History, Geography, & Classics databases
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History
- America: History & Life
- An index to publications about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present [More info]
- Historical Abstracts
- The leading bibliography for the history of the world from 1450 to the present [More info]
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
[trial access available for a limited time; expires 6/30/2010]
- This collection represents over two centuries of print culture, beginning with early works imported by the colonists. Two series have been released so far. When complete, the collection will consist of five series featuring about 6,500 titles belonging to one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society.
- Series 1 (1693-1820) - over 550 titles; subject matter covered is broad in scope and covers all aspects of American society during this time period
- Series 2 (1821-1837) - over 1,000 titles; represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics
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- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times
- Full-page images of the New York Times from 1851-2006 [More info]
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Early Minnesota newspapers
- Full-page images of the Minneapolis Tribune for 1867-1908 and Minneapolis Morning Tribune for 1909-1922
- Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
- An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism [More info]
- In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
- Search for letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials, some freely available on the Web [More info]
- ArchiveGrid
- Search detailed descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide [More info]
- OAIster
- Catalog of digital resources from open archive collections [More info]
- Britannica Online
- A comprehensive general encyclopedia; also includes timelines, the year in review (beginning in 1993), and retrospective statistical data [More info]
Geography
- AtoZ Maps Online from World Trade Press [trial access available for a limited time]
- A large array of downloadable maps of all kinds, including modern outline, political, thematic, topographic, scientific and animated maps, as well as tens of thousands of antique maps.
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- Global Road Warrior from World Trade Press
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- A compendium of countries of the world with information about society and culture, travel, communications, business, trade and marketing.
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- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- Full-text documents related to theory and research in international affairs [More info]
- GEOBASE [password required]
- Indexes worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology [More info]
- Oxford Reference Online
- Full text of 100 authoritative dictionaries and reference books from Oxford University Press, many in areas related to geography:
Maps & Illustrations
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Names and Places - PAIS International
- Indexes publications about public policy and social issues from 120 countries [More info]
- Britannica Online
- A comprehensive general encyclopedia; also includes World Data Analyst, a tool for comparing countries across multiple statistical categories, as well as an atlas [More info]
- Also see our guides for locating Country Information and Maps & Atlases.
Classics
- Credo Reference
- Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy
- A Guide to the Ancient World
- Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
- Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia
- Who's Who in Classical Mythology
- Who's Who in the Roman World
- Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
- Oxford Classical Dictionary
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Oxford Reference Online: Classics
More general databases with some coverage of history, geography, and classics
- Academic Search Premier
- An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines [More info]
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics [More info]
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index [password required]
- Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals [More info]
- JSTOR
- An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes a number of art journals. [More info]
- OED Online
- Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world [More info]
- Project MUSE
- Contains the full text of more than 120 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from a variety of publishers [More info]
E-Books and other resources
- Collections of online encylopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.:
- Credo Reference: History | Geography [More info]
- NetLibrary Reference Center: History | Geography [More info]
- Oxford Reference Online:
- History | Military History | Classics | Earth & Environmental Sciences (includes Geography) [More info]
- SAGE Reference Online: History | Geography [More info]
- For additional resources, see our subject guide for history.
