Databases by Subject - History

American Memory
Digital collection from the Library of Congress relating to the history and culture of the United States. Broad topics covered in the collection include agriculture, art and architecture, business and economics, education, geography, history, languages and literature, performing arts, philosophy and religion, political science and law, recreation and sports, social sciences, and technology and applied sciences.

American Periodical Series Online
Searchable full-text database that includes digitized images of pages from American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century (dates of coverage: 1741-1900).

Ancestry Plus (on-campus access only)
Genealogy research database that provides access to more than 1 billion names in more than 3,000 databases. Ancestry Plus also includes Passenger & Immigration Lists Index—a reference guide to published lists of 500,000 passengers who arrived in America in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Arts and Humanities Search
Citation index to arts and humanities journals. Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
Digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States beginning with the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Provides official documentary history of major foreign policy decisions in an incomplete run from 1863-1958, with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed.

Geographic Names Information System
Developed by the USGS; contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.

HeritageQuest
Of interest to those researching local history and family histories, it includes U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 thru 1930; 25,000+ family and local history books (every word searchable); the PERiodical Source Index/PERSIT (a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy & local history periodicals); and Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Application Files.

Historic Document Series
A full text index to the 32 volume print collection of the same name. This database includes over 32,000 pages of primary source material. Documents included range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

History E-Book Project
Full-text electronic book collection with nearly 800 works of importance to historical studies. Subject categories include American history (colonial to 20th century), comparative and world history, European history (ancient to present), Russia/Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East (ancient to present), and the history of technology.

JSTOR
Full-text database of back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. NOTE: JSTOR does not contain issues from the most recent 3-5 years.

The Making of America Project (Cornell University)
The Making of America Project (University of Michigan)
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction; a joint effort of the University of Michigan and Cornell University. According to the site, the Michigan collection focuses on education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology, while Cornell focuses mainly on digitizing general interest periodicals.

Oxford Scholarship Online
Full texts of over 700 Oxford titles in economics and finance, philosophy, political science, and religion. Each book reproduces the structure of the original printed work as far as possible, with the addition of many features only supported in electronic form, such as full-text searching, cross-referencing via keywords, in-line footnotes, and linking to other online texts from bibliographies.

Perseus Digital Library
Digital library of resources for the study of the humanities; includes texts relating to ancient Greece, Latin text and tools, and Renaissance-related materials. Also includes materials on the United States' westward expansion and other materials of early American history including the American Civil War.

Project MUSE
Full-text database of more than 200 scholarly publications in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Sanborn Maps Online - SD
Online database of Sanborn fire insurance maps for the state of South Dakota. Included maps date from 1884 to 1960. These maps provide a wealth of information about buildings – size, dimensions, building materials used, function, and location of windows and doors. They were updated yearly, so a review of maps from several years can provide a good idea of when and what changes were made to a building.

Web of Science - Arts & Humanities Index
The Web of Science interface is the main way to access three major citation indexes. One is the Science Citation Index, which contains citations for scholarly journals in the areas of chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and astronomy. Another major resource is the Social Science Citation Index, which contains citations on subjects such as political science, history, anthropology, social issues, sociology, philosophy, and women's studies. These resources are searchable by topic, author, source, or cited reference and cover dates from 1992 to the present. The final resource included is the Arts & Humanities Index, which includes archaeology, literary reviews, art, music, history, religion, and theater abstracts. Coverage in the Arts & Humanities index dates from 2001 to the present.

Women Writers Online
Resource devoted to early modern women's writing covering a period from 1400 to 1850.