Databases for History
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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
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Key Databases
- Historical Abstracts
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- ArchiveGrid
- Indexes and provides access to over 700,000 collection records and nearly 30,000 collection finding guides for archival resources.
Additional Databases
- Accessible Archives
- A collection of databases containing primary newspaper records, including "Godey's Ladys Book 1830-1880," "The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800," "The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective," and "African American Newspapers: The 19th Century."
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Online
- Indexes articles, books, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada, 1990-present
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- Over 100,000 pages of memoirs, letters and diaries drawn from more than 500 sources, along with biographies and a comprehensive bibliography
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)
- Database of full text, reference material and Web links to French and Italian literature, including French texts, Italian texts prior to 1375, pamphlets and periodicals of the 1848 French Revolution, French and French-English dictionaries, the French Bible, and parallel Latin, English and German Bibles
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Indexes western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on the social sciences and humanities pertaining to all parts of Asia, 1971 to present
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500 to 1900
- Approximately 100,000 searchable and indexed pages of women's letters and diaries from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. A complement to the "North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950" database
- L'Année Philologique
- Indexes publications covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity. Based on L'Année Philologique print volumes 40-70. Supercedes the CD Database of Classical Bibliography and is used in conjunction with earlier printed volumes. Includes Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, religion, arts, mythology, music, science, archaeology, early Christian texts, papyrology, and epigraphy, 1969-1999
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
- Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America in the humanities and social sciences from the Library of Congress. Includes books, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and electronic resources. 1935-present, including contents of future print volumes.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Indexes articles and reviews on the Middle Ages and Renaissance from over 1,114 journals, and provides other scholarly resources, 1843 to present
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
- Approximately 154,000 searchable and indexed pages of letters and diaries drawn from more than 1,000 sources. A complement to the "British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500-1900" database
- Nineteenth Century Masterfile
- Indexes periodicals, books, newspapers, government documents, scientific papers, and portraits produced during the nineteenth century
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Indexes and abstracts more than 200 popular magazines published in the U.S., 1890 through 1982
- Victorian Database Online
- Indexes books, articles and dissertations on the British Victorian period (1830 - 1914), published from 1945 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- InfoTrac Web
- (Brandeis on-campus use only)
- Indexes and provides full text to thousands of journals and magazines in all fields, including academic disciplines, business, and health, 1980 to present
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
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