LibGuides: History Research: History Research

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Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window Encyclopedias and specialized e-book reference sources for business, communications, criminal justice, education, environmental sciences, finance, history, homeland security, literature, political science, psychology, sciences, and sociology. Includes full-text articles in multiple literature encyclopedia series including Drama for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Features content from hundreds of reference books in a broad range of subjects.

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Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary database with 10,000+ full-text journal. Includes a combination of academic journals (scholarly/peer reviewed), magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos. Disciplines range from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, women's studies, zoology and more. #ebsco
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Gale in Context: U.S. History This link opens in a new window Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources.
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window This 5 volume ebook provides a comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources recording every aspect of the history of the United States from population to prices; from voting patterns to Vietnam veterans; from energy to education; from abortions to zinc and everything in between.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Includes full-text journal coverage in humanities, social sciences and the sciences.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, the Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. #ebsco
World History in Context This link opens in a new window History collection of reference works, periodical articles, maps, primary documents, video, and audio moving chronologically from antiquity to the present.
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean This link opens in a new window Analyze the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period.

Streaming Video

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online features a single, fully integrated platform, offering access to tens of thousands of full-length streaming video titles. Virtually every video in the collection is fully transcribed in addition to being indexed for subjects, people, places, release date, language, publisher, and video type.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Streaming videos that covers a a wide range of topics including social sciences, arts and humanities, science, technology, archival film and newsreels and more.
American Newsreels in Video This link opens in a new window American weekly newsreel produced by the U.S. Office of War Information from 1942 to 1946 plus more than 200 hours of content from Universal Studios’ biweekly series that ran from 1929 to 1946
American History in Video This link opens in a new window Streaming video collection providing content available online for the study of American history.

Find Primary Source Material

Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window Archives Unbound is a suite of collections, each devoted to a particular topic, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The collections include primary, unpublished historical documents from both private and public collections.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States This link opens in a new window Selection of primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

Digital Public Library of America DPLA connects to collections held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.
Haithi Trust A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Find Newspaper & Weeklies Articles

Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window Complete full-text content of local and regional state news, activities and business. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Chicago Tribune Historical This link opens in a new window Full page and article images from the very first issues, 1890 to 1984. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
New York Times (create an academic pass) This link opens in a new window Using a valid CLC email account, create an account for full access to the NYT from 1851-present.
Additional information available: http://researchguides.clcillinois.edu/nytpass
Harper's Weekly This link opens in a new window Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912, contains editorials, news stories, illustrations, cartoons and advertisements from this era.