History 

• History Subject Guide
• Ethnic and Minority Studies
• MIT History
• Science, Technology & Society
• Women's Studies
• Data & GIS Resources
  
  

Places to Start

• America: History and Life - info
• Historical Abstracts - info
• Oxford Reference Online: History - info

Secondary Sources (Articles, Books, and Dissertations)

• Alternative Press Index - info
• America: History and Life - info
• Bibliography of Asian Studies - info
• Dissertations and Theses: A and I - info
• Historical Abstracts - info
• Humanities Abstracts - info
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective - info
• Index Islamicus - info
• International Medieval Bibliography - info
• Iter Bibliography - info
• JSTOR - info
• PAIS International - info
• Periodicals Contents Index - info
• Project Muse - info
• Web of Science [ISI Web of Knowledge] - info - video
• WorldCat - info

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History - info
• Encyclopedia of American Immigration - info
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia - info
• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism - info
• Encyclopedia of Russian History - info
• Encyclopedia of the Great Depression - info
• Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 - info
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences - info
• Oxford African American Studies Center - info

Biography

• American National Biography - info
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index - info
• Biography Resource Center and The Complete Marquis Who's Who - info
• Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography - info
• Oxford African American Studies Center - info
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online [DNB] - info

Primary Sources

• Access NewspaperArchive Pro - info
• American Song - info
• ArchiveGrid - info
• ARTstor - info
• Atlanta Constitution Historical Archive - info
• Boston Globe Historical Archive - info
• CESAR database - info
• Chicago Tribune Historical Archive - info
• Database of Recorded American Music - info
• Declassified Documents Reference System - info
• Digital National Security Archive - info
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) - info
• Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) [Millennial Edition] - info
• In the First Person - info
• Iter Italicum Bibliography - info
• LexisNexis Congressional - info
• Los Angeles Times Historical Archive - info
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) - info
• New York Times Historical Archive - info
• NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections) - info
• PAIS International Archive - info
• Periodicals Contents Index - info
• Polling the Nations - info
• Readers Guide Retrospective - info
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - info
• Sanborn Maps of Massachusetts - info
• Siku Quanshu (CD-ROM, Hayden access only) - info
• Social Explorer - info
• Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - info
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive - info
• Wall Street Journal Historical Archive - info
• Washington Post Historical Archive - info

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