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ACLS Humanities Ebook Project
An online collection of over 1000 books of high quality in the field of history

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
This 100,000-page collection contains detailed, firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, accounts of sufferings at home, a rich battles database, and others. (from Alexander Street Press website)

America: History and Life
Covers periodical literature and some books dealing with America and Canada from prehistory to the present.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900 (Series 1 & Series 2)
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876; Contains hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.

Biography Resource Center
This database contains nearly 414,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people as well as full-text articles from more than 265 magazines specifically chosen for their renowned biographical content in a broad range of subject areas.

Credo Reference
Online reference collection that includes history related works

Early American Imprints
The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early Encounters in North America
Documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850 focusing on personal accounts, and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. It also includes nearly 1,000 prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages.

Harpweek
"Harpweek enables you to directly experience the richnesss and historical significance of Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper." (Harpweek's website)

Historical Abstracts
Covers periodical literature and some books dealing with world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, since 1450

JSTOR
Online journal collection that includes backfiles of history journals

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Contains 1,500 American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence. Spanning more than 300 years, the 150,000 pages of material provide a detailed record of what women wore, what they ate, what they read, the conditions under which they worked, and how they amused themselves.

Omnifile Full Text Mega
Searchable database of journal articles that includes some history related journals

Oxford Reference Online
Online rference collection that includes history related works

Project Muse
Searchable database of journal articles that includes some history related journals

Women and Social Movements in the United States
Resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000.

 

Course Guides

History 205
Historical Methods

History 220
Economic History (U.S)

History 333
Civil War

History 337
Modern German History

History 350
Special Topics in History: Modern Europe: History of the Holocaust

History 350
Special Topics in History: World War II

History / Political Science 350
Race and Law in United States Politics and History

History 515
Historiography and Methods

Emory & Henry Print Reference Resources

Class in America: An Encyclopedia   REF/HN90/.S6/C564
Encyclopedia of American Indian History REF/E/77/.E48/2008
Encyclopedia of American Jewish History REF/E/184.35/.E53
Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration REF/E/185.6/.E54/2006/vols. 1-3
Encyclopedia of Race & Racism REF/E/184/.A1/.E584/2008
Encyclopedia of Southern History REF/F/207.7/E/52
Encyclopedia of Urban History REF/HT/123/.E49/2007
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore  REF/GR/111/.A47/G74/2006/vols. 1-3
Great Events from History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events 1848-2006 REF/HQ/73/.G74/2007
Historical Atlas of West Virginia  REF/G/1296/.S1/R53/2008
Historical Dictionary of the Old South  REF/F/213/.R53/2006
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (REF/D/205/.O94/2003)
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History REF/HQ/1121/.O93/2008
Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview  REF/D/299/N37/2008
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Religion, REF/ F/209/.N47/2006/.v.1
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Geography, REF/ F/209/.N47/2006/.v.2
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: History, REF/ F/209/.N47/2006/.v.3
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Myth, Manners, and Memory, REF/ F/209/.N47/2006/.v.4
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Language, REF/ F/209/.N47/2006/.v.5
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Ethnicity, REF/ F/209/.N47/2006/.v.6
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Foodways, REF/F/209/.N47/2006/v.7
Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom…  (REF/E/185.18/.J46/1996)
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political and Historical Encyclopedia REF/E/441/.S635/2007
The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places and Operations  REF/E/450/.S65/2008/vols 1-2
Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary REF/F/225/.M125/2007

Internet Resources

History- U.S.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
American Hypertexts
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
American Memory: The National Digital Library at the Library of Congress
The American Presidency Project
The American Studies Virtual Library
Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Century of Law Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
Early Americas Digital Archive
Civil Rights Documentation Project
The Constituition of the United States
Documenting the American South
Encyclopedia Virginia
The Financial Crisis: A Timeline of Events and Policy Actions
From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents
Historical Census Browser
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
The Jean Thomas Collection
Library of Congress: African American History Month
Lewis and Clark
Making of America
Military Atlases at the US Military Academy
Public Papers of the President of the United States
Reforming the Nation's Financial System: A Timeline
Using Primary Sources on the Web
Virginia Gazette (through History.org)
Virginia Heritage Project: Guides to Manuscript and Archival Collections in Virginia
Virginia Memory (Library of Virginia)
Virtual Jamestown
Wyoming Newspaper Project

History- World

Archival Sound Recordings: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
EURO DOCS: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Famous Quotes and Authors
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Military Atlases at the US Military Academy
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Wess-Web