History Resources

Note: The following resources are supplemental resources found online. We recommend beginning your research with the search box on the home page.

History journals:

• Advances in Historical Studies
  
• History of Intellectual Culture 
  
• International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
• Open Journal of Social Sciences
• Social Sciences
  

History resources:

• Internet Archive - Massive collection of digitized books, documents, films, ect.
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Way to access archived webpages.
• Google Scholar

U.S. History

Broad U.S history archives:

• American History from Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond
• Chronology of American History 1492 - Present
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• National Archives Catalog
• National Archives Online Exhibits
• Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives

U.S. history journals:

• 49th Parallel

U.S. history eBooks:

• America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980. Eric H. Monkkonen. 1998.

Colonial Period:

• Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents

1776-1789:

• Alexander Hamilton Papers
• The American Constitution - A Documentary Record
• The American Revolution - A Documentary History
• Benjamin Franklin Papers
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
• George Washington Papers
• Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789
• The Papers of George Washington
• Penn in the Age of Franklin
• Rochambeau Map Collection

1789-1849:

• Andrew Jackson Papers
• Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton Papers
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
• James K. Polk Papers
• James Madison Papers, 1723-1859
• James Monroe Papers
• John Adams Papers
• John Tyler Papers
• Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase
• Martin Van Buren Papers, 1787 to 1910
• The Papers of Andrew Jackson
• The Papers of James Madison
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827
• William Henry Harrison Papers
• Zachary Taylor Papers

1849-1865:

• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
• Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers
• The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
• Betty Herndon Maury Maury Papers
• Clara Barton Papers
• Confederate States of America: Documents
• The Crisis of the Union
• Donald Benham Civil War Collection
• Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers, 1818-1921
• Franklin Pierce Papers
• Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874
• Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
• Freedom on the Move - A database of fugitives from American Slavery
• Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953
• George Brinton McClellan Papers
• Georgetown Slavery Archive
• Horace H. Lurton Papers
• James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers
• John Carvel Arnold Papers
• Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers
• Millard Fillmore Papers
• Philip Henry Sheridan Papers
• Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919
• Slave Societies Digital Archive
• Ulysses S. Grant Papers
• William T. Sherman Papers

1865-1918:

• Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress
• American Federation of Labor Records
• Andrew Johnson Papers
• Anna E. Dickinson Papers
• Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
• Benjamin Harrison Papers
• Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
• Chester Alan Arthur Papers
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement
• Horace Greeley Papers
• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
• James A. Garfield Papers
• Mary Church Terrell Papers
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Records
• National Child Labor Committee Collection
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
• Robert Lansing Papers
• Susan B. Anthony Papers
• Theodore Roosevelt Papers
• Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
• William H. Taft Papers
• William McKinley Papers
• World War I Pamphlet Collection

1918-1945:

• Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
• Associated Press News Dispatches, 1915-1930
• Calvin Coolidge Papers
• George S. Patton Papers: Diaries, 1910-1945
• Posters: WPA Posters
• Warren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence
• Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress
• Woodrow Wilson Papers

1945-1964:

• The Cold War
• Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States
• Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower

1964-1980:

• Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database

1980-1991:

1991-2008:

• Iraq War 2003 Web Archive
• Papers of George W. Bush
• Papers of William J. Clinton
• September 11, 2001 Web Archive
• September 11, 2001, Documentary Project

2008-Present:

Mississippi History

Mississippi history resources:

• Mississippi Department of Archives and History Digital Archives
• Mississippi Digital Library
  

World History

African History:

• African Studies Quarterly
• Nordic Journal of African Studies

British History:

• Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century

Canadian History:

• 49th Parallel

Chinese History:

• Chinese Studies

French History:

• Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715. Jonathan Dewald. 1993.
  

Greek History, Ancient:

• Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethics. Georgios Anagnostopoulos. 1994.
  
• Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C. Stephen V. Tracy. 1995.
  
• Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles. Charles W. Fornara and Loren J. Samons II. 1991.
• An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline. Anthony M. Snodgrass. 1987.
  

Latin American History:

• Delaware Review of Latin American Studies

Middle Eastern History:

• Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982. M. Hassan Kakar. 1995.
• The Middle East 1916-2001 : A Documentary Record

Russian History:

• Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982. M. Hassan Kakar. 1995.
  
• An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934. Michael Gelb. 1991.
• And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930. Alan M. Ball. 1994.
  

Other journals:

• Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
• International Socialism
• Museum and Society