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 History Internet Resources
Selected and updated by reference librarians to support History courses at TC3. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.
Getting Started
Databases
The TC3 Library subscribes to a number of databases, including the following history-related databases:
- ACLS Humanities E-Books - Includes over 1500 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching.
- HarpWeek (1857 - 1865): The Civil War Era - Full-text, full-image version of Harpers Weekly Magazine covering the years 1857 - 1865: The Civil War Era.
- New York Times Historical (1851-2003) - Full-image archive that includes the entire run of the New York Times from 1851-2003. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. Also includes display and classified ads, comics and cartoons photos, maps, graphics, editorials and commentary.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States (1600-2000) - Edited by Kathryn Sklar and Thomas Dublin of the State University of New York at Binghamton, this women's history database contains books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting women's activism. (Available to TC3 Students and Staff only)
Ancient & Medieval History
Texts, Documents & Primary Sources - United States
- AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
- American President
- Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- A Chronology of US Historical Documents
- Colonial Connecticut Records
- Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
- Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature
- Digital History
- Documenting the American South
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
- Early Americas Digital Archive - "Collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."
- Early Canadiana Online - Note: you do not have to log in.
- Fire & Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
- Historical Census Browser - U.S. census data from 1790-1960.
- In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
- In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives - Indexes more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world.
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook - There's also a Ancient History Sourcebook and a Medieval Sourcebook
- Making of America - Extensive digital library of nineteenth century books and journals. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections; the Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900, "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan.
- National Archives and Records Administration - Use the Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
- New Deal Network
- Our Documents
- Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
- Presidential Libraries - The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum has digitized over 13,000 papers and 1,000 photographs.
- Presidential Papers - Full-text access to the papers of George Washington , Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.
- U.S. Army Military History Institute - With alphabetical and chronological lists of documents.
Documents & Primary Sources - Europe
Journals
Tompkins Cortland Community College Library subscribes to a number of Electronic Databases which provide access to abstracts or full-text articles from journals and newspapers. You can also consult our index of Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings. The TC3 Library subscribes to the following history-related periodicals: American Heritage, American Historical Review, Current History, Historian, Journal of Negro History and New York History.
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Reference
Immigration & Ethnic Studies
Labor History
Local History
Women's History
Last update: Monday, March 31, 2008
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