History Resources

Reference Resources Books Articles Videos and Multimedia Web Resources Special Topics in History American Civil War Ancient History English Reformation (Fehler) Gender History of South Asia History 11 (Nair) Immigration & Ethnicity Issues in United States History Medieval Studies Modern South Asia Mughal History (Nair) - Note: this may take several minutes to load 19th Century American Primary Sources Social Studies Education South Carolina History 20th Century China History of Africa (Ching) Return to Research by Subject

Reference Resources
Oxford Reference Online: History	Includes the Dictionary of World History, Dictionary of British History, and other useful history resources.
Oxford African-American Studies Center	A comprehensive collection of scholarship focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 7,500 articles. The core content includes Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
Dictonary of Historic Documents	Reference Collection - D 9 .D525 2003
Chronology of World History	Reference Collection - D 11 .M39 1999
Dictionary of Concepts in History	Reference Collection - D 13 .R49 1986
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing	Reference Collection - D 14 .E53 1999
AHA Guide to Historical Literature	Reference Collection - D 20. A55 1995
Sources of Information for Historical Research	Reference Collection - D 20 .S64 1994
Bershire Encyclopedia of World History	Reference Collection - D 23 .B45 2005
Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World	Reference Collection - D 209 .E97 2004
Facts on File Yearbook	Reference Collection - D 410 .F3 1941-present
What Happened Where: A Guide to Places and Events in the Twentieth Century	Reference Collection - D 419 .C58 1997
Encyclopedia of American History	Reference Collection - E 174 .E53 2003
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History	Reference Collection - E 185 .E54 1996
Encyclopedia of Archaeology	Reference Collection - CC 110 .E54 1999
Hammond Atlas of World History	Atlas Room - G 1030 .H33 1999
Philips Atlas of World History	Reference Collection - G1030 .O92 2002
Times Atlas of World History	Atlas Room - G 1030 .T54 1993b

Articles
Humanities Abstracts	Humanities Abstracts indexes about 400 English language journals in a wide variety of subjects including history. Indexing goes back to 1984.
America: History & Life	America: History and Life provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada. It indexes over 2000 English language journals. Indexing goes back to 1964. This database also includes book and media reviews.
Historical Abstracts	Historical Abstracts covers world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present. It indexes academic historical journals in over 40 languages published since 1955.
History Resource Center	Reference sources, journal articles and primary documents of all areas of American History
Oxford African-American Studies Center	A comprehensive collection of scholarship focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 7,500 articles. The core content includes Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
International Medieval Bibliography	IMB is the most comprehensive index of medieval history resources available, covering 4500 journals. The database does not include the full text of articles. The journals covered are in various European languages, so you may wish to limit the language to English when searching.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance	Iter provides an in-depth index to over a thousand journals related to medieval and renaissance history, as well as selected books and other materials.
JSTOR	JSTOR is a full-text database of major scholarly journals going back their first issues, some of which appeared in the 19th century.
American Periodical Series	Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Reader's Guide Retrospective	This database indexes selected general interest periodicals (magazines, newspapers, journals), from 1890 to the 1980's. This is an excellent way to locate contemporary accounts of historical events. This database does not include the full text of the articles; however, most of the titles indexed are available in print form in the library.
New York Times Historical	This database includes the full image of all articles from the entire historical run of the New York Times from 1851 up to 5 years ago.
Washington Post Historical	Full-image of all articles including ads found in the Washington Post from 1877 up to 15 years ago.
Chicago Tribune Historical	Full-image coverage 1849-1985
Atlanta Constitution Historical	Full-image coverage 1868-1929
Times(London) 1785-1985	The archive covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Provides the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials and advertising.
History E-Journal List	An A to Z list of all online history journals available through the Furman University Libraries.

History Journals at Furman

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY. ALBION. AMERICAN HERITAGE. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. AMERICAN HISTORY (HARRISBURG, PA.). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY. ARCHIV FUR REFORMATIONSGESCHICHTE. ARCHIVE FOR REFORMATION HISTORY. ARCHIV FUR REFORMATIONSGESCHICHTE. BEIHEFT, LITERATURBERICHT. THE BLACK SCHOLAR. CANADIAN-AMERICAN SLAVIC STUDIES. REVUE CANADIENNE-AMERICAINE D'ETUDES SLAVES. CAROLINA COMMENTS. CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY. CURRENT HISTORY (NEW YORK, N.Y. : 1941). THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW. EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY. THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY. FOREIGN AFFAIRS (COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS). FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES. THE GEORGIA REVIEW. THE HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. THE HISTORIAN. HISTORIC PRESERVATION (WASHINGTON, D.C.). HISTORICAL JOURNAL (CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND). HISTORY (HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (GREAT BRITAIN)). HISTORY TODAY. THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY / INTERNATIONAL INSTITUUT VOOR SOCIALE GESCHIEDENIS, AMSTERDAM. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY (BLOOMINGTON, IND.). THE JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY. THE JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY. JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. THE JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES. JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY. JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES. THE JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY. THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY. THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY. JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS. JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY. MAGAZINE OF HISTORY (BLOOMINGTON, IND.). MEXICAN STUDIES = ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS. MODERN ASIAN STUDIES. THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW. OAH NEWSLETTER / ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS. PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW. PAST & PRESENT. PROGRAM OF THE ... ANNUAL MEETING / ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS. THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN. RENAISSANCE STUDIES. THE RUSSIAN REVIEW. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL. SLAVIC REVIEW. SOUTH EASTERN LATIN AMERICANIST. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. TRANSACTIONS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY. THE WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY.

Videos and Multimedia
Slavery and the Making of America Media DVD E 441 .S53 2004	A four part series on the history of slavery in the United States.
Great Speeches Media DVD PN 6121 .G73 2001	A series of DVDs that present famous speeches with introductions detailing the time, place and events surrounding them.
Civilisation Media Video CB69 .C58 1993	This seven part series produced by the BBC, discusses the history of Western Culture from the end of the Graeco-Roman world to the present. It includes discussions of art, literature, and music from each century covered.
When the Century Was Young Media Video D 421 .W43 1999	This five part series deals with the dramatic changes in the world at the beginning of the 20th Century.
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century Media Video D 521 .G73 1998	World War I was the first major catastrophe of the 20th century.
The American President Media Video E 176.1 .A43 2000	Ten one-hour documentaries that focus on different aspects of character and governing style of the men who have served as President of the United States.
The Century: Decades of Change Media Video E 741 .C46 1999	This series takes an era-by-era look at America's evolution during the turbulent 20th century.
The Century: Events that Shaped the World Media Video E 741 .C465 1999	Pivotal events of the 20th century that shaped the nation and defined America's role in the world.
The Furman Libraries have numerous videos on topics related to History. These videos and other media are listed in ALCUIN (Library’s Online Catalog.) After doing a subject or keyword search in ALCUIN choose the "Sort/Limit" option and then limit by type (video, sound recording, etc) or location (media collection.)

Web Resources
Furman University History Department
American Memory Historical Collection	This site, produced by the Library of Congress, is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies	Sponsored by Georgetown University, the Labyrinth is a guide to medieval studies resources on the Web. The site includes links to primary sources, images, organizations and current publications.
Documenting the American South	A digital publishing initiative of UNC-Chapel Hill that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
MOA Making of America	A digital library of primary sources, journal articles, and published books in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Government	Produced by the Yale Law School, this site provides access to primary sources (charters, declarations, documents) pertaining to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. The site covers sources from the pre 1800's to the present.
Historical Maps David Rumsey Collection	Historical Maps American Memory-Library of Congress
Historical Maps Varied sites	Public Papers of the Presidents

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