Subject Guides
History
what are these?
Databases
Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Over 3,600 journals are peer-reviewed.
America: History and Life
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present.
American Song
American Song is a history database that contains 50,000 tracks from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Cambridge Histories Online
Instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series with the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content.
Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the World from 1450 to the present.
New York Times
Archive: from 1857 to 4 years ago in Proquest Historical Newspapers
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection, History
Offers a large range of fully-indexed subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Published since 1878, Statistical Abstract is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
U.S. History In Context
Provides a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information. Includes extensive image galleries, as well as audio and video.
Web resources
American Memory (from the Library of Congress)
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Country Studies / Area Handbooks
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
H-Net Humanities and Social Science Online
History Guide
Emphasizes Anglo-American history
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Latin American Network Information Center
Making of America
The collection contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Native American History Resources on the Internet
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Renaissance Society of America
Repositories of Primary Sources
University of Washington Libraries Digitial Collections
Includes the award-winning project American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, as well as collections especially strong in Seattle history, architecture, labor and industry, the Klondike Gold Rush, and our natural environment.
Dictionaries
Dictionary of American History (electronic resource)
A Dictionary of British History
Dictionary of Concepts in History
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (electronic resource)
Dictionary of 20th Century European History
A Dictionary of World History (electronic resource)
Historical Dictionary of Palestine (electronic resource)
Historical dictionary of Revolutionary America
Oxford Dictionary of the Rennaissance
OED (electronic resource)
Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive record of the Engish language.
Encyclopedias
International encyclopedia of the social sciences (electronic resource)
Cambridge Histories Online (electronic resources)
Encyclopedia of American History
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History the Black Experience in the Americas (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of African History
Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
The New Encyclopedia of the American West
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of North American Indians (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Oregon Encyclopedia Project (electronic resource)
Finding books
By subject search
Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.
Church historyHistory, Ancient.
Military history
Oregon History, Local.
United States History 1783-1865.
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.
By call number
If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.
| D | History (General) |
| DA | Great Britain |
| DAW | Central Europe |
| DB | Austria - Liechtenstein - Hungary - Czechoslovakia |
| DC | France - Andorra - Monaco |
| DD | Germany |
| DE | Greco-Roman World |
| DF | Greece |
| DG | Italy - Malta |
| DH | Low Countries - Benelux Countries |
| E11-143 | America |
| E151-904 | United States |
| F1-975 | United States local history |
| F1001-1145.2 | British America (including Canada) |
| F1170 | French America |
| F1201-3799 | Latin America. Spanish America |
Google search: History
This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.
