History Internet Resources

Getting Started

• Search Engines and Directories
• American and British History Resources on the Internet
• History Matters
• Librarians' Index to the Internet: History Topics
• WWW Virtual Library - History

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

• Ancient Greek World
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• History of Herodotus
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History - Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
• Perseus Digital Library
• World of the Vikings

Texts, Documents and 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
• 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• A Chronology of US Historical Documents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
• 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 and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
• Historical Census Browser - U.S. census data from 1790-1960.
• In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
• 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.
• U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian: Historical Documents - Provides access to the extensive Foreign Relations of the United States, the "official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity". Includes:
  Kennedy Administration
  Johnson Administration
  Nixon-Ford Administrations

Documents & Primary Sources - Europe

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
• European History Primary Sources
• Library of Iberian Resources Online

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.

• American Historical Review - Table of Contents
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• History Today
• Journal of American History
• Prologue - Quarterly Publication of the National Archives and Records Administration

Locating Books

• Amazon.com
• Cornell University Library Catalog
• Library of Congress Online Catalog
• Libweb - Library WWW Servers
• Lib-web-cats - Directory of libraries and online catalogs
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• State Library Web Listings - Library of Congress
• WorldCat - TC3 students and staff only

Citing Sources

• Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
• Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Turabian Style Guide

Maps

• Historical Maps Online
• Historic USGS Maps of New England
• Library of Congress Map Collection
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps

Media

• BBC
• History Channel
• National Public Radio
• Newslink
• PBS

Organizations

• American Historical Association
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• Organization of American Historians

Places

• National Historic Landmarks - National Park Service
• National Register of Historic Places
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• World Heritage List

Reference

• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Data on the Net
• Political Graveyard
• Twentieth Century Timeline
• U.S. Census Bureau

Immigration & Ethnic Studies

• Ellis Island
• H-Net: Migration and Ethnicity
• Immigrant Women, 1945 to the Present (Bibliography)
• Immigration and Naturalization (I&N) Historical Reference Library - In the Legislative History 1790-Present there is a list of all major US immigration and naturalization laws, with their legal citation, and a link to a list of each law's major provisions.
• Immigration and Ethnic History Society - Has Ethnicity and Migration Links.
• Immigration History Research Center - University of Minnesota
• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 - Harvard University Library collection includes "approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections."
• Literature on Women Immigrants to the United States - Dorothhea Schneider, March 2003

Labor History

• AFSCME LaborLinks - Includes Women's Labor History
• Economic Policy Institute (EPI) DataZone
• Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies - University of Washington
• Heroes of American Labor
• Labour History
• Reference Sources in U.S. Labor Studies
• Samuel Gompers Papers
• Triangle Factory Fire
• U.S. Labor History

Local History

• Canal Society of New York State
• New York GenWeb Project
• New York State Library
• Oneida Community Collection
• Voice of the People: Daily Life in Antebellum Rural Delaware County New York Area - Primary source documents.

Women's History

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Discovering American Women's History Online - "Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century."
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection - Special Collections Library, Duke University
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 - Library of Congresss collection "consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign."
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• Places Where Women Made History: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
• Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture - Duke University, Special Collection Library
• 300 Women Who Changed the World - Encyclopædia Britannica
• Voices of Feminism Oral History Collection - Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College.
• VOAHA: Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive - California State University, Long Beach
• Women and Social Movements in the United States - "Collection currently includes 91 document projects and archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,060 primary authors."
• Women Working: 1810-1930 - "Focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images."

Last update: Friday, April 16, 2010