied by a declassified "G-3 Report" giving detailed information on troop positions for the period 3 Mar. 1945-26 J

Provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, this database provides access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.