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History & Geography databases
Need a good starting point?
Try searching several databases at once:
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Prefer a more in-depth, precise search? Try searching individual databases:
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History
- America: History & Life
- An index to publications about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
- Access through ABC-CLIO (will be discontinued on June 30, 2008)
- Access through EBSCO
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- Historical Abstracts
- The leading bibliography for the history of the world from 1450 to the present
- Access through ABC-CLIO (will be discontinued on June 30, 2008)
- Access through EBSCO
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- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- Full-page images of the New York Times from 1851-2004
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- Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (available on trial for a limited time only)
- Search nearly 100 years of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, the essential index to articles in the popular press
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- Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
- An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism
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- In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
- Search for letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials, some freely available on the Web
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- Britannica Online
- A comprehensive general encyclopedia; also includes timelines, the year in review (beginning in 1993), and retrospective statistical data
Geography
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- Full-text documents related to theory and research in international affairs
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- GEOBASE
- Indexes worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology
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- Oxford Reference Online
- Full text of 100 authoritative dictionaries and reference books from Oxford University Press, many in areas related to geography:
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- PAIS International
- Indexes publications about public policy and social issues from 120 countries
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- Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
- A high-quality collection of 12 scholarly journals
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- Britannica Online
- A comprehensive general encyclopedia; also includes World Data Analyst, a tool for comparing countries across multiple statistical categories, as well as an atlas
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- Also see our guides for locating Country Information and Maps & Atlases.
More general databases with some coverage of history & geography
- Academic Search Premier
- An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines
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- Expanded Academic ASAP
- A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics
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- Arts & Humanities Citation Index [password required]
- Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals
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- JSTOR
- An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes a number of art journals.
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- OED Online
- Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world
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- Project MUSE
- Contains the full text of more than 120 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from a variety of publishers
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E-Books and other resources
- Collections of online encylopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.:
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- For additional resources, see our subject guide for history.
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