Resources By Department: History: Topic Overviews

Topic Overviews

HISTORY TOPIC OVERVIEW RESOURCES

CREDO REFERENCE AMERICAN HISTORY TITLES An online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other ready-reference books covering a range of topics, such as art, business, literature, and science. With a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere in Credo Reference, it provides trustworthy answers—and new connections—in context.
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY: AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE COLLECTION Browse tables of contents or search within the American history reference books in Gale Virtual Reference Library. Use the search box to the right to search within these titles only.
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY: WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURE COLLECTION Browse tables of contents or search within the world history reference books in Gale Virtual Reference Library. Use the search box to the right to search within these titles only.

HISTORY STUDY CENTER This link opens in a new window Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics. Provides over 40,000 documents and articles, with over 50 reference works, 3,000 images and links to 2,000 Web sites.
SALEM PRESS This link opens in a new window Information on Countries, Peoples & Cultures; Defining Documents in American History: Civil Rights (1954–2015); World Geography; and content that explores current events through an historical lens.

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GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY This link opens in a new window Access to the full text of authoritative electronic reference books; search or browse the collection or an individual title. Full text documents are available in HTML or PDF formats. Includes American Decades; American History through Literature; Dictionary of American History; Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; Europe 1450-1789; Europe 1789-1914; Europe since 1914; History Behind the Headlines; and History in Dispute
CREDO REFERENCE This link opens in a new window An online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other ready-reference books covering a range of topics, such as art, business, literature, and science. With a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere in Credo Reference, it provides trustworthy answers—and new connections—in context.
OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE This link opens in a new window Complete contents of more than 40 titles published by Oxford University Press, including subject encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books. Subject areas include Art, History, English, Religion, Philosophy, and Performing Arts.

JSTOR DAILY "JSTOR Daily is an online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship. Drawing on the richness of JSTOR’s digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, thousands of monographs, and other materials, JSTOR Daily stories provide background—historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise—for understanding today’s often-confusing world." Cited scholarly sources are linked and accessible to all users free of charge.

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