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Daniel Goldstein: dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑2040 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)

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Core Bibliographies

America: History and Life (http://uclibs.org/pid/6159) VPN

Bibliographic database containing citations to articles on American and Canadian history, including ethnic history and relations, from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals published worldwide.

Coverage: 1964-present

Historical Abstracts (http://uclibs.org/pid/12775) VPN

Citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:history and life.) Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide.

Coverage: 1967-present

International Medieval Bibliography (http://www.brepolis.net) VPN

Provides the most comprehensive, current bibliography of international scholarly literature in Medieval Studies available.

Coverage: 1967-present

Date: updated quarterly

Location: print equivalent is in the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Collection

Related:

You may need to download a special font for the diacritical marks in records to display properly. Follow instructions at the databases main page.

L'Année philologique; bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine. (http://uclibs.org/PID/31798) VPN

This is the major bibliographic index for Classical studies, including art, history, philosophy, literature and more.

Coverage: 1949-current

Related:

Use the hard copy edition of the Annee Philologique to search for material published before 1949. It is located at Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Z7016.A1 A5

Thematic Bibliographies

The resources in this category are broad-based, multidisciplinary indexes organized around themes including geographical location.

Bibliography of Native North Americans [via Ebsco] (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fph) VPN

This database contains citations to books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present.

Coverage: 16th century to current

Africa-Wide Information [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/105678) VPN

Africa-Wide Information (formerly Africa Wide NiPAD combines databases to form a multidisciplinary aggregation of sources offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. Includes over 2.4 million citations and abstracts dating back to the 16th century. The advanced search allows the research to search all the collected datasets or focus on particular sets.

Coverage: 2000-present

Related:

See product factsheet for scope. (http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/qnipad.asp)

Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database (http://www.africabib.org/perio.php)

In February 2008 this English-language database had indexed over 60,000 articles from over 500 English-language and multilingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (http://uclibs.org/PID/271) VPN

The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies contains more than 800,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide beginning in 1971 to present.

Coverage: 1971-present, depending upon the subfile.

Caribbean Abstracts (http://asa2.pica.nl/IMPLAND=Y/SRT=YOP/LNG=EN//DB=1.6/)

The catalogue, produced by the the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden, contains abstracts in English of selected books and articles in the humanities and social sciences published since 1989. The publications are selected for their importance or the topicality of the subject. Publications on Caribbean migrant communities outside the region are not included. The Caribbean includes all the islands of the Caribbean archipelago, as well as the mainland territories of Belize and the Guianas.

Coverage: 1989-present

Bibliography of British and Irish History [via Brepols] (http://www.brepolis.net/) VPN

The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009.

Oxford Bibliographies Online. Altantic History (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780199730414) VPN

Author: Editor in chief, Trevor Burnard

This extensive annotated bibliography focuses on the "interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century."

It consists of more than 100 separate entries, presenting the best in modern scholarship as well as key primary sources. Entries can be geographical ("Brazil, the Caribbean), or broadly or narrowly topical (Religion, Sugar.

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Oxford Bibliographies Online (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/) VPN
Follow this link (after you are logged in)to see all the Oxford Bibliographies online to which UCDavis subscribes.

Oxford Bibliographies Online. Medieval Studies (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?&module_0=obo-9780195396584) VPN

Author: Editor in Chief, Paul E. Szarmach

This extensive set of annotated bibliographies "explores European and Mediterranean civilization from the 4th to the 15th centuries" through the lenses of many different academic disciplines. Nearly 100 entries are organized around people, places, concepts, ideas, events and more. They offer, equally, a survey of what is new as well as thoughtful orientations to key primary and secondary literature.

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Oxford Bibliographies Online (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/) VPN
Follow this link (after you are logged in)to see all the Oxford Bibliographies online to which UCDavis subscribes.

Oxford Bibliographies Online. Renaissance and Reformation (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780195399301) VPN

Author: Editor in Chief, Margaret King

This extensive set of 120 bibliographic entries explores the world as known to Europeans during the period "which spans roughly from the 14th through 17th centuries. The entries provide excellent orientations to seminal and current scholarships on broadly (the Ottoman Empire)and narrowly constructed topics (Montaigne).

Related:

Oxford Bibliographies Online (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/) VPN
Follow this link (after you are logged in)to see all the Oxford Bibliographies online to which UCDavis subscribes.

FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN

Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics

Coverage: 1984-present

Index Islamicus [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/indexislamicus/advanced)

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.

Coverage: 1906-current

European Historical Bibliographies (http://www.histbib.eu/bibliographies/index)

This site collects information on 15 separate national historical bibliography projects. It provides brief descriptions of and links to the individual projects. Some of the bibliographies are published on paper, others are available on the Web, either for free or by subscription.

Migrinter: International migrations bibliography [via CNRS] (http://radegonde.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/biblio/index.php?lang=en)

This database contains more than 22,000 records pertaining to international migration. With emphasis on Europe and Africa, it also covers Asia and the Americas. There is an English-language search interface to citations that are mostly in French (77%) or English (16%). It is a project of Le Centre de documentation de Migrinter, at the Université de Poitiers

PAIS Archive [via Proquest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/96725) VPN

Online version of the PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. This index provides historical perspective on many public policy, political, economic, and social issues worldwide. Included are references to monographs, periodical articles, government documents, reports, and pamphlets. Note that PAIS transitioned to a new interface in August, 2012; PAIS Archive and the more recent to current PAIS International are combined.

Coverage: 1915-1976

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Medieval and Early Modern Studies Encyclopedias [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/medieval/)

All the encyclopedias in this list are printed (not electronic) volumes housed in the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Collection on the Second Floor of Shields Library.

Encyclopaedia of Islam Online [via Brill Academic Publishers] (http://uclibs.org/PID/97333) VPN

"The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries."

Date: 2002 -

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information on downloading appropriate fonts (http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/uid=1944/help?id=fonts)
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Encyclopaedia Judaica [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=0028660978&version=1.0&userGroupName=ucdavis&source=gale) VPN

This is a new, fully updated edition. It contains thousands of articles on all aspects of Jewish tradition, contemporary culture, politics and history.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography (complete) [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9780684315591&version=1.0) VPN

This classic encyclopedia covering scientists from all time periods and all fields of science has been completely revised. This "complete" online version includes all the entries from both the new (2008) edition and the original edition.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (http://www.biographi.ca/)

A searchable, digital edition of the authoritative Dictionary of Canadian Biography. This phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

Related:

Print Edition
H/SS/GIS Reference F1005 D49

Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Digital Version] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas(DHI),in five volumes and edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74 (Shields Library CB5 .D52) This e-version is made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.

Lexikon des Mittelalters [CD-ROM]

An encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (in German).

Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "BERLIN"

Dictionary of American Biography [CD-ROM]

Contains biographical articles on over 18,000 Americans who died before 1980. Most of the articles were written more than 50 years ago. The American National Biography (ANB)(available in print and online)is similar and more up-to-date. However, many people in the DAB are not in the ANB.

Location: H/SS/GIS Reference Workstation

Related:

Hardbound edition of the DAB
HSSGIS Reference E176 D5

Dictionary of National Biography [CD-ROM]

Contains thousands of biographical articles on famous Britons. Begun in the 1880s, it has been added to ever since. CD-ROM edition was published in 1996.

Location: H/SS/GIS Reference Workstation "DELHI"

Related:

Print Edition
H/SS/GIS Reference E176 D5

American National Biography (ANB)

THE LIBRARY HAS CANCELED ITS SUBSCRIPTION TO THE ONLINE ANB. THE PAPER EDITION IS AVAILABLE IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES REFERENCE COLLECTION. This encyclopedia of historical biography contains scholarly articles on more than 18,000 Americans.

Location: H/SS/GIS Reference CT213 A68 1999

Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History (http://library.cqpress.com/usph/) VPN

Browse by era or topic, or search the online encyclopedia for information on events, issues, people that have shaped American political life.

Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia [via the Jewish Women's Archives] (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia)

This online encyclopedia contains more than 2,000 entries, including updated versions of the articles in the "Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia" (Routledge, 1997). With an emphasis on American Jewish Women, it also covers women from all time periods and all parts of the world.

Primary Sources--Europe

Eighteenth Century Collections Online [via Gale] (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=ECCO) VPN

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) provides full-text searchable access to the digital images of 150,000 books and other materials published during the 18th Century. Based on the English Short Title Catalog bibliography, it includes English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Coverage: 1701-1800

Related:

Alternate Access URL (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/choosecampus/ecco.html)
Help page for using this database (http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=ucdavis&ste=23&finalAuth=true)

ARTFL (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/) VPN

The "Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language," better known as ARTFL, offers access to a collection of texts in a web-based digital format, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.

Coverage: Medieval Period to 20th Century

Related:

Searching tips (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/philologic/manual.html)

Pravda Digital Archive 1912-2009 (http://uclibs.org/PID/181615) VPN

"Pravda was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991, when Boris Yeltsin signed a decree closing Pravda down. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers' newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. After the collapse of the USSR, nationalist and communist journalists intermittently published a print newspaper and an online newspaper under the name Pravda. Today, Pravda represents the oppositional stance of the Communist Party in the Russian Federation."

Coverage: 1912-2009

Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)

Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.

Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.

Library of Humanistic Texts (http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/library.html)

This is a full-text collection of critical editions (frequently with translations) of a large number of 16th and 17th century texts. It is created and maintained by Dana F. Sutton, University of California, Irvine.

e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en)

A full-text collection of Medieval Manuscripts. "At the moment, the virtual library contains 333 manuscripts from 16 different libraries. The virtual library will be continuously updated and extended."

Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) (http://www.dmgh.de/)

Critically-edited (Latin and premodern German language) primary sources for the study of German and central European history from late antiquity to 1500 CE.

Related:

Hard copy volumes are located on the Lower Level of Shields at DD3 M8 P6.
In German.

1789-1939 L'Histoire par L'Image (http://www.histoire-image.org/index.php)

This growing collection of historical images from France is a collaborative project of several academic and cultural institutions and the French government. The images are carefully selected and fully described.

World War I Document Archive (http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/)

This site includes the full text of dozens of World War One-related documets. These include treaties, speeches and diaries. There are also extensive collections of texts pertaining to the War at Sea and to World War 1 medicine.

Genealogy Indexer [formerly East European Historical Telephone and Business Directories] (http://genealogyindexer.org/)

"Search 48,000 pages of historical directories (business, address, telephone, etc.), 28,000 pages of 64 yizkor books (memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust), and 6,000 pages of lists of Polish military officers. Most of the directories are from Poland, Galicia, or Romania. More genealogical resources are being added daily."

Oral Histories: Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust (http://wisconsinhistory.org/holocaustsurvivors)

"Wisconsin Historical Society archivists interviewed 22 Holocaust survivors and two American witnesses between 1974 and 1981. These oral histories are now available digitally and in their entirety for the first time, uncensored and unfiltered."

Empire Online [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113692) VPN

Empire Online contains several thousand searchable scanned images of original documents relating to Empire Studies. Includes documents from English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and German points of view, and that from indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America. Sections also include thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies.

Coverage: 1492-present

Related:

For help using this database (http://www.empire.amdigital.co.uk/help/)

Historic Italian and other European Journals and newspapers online (http://filosofiastoria.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/emeroteche-on-line.pdf)PDF

Author: Biblioteca di Filosofia e Storia dell’Università di Pisa

BANCHE DATI DI PERIODICI DISPONIBILI ON LINE--This is an Italian language list of and links to (mostly)European journal and newspaper collections digitized by libraries and other institutions. It is especially useful for Italian publications.

Travels in Southeastern Europe [via UMDL] (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bosnia/)

This is a full-text collection in several languages of 137 titles "that describe southeastern Europe, and in particular, Bosnia and Hercegovina, throughout history." Almost all the titles were originally published in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

March of Time (http://moto.alexanderstreet.com/) VPN

From 1935-1967, Time Inc. offered Americans views of significant historical events in their newsreel series The March of Time. Several hundred of these newsreels can be searched and viewed as streaming videos. Transcripts of these commercial, documentary, instructional and public service videos accompany the films. In support of research and teaching, the resource enables users to create, edit, and share playlists or film clips.

Coverage: 1903 - 1967

Primary Sources--Great Britain

These resources are indexes to of full-text collections of primary source material from Great Britain

Early English Books Online (EEBO) [via Proquest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/11543) VPN

Indexes citations and provides linked page images of works represented in the microfilm series Early English Books I and II, based on The Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard and Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title Catalog II (Wing, 1641-1700), The Thomson Tracts (1640-1661), and The Early English Books Tracts Supplements

[Please note that effective 01/12/2012 to 02/13/2012, the library will have a limited UC trial access to the TCP Phase I to its existing EEBO access. We would appreciate hearing any comments you have about your use of TCP Phase I and its effectiveness in meeting your needs. Please email Roberto C. Delgadillo with questions and comments at rdelgadillo@lib.ucdavis.edu]

C19 : The Nineteenth Century Index [via ProQuest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/130229) VPN

The principal index to nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives (primarily US and UK). The C19 Index incorporates the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, Poole's Index to Nineteenth Century Periodicals, Periodicals Index Online and more to provide coverage of over 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 16.3 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.

British Politics and Society [part 1 of Nineteenth Century Collections Online via Gale] (http://uclibs.org/PID/240974)

This extensive full-text collection of primary source material focuses on the political and social climate of Great Britain during the long Nineteenth Century. The materials are drawn from more than 20 different sources including: Government documents, papers and correspondence of political figures, Radical and Labour periodicals, pamphlet collections and more.

NOTE: The link takes you to a gateway page. Select the British Politics and Society option before you begin your search.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers--19th Century [via ProQuest] (http://parlipapers.chadwyck.com) VPN

"The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world." This database offers the searchable full text of all House of Commons Sessional Papers from 1801-1900 combined with an extensive subject index to the papers. (HCPP)Includes all the "sessional papers" of the British Parliament: bills, reports of committees, papers presented by Royal Commissions and government departments, treaties and international agreements, command papers, and statistics.

Coverage: 1801-1900

Related:

Accessibility information for "people with visual, motor or cognitive disabilities" (http://parlipapers.chadwyck.com/infoCentre/access.jsp)

17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=BBCN) VPN

The digital Burney Collection provides full text access to almost 1 million pages and approximately 1,270 newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The resource represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English and British colonial news media that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press".

Times of London Digital Archive (http://uclibs.org/PID/112897) VPN

Includes full text and page images of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, advertising and images (excluding the Sunday Times) for 1785-2006. The "Access World News" database contains both the daily and Sunday Times, 1985-present.

Coverage: 1785-2006

BOPCRIS, the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/)

A digitized collection of over 36,000 documents drawn from British Parliamentary Papers and related sources. It is searchable by full-text keyword and by subject.

Coverage: 1688-1995

British History Online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/)

This is a gateway site to primary and secondary source materials on Medieval and Early Modern Britain. It is organized both topically and geographically. It includes primary source material published by the History of Parliament Trust, the Centre for Metropolitan History and the Institute of Historical Research, among others.

UK Statutes [CD-ROM]

The UK Statutes of the Realm is a searchable full-text database containing all Acts of Parliament for England, Wales and Scotland from 1235 (the Magna Carta) to 2004.

Coverage: 1235-2004

Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Computer Station "Delhi"

Eighteenth Century Collections Online [via Gale] (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=ECCO) VPN

Coverage: 1701-1800

Related:

Alternate Access URL (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/choosecampus/ecco.html)
Help page for using this database (http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=ucdavis&ste=23&finalAuth=true)

Empire Online [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113692) VPN

Coverage: 1492-present

Related:

For help using this database (http://www.empire.amdigital.co.uk/help/)

Kent Archaeological Society (http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/KRV/Intro.htm)

Online versions of two volumes of Kent Records

Index of Wills Proved in the Rochester Consistory Court Wills 1440 - 1561 (Vol. 9)
Documents illustrative of Medieval Kentish Society Gen. Editor F.R.H. De Boulay (1964) (Vol. 18)

Primary Sources--The Americas

Indexes and Full-text collections about North and South America. It does not include most of the resources listed in the "California and the West" category.

Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) VPN

EENA contains full text letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters, centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. Includes information on the peoples, places, environment, flora and fauna encountered. Of note are more than 9,000 Audubon prints from "The Birds of America" as well as the complete contents of the three-volume "The Quadrupeds of North America".

Coverage: 1534-1959

Related:

Help page for using Early Encounters in North America (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/EENALive/eena.help.html)

Early Americas Digital Archives (http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/)

The EADA is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Published by by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

Coverage: 1492-1820

Eighteenth Century Collections Online [via Gale] (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=ECCO) VPN

Coverage: 1701-1800

Related:

Alternate Access URL (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/choosecampus/ecco.html)
Help page for using this database (http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=ucdavis&ste=23&finalAuth=true)

America's Historical Imprints [via Readex] (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EAIX) VPN

This is a full-text collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides and periodicals published between 1639-1819. It combines two collections: "Early American Imprints Series I (1639-1800). Evans" and "Early American Imprints Series II (1801-1819). Shaw-Shoemaker".

Coverage: 1639-1819

American Periodicals Series Online [via Proquest] (http://uclibs.org/pid/16610) VPN

Searchable database of citations and digitized images of the pages of more than 1100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

Coverage: 1741-1940s

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean (http://uclibs.org/PID/181634) VPN

This multidisciplinary resource brings together primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean. Digitized content of academic journals and news feeds, reference articles and commentary, manuscripts, ephemera, maps and statistics, and multimedia support research on regional topics ranging from the colonial period to the 20th century.

Coverage: 15th - 20th centuries

Latin American Newspapers [via Newsbank] (http://uclibs.org/PID/137173)

The database includes the full-text content from 24 historic and influential newspapers published in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and other Latin American countries. Publication dates range from 1845 to 1922.

Related:

Help instructions (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=WHNPX&p_theme=help&p_action=main)

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=h6a) VPN

Author: Arte Público Press

The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 (BETA) presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture published and digitized by Arte Público Press, the oldest and largest publisher of U.S. Hispanic literature in the U.S., covering geographically the fifty states of the Union. The premier collection documents intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized Hispanics from the earliest moments of this country's history through contemporary times. Currently, the collections comprises approximately 60,000 historical articles, hundreds of political and religious pamphlets and broadsides, and complete texts of over 1,100 historical books of Hispanic literature, political commentary and culture. The content is 80% Spanish and 20% English.

Coverage: 19th Century - 20th Century

U.S. Congressional Serial Set [via NewsBank] (http://uclibs.org/PID/42461) VPN

The Readex/Newsbank U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) has full text Congressional committee reports and documents originally published in the Serial Set from the 15th through the 96th Congresses, 1817-1980. Also includes the American State Papers (a retrospective collection of materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the second quarter of the 19th century). The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is the bound, sequentially numbered set of volumes of all the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Many early agency reports were published originally in congressional editions. The Serial Set constitutes an incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history and government.

Coverage: 1817-1980, with American State Papers 1789-1838

Foreign Relations of the United States (http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments)

The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and now comprises more than 450 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies. Volumes in the series since 1952 are organized chronologically according to Presidential administrations, and geographically and topically within each subseries. This link is the State Department's digital collection. The University of Wisconsin has been digitizing vols. - see below for direct link to that collection.

Date: 1861-

Related:

Foreign Relations of the United States (print volumes)
Shields Library JX233 A3
Shields Library has all volumes in print.
Foreign Relations of the United States (U. of Wisconsin digital collection) (http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS)
The University of Wisconsin has digitized the FRUS, volumes from 1861-1960 (incomplete).
Foreign Relations of the United States (http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/ebooks)
Foreign Relations of the United States in e-book format for reading on devices such as Kindles and iPads.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition [via Cambridge University Press] (http://uclibs.org/PID/108043) VPN

Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) is the long-awaited 4th edition of the landmark government reference tool, last published in 1975. This expanded digital edition (available also as a five-volume print edition) updates and expands the original tables and introduces dozens of new topics. HSUS was culled from more than 1,000 sources to produce nearly 2,000 tables containing some 37,000 time series covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: agriculture, population, the economy, government, welfare and work. Some data from the 1975 edition have been extensively revised, and data determined to be unreliable or inaccurate have not been included. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a scholar in the field. Tables can be downloaded and viewed, as well as graphed and merged into custom tables.

Related:

5-volume print edition of Historical Statistics of the United States is available in Shields Library Gov Info Reference and H/SS Reference (HA202 .H57) and the Agricultural and Resource Economics Library (HA202 .H57 2006)

Early American Newspapers [via NewsBank] (http://uclibs.org/PID/42513) VPN

Historic American newspapers from 1690-1876: images and full-text content, complementing the America's Historical Imprints (Early American Imprints) series. The core of the Readex collection is formed by Isaiah Thomas' own collection of colonial and early national period newspapers and supplemented by nearly two million issues added by Thomas' successors at the American Antiquarian Society, and from the collections of other institutions and societies.

Coverage: 1690-1876

Related:

This site now also includes the California's Historical Newspapers consisting of 13 titles published between 1850 and 1900.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Historical coverage of the following U.S Newspapers. The include both full page and individual article images. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Years included varies by title.

Related:

New York Times 1851-2004 (http://search.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/advanced) VPN
The Chicago Defender 1909-1975 (http://uclibs.org/PID/119835) VPN
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) (http://search.proquest.com/hnplasentinel/advanced) VPN
Los Angeles Times 1881-1986 (http://uclibs.org/PID/10355) VPN
San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922 (http://search.proquest.com/hnpsfchronicle/advanced) VPN
(currently 1880-1922)
Wall Street Journal 1889-1990 (http://uclibs.org/PID/11380) VPN
Chicago Tribune, 1849-1987 (http://uclibs.org/PID/115726) VPN
Washington Post 1877-1993 (http://uclibs.org/PID/115728) VPN
Arizona Republican (1890-1922) (http://search.proquest.com/hnparizonarepublican/advanced) VPN

19th Century US Newspapers (NCNP) (http://uclibs.org/PID/181633) VPN

NCNP provides access to over 28 million articles of primary source newspaper content from the 19th-century, featuring full-text content and images from newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history,Western migration and the Antebellum-era among other subjects. Newspapers from all 19th-century U.S. states and territories are included.

Coverage: Varies by newspaper

African American Newspaper Collection [via Accessible Archives] (http://uclibs.org/pid/7126) VPN

Full-text of seven 19th Century African American Newspapers: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, The Christian Recorder. Coverage varies by newspaper.

Chronicling America (http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/)

This site sponsored by the Library of Congress allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from all U.S. states and territories. Currently, the site contains selected newspapers from California (The San Francisco Call, Sacramento Record-Union), District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Virginia and Washington.

Coverage: 1836-1922 some full text papers; 1690 - present is a bibliographic record for newspaper titles.

Related:

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento) 1875-1891 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/issues/)
Record Union (Sacramento), 1891-1903 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015104/issues/)
San Francisco Call, 1895-1913 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/issues/)
The morning call. (San Francisco) 1878-1895 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/issues/)
Call-Chronicle-Examiner (San Francisco), 1906-1906 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015732/issues/)
Los Angeles herald (Los Angeles) 1900-1911 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/)
Amador ledger (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1900-1910? (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93052980/issues/)

Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 [via Accessible Archives] (http://www.accessible.com/search/prdcls.asp?s=25327058) VPN

Searchable, full-text of the most important colonial and early national newspaper.

Coverage: 1728-1800

Historical San Francisco Chronicle [ProQuest] (http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTY0OGYmU01EPTQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=1567) VPN

Full-text page images of for the years 1865-1922. (In progress: covers 1880-1922 as of Fall 2008)

Coverage: 1865-1922

Historic U.S. Newspaper Indexes [via Proquest]

The following newspapers collaborated with ProQuest to provide searchable indexes to their archives. Articles can then be read on microfilm (for the titles we own) or requested through Interlibrary loan.

Note: while you can search the full text of the newspapers you cannot read these articles online; the links here are to indexes only, not full-text resources.

Related:

Atlanta Journal Constitution (1868-1939) (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic?advancedsearch.html)
Boston Globe (1872-1923) (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/advancedsearch.html)
Chicago Tribune (1852-1984) (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/advancedsearch.html)
Christian Science Monitor (1908-1980) (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/advancedsearch.html)
Hartford Courant (1764-1984) (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/advancedsearch.html)
Washington Post (1877-1986) (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/advancedsearch.html)

HarpWeek (http://uclibs.org/pid/1554) VPN

Provides full-image reproductions of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912, one of the most important weekly magazines read by Americans during the 19th Century.

Coverage: 1857-1912

Google Newspaper Archive (http://news.google.com/newspapers)

Google has a growing collection of digitized historic and contemporary newspapers mostly from the U.S. and Canada. It's hard to know exactly what is included, but this link goes to the alphabetical list of papers including the years covered and number of issues scanned.

Archives Unbound: Global Missions and Theology [via Gale] (http://uclibs.org/PID/181631) VPN

This collection documents the broad range of nineteenth century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the United States by reproducing pivotal personal narratives, organizational records and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries and churches.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) (http://uclibs.org/PID/1400) VPN

Includes the full text of diaries and letters of more than 100 women from the 18th and 19th centuries, with biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography on women's narratives.

Coverage: 1675-1950

Related:

Help page available on the structure of the database and how to do full-text searching. (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDlive/nwld.help.html)

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (http://uclibs.org/PID/9532) VPN

A full text collection of letters and diaries by hundreds of participants and witnesses to the Civil War. Includes biographies, bibliographies and a day-by-day record of events, all accessible via a detailed search engine.

Coverage: 1861-1865

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [via Emory University] (http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces)

This database provides "information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries." It is primarily a data set permitting not only the display of details of each individual voyage but also the manipulation of that data in tables and charts. It also contains Maps and primary source images.

Massachusetts Historical Society -- online collections (http://www.masshist.org/online/)

The Massachusetts Historical Society offers several digital collections in Colonial and Early Republic History. These include Maps as well as the papers of John Adams and his family among other items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Online Collections (http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=976)

Author: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

This site consists of online primary sources in the following areas:

Abolition and Antislavery Movements Including the Underground Railroad
Civil War Philadelphia
Japanese American Internment and Redress
Immigration and Ethnicity

Seamen's Church Institute Archive (http://www.seamenschurch.org/archives)

"The Seamen's Church Institute has operated in the Port of New York since 1834. Over the years, SCI has adapted to meet the ever-changing needs of seafarers, anticipating and reacting to changes in the maritime industry and the Port of New York. Because of this, the story of SCI is inseparable from the story of the modern seafarer, as well as the story of the development of downtown Manhattan and the Port of New Jersey."

The online archive includes Annual Reports and meeting minutes of the Institute and its predecessor, as well as photographs and more.

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) (http://uclibs.org/PID/96899) VPN

The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 34 collections consisting of over 80,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 500,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by top scholars and experts, exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. Together, these collections offer unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time. Glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs are included.

Presidential Recordings Program (http://WhiteHouseTapes.org)

"Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations." This site also allows users to listen to some of the recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as read selected transcripts. It also includes detailed information about all of the tapes. Its "virtual exhibits" on Civil Rights, Vietnam and more, place relevant recordings in historical context. The site is hosted by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia

Presidential Speeches (http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/index.html)

This site offers a growing selection of transcripts or recordings of speeches by American Presidents. It currently includes speeches by 11 presidents from Abraham Lincoln to William J. Clinton.

Women Working 1870-1930 (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)

Provides free access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.

Coverage: 1870-1930

Brazilian Government Documents [via CRL] (http://www.crl.edu/brazil)

"Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available to the end of the first Republic in 1930."

Empire Online [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113692) VPN

Coverage: 1492-present

Related:

For help using this database (http://www.empire.amdigital.co.uk/help/)

History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean [via Univ. of New Hampshire] (http://www.hoslac.org/)

HOSLAC is a free database of 200+ primary sources (mostly images) on the history of science in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each image is accompanied by a brief essay that places it in its historical context. Thematic groups of images are also introduced by essays. HOSLAC was produced at the University of New Hampshire with funding from the NSF.

Coverage: Pre-Columbian to the present

March of Time (http://moto.alexanderstreet.com/) VPN

Coverage: 1903 - 1967

Primary Sources--Africa

Africa-Wide Information [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/105678) VPN

Coverage: 2000-present

Related:

See product factsheet for scope. (http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/qnipad.asp)

African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive (Readex) (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=WHNPX&d_collections=WHNPAFR1)

Fulltext of thirty four historic newspapers from different African cities. Coverage differs per title. Dates range and represents 1800-1920s. This selection is a subsection of Readex's World Newspaper archive. See link below.

Coverage: 1800-1920s

Primary Sources--South Asia

In progress. . .

Digital South Asia Library [via CRL and U of Chicago] (http://dsal.uchicago.edu/)

"The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users" It includes books, journals, maps, photographs, statistics and much more.

Empire Online [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113692) VPN

Coverage: 1492-present

Related:

For help using this database (http://www.empire.amdigital.co.uk/help/)

South Asian Newspapers [via Readex] (http://infoweb.newsbank.com?db=WHNPX&d_collections=WHNPASIA1)

Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Primary Sources--East Asia

Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange [part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online via Gale] (http://uclibs.org/PID/240974) VPN

This full-text primary source collection includes materials on the international relations between Asian countries and the United States and Britain during the 19th century. It contains government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more. Documents are sourced from The National Archives, Kew; The National Archives, United States; and other collections.

Most of the collection focuses on China and Japan, but significant material addresses Siam, Korea, the Philippines, Sumatra and Vietnam as well.

NOTE: The link takes you to a gateway site. Select this collection from the options at that site.

Chinese Pamphlets: Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China [via CRL] (http://contentdm.crl.edu/cdm4/index_hunters.php?CISOROOT=/hunters)

Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters. Mostly in Chinese, but SOME PAMPHLETS ARE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

March of Time (http://moto.alexanderstreet.com/) VPN

Coverage: 1903 - 1967

Women's History

Women's Studies International [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/16677) VPN

An interdisciplinary database combined from Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women's Studies Database (1972-present), New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975-present), and several major bibliographies.

Coverage: 1972 (and earlier)-present

Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920 [via Adam Matthew] (http://uclibs.org/PID/113691) VPN

This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of books, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.

Related:

Help using this database (http://www.everydaylife.amdigital.co.uk/help/index.aspx)

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000 (http://uclibs.org/PID/36739) VPN

From Alexander Street Press, this database currently includes searchable full text historical documents, a number of document projects based around key questions, teaching tools, plus book, film and website reviews.

Related:

Help page (http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/wasm.help.html)
See also the related discussion forum, "The Second Wave" and Beyond (http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com/display/WASM)

Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/9286) VPN

A searchable, full-text collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. The texts, collected between the late 1800s and 1945 are in fifteen different languages and cover four centuries

Coverage: 1543-1945

North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) (http://uclibs.org/PID/1400) VPN

Includes the full text of diaries and letters of more than 100 women from the 18th and 19th centuries, with biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography on women's narratives.

Coverage: 1675-1950

Related:

Help page available on the structure of the database and how to do full-text searching. (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDlive/nwld.help.html)

ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals (http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.php)

ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history, maintained by the International Institute of Social History. Articles published in English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are selected from 175 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals published from 1975-present.

Women Working 1870-1930 (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/)

Coverage: 1870-1930

Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia [via the Jewish Women's Archives] (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia)

Women's Studies Microform Collections, University of California Libraries (http://gort.ucsd.edu/ek/ushist/consort/microform/wsmfilm2008.pdf)PDF

Checklist of Women's Studies Microform Collections, University of California Libraries. Updated annually by Sherri Barnes, Women Studies Librarian at UC Santa Barbara for the Consortium for Women Studies and US and British History. Contains a list of microform collections held at UC libraries, including brief descriptions of content, scope, and coverage, as well as the location of the microform material and the location of their corresponding guides.

Location: This link is to a MS Word Doc.

Women's Studies on Disc [CD-ROM]

Searchable CD-ROM edition of Women's Studies Index, updated twice yearly. Provides citations for contemporary scholarship in the journals and magazines. Print edition of index for 1989-1997 available at HQ1180.W664 in Humanities/Social Sciences Reference.

Coverage: 1995-2002

Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Computer Station "RIO"

This Shall be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920 (http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/)

Online exhibit from the Women of the West Museum. This site includes a timeline, basic historical information about the Western suffrage movement by state, and a bibliography of further reading resources.

Women's Movement in the United States [CD-ROM]

Full-text information on the history of the American Women's Movement, from colonial times to the present. Includes timelines, biographies, primary documents, and images on nearly 700 topics.

Date: 1999

Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Computer Station "RIO"

History of Science

Also includes History of Medicine and Technology

International Bibliography of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HistSciTEchMed) [via OCLC FirstSearch] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9767) VPN

Citations to the literature of the history of science, technology, and medicine

Coverage: 1976-present

Bibliografía Histórica de la Ciencia y la Técnica en España (http://www.ihmc.uv-csic.es/buscador.php)

Author: Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia López Piñero

The database indexes scholarship on the history of science and technology published in Spain or by Spanish authors all over the world. Most materials are in Spanish, but it includes some English-language materials on Spain or the Spanish-speaking world.

Access to this database is provided on-line for free

Dictionary of Scientific Biography (complete) [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9780684315591&version=1.0) VPN

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9780028659114&version=1.0) VPN

A multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology. Examines controversial issues such as human cloning and stem cell research long with more traditional questions such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion.

Scientifica (http://www.cite-sciences.fr/bsi/scientifica)

Scientifica is a full-text collection of science books and periodicals published in French from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Currently, it has 70 monographs online; when complete it will contain 300 books and 154 volumes of periodicals.

History of Science in the Unted States: Research Aids for the Nineteenth Century (http://historyofscienceintheunitedstates-19thcentury.net/)

Author: Clark A. Elliott

Online Bibliographies of books, dissertations and primary source materials gathered over decades by Historian/Archivist Clark Elliott. It also includes his essay, "Antebellum American Science: A Thematic (and Somewhat Bibliographic Review).

American Natural Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (http://www.ansp.org/library/digital_library/grant_imls_listings.php)

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has digitized the first 8 volumes of its journal (1817-1842)as well as nearly two dozen other key texts of antebellum American natural history. Authors represented here include: John James Audubon, Samuel George Morton, Thomas Nuttall and Titian Ramsay Peale, among others.

Coverage: 1810-1850

Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical (http://www.sciper.org)

This is a searchable electronic index to the science-related content of sixteen general interest periodicals published in the Nineteenth Century. (It does not index all the content of these periodicals)

Coverage: 19th century

World History of Science Online : Database of Bibliographic and Archival Sources (http://www.dhst-whso.org/)

"The WHSO project will create a free sustainable online resource for the worldwide community interested in the history of science and technology in all its richness and diversity."

Digital Library from Natural History Museum MAHN-84 (http://t.ymlp274.net/mmacauhbyadaesyazamwqb/click.php)

This is a large collection of mostly old and rare Natural History books digitized by the Natural History Museum MAHN-84 in Vaucluse, France. Subjects covered include:Zoology, Botany, Entomology, Caving, Biospeleology and more. It is an open access collection.

History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean [via Univ. of New Hampshire] (http://www.hoslac.org/)

Coverage: Pre-Columbian to the present

New Books in Science, Technology and Society [via the New Books Network] (http://newbooksinscitechsoc.com/)

Read summaries of new books in this field and then listen to interviews with their authors.

"New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (NBSTS) aims for a broadly interdisciplinary coverage of recently-published books in science studies. The channel is currently co-hosted by Carla Nappi (Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia) and Patrick Slaney (PhD candidate in History at the University of British Columbia)."

Related:

New Books Network (http://newbooksnetwork.com/)
"The New Books Network is a consortium of podcasts dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to serious audiences." The site features scholars working in dozens of academic disciplines, including Science,History, Technology, and Environmental Studies.

Pybus Podcast Collection (History of Medicine) (http://www.nchm.ac.uk/PybusPodcasts.html)

"The Pybus Podcast Collection is an archive of audio recordings taken from the Pybus Seminar Series, a programme of public seminars sponsored by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Newcastle University and supported by the Wellcome Trust. The distinguished speakers represent a wide range of research areas within the History of Medicine."

Some of the more recent lectures include:

'The Drug Trade in Colonial India,' Dr Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Leicester)

'The body in pain and tales of redemption and damnation during the wars of religion,' Dr Luc Racaut (Newcastle University)

'“Stand Up Straight”: Posture and the Meanings Attributed to the Upright Body,'Prof Sander L. Gilman (Emory University)

'Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England, 'Dr Elaine Leong (University of Cambridge)

The Medical Heritage Library [via Internet Archive] (http://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary)

A digitized collection of rare medical books, "the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. The MHL promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine." Currently contains more than 37,000 items.

Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine (http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/)

"The volumes in this series contain transcripts of the Witness Seminars at which significant figures in twentieth-century medicine are invited to discuss specific discoveries or events in recent medical history. All papers and records collected during the organization of the meetings and editing of the transcripts are deposited in Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library, London, in collection GC/253." All volumes are freely available here as PDF downloads.

A few of the topics covered are:

Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies: Self and Non-Self: History of Autoimmunity: Endogenous Opiates

Early heat transplant surgery in the UK

Looking at the Unborn: Historical aspects of obstetric ultrasound.

British Contributions to Medical Research and Education in Africa after the Second World War

Digital Resources in the History of Medicine [via National Library of Medicine] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/digital/index.html)

"NLM historical collections include selected digitized material relating to the history of medicine. Chosen from the manuscripts and books collections, the prints and photographs collection, historical films and videos, current and past exhibitions, and the Digital Manuscripts Program, these digitized materials cover a spectrum of centuries and cultures from medieval Islam to contemporary biomedical research."

California and the West

American West: Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago [via Adam Matthew] (http://www.americanwest.amdigital.co.uk/Index.aspx) VPN

The Everett D. Graff Collection is one of the major special collections on the American West. This database contains a full-text selection of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources from that collection. It also includes such supplementary materials as scholarly essays and data maps. It is a rich resource to explore almost any aspect of the history of the American West.

Early Encounters in North America (EENA): Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (http://uclibs.org/PID/31414) VPN

Coverage: 1534-1959

Related:

Help page for using Early Encounters in North America (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/EENALive/eena.help.html)

Index to Reports Published in the Appendices to the Journals of the California Legislature 1905-1970 [via eScholarship] (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/42n75566#page-1)

Author: Juri Stratford

This index provides the first ready access to one of the richest sources for California history in the 20th Century.

"The Appendices include reports produce by California executive agencies as well as the California Legislature. In a few instances, the reports include work by the United States federal government or the University of California. The reports are indexed by subject as well as by agency.

Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/)

"Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items -- including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts -- reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations." [from the website]

Los Angeles Times via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (http://uclibs.org/PID/10355) VPN

Historical coverage of the Los Angeles Times, with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue in 1881.

Coverage: 1881-1985.

Historical San Francisco Chronicle [ProQuest] (http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTY0OGYmU01EPTQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=1567) VPN

Full-text page images of for the years 1865-1922. (In progress: covers 1880-1922 as of Fall 2008)

Coverage: 1865-1922

California's Historical Newspapers [via Newsbank] (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX&d_collections=EANACA) VPN

A full text collection of 13 California Newspapers covering the period between 1850 and 1900. It can be searched separately or in conjunction with the Early American Newspapers Collection (Series 1).

Coverage: 1850-1900

Chronicling America (http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/)

Coverage: 1836-1922 some full text papers; 1690 - present is a bibliographic record for newspaper titles.

Related:

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento) 1875-1891 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/issues/)
Record Union (Sacramento), 1891-1903 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015104/issues/)
San Francisco Call, 1895-1913 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/issues/)
The morning call. (San Francisco) 1878-1895 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/issues/)
Call-Chronicle-Examiner (San Francisco), 1906-1906 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015732/issues/)
Los Angeles herald (Los Angeles) 1900-1911 (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/)
Amador ledger (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1900-1910? (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93052980/issues/)

Nevada Historical Newspapers [via Newsbank] (http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX) VPN

A full text collection of 7 Nevada Newspapers covering the period between 1864 and 1930. Includes long runs of the Nevada State Journal and the Elko Daily Independent. Other titles represented by one or two issues.

It can be searched as part of the larger collection of America's Historical Newspapers or by itself. To search separately, follow the link then click "place of publication" tab and select Nevada.

Coverage: 1864-1930

Arizona Republican (1890-1922) [via ProQuest] (http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPWE4MjQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=1567) VPN

Full text plus page images of the early decades of this important Southwestern Newspaper.

Coverage: 1890-1922

Digital Sanborn maps [via ProQuest]. (http://sanborn.umi.com/) VPN

Author: ProQuest Information and Learning

Sanborn fire insurance maps, created to assist fire insurance companies assess risk, are large-scale community plans drawn at a scale of 50 feet to one inch. The maps give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, and house and block numbers. Sanborn maps also contain data about construction details, building use and the utilities and transportation infrastructure that supported the community overall. Several editions of maps exist for some cities. NOTE: UC Davis Libraries subscribe ONLY to the California and Nevada Digital Sanborn Maps

Coverage: 1867-1970

California Historic Topographic Map Collection (http://cricket.csuchico.edu/spcfotos/maps/topo_search.html)

Special Collections at California State University, Chico's Merriam Library has a fine collection of scanned historic topographic maps of California.

Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection (http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/photosearch_pageADV.jsp)

The Los Angeles Public Library's History and Genealogy Department's Photo Collection emphasizes the history of Los Angeles, Southern California, and California

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (http://jarda.cdlib.org/)

The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) serves as a gateway to the archival and manuscript holdings of numerous California archives, libraries, oral history programs, and museums featuring online finding aids, digital images, electronic texts and oral histories. There are 10,000 digital images complemented by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps.

Coverage: 1941 - 1945

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html)

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions.

Coverage: 1850-1925

Related:

The materials in this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley; and The California Historical Society in San Francisco.

This Shall be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920 (http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/)

Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects [University of Washington] (http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/)

This site provides access to video oral histories, photographs, historical documents, films, essays and lesson plans organized into eleven projects on labor and civil rights history in the Pacific Northwest.

Bracero History Archive (http://braceroarchive.org/)

Author: Center for History and New Media at Georgetown University

Started in 1942, the Bracero Program brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, and over the next two decades, more than 4 million Mexicans came to work in the country. This public history resource from the Center for History and New Media at Georgetown University brings together oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the program. Visitors can read the "About" section to learn more about the program and its legacy and then move on to browse the documents. The document archive can be searched in its entirety, or users can also move through areas that include "Images", "Documents", and "Oral Histories". Educators will want to look over the "Teaching" area, as it features three different learning activities which draw on the archive's documents. Also, the "Resources" area includes a video tutorial on how to use the archive effectively and several interview questions for those who might know some former Bracero workers.

Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online (http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/)

Searchable full-text of the journals edited by Gary Moulton. Also includes related primary and secondary material.

Alaska's Digital Archives (http://vilda.alaska.edu/index.php)

"Alaska's Digital Archives presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout our state."

Arizona Memory Project (http://azmemory.lib.az.us/)

"The Arizona Memory Project provides access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions." Collections cover a wide variety of topics in Arizona history including, among others, Japanese American Relocation, Hydroelectric Power, Aviation, Military, Native American History, Law.

New Books in Native American Studies [via the New Books Network] (http://newbooksinnativeamericanstudies.com/)

Read brief summaries of recent books in Native American Studies and then listen to interviews with their authors. This site is part of the New Books Network

Related:

New Books Network (http://newbooksnetwork.com/)
"The New Books Network is a consortium of podcasts dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to serious audiences" This site features scholars working in a range of academic disciplines.

Jewish Museum of the American West (http://www.JMAW.org)

Author: Western States Jewish History Association

A new, online museum, "the Jewish Museum of the American West will soon consist of Exhibition Halls for each of the regions, states and/or cities west of the Mississippi River that were considered a part of the American West." The first Exhibition Hall focuses on Los Angeles, the second on San Francisco.

Data Sets

Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition [via Cambridge University Press] (http://uclibs.org/PID/108043) VPN

Related:

5-volume print edition of Historical Statistics of the United States is available in Shields Library Gov Info Reference and H/SS Reference (HA202 .H57) and the Agricultural and Resource Economics Library (HA202 .H57 2006)

Historical Census Browser (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/)

This site allows users to examine, manipulate and map data from the U.S. Censuses from 1790-1960. It is a powerful and easy-to-use resource produced by the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the University of Virginia Library

Data Series in Economic History [via the Economic History Association] (http://eh.net/databases/)

"EH.Net provides an on-line location for researchers in economic history to make their data series available to other professionals and interested scholars. Several data series have been given to EH.Net and are available as downloadable files, while many other titles may be accessed through our Database Directory".

Global Price and Income History Group [via UCD Institute of Governmental Affairs] (http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/index.htm)

This group is described as "A research team measuring prices, income, and economic wellbeing around the world before 1950" The Web site includes a rich collection of data sets and working papers.

NHGIS National Historical Geographic Information System (http://www.nhgis.org/)

The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a historical GIS project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000. The project has created one of the largest collections in the world of statistical census information, much of which was not previously available to the research community because of legacy data formats and differences between metadata formats. In addition, NHGIS has created cartographic boundary files compatible with every census, and over 50 million lines of metadata describing the collection. The statistical and geographic data are disseminated free of charge through a sophisticated online data access system.

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database [via Emory University] (http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces)

Free Digitized Book Projects

This is a list of some of the major (usually collaborative)book digitization projects. It is also always worth checking individual library's web sites for information on specific library digitization projects.

HathiTrust (http://hathitrust.org)

This is a collection of books digitized by major US research libraries. Although there is significant overlap with Google books, this site has a much more effective and sophisticated search interface. Like Google books, some of the scanned titles are not actually viewable. The titles in this collection (both the full view and restricted ones)are cataloged in Melvyl.

Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)

Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.

Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.

The European Library (http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html)

This site allows you to search through the holdings of the National Libraries of European countries. You can limit your search easily by type of material, including digitized books, images,or exhibits. You can also select which countries' libraries you want to search.

Gallica [via the BNF] (http://gallica.bnf.fr/)

Gallica comprises the digitized collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. It contains more than 280,000 books, 300,000 images, 11,000 manuscripts and more. The range of material is vast but emphasizes the cultural heritage of France. It includes materials in most modern European languages as well as Latin and Chinese.

Other Resources

Archival Sound Recordings [via the British Library] (http://sounds.bl.uk/PublicCollections.aspx)

This is a diverse set of over 23,000 freely accessible sound recordings organized into the following collections:

Accents and dialects
Arts, Literature and Performance
Classical Music
Environment and Nature
Jazz and Popular Music
Oral History
Sound Recording History
World and Traditional Music.

These collection names only hint at the rich and varied content--covering everything from symphonies to traditional drumming in India; from the lives of Nobel laureates to the daily lives of Yorkshire farmers.

History Internet Resources [via UC Davis Library] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/history/history-internet-resources.php)

This is a guide to important free websites for historians. In each geographic or subject area the websites are subdivided into the following categories: Pathfinders, Bibliographies, Full-text, and Professional Sites.

HeinOnline (http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals) VPN

Full-text database of US legal periodicals. Includes the following sections: Law Journal Library (Comprised of Most-Cited Law Journals, Core U.S. Law Journals and International & Non-U.S. Law Journals); Federal Register Library (1936-1989); U.S. Supreme Court Library; and Treaties and Agreements Library, the Statutes at Large (1789-), U.S. Code (1924-)

Coverage: Coverage: Volume 1- Volume preceding current year

Location: Online access is made available by the UC Davis Law Library.

H-Net Reviews (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/)

Online source of scholarly book reviews available from H-Net.

Dissertation Reviews (http://dissertationreviews.org)

"Dissertation Reviews is a new site that features overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations . . . Our goal is to offer readers a glimpse of each discipline’s immediate present by focusing on the window of time between dissertation defense and first book publication.

Each review provides a summary of the author’s main arguments, the historiographic genealogy in which the author operates, and the main source bases for his or her research. The reviews are also anticipatory, making educated assessments of how the research will advance or challenge our understanding of major issues in the field when it is revised and published in the future."

The site currently contains reviews of dissertations in the following disciplines: Chinese History, Japan Studies, Korean Studies, Inner Asian History, Medical Anthropology, Science Studies.

Digital Image Collections--History [via UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/index.php?id=139#cat50)

This links to the specialized Historical Image Databases listed in the Digital Images Subject Guide.

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive (http://uclibs.org/PID/1980) VPN

JSTOR provides Full-Text access to back files of hundreds important scholarly journals in nearly 50 disciplines spanning the arts, humanities, social sciences and the sciences. Current issues are now included for selected titles. Holdings vary by journal. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Related:

About J Stor (http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/)
Visit this page to learn about the holdings of JSTOR journals. See Harvest Library Catalog for UC Davis access to recent and current materials.

Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/31861) VPN

Project Muse provides full text access to hundreds of journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics. It is useful for searching interdisciplinary cultural studies topics. Its full-text search engine permits finer-grained searching than any other index for these journals. Coverage varies by journal.

Related:

Mirror site. (http://muse.uq.edu.au)

Duke University Press Journals Online (http://dukejournals.org/) VPN

The e-Duke Scholarly Collection provides access to current issues of 29 electronic journals from Duke University Press. The list includes 18 titles previously available from Project Muse, in addition to other titles still currently updated in Muse.

Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/126936) VPN

The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

Coverage: 1887-present

Related:

See also MasterFILE Premier database for popular magazines (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=f5h)

Web of Science [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) VPN

This resource is especially useful because it permits Cited Reference Searching which enables you to find articles that made use of a specific source. Provides access to the three ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Coverage: 1900-present [Science 1899-, Social Sciences 1900-, Arts & Humanities 1975-]

Related:

Web of Science tutorial (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
Web of Science Tips (version 7) (http://thomsonscientific.com/media/scpdf/wos7_tips_cit.pdf)PDF

Library of Congress Classification Outline (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/)

Subject organization of the Library of Congress Call number system used in the Library.

Related:

Understanding Call Numbers (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/instruction/understanding-call-numbers-02-25-04.pdf)PDF
a guide to understanding call number arrangements in the UC Davis libraries.

Learning to do Historical Research (http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/)

Author: William Cronon

This site is an introduction to the process of conducting historical research and writing about it.

"The website is divided into two major sections:

* The first surveys essential stages of the research process.

* The second surveys different kinds of documents that can offer invaluable information and insights about the past."

Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography (http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/paleographie/index.php?l=en)

The Album Interactif de Paléographie Médiévale/Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography is an interactive site to practice reading and transcribing Mediaeval Latin and Old French. It is a project of the CIHAM (Centre Interuniversitaire d'Histoire et d'Archéologie Médiévales)in Lyon, France.

Historical Newspapers Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/1453) VPN

[Superseded resource: Please use instead the relevant historical newspapers in the Primary Sources Categories, above.]Search the following Chadwyck-Healey databases: Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1905 (with full text from 1800-1870) the Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980, and the Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922.

Ad*Access Project (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/)

A database of 7,000 images and advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

Coverage: 1911 to 1955

Maps

Historical maps resources are listed here only if they do not clearly fit in one of the other categories in this subject guide. For even more digital map collections, see the "Digital Images" and "Maps & GIS" Subject Guides.

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/index.html)

Author: Newberry Library -- Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture

The Atlas presents (in maps, text, and downloadable GIS data) complete data about the creation and all subsequent changes (dated to the day) in the size, shape, and location of every county in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. It also includes non-county areas, unsuccessful authorizations for new counties, changes in county names and organization, and the temporary attachments of non-county areas and unorganized counties to fully functioning counties. The principal sources for these data are the most authoritative available: the session laws of the colonies, territories, and states that created and changed the counties.

Coverage: 1788 - present

Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (beta) [via Harvard University] (http://medievalmap.harvard.edu/)

The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC) makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds. DARMC allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization. A work in progress with no claim to definitiveness. . .[from the Web site]

Mapping Gothic France (http://www.mappinggothicfrance.org)

This innovative site seeks to “provide the user. . .with new ways to understand the relationship of hundreds of buildings conditionally described as ‘Gothic’. . .within a defined period of time and space that corresponds to the advent of the nation of France.” It “seeks to establish linkages between the architectural space of individual buildings, geo-political space, and the social space resulting from the interaction (collaboration and conflict) between multiple agents—builders and users.”

“The Mapping Gothic France project was initiated by Stephen Murray, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Andrew Tallon, Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College and funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mapping Gothic France was developed within the framework of collaboration between the Media Center for Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, the Visual Resources Library at Vassar College, and the Columbia University Libraries.”

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