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Library Liaison
Jeff Waller
Contents
Selected Reference Books
Find Journal Articles
Find Books
Find Primary Sources
Selected Websites
How to Cite Your Sources
Course Guides
HI 100 – Introduction to History
HI 226 – Modern European
History
HI 315 – The Renaissance
HI 317 – Medieval Spain
HI 324 – Special Topics:
Medieval England
HI 327 – Early Modern France
HI 333 – Europe since 1945
HI 399 – Special Topics:
British Empire
HI 399 – Special Topics:
Southern Africa
HI 481 – Seminar in History
Research
Department Website
History Department
History Department Homepage
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Research Guides
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Ref D20 .A54
Handbook for Research in American History
Ref E178 .P78
The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
Ref D16 .W62
A Short Guide to Writing About History
Ref D13 .M294
General World History
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
Ref JV22 .E535
The New Cambridge Modern History
Ref D208 .N4
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Ref HC15 .O94
Oxford Reference Online History Collection (User Guide)
American History
General
Dictionary of American History
Ref E174 .D52
Encyclopedia of American Economic History
Ref HC103 .E52
Encyclopedia of American Political History
Ref E183 .E5
Encyclopedia of American Social History
Ref HN57 .E58
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
Ref E169.1 E626
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Ref E740.7 .E53
Great Events From History: American Series
Ref E178 .M22
Oxford Companion to United States History
Ref E174 .O94 (print version)
Biography
American National Biography
Ref CT213 .A68
Dictionary of American Biography
Ref E176 .D564
Dictionary of American Military Biography
Ref U52 .D53
Notable American Women
Ref CT3260 .N574
Chronology
The American Years
Ref E174.5 .A54
Chronological History of United States Foreign Relations
Ref E183.7 .B745
The Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates
Ref E174.5.C3
Statistics
Historical Statistics of the United States
Ref HA202 .H57 (print version)
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Ref HA 202 .U5
Ancient and Medieval History
The Cambridge Ancient History
Ref D57 .C252
The Cambridge Medieval History
Ref D117 .C3
Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome
Ref DE59 .C55
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Ref D114 .D5
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Ref D114 .E53 (print version)
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Ref DE5 .O9
European History
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe
Ref HC 240 .C312
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Ref DJK 6 .E53
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Ref B802.E53 (print version)
Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000
Ref HN 373 .E63
The New Cambridge Modern History
Ref D208 .N4
Non-Western History
The Cambridge History of Latin America
Ref F1410 .C1834
Encyclopedia of African History
Ref DT20 .E53
Encyclopedia of Asian History
Ref DS31 .E53
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Ref F1406 .E53
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Ref DS4 .E53
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Ref DS35.53 .O95
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Search the following databases to locate citations and/or full text of journal articles. In some cases, the database will provide links to the full text of articles. If you see a  button next to an article of interest, click it to determine whether the journal is available in the Geisel Library or in full text via another electronic database. WebBridge will also help you request articles through Interlibrary Loan if they aren't available through our library. If there is no WebBridge button, search for the journal's availability using the Journal Finder. Journals listed as being in "Geisel Library Paper Holdings" are shelved alphabetically by journal title on the Lower Level of the library.
Core Resources
America: History & Life
This database provides abstracts to journal articles, book/media reviews, and dissertations with a focus on United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. (1964–present)
Historical Abstracts
This database provides abstracts to journal articles, books, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 to the present (excluding North America).
Additional Subject Resources
APh: L'Annee Philologique
This comprehensive index in classical studies, including the history of Greece and Rome, indexes articles in hundreds of scholarly journals, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings and provides brief abstracts. Articles written in many European languages are indexed, but the interface language of the database is English. (1959–present) Earlier volumes are available in paper and are located in the Indexes area of the Reference collection. User Guide (PDF) Journal list (English-language titles only) (PDF)
Handbook of Latin American Studies
This is a searchable online index to the academic literature of Latin American studies, with over 5000 new items added annually. The database includes journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in many disciplines, including history. (1935–present)
List of Journal Abbreviations
History Cooperative
This resource for historical research offers full-text articles from several key journals and conference proceedings, as well as providing historian's links and historical map collections. (Most, but not all, titles are accessible. Coverage varies by journal.)
International Medieval Bibliography ON CAMPUS ONLY
This searchable online version of the IMB provides comprehensive indexing of scholarly journals and conference proceedings in the interdisciplinary field of medieval studies. Bibliographic records are available for 4,500 periodicals, with quarterly updates ensuring access to the latest articles.
To open the database, click on the "Enter Databases" button and then on the "Go" button next to the database's name.
Iter
This bibliography pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700) consists of citations for journal articles (1842–present), books (1995–present), reviews, bibliographies, abstracts, and more. It also offers recent full-text articles of Renaissance Quarterly, Early Theatre, and Renaissance and Reformation. User Guide Journal list (PDF)
JSTOR
Providing full text of 400 scholarly journal titles, JSTOR covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, mathematics and others. Dates of coverage vary by journal, but generally each journal is available in its entirety from the beginning of its publication to within 3–5 years of the current issue. User Guide
Project MUSE
This database offers all full-text articles from over 100 peer-reviewed journals; subjects include humanities, arts, medicine, mathematics, social sciences, and more. (See Journal List for dates of coverage.)
Supplemental Resources
Academic Search Premier
A broad index providing abstracts and some full-text for a range of academic areas, including history.
Alternative Press Index (1991–present)
Alternative Press Index Archive (1969–1990)
Provides citations (some with abstracts) from over 250 alternative, radical, and international periodicals, covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802 - 1907)
Ref AI 3 .P7 1963
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1890 - 2000)
Ref Index Area
These two print indexes allow searching of articles from distant back issues of journals and periodicals, which can offer a contemporaneous perspective on historical events and figures.
Newspapers
Early American Newspapers, 1690–1876
This searchable database provides cover-to-cover text from hundreds of historic American newspapers. This includes 37 from New Hampshire, such as the Farmer's Cabinet (1802–1879), Freeman's Journal (1776–1778), New Hampshire Gazette (1756–1831), and New Hampshire Sentinel (1799–1847).
New York Times
This database provides full-text access to every page of the New York Times, from 1851 to 2003. The searchable collection includes digital reproductions, so that even advertisements and political cartoons from every available issue may be viewed. (1851–2003)
Times of London Digital Archive
This database provides full-text access to every issue of The Times (London) newspaper from 1785 through 1985, except for Sunday editions. The digital archive includes not only articles but also advertisements, editorials, obituaries, and pictures. It can be searched by keyword and date range, with options to limit to specific sections of the newspaper.
Other Newspapers
This library guide points you to newspapers in the reading room, online full-text newspapers, and newspaper databases, indicating the available years for each title.
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Search the library catalog to locate books in Geisel Library. Search by keyword if you are unsure of the title you are looking for. History books are located on the Main Level and Upper Level of the library in the D, E, and F call-number areas.
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European Countries
Eastern Europe, Russia
Asia
Africa, Australia, and Oceania
America and United States (National)
United States (Local) and Latin America
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Use WorldCat to search the collections of libraries worldwide. If you find a book in this database that is not owned by Geisel Library, you can request it from Interlibrary Loan with one click. Your book(s) will be available for pickup in the library within 7-14 days. Ask for help in using this database at the reference desk, in person, or online at Ask a Librarian.
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Primary sources are invaluable for providing a first-person perspective on events and people from the past. Documents such as diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper articles offer a window into the thoughts and actions of historical figures. To learn more about how to tap into these resources, see the guide on Finding and Using Primary Source Documents. The following is a selected list of primary source collections oriented toward research in the field of history.
Selected Primary Source Documents at Geisel Library
This is a partial listing of primary source materials available in microfiche/microfilm or print format at the library. Many other primary source holdings can be located by searching the catalog; see the guide cited above for suggestions.
Gateway Websites
American Memory
From the Library of Congress, the American Memory project is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress and other institutions. There are over 100 collections included in the project, which can either be searched with keywords or browsed by topic. Documentary highlights include A Century of Lawmaking (early government documents) and The Abraham Lincoln Papers, while other special collections are devoted to the Women's Suffrage Movement, Federal Writers' Project (1936-1940), and Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s.
Avalon Project
This massive undertaking by Yale University has digitized thousands of primary-source documents in the areas of law, history and diplomacy. Documents are organized into collections by century and topic. Notable are the Middle East documentary record and the World War II collection, among many others.
Edsitement
The National Endowment for the Humanities maintains this site with links to the best history, language arts and social sciences websites. In addition to primary sources, there are online lesson plans and other digital learning materials.
Google Book Project
Google has digitized large portions of several major university library collections and made them accessible through their search engine. Books not under copyright (including most published before 1922) can be read in their entirety, making this website a great resource for primary source material from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Repositories of Primary Sources
A directory of online primary-source collections that lists over 5,000 freely-accessible repositories, organized by country and state.
Online Collections
AMDOCS - Documents for the Study of American History
Important documents (mostly produced by the US government) from 1492 through the present, including treaties, Supreme Court decisions, major legislation, and the text of Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, among many other items.
The American Civil War Homepage
A general site on the American Civil War that includes links to images, photographs, and important documents.
The American Colonists' Library
A collection of links to primary source documents related to the American colonial experience, organized in chronological order. The website includes not only documents written by colonial leaders but also works by great thinkers who influenced early America.
American Journeys
This is a collection of eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement, with more than 18,000 pages of text, from sagas of Vikings in Canada to diaries of mountain men in the Rockies.
American Presidency Project
An impressive collection of presidential documents, including the text of press conferences, executive orders, and state of the union addresses. Most significant is its searchable and browseable database of the Public Papers of the Presidents, whose coverage extends from the present back through President Hoover.
American Slave Narratives
Read the complete interviews of thousands of former slaves, collected here; they are browseable and searchable by topic, names, place, or year of birth. Also at this site is more information about the WPA Federal Writers Project, responsible for the conducting the interviews in the 1930s.
Access restricted to Saint Anselm College Community.
Cold War International History Project
This digital collection maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International Center consists of a Virtual Archive of primary documents, organized thematically into collections such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and Sino-Soviet Relations.
Documenting the American South
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is an electronic collection that provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Five different projects make up the site: Southern literature; first-person narratives; slave narratives; the Southern Homefront, 1861–1865; the church in the Southern Black Community.
E-Text Modern English Collection
The University of Virginia has developed several excellent primary source collections online, including letters from the American Civil War, a large Thomas Jefferson document repository, and a searchable archive of the Federalist Papers.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
Links to online collections of digitized primary source documents, organized by Western European country.
Foreign Relations of the United States
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. This is an incomplete run from 1861-1960. It is a searchable database.
Historic Government Publications from World War II
From Southern Methodist University, this digital collection contains PDF copies of almost 200 documents, including 6,000 pages of pamphlets, posters, booklets, and photos from the World War II era.
History Matters
Over 1,000 primary documents, images, and audio interviews, including over 100 first-person narratives of average Americans in extraordinary times. Strong in the WWI period. A project of the Center for Social History and the New Media, and George Mason University. Also includes lesson plans and teacher resources in US History.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
This digital collection portrays the immigrant experience through a large number of online books, photographs, and manuscripts, including diaries and journals of 19th-century immigrants to the U.S.
In the First Person
An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Browse the collection by theme, date, or place, or use the keyword search feature. In addition to the vast quantity of text documents, several thousand audio and video files can be accessed.
Making of America – Cornell University
Making of America – University of Michigan
This digital library provides scanned images of the actual pages from primary sources in American social history, from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Look here if your research is in the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The Cornell site has full-text access to over 250 monographs and thousands of journal articles; the Michigan site has digitized over 9,000 books with 19th century imprints.
Access restricted to Saint Anselm College Community.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
In NARA's Archival Research Catalog, find sample digitized documents from all their major archival collections, which emphasize 20th century pictures and documents. Also visit America's Historical Documents to view digitized versions of U.S. national document treasures.
National Security Archive
Access online versions of declassified U.S. government documents grouped by subjects such as nuclear history, China and East Asia, and the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. These “electronic briefing books” highlight the most significant declassified documents on issues such as North Korea’s nuclear aspirations, genocide in Rwanda, and President Nixon’s Pentagon Papers case.
New Deal Network
The New Deal Network, from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI), is a database of primary source materials related to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. View photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents) from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and other sources.
Virtual Jamestown
A research and learning website about the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Primary source material includes laws, censuses, first-hand accounts, and letters from colonists.
Women Working, 1800-1930
This collection offers over 500,000 digitized pages of manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and photographs that shed light on women's role in the workforce during this period of American history.
World War I Document Archive
An online repository of primary-source documents from the Great War, whose focus is international in scope. Users can either search by keyword or browse the documents by year or type. Includes treaties, letters, memoranda, diaries, books, and commentaries, among other types of documents.
World War II Resources
Primary source materials on all aspects of the war. Includes the Pearl Harbor attack hearings, speeches by Roosevelt, diplomatic documents from Britain and France, and many other documents.
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Searching the World Wide Web can yield a vast amount of information, but in terms of quality and reliability, your results may be uneven at best. The ease and speed with which individuals can publish information on the web, regardless of accuracy or quality, makes it imperative that when doing research on the web you know how to evaluate the information you find. To learn more, see Judging What You Find.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
A well-selected set of primary and secondary resources, including both print and online materials. Resources can be accessed by state or through a sizeable topic index. The short bibliographies available on each topical page can provide a solid springboard for research.
Best of History Web Sites
A portal to over 1,000 history-related websites, specifically targeting sites with strong educational content or a research orientation. Links are generally organized by period or topic.
EHistory (Ohio State)
This website "consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps." The focus is on American history, including entire sections on the Civil War and Vietnam War.
Historical Census Browser
This online database provides easy access to state and county-level U.S. Census data for the period 1790-1960. Users can either explore individual variables within a given census year, or generate time-trend tables for variables organized by topics such as population, education, economy, and ethnicity.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
These sourcebooks of primary source texts are generally arranged by period and topic for easy browsing. A vast resource for teaching and researching world history.
Victorian Web
This website offers a comprehensive overview of Victorian England, with information such as excerpted texts, primary sources, and original essays organized by topic.
Voice of the Shuttle: History Resources
This website has a long history as an electronic gateway for humanities researchers, including an enormous listing of online history resources organized by country and time period.
World Wide Web Virtual History Library
One of the first and largest collections of links to online history resources, indexed by country, era and topic.
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See the library's How To Cite Your Sources guide for resources on how to properly cite research materials. Always confirm the style required by your instructor.
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