Key resources
Journal Articles
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American Periodicals Series, 1741-1940 (ProQuest)Fully searchable, scanned images of popular American periodicals, including advertising. Click for complete description and help.
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AnthroSourceSearch for books and journal articles in anthropology, with links to Northeastern's full text subscriptions or ILL options.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (EBSCOhost)Search and link to periodical articles. Though not normally known as an index to scholarly content, there are a few scholarly sources included (eg Current, Monthly Labor Review, Science) in addition to popular and professional journals.
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Social Sciences/Arts and Humanities Citation IndexSearch scholarly books and articles, and examine the citation trail to find the most widely-cited works, view journal impact factors
Background and Statistics
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Cambridge Histories OnlineThese e-books provide in-depth scholarly treatments of different regions of the world.
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Historical Statistics of the United StatesAn update and expansion of summary census data: labor, law enforcement, population, military, and much more.
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International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition (2015)based on topic rather than country or time period, useful for themes and approaches, e.g. "Race and Gender Intersections", "Historical Archaeology" etc.
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Oxford English Dictionarylearn the historical origins and meanings of words and phrases ("Jim Crow", "genocide", "antinomian", etc)
People and Biography
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American National Biography Onlineshort biographies of American men and women who have shaped our history
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Biography in Context (Gale Cengage)Journal articles, some scholarly, mixed with news and encyclopedia entries. International in scope
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Oxford Dictionary of National BiographySignificant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.
Archives and Primary Sources
See specific regions and topics at the top of this guide for more sources
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ArchiveGridA database of archival material descriptions, including WorldCat records and finding aids harvested from the web.
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Center for Research LibrariesNortheastern is a member of this shared library of primary source material located in Chicago. Strengths include historic newspapers and magazines and international documents, reports, rare books, and dissertations. Some is digitized, some can be sent to you in print using interlibrary loan.
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Empire OnlineAn online library of primary source materials related to the history of empires from 1607. The focus is on essays and grey literature such as travel writings, missionary reports, maps and drawings, and less on official reports. There are some secondary sources including chronologies and scholarly essays.
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History Vault (Proquest)online archival collections on US history, mostly from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries. Notable: NAACP papers, records on the Woman Suffrage movement, oral histories from Ellis Island, US government commissions and records on the Weather Underground, the Kennedy Assassination, American Indian Movements and Wounded Knee, Watergate, and more.
Your Librarian
New and Noteworthy: February
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians
[More info and ebook link]
A Cambridge translation into modern English accessible to today's readers. Don't miss the hair-raising second year of the war for a description of life during the plague of Athens.
Finding Books
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Search Scholar OneSearchour catalog and discovery system for books, journal titles, articles, streaming media, more
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WorldCat (OCLC)Search books and more in libraries in North America and beyond, Links to ILL ordering.
LC call numbers and topics
Located on level 3 of Snell Library
D 1- 1075 General/Methods
DD 253-256. Germany/Holocaust
DF 10-289. Ancient Greece
DK Soviet Union & Russia
DS 1-DS 495. Middle East
DS 331-500. South Asia
DS 501- 937. East Asia
DS 520-560. Southeast Asia
DT Africa
E United States
E 100-300. Colonial America
E 456-655. US Civil War
F 1 - 1000 (New England F 1- 15) US Local/Regional
F 1001 - 1140. Canada
F 1201 - 3799. Latin America