Information Resources for History

Primary Sources: UNR Licensed Databases

• 19th Century Masterfile
  • Series I: Index for 19th century USA and British periodicals.
    Series III: Indices for the New York Times Index, 1863-1905 (full-text available from ProQuest); New York Daily Tribune Index, 1875-1906; Palmer's Index to the Times (London), 1880-1890; Index to the Oregon Spectator, 1846-1854.
• Access World News
  • From the index page, click the link that reads, "America's Newspapers".
    Index and full-text of international print and broadcast news. 1996- present.
• American History & Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
  • 29,000 works about the Americas published from 1500 to the early 1900's. Includes books, pamphlets, serials and documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more. Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography.
• American Periodicals Series (1741- circa 1900)
  • Growing collection of magazines & journals published in late colonial Anglo-America and the U.S., valuable for research in History, Literature, Journalism, and other disciplines. Microform edition also available.
• American State Papers, 1789-1838
  • Legislative and executive documents of the first fourteen U.S. Congresses, plus other historical materials such as speeches and messages of U.S. Presidents, and papers on historical events such as Lewis and Clark's Expedition, Aaron Burr's conspiracy and arrest, and early treaties with American Indian nations. See also the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1890.
• CQ Voting and Elections Collection
  • Voting data, analysis, and historical material on presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections in the United States.
• Digital National Security Archive
  • 63,000 of the most important declassified documents on U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Search the documents or explore collections of primary resources organized by top scholars.
• Dolley Madison Digital Edition
  • Dolley Payne Madison was the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. This is the first complete edition of her known correspondence. Browse letters by time period. Search by text, names, dates, topics, or places. Select Contents for a list of letters sorted by date, author, or recipient. 1788 to June 1836.
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
  • Books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera represented in the American Bibliography by Charles Evans. 40,000 works trace the history of the American colonies that would eventually become the United States, and include such diverse topics as temperance, witchcraft, slavery, diplomacy and music.
• Gallup Brain
  • Searchable archive of 125,000 poll questions, with responses from 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll. Also, Gallup Poll News Service articles feature in-depth poll analyses and replicas of related news stories and press releases. 1935- present.
• HarpWeek
  • Harper's Weekly, from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras (1857-1877).
• Index to Early American Periodicals
  • References to articles from U.S. periodicals from 1700-1935. Full articles can be found in the American Periodicals Microfilm Collection in the Reference Department.(microfilm S1, S1a, S1b)
• LexisNexis Academic
  • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
• LexisNexis Congressional
  • Index to U.S. Congressional publications; text of bills, laws, regulations, Congressional testimony and publications; legislative histories; members and committees of Congress. 1789 - present
• Manchester Medieval Sources
  • Full-text documents and scholarly translations, with supplementary material and links to related resources. Organized around specific works or themes, such as Black Death, women, religion.
• Nation Digital Archive
  • Search issues of The Nation from 1865-2004. Browse by date, author, or subject. Full-text available, excluding most recent 1 month.
• New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
  • Full page and article images with searchable full text; articles from the first issue, Sept. 18, 1851, through 2004. Some articles and photographs by freelance writers and photographers are not included.
• NewspaperArchive
  • Search or browse over 2,200 historic newspapers. 1759- present. Includes the following Nevada newspapers: Daily Nevada State Journal, Nevada State Journal, Nevada Evening Gazette, Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Evening News, Weekly Gazette And Stockman, Weekly Nevada State Journal, Weekly Reno Gazette.
• Nineteenth Century
  • Index to UNR Libraries' Nineteenth Century microfiche collection, published between 1801-1900. See our user guide to the collection.
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
  • Search or browse writings and biographies of over 1,500 women, representing various age groups, life stages, ethnicities, and geographic regions. Includes published and previously unpublished materials, from colonial times to 1950.
• Oral History Online
  • Full-text English language oral histories, such as Ellis Island narratives, Black Panther party interviews, and other oral histories. Also indexes oral histories freely available on the Web. 1930- present (some histories are undated).
• Past Masters
  • Search or browse scholarly editions and translations of classic published and unpublished texts in the humanities, particularly Western philosophy and English letters. Includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary. More information and links to individual databases.
• Readers' Guide Retrospective
  • Full-text articles from general interest periodicals. Current coverage is 1890-1982.
• Times Digital Archive
  • Every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London). The Times covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Search the full-text of the newspaper, including articles, editorials, and advertising.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Journals, reports, and documents of U.S. Congress House and Senate Committees. Through the 19th century, the Serial Set also included publications of the executive departments relating to important public issues. See also American State Papers for coverage of the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817) and additional publications from 1817-1838. Set to be completed in 2008, with full-text of 13,800 volumes.
• U.S. Government Monthly Catalog
  • Index to U.S. Government information resources providing policy & background information on U.S. foreign relations, health, and much more from June, 1976.
• U.S. Government Publications: Electronic Indexes & Full Text Sources
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1878 to the present
  • Congressional Research Service Reports, Hosted by UNT Libraries
  • OpenCRS. Provides access to Congressional Research Service Reports that are in the public domain. Reports cover many public policy topics.
  • National Agricultural Law Center: Congressional Research Service Reports
  • U.S. Government Periodicals Index, 1990-present
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
  • Books, images, primary resources, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting women's reform activities from colonial times to the present.

Secondary Sources: UNR-Licensed Databases

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project)
  • Search or browse 1500+ authoritative electronic editions of leading books in the humanities disciplines and area studies. Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.
    
    
• America History & Life
  • Index of journal articles, dissertations and book reviews on all aspects of North American history (United States and Canada). 1964- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• American National Biography (ANB)
  • Authoritative essays about notable Americans from earliest times through 2005. Recommends key books and articles for further reading. Print edition also available.
• ArchivesUSA
  • Directory of 5,500 repositories and 141,178 collections of primary source material in the United States. Search 58,000 finding aids, indexed by subject. Links to 5,000 online finding aids.
• Art Abstracts (EBSCOHost)
  • Citations and abstracts from more than 450 international English language arts publications. Content includes periodical articles, interviews, film reviews, and more. 1984- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Article1st
  • Index to 12,600 + journals pertaining to science, medicine, technology, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. Now includes journal Tables of Contents (formerly in Contents1st). 1990 - present.
• Arts & Humanities Search
  • A citation index covering over 1,136 titles from leading arts and humanities journals. Includes the ability to search particular authors' works to find out who is citing them. 1980- present.
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• ECO - Electronic Collections Online (Electronic Journals)
  • Indexes 5,400+ scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects. Abstracts and full-text are available for approximately 400 journals to which UNR subscribes. To limit results to these journals, check the "full-text" box. 1995- present.
• eHRAF World Cultures
  • A web-based collection of ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and subject. Formerly known as eHRAF Collection of Ethnography. Produced by Human Relations Area Files, Inc. at Yale University.
• Global Books in Print
  • Records of in-print, forthcoming, and recently out-of-print books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Updated weekly.
• Historical Abstracts
  • Index of journal articles, dissertations and book reviews on all aspects of world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
  • Indexes over 252,000 journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations. 1975 - present.
• HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
  • Bibliography of works selected and annotated by scholars, for the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. 1936- present.
• ICPSR
  • Electronic archive for government and other survey data. Contact the BGIC staff for access to data archive.
• Ingenta
  • Indexes more than 20,000 journals covering all subject areas, with tables of contents for the journals included.
• Iter
  • Indexes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), including books, journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, and other resources. Includes Iter Bibliography, International Directory of Scholars, Baptisteria Sacra, The Medici Archive Project, Aestimatio, and The Electronic Capito Project.
• JSTOR
  • Core academic journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.
• MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Over one million citations to books, scholarly journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies from languages, literatures, linguistics and folklore. 1926 - present.
• PapersFirst
  • Index to conference papers contained in the British Library's collection of proceedings of symposia, conferences, and workshops. 1993 to present.
• ProceedingsFirst
  • Index to the proceedings of conferences from the collection held at the British Library. Contains tables of contents for most proceedings. 1993 - present.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

Style Guides

• Style Guides for Research Papers
  • Links to information about APA style, MLA style, citing government publications, and EndNote Web.
• Chicago Manual of Style
  • Search the Chicago Manual of Style and Chicago Style Q&A. Also provides "Tools," such as sample forms, letters, and style sheets. See the Citation Guide for examples of Chicago-style citations.