History: Home

perhaps our most popular resource for scholarly articles in history and related disciplines.

Fully searchable, scanned images of popular American periodicals, including advertising. Click for complete description and help.

Search for books and journal articles in anthropology, with links to Northeastern's full text subscriptions or ILL options.

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.

High-quality overview articles.

These e-books provide in-depth scholarly treatments of different regions of the world.

An update and expansion of summary census data: labor, law enforcement, population, military, and much more.

based on topic rather than country or time period, useful for themes and approaches, e.g. "Race and Gender Intersections", "Historical Archaeology" etc.

gives you a list of the most important works on key history topics.

learn the historical origins and meanings of words and phrases ("Jim Crow", "genocide", "antinomian", etc)

short biographies of American men and women who have shaped our history

Journal articles, some scholarly, mixed with news and encyclopedia entries. International in scope

Significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

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.

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.

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.