History Research: Home

Northeastern University Libraries have become a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), vastly increasing access to important resources for research in all aspects of history.

For more information about CRL, please visit the CRL subject guide.

Articles from journals.  Search the JSTOR database, which is the most comprehensive of our resources for articles covering all aspects of history.

Books at Northeastern University Libraries.  Search in Scholar One Search, limiting your search to "Library Catalog."

Encyclopedia articles.  Search Cambridge Histories Online for scholarly articles.

Historical Newspaper articles.  Choose the region of the world you are searching from the tabs above.

Primary source materials.  Choose the region of the world you are searching from the tabs above.

American Periodical Series Online 1740-1940  Over 1,000 magazines, and newspapers published between 1740-1940. 

JSTOR  Full text of 100s of journals in most disciplines, including history.  In some cases, current 3 years of articles not included.

Project Muse  Many full text, academic journals, including in history.  Coverage from 1994 to date.

Web of Science.  This database covers all disciplines, not just science.  Useful for citation tracking or citation analysis. 

For books, print and electronic, owned by Northeastern University Libraries, search Scholar OneSearch by author, title, or keyword.  Or, browse the print collection on the 3rd floor by call number. 

               General History                 D1-D1075

               European History               DA1-DR2285

               Middle East &  South Asia   DS1-DS495

               East Asian History              DS501-DS937

               African History                   DT1-DT671

               US History                        E1-F975

               Canadian History               F1001-F1140

               Latin American History        F1201-F3799

3rd floor reference books include specialized history encyclopedias, dictionaries, and biographical listings.

For finding and requesting books unavailable at Snell Library, please check WorldCat Local.

Note: See the tab above for finding history books on the web.

Cambridge Histories Online is a major online reference and research collection, covering all geographic areas and all time periods. The articles are scholarly, with excellent bibliographic listings at the end of the individual articles. 

Archives and Special Collections

Department of History

Humanities Center

Writing Center

Bancroft Prize 2016

• Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood by Deborah A. Rosen  
• Madison's Hand: Revisiting the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
• The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast by Andrew Lipman

National Book Award 2016

• America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History Andrew Bacevich (nominated) on order
• Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Viet Thanh Nguyen (nominated) on order
• Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X Kendi (nominated)
• The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship Patricia Bell-Scott (nominated)
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America Andres Resendez (nominated) on order
• The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Manisha Sinha (nominated)

Pulitzer Prize 2016

•  Custer's Trials by T.J. Stiles (winner-history)  
•  Marching Home: Union Veterans by Brian Jordan (finalist)   
•  Target Tokyo by James McScott (finalist)  
•  The Pentagon's Brain: an Uncensored History of DARPA by Annie Jacobsen (finalist) on order
•  Black Flags: the Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick (nonfiction winner)  
•  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction finalist)