History

LC Classifications

The Library of Congress uses 4 letters to classify History. C is used for the auxilary sciences of history - archaeology, numismatics, geneaology, etc. The letters D- DR are used for General History and the History of Europe. DS is Asia, DT Africa and DU is Oceana. E and F are used for North and South America and the United States.

Databases

Ancestry Library Edition
The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. federal census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes), The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630, Social Security Death Index, WWI Draft Registration Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a strong Civil War collection. All materials may be searched at once (using a basic or advanced search screen), or various databases and indexes may be searched individually.

Annals of American History Online
Includes the full text of over 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, landmark court decisions, and cultural criticism. The resource also has multimedia files, including more than 500 pictures and hundreds of video and audio clips of famous speeches. This chronicle may be explored year by year using a timeline dating from 1493 to 2002, browsed by author or topic, or searched by keyword.

ArchivesUSA
ArchivesUSA is a unique database for scholars and researchers who use primary source materials. It provides location information for primary source materials. The database integrates three major information resources:

CQ Historic Documents
Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series contains 33 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

JSTOR
JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Native American Documents
This database contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

New York Times Historial Newspaper - Proquest
To use this database, be sure to change the drop-down menu to NYT Historical at the very bottom!

ProQuest Historical Newspapers™—The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2001. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers program, the database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year’s content added annually.

Web pages

The History Net - where history lives on the Web.
Encyclopaedia of British History
Life in Elizabethan England
Center for Jewish History
World History Archives
Royal Historcal Society Bibliography

US Historical Documents Archive
American Women's History: A Research Guide - from Middle Tennessee State University
Archiving Early America
Ellis Island - immigration records into the US
Immigration to the US, 1789-1930
American Journeys - Eyewitness accounts of early explorers
Best of History Web Sites - a great portal to over 1000 sites
Georgia Department of Archives & History A web site of information on its organization, collections and services.
Map Collection from American Memory at the Library of Congress
Archives.gov - website of the National Archives

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
George Grantham Bain Collection - photographic file of early news picture agencies

Culture and Society of Mexico
South America resources - from the British Library
Political Database of the Americas

Paperofrecord.com - building the world's largest searchable archive of historical newspapers

BlackPast.org: Rmemebered & Reclaimed - an online reference guide to African American history