History Research Guide
This guide focuses primarily on United States history resources. Find excellent references and materials for background research about speeches, people and events in U.S. history.
Books
American Decades [X] E169.12.A419
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History [X] D23.B45 2005
Day By Day [X] D422.D4
Dictionary of American History [X] E174.D52
Dictionary of National Biography [X] DA28.D55
Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History [X] E169.1.E624
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution [X] E208.B68
Great Lives From History [X] CT120.G69 1990
A Guide to the History of Massachusetts [X] F64.G84 1988
Historic Documents [X] E839.5.H57
Important documents in American history from 1972-2004.New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [X] CB9.N49 2005
Databases
Academic Search Premier
Includes current magazine, newspaper and journal abstracts and articles for recent historical information. Also find articles about social sciences, humanities, business, general science, and education information. Includes some full-text articles.AccuNet / AP Multimedia Archive
Photographs and other graphic images from the Associated Press. Contains 700,000 photos, most taken since 1995, plus historical images dating back to the 1800s.Biography Resource Center
This database includes narrative biographies for over 200,000 people. Includes politicians, artists, writers, playwrights. Also includes articles from magazines and journals and references to websites.Encyclopedia 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 articles. Includes some full-text. 1980 to present.JSTOR
Includes the back issues of over 200 core journals in the Arts and Sciences. Includes historical journals about military, economic and modern history as well as the Journal of the History of Ideas, the New England Quarterly and American Historical Review.New York Times Historical Archive
Full-text articles and images of the New York Times from 1851-2002.Project Muse
Full-text articles from 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 through 1982.
Websites
American Memory from the Library of Congress
From the historical collections of the Library of Congress. Find primary documents about military history, presidential letters and speeches, films, photographs and posters. Also see what happened on any day in history.American Presidents: Life Portraits
From C-Span, find Presidential biographies, portraits and resources about Presidential places. View videos from the American Presidents Archive.Best of History Websites
Created by a Massachusetts history teacher, this site contains links to more than 1,000 sites about history. Material is arranged chronologically and contains a section for map websites.Ease History
View photographs and video clips of historical events in United States history from the early 1900s to the present. Also watch presidential campaign ads from 1952-2004.History Channel
From the popular television channel, view historical timelines and maps, find speeches and watch videos.National Museum of American History
From the Smithsonian, view online exhibitions and find additional resources related to American history.Voice of the Shuttle: History
An online bibliography of history websites from schools and non profit organizations. Find resources from history conferences, academic departments at universities, and history journals.
