History
what are these?
Databases
Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.
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.
Facts on File World Digest News
A digest of world news with coverage going back 40 years. Articles are hyperlinked so the researcher can follow the thread forward and backward in time. This database includes biographies, historical documents, selected topical editorials from across the U.S., and background articles written specifically for the World News Digest.
Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the World from 1450 to the present.
International Medieval Bibliography
Interdisciplinary index covering Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa from 400-1500 A.D.
The New York Times
Full text of the New York Times, from its beginning in 1851 up through 2006.
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.
Web resources
American and British History Resources on the Internet
American Memory (from the Library of Congress)
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Careers in History (from Tennessee Tech)
Country Studies / Area Handbooks
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
H-Net Humanities and Social Science Online
Historical Sources On-line (from Texas Tech)
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 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Middle East Network Information Center
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.
Using Primary Sources on the Web
From the Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association
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
Encyclopedias
International encyclopedia of the social sciences (electronic resource)
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
The New Cambridge Modern History
Encyclopedia of North American Indians (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
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 |
Customized search engine
FoxSearch History
This Google Custom Search engine searches quality web sites selected by the library.