History Resources
Finding ARTICLES
History Reference Center - Offers full text from books, leading history periodicals, historical documents, and biographies of historical figures. Also includes historical photos, maps, and video. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
Political Science Complete - Provides full text for more than 385 publications, and indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
SocINDEX with Full Text - Comprehensive sociology research database. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
Military and Government Collection - Covers current military issues, military history and government-related issues from over 300 periodicals. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
Credo Reference - An electronic reference book collection.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: History and Social Science - Electronic encyclopedias covering history and social science.
Also try these interdisciplinary databases.
Academic Search Complete (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
ProQuest Research Library (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)
Academic OneFile (Database Service: Thomson Gale) user guide (PDF 75k)
Historical Newspapers
Historical New York Times (1851- 3 years ago) - Read accounts of events as they happened. Includes full text of articles as they appeared that day, photographs, book reviews, classified ads and other features. Does not include current editions. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 135k)
Access Newspaper Archive - Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. (Database Service: Heritage Microfilm)
Finding BOOKS
Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.
Essay & General Literature Index - Indexing to 5,300 anthologies and collections in the humanities and social sciences accesses around 65,000 essays (chapters) from 1985 to date. (Database Service: H.W. Wilson) user guide (PDF 1.11mb)
Course Reserves - Search by course number or instructor
WorldCat - for books, videos, etc from libraries nationwide
History WEBSITES
Foreign Relations of the United States (1945- ) - "The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity."
History Matters Update - This "is an excellent resource for high school and university history teachers, now offering hundreds of primary documents and audio clips, an impressive annotated bibliography, sample Web-based assignments, and a useful reference section which links to resources on standards, citing and evaluating Websites, and understanding copyright and fair use laws."
Images of American Political History - Site offers some 500 public domain images related to American political history from the colonial era to the present.
World History Compass - Lists sites mainly by region, with additional sections on Military History, Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Wisconsin
State of Wisconsin Blue Book - Browse or search the full text of the Blue Book, dating back to 1853. From the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
Wisconsin Historical Society: Research Portal - Search local history and biography articles, historical images, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Dictionary of Wisconsin History, and other historical collections.