 Best Bets - Top Search Tools in History |
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 America: History and Life |
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Search for articles about American history. Database searches back to 1964.  |
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Historical Abstracts |
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Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding North America) from 1450 to the present. |
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Historical New York Times (1851 - 2001) |
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Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. |
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Humanities International Complete |
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Full text journals in history and more. |
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JSTOR History Journals |
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On the search screen, check the box next to History to search 40+ full text History journals. Here's a link to the list of journals you're searching. |
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NewspaperArchive.com |
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Full text/full image newspapers from Oshkosh, the state of Wisconsin and around the U.S. Coverage can extend as far back as the 19th century. |
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Project Muse History Journals |
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Search Project Muse journals by clicking the link above, or here's a link to the list of history journals in Project Muse. |
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List of History journals owned by Polk Library (print and online) |
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Arcat |
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ArCat is the online catalog of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Division. Contact the UW Oshkosh Archives to obtain materials. |
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Art & Humanities Citation Index & Social Sciences Citation Index |
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Together, these search tools search many history journals, and provides the ability to do cited-reference searching. |
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Black Drama: 1850 - Present |
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Online searchable plays (over 500!) by 125 playwrights. |
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1900 |
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Digital collection of 300 years worth of letters and diaries. Great to use as a primary source. |
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Current Digest of the Soviet Press - *TRIAL Subscription* |
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Trial subscription to this database. |
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Digital Collections in Wisconsin & Beyond |
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Links to historical primary source material online such as: "Wisconsin Pioneer Experience", "American Memory" & more. |
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Early Encounters in North America |
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Documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850 through letters, diaries, and other primary sources. |
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Early English Books Online |
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Full text copies of a selection of books published 1475 - 1700. |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
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Full text searching and page images for 150,000 books published during the 18th century. |
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Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online |
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Full text and full image women's history primary source materials (books and journal articles) from 1543 - 1945 is in this digital collection. |
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History Cooperative |
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Full text access to American Historical Review & the Journal of American History |
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History Reference Center |
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Full text from reference books, periodicals, historical documents, biographies, historical photos and maps |
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International Medieval Bibliography |
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Index to articles relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500 AD). Also includes an online version of the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages. |
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Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies |
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Index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. |
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North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories |
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Letters, diaries, interviews, oral histories and more are part of this digital collection about immigration from 1800 - 1950. |
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Oxford African American Studies Center |
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Access to reference resources in African American studies. |
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 Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family |
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Fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. |
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UW Oshkosh Archives & Area Research Center |
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On-line exhibits, information about holdings and services and links to other UW System archives. |
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Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 |
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Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. |
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World History Collection  |
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Coverage of world history topics; includes some full text. |
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Academic Search Complete |
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Multi-topic tool with full text for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,700+ peer-reviewed journals. |
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Masterfile Premier |
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Multi-topic tool includes full text of popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and more. |
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe |
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Full-text news & newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information. |
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Oxford Reference Online - Dictionaries/Encyclopedias |
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Over 100 dictionaries (both English and foreign language), reference books on many subjects & more.
See the books in your subject |
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