Library & Media Services

History Databases

Top Choices

Greenwood Daily Life Online
Chronological and thematic reference, including primary documents, of daily life in different cultures from prehistory to the present.

JSTOR (Arts and Sciences I and III)
Complete full-text back issues of hundreds of core journals in the Arts and Sciences.

Los Angeles Times
Full text coverage from 1985 to present.

New York Times Historical Archive
Full-text images of the New York Times from its earliest issues. 1851 to 2003

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Academic Search Premier
Social sciences, humanities, business, general science, and education.

AP Images
Contains hundreds of thousands of photos and graphics from the Associated Press, most taken since 1995, plus historical images dating back to the 1800s. 1995 to present

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Locate citations in Arts and Humanities journals. 1980 to present

ARTstor
A rich digital library of more than 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology, which can be viewed online at full resolution and downloaded at reduced size for projects and presentations.

Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information, including articles from magazines and newspapers.

Boston Globe
Full-text searchable articles from The Boston Globe. 1980 to present

Boston Herald
Full-text searchable articles from the Boston Herald. 7/26/1991 to present

Britannica Online
A hypertext link-enhanced version of the print encyclopedia. Includes over 72,000 articles.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Humanities, social sciences, science, and communications. Includes some full text. 1980 to present

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searchable encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research in the arts and sciences.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
Indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world, including more than 260,000 pages of full text.

Project MUSE, Arts and Humanities Collection
Full text of over 100 journals in classics, culture, education, film, performing arts, history, literature, religion, and theater.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. 1890 to 1982

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