Click here for Social Science databases (includes History).

The best starting point for any sort of research, databases are large collections of information which may include citations, abstracts, ebooks, fulltext articles from scholarly journals or magazines, images, multi-media files and more.

• NEW: Films on Demand - History. Includes videos on American, European, and World History. VIDEOS. And don't forget American History in Video.

Find Journals on American History.

Journals found here are available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases. Look for the name of the journal you are interested in, for example:

• american indian quarterly
• american historical review
• journal of american culture

• History News Network: Online magazine with articles by historians who discuss current events in a historical perspective.

• African American History (2006), EBSCO ebook.
• American Heritage encyclopedia of American history. New York: H. Holt (1998), R973 A535.
• Encyclopedia of American history. New York: HarperCollins Publishers (1996), R973.03 M833.
• Encyclopedia of American military history. New York: Facts On File (2003), R355 E63.
• Routledge Atlas of American history (2006), EBSCO ebook.

• Archives.gov: National Archives & Records Administration website includes hundreds of thousands of images of historical documents, figures, and events.
• Chronicling America: Digital source of historic American newspapers--includes the Memphis Daily Appeal.
• E Pluribus Unum Project: Site focuses on the question of nation building and how Americans have sought to create "one out of many."
• Early Americas Digital Archive: The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH).
• France in America: Bilingual digital library explores history of the French presence in North America from the early 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
• Harvard Open Collections Program: Digitized collections of primary sources from Harvard University Library include Women Working, 1800-1930 and Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930.
• Jews in America: Devoted to the experience of American Jews from 1654 to the present day, site offers video minidocumentaries, short historical essays, and more.
• Library of Congress: American Memory Project (various exhibits)
• Literature and Culture of the American 1950's: From the University of Pennsylvania, this site provides links to texts and other information on the literature and culture of the 1950's.

• Making of America: Digital library of primary sources in American social history from antebellum period through reconstruction.
• New Deal Network: Site from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) is devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal.
• Women Working, 1800-1930: Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources from Harvard's collections. Explores women's roles in US economy between the Civil War and Great Depression.
• African-American Migration Experience: Site from New York Public Library Schomburg Center offers over 16,500 pages of essays, books, articles, and manuscripts, 8,300 illustrations, 100 lesson plans, and 60 maps to aid in understanding peoples, places, and events that shaped African America's migration over the past four hundred years.
• American Slave Narratives: Narratives in this online anthology from the University of Virginia are transcribed verbatim from interviews collected by writers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s.
• The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress): "A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black History and Culture."
• Voices of Civil Rights (Library of Congress): Searchable online archive of selected stories submitted by people from every corner of the country. Includes essays, interviews, and special reports.
• Documenting the American South: Offers texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture, from the colonial period through the early 20th century.