History

DATABASES

Description: America history and life is an index to journal articles, books, book chapters, media reviews, and dissertations covering the the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question an important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. For articles on the history of the rest of the world see Historical Abstracts.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (more info)

Description: As part of the Web of Science, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it. (source: Vendor website).

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

English Short Title Catalogue (more info)

Description: Provides bibliographic records for all surviving letter press material in the British Isles and North America before 1801, held by the British Library and more than 2000 other institutions worldwide.

Creator: The British Library

Historical Abstracts (more info)

Description: Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history and history of education. It covers all countries and regions, excluding the United States and Canada (for those countries see America History and Life). Includes key history journals from major countries, as well as relevant selected journals from the social sciences and humanities. Includes book reviews and dissertations.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Humanities International Complete (more info)

Description: A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.

Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (more info)

Description: Provides access to the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

Date Coverage: 400 - 1700
Vendor: University of Toronto Libraries

JSTOR (more info)

Description: JSTOR provides image and full text online access to important scholarly journal literature in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other humanities and social sciences disciplines. The collection provides the complete backfiles of many scholarly journals, starting with the first issues. JSTOR uses a "moving wall" of 3-5 years which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.

Creator: JSTOR

International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965)

Humanities Index (1974-2004)

Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1965-1974)

RELATED DATABASES

Academic Search Complete (more info)

Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Nineteenth Century MasterFile - Series 1 (more info)

Description: Nineteenth Century Masterfile is a comprehensive resource for finding primary nineteenth century printed material. The original component was an online version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906. The database is now enhanced with indices to other periodicals, books, newspapers, and government documents of the 19th century.

Date Coverage: 1774 - 1930
Vendor: Paratext

Readers' Guide Retrospective (more info)

Description: RGR is a database containing comprehensive indexing of over 500 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 - 1982 and reflects the history of 20th-century America.

Date Coverage: 1890 - 1982
Vendor: H.W.Wilson

Social Sciences Citation Index (more info)

Description: Social Sciencse CItation Index, accessed via Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database that covers the journal literature from 2,474 of the world's leading social science journals across 50 disciplines. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it.

Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, and psychiatry. (source: Vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For search help you may access: Web of Science tutorial or Web-Based Training.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

NEWSPAPER SOURCES

New York Times, Historical Archive (more info)

Description: New York Times Historical Newspaper provides access to full text and full image articles with digital reproduction of every page, every article and every issue starting from 1851 to 2 to 3 years ago. In addition to news stories and editiorials, researchers can also find letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, and advertisements.

Full text coverage: 1851 - 2 to 3 years ago
Vendor: ProQuest

North Carolina Community Newspapers (more info)

Description: Over 100 North Carolina community newspapers containing current or latest issue coverage. Archived article coverage varies. List compiled by Duke University Libraries.

North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project (more info)

Description: These materials include papers dating from 1751-1890's from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable. There are also three lesson plans derived from these newspapers: For What A Mother Is Responsible? Idealized Motherhood vs. The Realities of Motherhood in Antebellum North Carolina; Teaching About Slavery Through Newspaper Advertisements; and "A Female Raid" in 1863: Using Newspaper Coverage to Learn More About North Carolina's Civil War home front.

Creator: N.C. State Archives

Times (London) Digital Archive (more info)

Description: The Times Digital Archive is an online full-text archive of every page of 200 years of The Times (London). The database enables users to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. Results are displayed at the article level, and users may view the article or the full page on which the article appears. The entire newspaper is captured--with all articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Date Coverage: 1785 - 1985
Vendor: Gale

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & MORE

Use an encyclopedia for a quick overview, to develop vocabulary for searching, and to find other sources.

Selected History Reference Sources

Encyclopaedia Britannica Index Area
Encyclopedia of American Social History R 301.0973 En1
Cambridge Medieval History R 940.1 C14
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia R 950.03 En192
Dictionary of American History R 973 D561
Encyclopedia of the Confederacy R 973.713 En1

Credo Reference (more info)

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

NCpedia (more info)

Description: An online encyclopdeia of North Carolina history and culture. The encyclopedia includes sections on biography and people, business and industry, culture, educationn, geography and environment, government, history and quick facts.

Creator: The State Library of North Carolina

Sharpe Online Reference (more info)

Description: A cross-searchable collection of online reference books that offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and global history and culture.

Vendor: ME Sharpe, Inc.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Women in American History R 016.30141 H24
Harvard Guide to American History R 016.9 F91
Medieval Narrative Sources R 016.9401 B17
Bibliography of Asian Studies R 016.95 As7
Bibliographic Guide to North American History R 016.97 B47

ATLASES & MAPS

Historical Atlas of the United States, R 911 L88h
Atlas of American History, R 911.73 J13
Atlas of the Arab World, R 912.1974 F22
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
A collection of historical map web sites fomr the University of Texas

To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, select the tab Books & Media on the Library Website.

Subject heading searches may help to locate books on broad topics. A useful strategy is to do a general keyword search to find one or two books on your topic, and then use the subject headings listed for those items to explore other relevant subject headings.

Some examples of Library of Congress subject headings are:

Indians of North America History
Medieval 500 1500 Social History
United States History 1865 1898
World War 1914 1918 Causes
World War 1939 1945

Books & more from the Meredith library & beyond

WorldCat (more info)

Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.

Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

WorldCat Local (more info)

Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.

Vendor: OCLC

E-BOOKS

Many books are available electronically. You may identify them by selecting the Books & Media tab on the Library website and selecting the e-books link, or by using one of the following collections of e-books.

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection (more info)

Description: The Greenwood Digital Collection is a collection of e-books emphasizing history and literature. It is searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. It includes the series Daily Life Through History, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, Historic Events of the 20th Century, Literature in Context, and American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.

Vendor: ABC-CLIO

eBook Collection (more info)

Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.

Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost

ebrary (more info)

Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.

MyiLibrary e-books (more info)

Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.

Vendor: Ingram

ABC-CLIO E-book Collection (more info)

Description: The Greenwood Digital Collection is a collection of e-books emphasizing history and literature. It is searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. It includes the series Daily Life Through History, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, Historic Events of the 20th Century, Literature in Context, and American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.

Vendor: ABC-CLIO

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography (more info)

Description: Life histories of former slaves complied from nearly 4000 interviews with ex-slaves.

Date Coverage: 1600 - 1900
Vendor: Greenwood Press

ArchiveGrid (more info)

Description: Online access to the descriptions of archival collections held around the world. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world.

Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

Facsimilies of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America (1773-1783)
R 973.307 St4 Microfilm Room

Digital Library of Georgia

Digital Library on American Slavery (more info)

Description: The Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites.

Website: UNCG

DigitalNC (more info)

Description: The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed at UNCCH. Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.

Documenting the American South (more info)

Description: Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes thirteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Website: UNC University Library

HeritageQuest (more info)

Description: Research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, more than 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI, and other expanding collections.

Vendor: ProQuest

In the First Person (more info)

Description: In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 62,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral histories. It also contains pointers to at least 2,500 audio and video files. Approximately 25% of the index points to materials that are in copyright and these materials may be available through Interlibrary Loan.

Website: Alexander Street Press

Internet Library of Early English Journals (ILEJ) (more info)

Description: Browse a digitized collection of six major 18th and 19th century British journals: The Annual Register (1758-1778), The Builder (1843-1852), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Notes and Queries (1849-1869), and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777). The latter four titles are also searchable.

Website: Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford

Microbook Library of American Civilization (LAC) Located in Microfilm room

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (more info)

Description: North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Date Coverage: Colonial - 1950
Vendor: Alexander Street Press

PBS Video Collection (more info)

Description: The NC LIVE Video Collection is a collection of more than 250 high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation. Chosen by North Carolina librarians for use in supporting education and for general interest, the collection includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biography, current events, and the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. In addition, several educational series for children are included.

Alternate Title: NC LIVE Video Collection

Slavery and Abolition in the US (more info)

Description: A digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century.

Note: Select publications of the 1800's

Southern Historical Collection (more info)

Description: The Southern Historical Collection is an archival collection comprised of primary source documents about the history and culture if the American South. Types of primary source documents include: diaries, journals, letters, correspondence, photographs, maps, drawings, ledgers, oral histories, moving images, albums, scrapbooks, and literary manuscripts.

Website: UNC Libraries

DigitalNC (more info)

Description: The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed at UNCCH. Explore the history and culture of North Carolina through original materials from cultural heritage repositories across the state.

NCpedia (more info)

Description: An online encyclopdeia of North Carolina history and culture. The encyclopedia includes sections on biography and people, business and industry, culture, educationn, geography and environment, government, history and quick facts.

Creator: The State Library of North Carolina

North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project (more info)

Description: These materials include papers dating from 1751-1890's from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable. There are also three lesson plans derived from these newspapers: For What A Mother Is Responsible? Idealized Motherhood vs. The Realities of Motherhood in Antebellum North Carolina; Teaching About Slavery Through Newspaper Advertisements; and "A Female Raid" in 1863: Using Newspaper Coverage to Learn More About North Carolina's Civil War home front.

Creator: N.C. State Archives

North Carolina Periodicals Index (more info)

Description: An index to articles in the arts, social sciences, and sciences appearing in North Carolina periodicals, most of which are not indexed in standard reference sources.

Date Coverage: 1922 - date
Vendor: East Carolina University

North Carolina State Government Publications Collection (more info)

Description: "A digital collection of current and historical North Carolina state publications. The types of publications include informational brochures and pamphlets, various types of reports (annual, biennial, technical, statistical, etc.), serial publications (newsletters, checklists, magazines, etc.), handbooks, studies and a variety of other information resources produced by the government. The focus of the collection is on state government publications from 2002 to current, but will also feature historical North Carolina publications of enduring value that have been scanned from their original print format. Because new publications will be added to this digital collection, the database will be updated monthly." (Source: State LIbrary)

Sanborn Maps North Carolina (more info)

Description: Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provide digital access to 11,173 large scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities from 1867 - 1970. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections.

Date Coverage: 1867 - 1970
Vendor: ProQuest

Historical Census Browser (1770 - 1970) Univ. of VA.
The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970,
Print edition available R 317.3 H629

Statistical Abstract of the United States (1878 - Current)
The Statistical Abstract contains historical census data in the section containing Population Data.
Print editions available: R 317 U.S.

U.S. Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing