Subject Guides: History: Home

Key resources

Journal Articles

JSTOR
perhaps our most popular resource for scholarly articles in history and related disciplines.
American Periodicals Series, 1741-1940 (ProQuest)
Fully searchable, scanned images of popular American periodicals, including advertising. Click for complete description and help.
AnthroSource
Search for books and journal articles in anthropology, with links to Northeastern's full text subscriptions or ILL options.
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.

Social Sciences/Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Search scholarly books and articles, and examine the citation trail to find the most widely-cited works, view journal impact factors

Background and Statistics

Britannica Academic (Encyclopedia Britannica)
High-quality overview articles.
Cambridge Histories Online
These e-books provide in-depth scholarly treatments of different regions of the world.
Historical Statistics of the United States
An update and expansion of summary census data: labor, law enforcement, population, military, and much more.
International Historical Statistics (Palgrave Connect)
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.
Oxford Bibliographies
gives you a list of the most important works on key history topics.
Oxford English Dictionary
learn the historical origins and meanings of words and phrases ("Jim Crow", "genocide", "antinomian", etc)

People and Biography

American National Biography Online
short biographies of American men and women who have shaped our history
Biography in Context (Gale Cengage)
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Journal articles, some scholarly, mixed with news and encyclopedia entries. International in scope
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Significant, 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

ArchiveGrid
A database of archival material descriptions, including WorldCat records and finding aids harvested from the web.

Center for Research Libraries
Northeastern 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.
Empire Online
An 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.
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.

New and Noteworthy: October

Dawnland (film)
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Powerful story of Indigenous child removal in the US, and the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people. Told in the context of the US's first official truth and reconciliation commission. 2019 Emmy-winning film.

Finding Books

Search Scholar OneSearch
our catalog and discovery system for books, journal titles, articles, streaming media, more

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

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