Research Guides: History Research Guide: Find Articles and Databases

Introduction

This guide serves as an introduction to the History resources provided by the Kathryn A. Martin Library. However, this guide is by no means a complete list of resources. To see all the available digital resources in History, visit the A-Z databases list:

History Subject Page

If you have questions, contact your librarian!

Subject Databases

These databases include sources concerning history and the study of history. In addition, they contain articles or information related to broader topics in the humanities.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Our subscribed content includes the Sustainability, Life Sciences, Arts & Sciences I-VII, XII, XV, and Ireland collections and more than 70,000 DRM-free ebooks from academic publishers.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theater and performing arts, political science, and mathematics.
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Gale Primary Sources
This platform cross-searches primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century U.S. and British sources. Discover historic monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and early photographs.
The following databases searched at once via Gale Primary Sources:
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
- British Library Newspapers
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Financial Times Historical Archive
- International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
- Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
- The Economist Historical Archive
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- The Making of the Modern World
- The Times Digital Archive
ProQuest News & Newspapers
U.S. news content as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s from national and regional news sources including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

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