Research Guide for History
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, etc.
| Ref. DT58 .O94 2001 | Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt |
| Ref.E169.1 .E626 2001 | Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century |
| Ref. E184 .A1 C47 2000 | Civil Rights in the United States |
| Ref. F1410 .E56 2002 | Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics |
| Ref. HN373 .E63 2001 | Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000 |
| Ref. KF4502 .F68 1987 | The Founders' Constitution |
Biographical Sources and Chronologies
| Ref. CT104 .D54 1998 |
Dictionary of World Biography |
| Ref. E176.1 .A6563 2000 | American Presidents |
For additional print sources, search the St. Joseph's College Libraries Online Catalog
Sources for History Articles
The following databases may be useful for this subject area. To use the
following databases on campus,
click on the Journal
Articles / Database link.
| Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) | ACLS Humanities ebook Project | CQ Library |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | New York Times Historical (Proquest) | Original Sources |
| Oxford Reference Online | Project MUSE | Research Library (Proquest) |
| Wilson Biographies | Wilson OmniFile | World History Collection (EBSCO) |
| Number of primary source database put out by Alexander Street Press | ||
History Related Websites
| American Cultural History of the 19th Century | http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury.html |
| American Cultural History of the 20th Century | http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html |
| American Journeys | Eyewitness accounts of Early American settlements and
exploration http://www.americanjourneys.org/ |
| An Gorta Mor: The Great Hunger Archive | Multimedia presentations and archival material relating
to the Irish famine of the 1840s. http://www.thegreathunger.org/html/main/center.htm |
| Crisis of the Union | An electronic archive of documents about the causes,
conduct and consequences of the American Civil War. http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/civilwar/ |
| Documenting the American South | Primary sources for the study of southern history, literature,
and culture. http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/ |
| Famous Trials | http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm |
| Internet History Sourcebooks | Compiled by Fordham University to provide a collection
of public domain and copy permitted historical texts for educational
use. Coverage includes Ancient, Medieval and Modern History. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall |
| Salem Witch Trials | Documentary archive of the salem witch trials. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/ |
| Valley of the Shadow | Details life in two American communities; one North
and one South from the time of John Brown's raid through Reconstruction. http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ |
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