History Subject Guide from RLG Cultural Materials  Finding Books  |  Major Reference Works  |  Major Databases  |  Web Resources    Finding Books Use CLIO to find books, journals, links to online journals, and other materials, in the Columbia or Barnard libraries.   Using subject headings in history research. See examples below. united states--history great britain--history great britain--history-- 19th century great britain--social life and customs women--great britain--history          Note the numerous sub-headings when searching the history of a particular country.          Many refer to specific historical time periods. Primary Sources can also be found in CLIO. Since Columbia is a major research library there are many monographs such as Roosevelt's travel writings or Napoleon's accounts of war campaigns.  Also when doing a subject search look for these subdivisions in the subject field, archives, biography (this includes  autobiographies), correspondence, diaries, interviews and sources.     For example:        women--united states--history--sources     churchill winston sir 1874-1965 correspondence        Useful call numbers: Call numbers for history begin with D, E or F. More specifically:              D History: General and Old World              D - DR History (General), History of Europe1              DJK - DK History of Eastern Europe (General). Soviet Union, Poland              DS History of Asia              DT - DX History of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.              E - F History: America (Western Hemisphere)   Major Reference Works available in Barnard Library Reference Area; ask at reference desk about additional reference books   Title Call Number United States History   Dictionary of American History E174 .D52 2006 Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History E185 .E54 1996 Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History E169.1 E624 2001 Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy E183.7 .E52 2002 Encyclopedia of American Social History HN57 .E58 1993 Encyclopedia of the American Civil War E468 .E53 2000 Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War DS557.7 .E53 1998 Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies E45 .E53 1993 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century E169.1 E626 2001 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century F740.7 E53 1996 Reader's Guide to American History E178.1 .R43 1997 World   Dictionary of the Middle Ages D114.D5 1982 Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara DT351 .E53 1997 Encyclopedia of Asian History DS31 .E53 1988 Encyclopedia of European Social History HN373 .E63 2001 Encyclopedia of India DS405 .E556 2006 Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture F1406 .E53 1993 Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment online Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment B802 .E53 2002 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East DS43 .E53 Encyclopedia of the Renaissance CB361 .E52 1999 Encyclopedia of the Victorian World DA550 .E53 1996 Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World DS35.53 .095 Reader's Guide to British History DA34. R43 2003 South East Asia : a Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor DS524 .S68 2004 Twentieth-Century Britain: an encyclopedia DA566 .T835   Major Databases & Indexes available with Columbia ID   ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1990- ) Indexes all disciplines of study relating to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Includes citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, government publications and more. Africa Wide NiPAD Index to publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from Africa in history, literature, music, archaeology, fine arts, business and other social sciences. Citations, abstracts and Internet Links. America: History and Life  (1982- ) Index to articles on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history prehistory to present. Includes articles, books and dissertations. Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- )  Cited references and bibliographic information for the arts & humanities. Useful for tracing who cited a given article or book, or for tracing an idea. Includes history, links to full-text articles, 1965 to present. Search Tips: Select "Arts & Humanities Citation Index", the General Search has search tips Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971- ) Major Asian Studies database. Interdisciplinary and includes many subject areas. Search Tips: Advanced search recommended British Humanities Index Indexes articles in more than 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the U.K. and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the U.K. Search Tips: Phrase is assumed - use "and" if not a phrase; * for truncation" HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Online citations to articles and book reviews about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans. Historical Abstracts  (1982- ) Index to articles in world history excluding the U.S. & Canada. Covers 1450 to present. Articles, books and dissertations. Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation Humanities Full Text (1984- ) Citations and abstracts for articles in the humanities including history. Preceded by Humanities Index, 1974-1983 Barnard Reference: AI3. H8. Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Citations and abstracts for articles in the humanities and social sciences from 1907-1974. Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation Index Islamicus (1906- ) Indexes materials including periodicals on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim World. Search Tips: Phrase is assumed - use "and" if not a phrase; * for truncation International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951- ) Core social sciences, includes history, demography, foreign affairs, international relations, psychology and social issues. Includes international journals. Search Tips: Phrase is assumed - use "and" if not a phrase; * for truncation International Index (1907-1965) Citations to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. Barnard Reference: AI13 .R49 (Titled Social Science and Humanities Index from 1965-1973. Barnard Ref: AI3.R491) Iter : Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1842 -) Citations for articles, books and other materials on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1400-1700). Search Tips: Use keywords, phrase assumed so use "and", *for truncation JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive A full text database of articles from over 1,000 scholarly journals, from the beginning of the journal but excluding the most recent 3-5 years; includes African American studies, anthropology, classical studies,  education, history, language and literature, philosophy, political science, sociology and more. Search Tips: Use the Advanced Search for more precise searching Nineteenth Century Masterfile Includes several 19th-century periodical indexes, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature as well as indexing of the New York Daily Tribune (1875-1906) and the New York Times (1863-1905) Use CLIO to find which library owns the periodical. Some links to full-text. Periodicals Archive Online Especially useful for finding articles published in the 18, 19th and the early 20th centuries. Interdisciplinary and includes international journals. Primarily humanities and social sciences. Search Tips:Phrase is assumed - use "and" if not a phrase; * for truncation ProQuest Historical Newspapers Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from the first issues; the Chicago Tribune as yet is incomplete, and begins in 1890. Contains digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF files. Search Tips: Select the relevant database from the drop-down menu  Royal Historical Society Bibliography The Royal Historical Society bibliography is a database containing 350,000 records on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and Commonwealth during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. Social Sciences Full Text  (1983- ) Indexes articles in the Social sciences. Includes social history, anthropology, economics, foreign affairs, international relations, political science, psychology, sociology and more. Preceded by Social Sciences Index, Barnard Reference: AI3 .S65 Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation Times of London (1785-1985 ) Full-text and full image articles from the Times of London. Victorian Database Online Index of 19th century British studies sources published from 1945 to the present. Web Resources Ancient/Medieval Ancient World Web Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World Eternal Egypt Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University contains links to thousands of sources, arranged by time period and topic. A site with a wealth of primary material and very easy to navigate Labyrinth is devoted to Medieval Studies and includes the full-text of Classical and Medieval texts, connections to Medieval Studies databases, and much more Medieval Feminist Index : Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages ORB : The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Includes The ORB Encyclopedia, a "chronological and geographical index of essays, bibliographies, images, documents, links, and other resources;"  The ORB Reference Shelf, with links "to excerpts and full texts from primary and secondary sources;" and other resources Perseus Project, from the Department of the Classics, Tufts University International: Resources, Documents and Primary Sources The Avalon Project of the Yale Law School reproduces documents relevant to law, diplomacy, politics, economics, and history Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 Eighteenth Century Costume Resources Online Eighteenth-Century Studies Encyclopedia of British History EuroDocs; European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated Fashion Era Gathering the Jewels: Website for Welsh Cultural History Hanover Historical Text Project Primary texts from Europe, the United States and beyond from Hanover College Historical Text Archive Miscellaneous texts from Donald Mabry Histpop: Online Historical Population Reports: U.K. In the First Person; An index to letters, diaries, oral histories & personal narratives International Statistics: from the U.S. Census Bureau Internet History Sourcebook Project from Paul Halsall at Fordham University Internet Library of Early Journals   "...a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford... aims to digitize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals. The core collection for the project are runs of at least 20 consecutive years of three 18th-century journals: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and  three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Browse by journal title or search the full-text (full-text searching is  available for selected journals)" Liberty Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution Mass Observation Online (British Social History, 1932-1972) National Library of Ireland: The 1916 Uprising Oxford Islamic Studies Online Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674-1834 Penny Magazine Online Home Page contains the text of some issues of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a popular illustrated weekly of mid-19th century Britain U.K. National Archives Victorian Web, Brown University Vincent Ferraro's International Politics Page See also United States: Documents and Primary Sources United States: 19th Century The American Civil War Homepage Images of Nineteenth Century African Americans Browse by category, or search the collection by keyword. Categories include Civil War, Education, Labor, Politics, Portraits, Slavery, etc. From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library 19th Century Scientific American Home Page United States: 20th Century Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement "The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group." From the Special Collections Library at Duke University CWIHP (Cold War International History Project) "The Cold War International History Project was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in 1991...supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist bloc -- through publications, fellowships, scholarly meetings and conferences, and through the World WideWeb"  Harvard Immigration Open Collections: Immigration to the United States Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940. From the Library of Congress' American Memory project, this collection provides access to the full text of 2,900 documents San Francisco History Index The Sixties Project and Viet Nam Generation, Inc. provides access to primary and secondary resources. The site's primary documents include an effort to collect and make available manifesto and position papers issued by Sixties-era organizations. This site also actively collects personal narratives about the Sixties Southern Oral History Program: University of North Carolina United States: Documents and Primary Sources AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History links to nearly 500 full-text documents relating to the American experience. Arranged by century, but also provides a search function American Memory, from the Library of Congress, consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history. Includes documents from: a collection of African-American pamphlets, 1820-1920, the Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project (1936-1940), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and many other text, visual and sound archival collections American Studies Web A Guide to American Studies on the Internet Archiving Early America This project's main focus is primary source material from 18th century America. The Avalon Project of the Yale Law School Reproduces documents relevant to law, diplomacy, politics, economics, and history Digital Scriptorium of the Duke University Special Collections Online digitized collections of archival material; includes memoirs and letters from African-American women, a collection dealing with Civil War women, and Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, which focuses specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s E-Guides : American Studies (from the Columbia University Libraries) is a collection of useful links Ellis Island Immigration Records Guide to WW I Materials from the Library of Congress Hanover Historical Text Project. Primary texts from Europe, the United States and beyond from Hanover College Historical Text Archive Miscellaneous texts from Donald Mabry Historical United States Census Browser has data about the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970 History Cooperative Full-text online scholarship, U.S. history Images of Nineteenth Century African Americans Browse by category or search the collection by keyword. Categories include Civil War, Education, Labor, Politics, Portraits, Slavery, etc. From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library In the First Person; An index to letters, diaries, oral histories & personal narratives Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Bartleby Making of America is a developing digital library of materials published between circa 1850 and 1900 related to the development of the US infrastructure. The collection can be browsed or searched; advanced searching allows full-text searching. This is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan and Cornell University NARA The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival Information Locator (a searchable database). "NAIL contains more than 260,000 descriptions and 13,500 digital copies" from NARA and is "... the working prototype for a future online catalog of holdings in Washington, DC, the regional archives, and the Presidential libraries" 19th Century Scientific American Home Page National Archives and Records Administration Open Collections Program: Immigration to the U.S. 1789-1930, from Harvard University Places Where Women Made History : A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary from the National Park Service  Features historic places in Massachusetts and New York and introduces "...anyone interested in American history to the wide range of historic places associated with the many varied aspects of women's history. The itinerary highlights 74 historic properties... includes interactive maps, descriptions of each place's significance in women's history, photographs, information on public accessibility, essays on women's achievements in American history, and links to other pertinent Web sites" The Sixties Project and Viet Nam Generation, Inc. provides access to primary and secondary resources. The site's primary documents include an effort to collect and make available manifesto and position papers issued by Sixties-era organizations. This site also actively collects personal narratives about the Sixties U.S Patent and Trademark Office Home Page U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 through 1975. Search over 7,000 cases by either case name or keyword. Click here for U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from 1990 to the present (from Cornell) Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930  "is intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930. It is organized around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton" Also note: the following from the A-Z listing of databases:  Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)-full-text of British & American imprints 1701-1800; Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers; Accessible Archives-includes the Pennsylvania Gazette, Civil War newspapers, Godey's Lady Book and more; American Civil War: Letters and Diaries- full-text; American Historical Newspapers, featuring early American newspapers, 1690-1922; American Memory-collection of full-text and images from American history and culture; American Periodical Series-searchable full-text and page images of American periodicals of the 18th and early 19th centuries; British Periodicals; Evans Digital Edition-full-text & images of works printed in America from 1639-1800; Early English Books Online; Gerritson Collection: Women's History Online-full-text & primary sources; HarpWeek-full-text and page images of this 19th century magazine; History E-Book Project; Nation, Digital Archive-full-text & page images of this journal from 1865; North American Women's Letters and Diaries; Oral History Online; Primary Sources in African-American History- selected full-text resources; Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982; Sabin Americana 1500-1900; Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-1000-primary sources and documents; Women Writers Online, from 16th -early 19th Century. Also:Subject Guides from Columbia University Libraries: East Asian Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, South Asian Studies and South East Asian Studies   Last Modified5/16/07 IN PROGRESS Karen Dobrusky, Reference Librarian  Return to Subject Guides list

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