Accounts
History 101: Early Civilization
Course Specific Resources
Kimberly Rivers/Fall 2018
Reserves
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- Rauh, Nicholas K. Heidi E. Kraus. Short History of the Ancient World. 2013. Pcopy 51
- Reilly, Kevin. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. 6th ed. 2013. Pcopy 52
Background Information
- The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
- Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
- Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Search for OED's definition of a word or phrase, etymologies and quotations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts, medicine, science and more.
Articles and Book Reviews
Historical Abstracts cover the history relating of the world(excluding North America) The majority of materials covers history after 1450, but it does have some materials related to both classical and medieval history.
On the search screen, click History to search the numerous history journals.
Search the full-text of over 50 history journals
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
Index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East,Central Asia and North Africa.
International Medieval Bibliography
Index to journal articles and book essays relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500 AD)
Humanities International Complete
Provides access to articles and book citations on wide variety of topics related to the humanities, including history, religion and the arts.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Search for references and cited references in Arts & Humanities Citations Index.
Books
Library Catalog-See "Articles, Books & More" at the top of the page.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a mega-library catalog containing more than 42 million records contributed by 15,000 libraries around the world. Books available within the UW System can be requested using Universal Borrowing while books at libraries outside of the UW can be requested using Interlibrary Loan.
This incomparable collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition.
Primary Sources
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1900
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection now includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years.
Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
The Gerritsen Collection is the definitive cross-cultural resource for information on women's history. It spans more than four centuries and 15 languages and includes over two million pages in full image. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of that country's feminist movement on other countries and their movements.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
Gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
Gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.