History (SUBJECT GUIDE): Articles & Databases

Comprehensive access to literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers 1,600 academic journals, 270 magazines, dissertations and more, published from 1863 to the present. Many article abstracts are exclusive to this database rather than provided by the author or publisher.

Covers about 130 magazines and scholarly journals with articles about events in U.S. history.

American genealogical sources including primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes six core data sets: U.S. Federal Census records (1790-1940), Genealogy and local history books, Revolutionary War records, Periodical Source Index (PERSI) Archive (1800-2009), Freedman’s Bank Records, and U.S. Serial Set records.
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Comprehensive access to literature covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present. Covers about 2,500 academic journals and 180 magazines. Many article abstracts are exclusive to this database rather than provided by the author or publisher.
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Covers about 185 magazines and scholarly journals with articles about events in world history.

A multidisciplinary scholarly journal collection that includes about 340 journals in history, and another 25 on the history of science & technology. Thanks to both the Murphy Library Endowment Fund and UWL Student Differential Tuition for providing access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV collection.

Includes the full text of over 300 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Provides contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Content includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: World History.

Provides contextual information on the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Content includes rare primary sources, reliable reference, and multi-media. Cross-searchable with Gale In Context: U.S. History.

Primary source collections including: African American Newspapers, African American Newspapers in the South, American county histories, The Civil War - Part I: A Newspaper Perspective, The Civil War - Part II: The Soldiers’ Perspective, The Civil War - Part III: The Generals’ Perspective, The Civil War - Part IV: A Midwestern Perspective, The Civil War - Part V: Iowa’s Perspective, The Civil War - Part VI: Northeast Regimental Histories, Frank Leslie’s Weekly (1855–1922), Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1898), The Virginia Gazette (1736–1780), The Woman’s Tribune (1883-1909), Women’s Suffrage Collection. Also includes several open access collections: Accessible Archives open access content, History of Woman Suffrage, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County, Reconstruction of Southern States: Pamphlets, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, Twelve Years A Slave

Fully covers over 1,800 scholarly journals across 25 arts & humanities disciplines. Specializes in cited reference searching for comprehensive identification of later works that have cited an article published in one of the covered journals. Part of the Web of Science Core Collection database. Coverage: 1975-present.

Spanning more than 300 years, this collection will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and not so famous. More than 500 biographies enhance the use of the database. Coverage: 1500-1900.

The CGP is the comprehensive catalog of publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Provides direct links to those documents that are available online. Coverage: 1976-

Full-text articles on the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into two sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.

Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.

Note: Early English Books Online has moved to the ProQuest platform. More than 20 million pages and 125,000 rare volumes collected from over 150 of the world’s top libraries. Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides online access to full-page images for 227 years of printed works ranging from 1473 to 1700. The texts cover subjects from art to religion, science to literature, and music to medicine.

eHRAF Archaeology is a cross-cultural database designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies. The database is organized by archaeological traditions and the documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Each tradition file consists of a general summary and full-text sources including books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts.

eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural and ethnographic database that contains descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and every document is subject-indexed at the paragraph level, facilitating precise retrieval within documents. eHRAF is the online portion, covering approximately 150 cultures. Together with the corresponding microfiche set (Murphy Library basement), over 400 cultures are covered.

These collections contain every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. Materials include books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Includes Eighteenth Century Collections Online Parts I & II.

Full-text primary resource books and periodicals that reflect the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights. International scope. Coverage: 1543-1945.

Primary documents and scholarly commentary covering American history from 1865 to 1902, during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt. Includes songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. Also video interviews with scholars and topical essays. Covers such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage.

Online, full-image, and searchable content of The New York Times from September 18, 1851 to four years ago (4-year embargo). Includes articles, advertisements, and political cartoons. Search options include keyword, article type, by date, author, or browse by issue.

The database includes full text for over 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Also included is full text for nearly 150 leading history periodicals and more than 57,000 historical documents, over 78,000 biographies, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. Access alternative interface

This resource includes full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Citations and abstracts are included from over 2,300 journals with full text for more than 1,200. Major subject areas include literature, philosophy, the arts, history, and culture, with a special emphasis on literature and the literary arts.

A digital collection of Wisconsin newspapers with coverage going back to 1813.
NOTE: Newspapers available in this database are not listed in the Murphy Library catalog.

This database includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information intended to provide a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. It is composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, and some audio voices of the immigrants.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. Coverage: 1675-1950.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources which means you can search for primary sources such as images, advertisements, movies, audio files, and manuscripts from multiple sources (e.g. Library of Congress American Memory project).

The collection brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. The collection contains 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

More than 2,500 county histories, most in the public domain, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Research opportunities include local history, women's and African American experiences, government, medicine, law, agriculture, architecture, and archaeology.

This free HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including every statute and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

This database covers civil rights in the United States as its legal protections and definitions expand to include an increasing number of Americans.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and iPOLL is a full-text, question-level retrieval system for all US public opinion polling firms from 1935 to the present. Users have access to a broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Through subject, word, organization, and date indexes, users can retrieve the complete question text and the percentage of respondents giving each response. iPOLL also provides study-level information including the name of the organization(s) that conducted and sponsored the poll, polling dates, polling method used, and a full description of the sample. Major survey research organizations represented in iPOLL include The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Associated Press.
Please note: Gallup Datasets are loaded quarterly and reflect about 20% of all Gallup data.

Includes books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. Resources added in 2008 include more than 72,000 pages from State Commissions on the Status of Women, as well as the first three volumes of Harvard University Press' Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary.

A comprehensive database containing full-text academic journals, magazines and periodicals plus reports, books and videos covering virtually every discipline. Includes thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.

This database indexes and provides selected full text for thousands of scholarly journals and other authoritative sources across many academic disciplines. Subjects covered include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, and literature.

Extensive coverage of news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. Also includes reference, newspaper, and audio content.

Interdisciplinary, topically-arranged content that covers the humanities and social sciences, literature, science, U.S. history, and world history. Includes full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Also includes hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

An archive of more than 4,600 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences from nearly 1,200 publishers. Thanks to both the Murphy Library Endowment Fund and UWL Student Differential Tuition for providing access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV collection.

This database offers an extensive collection of popular full-text magazines (over 2,200), reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.

Fully covers over 22,000 scholarly journals across 254 academic disciplines. Comprised of Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and more. Specializes in cited reference searching for comprehensive identification of later works that have cited an article published in one of the covered journals. Coverage: 1900-present.