History Resources
Oberlin College History Department
Using
Primary Sources on the Web
HIST 257: American West
HIST 265 Research Guide
HIST 270 Research Guide
Reference Sources
Oxford Reference Online: History
Research Databases
All History
Databases provided by Oberlin and OhioLINK
- Historical Abstracts (world history, excluding US & Canada)
- America: History and Life (US & Canada history)
- ABSEES Online (Slavic and Eastern European Studies)
- International Medieval Bibliography
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
- ITER Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Historical Periodicals
- Newspaper Databases at Oberlin
- Early American Review
- America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1876)
- New York Times Historical (1851 - 2005)
- Times Digital Archive (London) (1785-1985)
- Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1833) (1848-1854 ) (1854-1882)
- HarpWeek Complete text and images from issues of Harper's Weekly published during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras (1857-1871), with complete indexing
World History
- Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale U)
- Librarians' Index to the Internet (History Links)
- The World-Wide Web Library of History
- Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library
U. S. History
- American Historical Association
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- American Social History Online (Digital Library Federation) - Find and use 19th and 20th century primary resources from unique historical digital collections.
- Links to the Past: National Park Service Cultural Resources
- Making of America digital project
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (Harvard U) 19th century era, contains photographs, books, pamphlets, and maps. Also includes quantitative data.
- Archiving Early America
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
- Selected Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress
- The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
- Documenting the American South
African History
- ALUKA: a digital library of resources from and about Africa (history collections)
- Africa History on the web (Stanford)
Asian History
- Digital South Asia Library (U Chicago)
- South and Southeast Asia Studies (Columbia U)
European History
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
- The British Library
- Labyrinth: Medieval Studies (Goergetown)
- REESWeb (Russian and Eastern European Studies) (U Pittsburgh)
Latin American History
- HAPI online: database of Latin American journal articles (UCLA)
- Latin American Studies
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Environmental History
- American Society for Environmental History
- United States Environmental History Bibliography (UC Berkeley)