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Pictured from left to right: Athena Parthenos, Imperial Chinese
Soldier (Xian),
Catherine the Great (Russia), Theodore Roosevelt (USA),
Queen Elizabeth I (England), Benito Juarez (Mexico),
Corazon Aquino (Philippines), Nelson Mandela (S. Africa).
Subscription Databases: History
Academic Search Premier
WWW
Full text access to nearly 3,200 magazines and journals covering academic areas
of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences,
and ethnic studies. Pof EBSCOhost.
America: History and Life
WWW
America: History and Life contains citations and abstracts of journal articles,
book and media reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the
United States and Canada from more than 2,100 journals in forty languages.
Updated monthly, the database contains records from 1964-present.
American Periodicals Series
WWW
This database provides digitized images of 1,100 American periodicals published
between 1740 and 1940. They include scholarly, scientific and popular magazines
and journals
AP Multimedia Archive
WWW
Image database containing hundreds of thousands of images. The collection consists
primarily of Associated Press's current year's photo report together with a
selection of other 20th Century and contemporary images. All images may be
downloaded. Includes some charts, maps, and audio and text files. The service
is provided by AccuWeather, Inc. Formerly called AP Photo Archive
Archival Research Catalog
WWW
This is the catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration holdings in Washington D.C. and in their regional libraries.
Biography Reference Bank
WWW
The Biography Reference Bank contains full text for biographical material appearing in more than 3000 journals and over 1900 current books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Biography Resource Center
WWW
Combines over 330,000 biographies on nearly 220,000 people from nearly 80 Gale
Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography,
Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, and Contemporary Black Biography, along
with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines.
Black Thought and Culture
WWW
This database contains 1297 sources from 1100 authors covering non fiction works of African Americans. Included is an historical listing of events and corresponding documents.
Book Review Digest
WWW
Book Review Digest contains citations, excerpts, and some abstracts for reviews
of current English-language fiction and non-fiction books from 1983 on.
Cambridge Journals Online
WWW
This includes full text access to over 100 journals in every field including
history. Coverage is only from 2000 to the present.
Directory of Open Access Journals
WWW
Access to over 350 free, full text, scientific and scholarly journals in all
subject areas and languages with peer-review or editorial quality control.
Duke University Press
WWW
This database includes access to 29 Duke University humanities and social science journals.
EBSCO Host Electronic Journals
WWW
This database provides the full text of 8,000 journals from 1998.
Essay and General Literature Index
WWW
Essay and General Literature Index contains citations to essays and articles
in collections and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain
and Canada from 1985 on. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually.
Ethnic NewsWatch
WWW
Ethnic NewsWatch contains a full-text collection of articles, editorials, and
reviews published in the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic
minority and native press. Ethnic NewsWatch, which is available in both English
and Spanish, provides multicultural coverage of subjects of general interest
with special focus on African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Native American,
Asian-American, Jewish, Arab-American and European-American news.
Facts on File
WWW
Facts On File World News Digest is a database providing news summaries of U.S.
and world news for the years 1980-present. Updated weekly.
GPO Access
WWW - U.S. Gov't
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides
free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced
by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official,
published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used
without restriction, unless specifically noted.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
WWW
The handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected
and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of
Congress, the multidisciplinary handbook alternates annually between the social
sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around
the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the handbook. Continuously
published since 1935, the handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide
to available resources.
Historical Abstracts
WWW
Historical Abstracts provides citations and abstracts to journal articles in
the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding theUnited States
and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Coverage begins
with 1954. The database is currently on trial.
Humanities Full Text
WWW
Humanities Full Text provides articles from English-language periodicals beginning with 1984. Topics include Art, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Literary & Social Criticism, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy and Religion.
In the First Person
WWW
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.
JSTOR
WWW
Full text of over two hundred and fifty journals in business, arts and sciences,
language and literature, economics, political science, history, demographics,
literature, philosophy, and various other fields in the social sciences and
humanities. Journal coverage begins with the first issue of each journal, in
some cases going as far back as the 1800s. Current journals are not entered
into the database for 2 to 5 years.
LLMC Digital
WWW
This database provides full-text digitized images of American legal works and government documents.
MasterFile Premier
WWW
This database provides full text access to about 1,880 periodicals in all subject
areas.
New York State Newspapers
WWW
Ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New
York Times and the New York Post.
Original Sources
WWW
Formerly American Reference Library, this database includes selected historical
and original sources in World History, U.S. History, Social Sciences, Science
and Math, Political Science and Law, Philosophy and Religion, Language and
Literature.
Oxford Reference
WWW
Offers full-text access to 100 separate reference works published by Oxford
University Press covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference
and Language to Science and Medicine. Includes dictionaries for French, German,
Spanish, or Italian.
Project Muse
WWW
This database has the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the humanities,
social sciences and mathematics.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
WWW
Provides indexes to articles from more than 523 of the most popular general-interest
magazines published in the United States. Covers all subjects. Coverage spans
1890-1982.
Social Explorer
WWW
This database provides access to demographic information about the United States.
STAT-USA
WWW
STAT-USA, an agency in the Economics and Statistics Administration of the U.S.
Department of Commerce, provides economic, business, and international trade
information compiled from over 50 agencies of the Federal Government. This
current full-text/statistical database contains trade statistics, overseas
contacts, market research reports, daily economics releases and procurement
information. STAT-USA also includes access to the National Trade Data Bank,
the Economic Bulletin Board and the Survey of Current Business.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
WWW & CD-ROM
A statistical reference and guide to over 250 statistical publications and
sources from government and private organizations. Information
on downloading from the CD-ROM.
Statistical Universe
WWW
Indexes and abstracts printed federal, state, and international statistical
publications as well as selected business and professional publications. Includes
: American Statistics Index (ASI)- U.S. government statistics, 1973-to present;
Statistical Reference Index (SRI)- 1,000 statistical publications of private
and state government sources, 1980-to present; Index to International Statistics
(IIS) 2,000 titles from 100 international intergovernmental organizations,
published annually since 1983. Links to full text. Pof LexisNexis.
Women and Social Movements
WWW
This database includes documents from 74 document projects spanning the time period 1600-2000.
Primary Sources in United States History
Primary sources cover many different types of materials. Newspaper articles, pictures, manuscripts, maps, diaries, treaties, and advertising materials are just a few of the categories that qualify as primary resources. The following reference tools are just a start for research projects, and if special sources such as diaries, treaties, pictures etc. are needed then there are specialized guides available to locate these collections.
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| Indian treaty signed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 13 July 1713, and addendum signed at same location, 28 July 1714. (Lib. of Congress) |
Published Sources
Documents of American History 9th ed.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973
Ref. E173.C66 1973 v.1-2.
Milestone Documents in American History: exploring the primary sources that shaped America.
Dallas, Texas: Schlager Group, 2008.
E173. M62 2008 v.1-4
Online Catalogs
Library of Congress.
http://catalog..loc.gov/
WorldCat
Shows holdings of many libraries both in the U.S. and around the world.
United States History Web Sites
The amount of primary and secondary material available on the Web is constantly increasing. More and more archival and manuscript collections are being digitized for use through the Internet and many universities and colleges have assumed this task to make a contribution to educating not only their students and faculty but virtual visitors. The following is a very select list of interesting sites relating to American History.
American Journeys
This includes eyewitness accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement.
http://www.americanjourneys.org/
Ad Access
This collection is part of the Duke University Digital Scriptorium. It is an
image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian
newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
American
Memory
This site includes historical collections that are pof the National Digital
Library of the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
Charting North America
This web site provides direct access to basic federal government documents.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=&collection=AmericanShoresMapsfr&col_id=149
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This site provides access to newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and also provides information on American newspapers published between 1690- present.
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
Core Documents
of U.S. Democracy
This web site provides direct access to basic federal government documents.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
Documenting the American
South
This is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture
from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Emergence of
Advertising in America
This digital collection includes over 9,000 advertising items and publications
from 1850 to 1920.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
Five College Archives
Digital Access Project
This site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript
collections relating to women's history at Mt. Holyoke, Amherst, Hampshire
College, Smith and the University of Massachusetts.
http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/
Geography of Slavery in Virginia
A collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves in 18th and 19th century Virginia newspapers.
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
Historical
Maps of the United States.
This is an excellent compilation of American maps.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html
History Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the web.
This is a gateway to web resources to teach U.S. History.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
This is part of the Open Collections Program at Howard University. It includes selected historical materials from Harvard’s libraries, archives and museums.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
I.N.
Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints
This is a sampling of the New York Public Library specialized collection of
American historical prints.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/collections/stokes/stokes.html
Making of America (University
of Michigan and Cornell University)
A digital library of primary source materials relating to the history of the
United States.
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
Map Collections
This site has treasures from the Library of Congress and covers the period 1500-2003.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection
Online
This is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines
and newspapers, as well as photographs, prints and postcards.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
Rare
Map Collection at the Hargrett Library (University of Georgia)
This site includes historical maps spanning almost 500 years.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
The Archive of Early American Images
The images are from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. It includes images of the colonial Americas and is based on primary sources between 1492 and 1825.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
This collection is housed at the New-York Historical Society and includes more than 60,000 documents pertaining to the political and social history of the United States.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/index.html
The University of Oklahoma College
of Law
This is a chronology of United States historical documents.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
Using Primary
Sources on the Web
This web site defines what primary sources are, how you can locate them on
the web, evaluating them and citing them.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
General Research Tools
Guides to Historical Literature
American Historical Association.
Guide to Historical Literature.
New York: MacMillan, 1961.
Ref. Z6201 A55
An annotated guide to scholarly works in history for all periods and areas
of the world.
Gall, Timothy (ed.)
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. 4 vols.
Detroit: Gale, 1998
Ref. GN333.W67 1998 v1-4
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of World Cultures
10 Vols. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1991-96
Ref. GN307 .E53 1991
Judge, Harry. (ed.)
World history from earliest times to 1800
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
Ref. AE5 O94 1985 V.3
Langer, William.
An Encyclopedia of World History: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically
arranged 5th ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972
Ref. D21 L27 1972
Blake, Lord (ed.)
World History-from 1800 to the present day
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
Ref. AE5 O94 1984 V.4
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 7th edition; 5 vols.
New York: Worldmark Press: J. Wiley, exclusive world distributor, c1988
Ref. G63. W67 1988
Chronologies and Handbooks
Blake, Thomas A.(ed)
Handbook of European History, 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance,
and Reformation
D203.H36 1994 v.1 & v.2
Powell, John(ed).
Chronology of European History: 15,000 B.C. to 1997
Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 1997
Ref. D11 .C57 1997
Articles in this encyclopedia span the European experience from prehistory
to the present, with emphasis on the social, political, economic and intellectual
implications of the events.
Documents and Treaties
Stearns, Peter N.
World History in Documents: a comparative reader. 2nd edition
New York: New York University, 2008
Stacks D5 W67 2008
United States. Department of State. Office of the Legal Advisor.
Treaties in force; a list of treaties and other international agreements of
the United States
Washington D.C.: Office of the Legal Advisor. Dept. of State
Ref. JX236 A5 1929-
Atlases
George Phillip and Son
Oxford Atlas of the World 14th ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Ref. G1021 G4125 2007
Muir, Ramsey
Historical atlas, ancient, medieval and modern
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963
Ref. G1030 M838 1963
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. 12ed.
London: Times Books, 2007
Ref. Atlas G1021 T55 2007
History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites
This site annotates over 1000 history web sites.
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
Center for History & New
Media(George Mason University)
Resources on this website are geared to professional historians, high school
teachers & students of History.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/index1.html
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
According to the creators of this site: "It is intended to serve the needs
of teachers and students in college survey courses in Modern European history
and American history."
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
NYPL Digital
This is a database provided by the New York Public Library allows access to
unique collections in digitized format. It includes prints, photographs,
maps and text pages taken from a broad range of original historical materials
http://www.nypl.org/digital/
Princeton University Selected History Resources
This is a web site that links to a comprehensive portal of worldwide resources.
http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/history.htm
Rare
Map Collection at the Hargrett Library (University of Georgia)
This site includes historical maps spanning almost 500 years.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
The
World Wide Web Virtual History Library
This web site provides links to medieval Europe links.
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
Reference Tools in United States History
The reference tools listed below are a sampling of the numerous general reference sources that are available at the Baruch College library on the subject of American History.
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| Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; [c1858]. (Lib. of Congress) |
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
A. General
The New Encyclopedia Britannica
Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998
Ref. AE5 E363 1998
Reader's Guide to American History
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Ref. Z1236 R43 1997
The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History
New York: Henry Holt, 1998
Ref. E174 A535 1998
Kutler, Stanley (ed.)
Dictionary of American History
New York: Scribner, c2003
Electronic resource—via Gale Virtual Reference Library
B. Thematic
Companion to American Thought
Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1995
E169.1 C685 1995
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
Detroit: Gale Group, 1999
Ref. HC102 G35 1999
Encyclopedia of the American Presidency
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994
Ref. JK511 E53 1994
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy 2nd. Ed.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, c2002
Ref. E183.7 E52 2002 v.1-3
Women's History
Cullen-Dupont.
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America
New York: Facts on File, 1995
Ref. HQ1410 C85 1996
Handbook of American Women's History
New York: Garland Publishers, 1990
Ref. HQ1410 H36 1990
Mankiller, Wilma (ed.)
The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co. c1998
Electronic –Credo Reference
Ethnic History
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1980
Ref. E184 A1 H35
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Detroit: Gale Group, 2000
Ref. E184 A1 2000
American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation
New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1997
Ref. E184.A1 A634448 1997
Biography
American National Biography
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Ref. CT213 A68 1999
Dictionary of American Biography 2nd ed.
New York: Scribner, 1946-58--
Ref. E176 D563
Who Was Who in America
Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963--
Ref. E176 W64
Historical Atlases
Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas 1st ed.
New York: H. Holt, 1996
Ovesized G1201 S1 C3 1996
Atlas of American History
Chicago: Houghton Mifflin, 1993
G1201 S1 R1 1993
Statistical Sources
U.S. Bureau of the Census
Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945: a supplement to the
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1949
Ref. HA202 A385
Historical Demographic, Economic,
and Social Data for the United States, 1790-1860
This data describes the people and the economy of the United States for each
state and county from 1790 to 1960.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/
U.S. Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department
Statistical
Abstract of the United States
Washington, D.C.: GPO. 1879-
Ref. HA202 A4
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/index.html
U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Census.
County and City Data
Book
Washington, D.C. GPO, 1952-
Ref. HA202 A36
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html
U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Census.
State and County QuickFacts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
U.S. Department of Commerce.
Stat-USA
http://www.stat-usa.gov/
Online Indexes and Abstracts
See Database Listings for History.
Historiography Sources
Listed here are sources for the writing of history, including classics in the field.
Selected Library Books
The Baruch College library has a collection of circulating books in the field of historiography. This is an especially broad tropic and can be subdivided geographically. Listed here are a few of the many books available in the library.
Barzun, Jacques
Modern Researcher
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985
D13 B334 1985
This has become a classic on historiography and introduces history students
to techniques used in historical research and writing.
Black, Jeremy
Maps and History: constructing images of the past
New Haven: Yale University, 1997
D13 B54 1997
Bloch, Marc
The Historian's Craft
New York: Knopf, 1963
D13.B5613
Foner, Eric
Who Owns History?: rethinking the past in a changing world
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002
E175.9 F66 2002
Hexter, J. H.
Doing History
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971
D13 H417
Iggers, Georg
Historiography in the Twentieth Century
Hanover, N.H. Wesleyan University Press, 1997
D13.2.I3413 1997
Marius, Richard
A Short Guide to Writing about History 5th ed.
New York: Pearson Longman, c2005
D13 M294 2005
Tosh, John
The Pursuit of History: aims, methods, and new directions in the study of modern
history
London: Longman, 1984
D16.4.G7.T67 1984
Winks, Robin
Historian as Detective
New York: Harper and Row, 1969
D13.W65
Historiography Web Sites
Cromohs-Cyber
Review of Modern Historiography
This is the first electronic review of the history of modern historiography
http://www.unifi.it/riviste/cromohs
The Historiography of World
History
This is an interesting web site which concentrates on the historiography of
world history with many interesting links.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/10/
Yale
University Library Primary Sources Research
This site describes different kinds of primary sources.
http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm#VISMATS
Research Guide for New York City
Sources for the study of New York City history are abundant. Each of the five boroughs has a historical society as well as a borough historian. Interest in the history of the city has attracted scholars for centuries and new works are constantly being published. The following list is just a taste of the books available in the Baruch College library.
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| Grand birds eye view of the Great East River Suspension Bridge. Connecting the cities of New York & Brooklyn showing also the splendid panorama of the bay and part of New York [c1885]. (Lib. of Congress) |
Guidebooks to New York City
Dolkart, Andrew
Guide to New York City Landmarks.
New York: Presewahon Press, 1998.
Ref. F128.18 D65 1998
AIA Guide to New York City 3rd ed.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988
Ref. NA735 N5 A78 1988
Morrone, Francis
The Architectural Guidebook to New York.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1998
Ref. NA735. N5M64 1998
The WPA guide to New York City: the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930
New York
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982
Ref. F128.18 N375 1982
New York City History
Stokes, I.N. Phelps
Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909
New York: Arno Press, 1967
Archives F128.3 S856V
This is a multi-volume work which includes a chronology of political, social
and economic events in New York City. This chronology cites primary sources.
Jackson, Kenneth T.
The Encyclopedia of New York City
New Haven, Ct.: Yale University Press, 1995
Ref F128.3 E75 1995
This one-volume work has 4,300 entries written by experts in the field.
Burrows, Edwin and Mike Wallace
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Reserve F128.3 B87 1999
A comprehensive history based on secondary sources.
King, Moses
King's Handbook of New York City, 1893
Boston, Massachusetts, 1893
F128.18 K52
This volume has 1029 illustrations
Homberger, Eric
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration
of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's history 1st ed.
New York: H. Holt and Company, 1994
F128.3 H65 1994
This book illustrates the evolution of the city.
Depositories in New York City
Gotham Center for New
York City History
This is an institute of the City University of New York. It has links to web
sites, museum collections, scholars, libraries etc.
http://www.gothamcenter.org/
New York
Public Library: The Irma & Paul Milstein Division of United States
History, Local History and Genealogy
This division of the Research library collects materials documention
the history of New York City.
http://www.nypl.org/chss/lhg/genea.html
Municipal
Archives of the City of New York
It has 100,000 cubic feet of civic documents dating to 1647.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/home.html
New-York Historical Society
They have extensive collections of manuscripts, photographs, ephemeral materials,
and newspapers spanning the entire history of the city.
http://www.nyhistory.org/
New York City History Web Sites
New
York City Documents
This is a selective guide to resources at the Columbia University libraries
and on the Internet for locating official documents of New York City and its
agencies.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/dsc/nyc.html
New York City
Reference-History
This site offers links to historical information on New York City.
http://www.panix.com/~clay/nyc/query.cgi?H2
New York History Net
Links to Listservs, archives, books, conferences, etc.
http://www.nyhistory.com/
New York Public Library
Digital Library Collection
This site offers manuscripts, finding aids to manuscript collections, full
text documents, images, etc.
http://digital.nypl.org/
Research Guide for African History
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African
American Experience.
New York : Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
Ref. DT14. A37435 1999
Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara.
New York: C. Scribner's and Sons, c1997.
Ref. DT351 .E53 1997
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Africa.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Ref. DT3 .C35 1981
Middleton, John (ed.)
New Encyclopedia of Africa
Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner’s Sons, c2008
Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library
Saunders, Christopher C.
Historical Dictionary of South Africa. 2nd ed.
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Ref. DT1772 S38 2000
Chronologies and Handbooks
Diggs, Ellen.
Black chronology from 4000 B.C. to the abolition of the
slave trade.
Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1983.
Ref. DT17 .D5 1983
Jenkins, Everett.
Pan-African chronology.
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co., 1996--.
Ref. E185.18 .J46 1996
Lehman, Jeffrey (ed.).
The African American Almanac.
Detroit: Gale Group, 2003.
Ref. E185 .A267 2003
Morrison, Donald.
Black Africa: a comparative handbook.
New York: Paragon House, Irvington Publishers, 1989.
DT352.8 M67 1989
Narins, Brigham (ed)
The African American Almanac 10th ed.
Detroit, Michigan: Thomson Gale, c2008
Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library
South Africa: A Country Study.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1997.
REF DT1719 .S67 1997
Atlases
Historical Atlas of Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Reading Room G2446 .S1 .H5 1985
Murray, Jocelyn.
Cultural Atlas of Africa.
New York: Facts on File, 1981.
Reserve DT14 .M84
African History Web Sites
Africa
This database indexes over 60,000 citations from 480 journals.
http://www.africabib.org/africa.html
Karen Fung
Africa:
South of the Sahara. (Stanford University)
This site includes material on all African countries, including maps, photographs,
primary sources, book reviews, chronologies, etc.
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
Africa
Research Central
This is a gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections
of African primary sources.
http://www.africa-research.org/mainframe.html
African
Governments on the WWW
This is a compilation of official web sites for every African country.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/africa.html
Academic
Info African Studies: History
This site provides links to web sites pertaining to African history, some useful
and some commercial in content.
http://www.academicinfo.net/histafricahist.html
University of Delaware Library.
Internet Resources
for African Studies
This is a very comprehensive guide to Internet resources on African Studies.
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/african/internet.htm
University
of Pennsylvania African Studies Center
This is a comprehensive web site which includes a multimedia library and an
annotated directory.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
Research Guide for Asia
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Asian History. 4 vols.
New York: Scribner; London: Collier Macmillan, c1988.
Ref. DS31.E53 1988
Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
10 Vols. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1991-96.
Ref. GN307 .E53 1991
Levinson, David (ed.)
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, c2002
Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 7th edition; 5 vols.
New York: Worldmark Press: J. Wiley, exclusive world distributor, c1988.
Ref. G63. W67 1988
China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998.
Ref. DS733 .C58523 1998
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture.
London; N.Y.: Routledge, c2002
Ref. DS822.5 .E516 2002
Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and
Nationalism.
New York: Garland Publishers, 1998.
Ref. DS805 .M63 1998
Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 2 vols.
Tokyo: Kodansha, New York: Distributed by Kodansha America, c1993.
Ref. DS 805 .J263 1993
Chronologies and Handbooks
Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture.
New York: Columbia University Press, c2000.
Ref. DS33 .C63 2000.
Cook, Chris.
The Facts on File Asian Political Almanac.
New York: Facts on File, c1994.
Ref. DS35.2 .C69 1994
The Southeast Asia Handbook.
London; Chicago, Illinois: Fitzroy Dearborn, c2001.
Stacks HC441 .S688 2001
The China Handbook.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c1997.
Stacks HC427.92 .H833 1997
Japan: A Country Study. 4th ed.
Washington D.C.: GPO, 1982
Stacks DS806 .J223 1983
A Handbook of Korea. 6th ed.
Seoul, Korea: Seoul International Publishing House, 1987.
Stacks DS902 .H2864 1987
Atlases
Breton, Roland.
Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South
Asia.
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997.
Stacks PK1541 .A1 1997
Schmidt, Karl J.
An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History.
Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, c1995.
Stacks G2261 .S153 1995
Bregel, Yuri
An Historical Atlas of Central Asia
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003
Electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web
Collcutt, Martin.
Cultural Atlas of Japan.
New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Oversize-5th floor DS821 .C62 1988
Asian History Web Sites
Ancient
Japan
This site includes links to ancient Japan, early Japanese Buddhism, early Japanese
culture and other resources.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM
John Fairbank Memorial
Chinese History Virtual
Library
This site focuses on the Republican era (1912-1949). It provides links to sites
on general republican era history, WWII and Sino-Japanese War, Nanjing Massacre,
Sun Yatsen, and the May 4th movement. In addition there is a link to information
on the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/
Digital South Asia Library (University
of Chicago)
Jim Nye and David Magier created this site, which uses a thematic approach.
It is very thorough and provides links to statistics, maps, photographs, and
the full text of 19th century South Asia reference books.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
East & Southeast
Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources (University of Redlands)
This site is maintained by Robert Y. Eng of the University of the Redlands.
It is an excellent resource not only for historical sources but for current
hot topics.
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html
World History Archives.
The
History in General of Asia
This site provides documents for the principle regions of Asia, as well as
documents on the economic, political, and social history of Asia.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/50/index.html
Internet
East Asian History Sourcebook (Fordham University)
A good gateway to resources on the history of East Asia.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Pacific
Studies WWW Virtual Library
Matthew T. Ciolek maintains this web site, which provides an array of web sites,
bibliographies, and discussion lists pertaining to the Pacific Islands and
the Asia-Pacific region.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html
Research Guide for Modern European History
Guides to Historical Literature
Frey, Linda.
Women in Western European History.
New York: Greenwood, 1986.
Ref Z7961 F74 1982 Suppl.
The entries in this volume are only for books. The arrangement is chronological,
geographic, and topical.
Slavens, Thomas
Sources of Information For Historical Research
New York: Neal Schuman, 1994.
Ref. Z6201 S64 1994.
Includes sources on the history of all continents, in addition to sources on
the history of civilization, archival repositories, chronologies and quasi
historical subjects such as genealogy and biography.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Blake, Lord (ed.)
World History-From 1800 to the Present Day.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Ref. AE5 O94 1984 V.4
Judge, Harry. (ed.)
World History from Earliest Times to 1800.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Ref. AE5 O94 1985 V.3
Lenman, Bruce P.(consulting editor).
Larousse Dictionary of World History
New York: Larousse, 1994
Ref. D9. L33 1994.
Chronologies and Handbooks
Brady, Thomas A. Jr.(ed.)
Handbook of European History, 1400-1600: late Middle Ages,
Renaissance, and Reformation.
New York: E.J. Brill, 1994-
D203 H36 1994
Cook, Chris.
The Longman Handbook of Modern European History, 1763-1985.
New York: Longman, 1987.
Ref. D299 C627 1987
Powell, John(ed.)
Chronology of European History: 15,000B.C. to 1997. 3 vols.
Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 1997
Ref. D11.C57 1997
Williams, Neville.
Chronology of the Modern World, 1763 to 1992. 2nd ed.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Ref. D209 W59 1994b
Documents and Treaties
Reimer, Eleanor. (ed.)
European Women: A Documentary History, 1789-1945.
New York: Schocken Books, 1980.
HQ1587 E98
Pollard, Sidney.
Documents of European Economic History.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968.
HC240 P5952
United States. Department of State. Office of the Legal Advisor.
Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International
Agreements of the United States.
Washington D.C.: Office of the Legal Advisor. Dept. of State.
Ref. JX236 A5 1929-
Atlases
Rand McNally and Co.
Atlas of World History.
Chicago, 1957.
G1030 R3 1957
The Times Atlas of World History. 4th ed.
Maplewood, N.J.: Hammond Incorporated, 1994.
Oversize G1030 T54 1994
Muir, Ramsey.
Historical atlas, ancient, medieval and modern.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963.
Ref. G1030 M838 1963
Modern European History Web Sites
Atlas of the German Empire
This atlas has genealogical applications. It is an 1883 copy of the Atlas des DeutschenReichs. It can help you trace the roots of families with origins in any part of the German empire from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/home.html
Avalon
Project (Yale Law School)
This web site includes documents in law, history, and diplomacy. They are primarily
British and American and span the periods from the 12th century to the 20th
century.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
This site includes selected transcripts, facsimiles, and translations divided
by time
periods and geographically.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html
Historical
Picture Collection
This is a comprehensive source for images on all historical subjects.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/documents/clipsources.html
Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital library of 18th and 19th century journals.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
According to the creators of this site: "It is intended to serve the needs
of teachers and students in college survey courses in Modern European history
and American history."
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Medieval Labyrinth
This is an information network for medieval studies from Georgetown University.
Searches can be conducted by subject.
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
A Vision of Britain Through Time
This is a vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp
WESSWEB: Western
European Studies Section
This site is compiled and maintained by the Western European specialists of
the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). It is very easy
to use and well organized.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/
The
World Wide Web Virtual History Library
This web site provides links to medieval Europe links.
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
Research Guide for Latin American and South American History
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols.
New York: Scribner's Sons; London: Simon and Schuster: Prentice Hall International,
c1996.
Ref. F1406 .E53 1996
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2nd ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Ref. F1406 .C36 1992
Nunez, Benjamin.
Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, c1980.
Ref. F1408.3 .N86
Biographical Dictionary of Latin American and Caribbean
Political Leaders.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Ref. F1414.2 .B48 1988
Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1991-1996.
Ref. GN307 .E53 1991
Chronologies and Handbooks
Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1985.
Stacks F1408.3 .H316 1985
Statistical Abstract of Latin America.
Los Angeles: University of California, 1955-
Ref. HA935 .S8 (latest)
Handbook of Latin American Studies.
Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1935-
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
Stacks Z1605 .H23
The South American Handbook.
Chicago, distributed in the United States by Rand McNally, 1924--.
Ref. F1401 .S71 (latest)
Atlases
Lombardi, Cathryn.
Latin American History: A Teaching Atlas.
Madison, Wisconsin: Published for the Conference on Latin American History
by the University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Ref. G1541 .S1 .L6 1983
Hammond New Century World Atlas.
Maplewood, New Jersey: Hammond Inc., c1996.
Ref. G1021 .H2735 1996
Latin American and South American History Web Sites
World
History Archives. The history of South America.
The site highlights individual countries and their history. It also includes
documents.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42/index.html
lanic : Latin American Network
Information Center. (University of Texas at Austin).
This site provides excellent links to historical sources. Many of the sites
are in Spanish.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Academic
Info. Latin American history
This site is divided into area and country studies, Latin American Studies,
and national histories.
http://www.academicinfo.net/latinamhist.html
Digital
Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web. Latin American Resources
This is very complete guide with links to national libraries, periodicals,
handbooks, etc.
http://www.digital-librarian.com/latinamerican.html
Internet
Resources for Latin America (New Mexico State University Library)
This site provides links to a variety of information resources for Latin America.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/
Latin
American Studies Links (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
This site includes links to resources on Latin-American history. It includes
journals, university and academic resources, government sites, etc.
http://www.unl.edu/LatAmHis/LatAmLinks.html