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History-related databases accessible via MIT Libraries
Places to Start
- America: History and Life
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Historical Abstracts
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Open Library of the Humanities
- Oxford Handbooks Online: History
- Oxford Reference Online: History
Secondary Sources (Articles, Books, and Dissertations)
- Africa Bibliography
- America: History and Life
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Book Review Index Plus
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses (Full Text)
- Historical Abstracts
- History of Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Humanities Abstracts
- Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
- Index Islamicus
- JSTOR
- Project Muse
- Web of Science [ISI Web of Knowledge]
- WorldCat
Biography
- American National Biography
- Biography in Context
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online [DNB]
Book Reviews
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Timelines
- Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
- Asian American History and Culture
- Cambridge World History of Food
- Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
- Encyclopedia of American Immigration
- Encyclopedia of European Social History
- Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
- Encyclopedia of India
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America
- Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
- Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
- Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts
- Encyclopedia of Modernism (Routledge)
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
- Encyclopedia of Modern China
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
- Encyclopedia of Religion in America
- Encyclopedia of Russian History
- Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History
- Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
- Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
- Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
- Hutchinson Chronology of World History, Vol. 4 (1901-2007)
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
- Social History of the United States
- St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Film
- Carribean Studies in Video (The Banyan Archive)
- Filmakers Library Online
- Film & Television Literature Index
- LGBT Studies in Video
- Kanopy for Movies and Documentaries
Primary Sources
- 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series 1: New Readerships
- 1981 Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Japanese Americans and Aleuts
- 1944-1946 Rosters of Japanese Americans interned at relocation camps during WW II
- ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Papers, 1912-1990
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
- African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
- African Newspapers, 1800-1922
- Air and Space Magazine Archive, 1986-2011
- Aluka: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes
- Aluka: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
- American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
- American Decades Primary Sources
- American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism, 1969-1979
- American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1940
- American Song
- ArchiveGrid
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 (Parts I and II)
- ARTstor
- Atlanta Constitution Historical Archive
- Baltimore Sun Historical Archive, 1837-1991
- Black Abolitionst Papers
- Boston Globe, 1980-present
- Boston Globe Historical Archive
- CESAR database
- Chicago Defender Historical Archive, 1910-1975
- Chicago Tribune Historical Archive
- Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
- Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)
- Chinese Students' Monthly
- Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution
- Database of Recorded American Music
- Detroit Free Press Historical Archive, 1831-1922
- Digital National Security Archive
- Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
- Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Ethnic Newswatch (United States Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989)
- Hein Online
- Historic Documents
- Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) [Millennial Edition]
- Illustrated London News
- Independent Voices
- International Historical Statistics
- Kikuzo II Visual
- KKK Newspapers (Newspapers from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s)
- Japanese American Relocation Camp Newspapers
- Lexis Nexis Academic (over 1400 newspapers from around the world)
- LGBT Life Full-Text
- Los Angeles Times, 1985-present
- Los Angeles Times Historical Archive
- Meet the Press, 1947-2013
- The Nation Archive
- National Geographic Archive (1884-present)
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- New Republic Archive
- New York Times Historical Archive
- New Yorker Archive
- NewspaperArchive Pro
- People's Daily
- People's Liberation Army Daily
- Policing the Shanghai International Settlement
- Polling the Nations
- Proquest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional)
- Proquest Historical Newspapers, Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1921-2003
- Readers Guide Retrospective
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- San Francisco Chronicle Historical Archive, 1865-1922
- Siku Quanshu (CD-ROM, Hayden access only)
- Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight
- Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature and the Merchandising Industry
- Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Exhibitions
- Smithsonian Magazine Archive, 1970-2010
- Social Explorer
- Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- The Times of India, 1838-2008
- U.K. Parliamentary Papers, 1800-1901
- U.S. Declassified Documents Online (Formerly Declassified Documents Reference System)
- Wall Street Journal Historical Archive
- Washington Post Historical Archive
- Women and Social Movements in the United States
- Women and Social Movements International
History Databases from Outside MIT
- History Databases from the Boston Public Library (BPL)
Anyone who lives, works, or studies in Massachusetts is eligible for a BPL card or e-card to access electronic resources, including the Archive of Americana collection of early American primary sources.
- History Databases at Harvard Libraries
MIT faculty, students, and researchers with a Special Borrower Card can visit the Harvard Libraries and use electronic resources on-site. Harvard has over 200 online resources in history, including dozens of primary source databases.
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