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History Databases

Name Description
America: History and Life
Date range
1964-current

History of the United States and Canada, comprised of over 490,000 citations in over 2,000 journals dating back to 1964. For World history back to 1450, see Historical Abstracts.

Historical Abstracts
Date range
1450-current

Provides coverage of over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide and serves as a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Date range
1975 - present

describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

Name Description
ACLS Humanities E-Books
Date range
Dates vary

Offers a searchable collection over 1700 full-text humanities books, as well as reviews.

Ad*Access
Date range
1911-1955

Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines.

Adam Matthew TRIAL (March 30, 2012 - April 30, 2012)

Adam Matthew Education publishes digital primary source collections for colleges and universities. Based in Chicago, AMe is the North American arm of the Adam Matthew Group and benefits from the same award-winning collections and dedication to customer service that has defined Adam Matthew since 1990. 'Experience the Original' and see how these online resources can transform teaching and research at your institution.

Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals
Date range
1990-current

The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

American History In Video
Date range
1890 to Present

American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period. In addition to the ?officially received? perspectives offered by newsreels, this collection includes some 200 hours of rare, hard-to-find, and diverse perspectives as captured in a wide range of short films. Alongside the contemporaneous materials are some 750 high-quality documentaries from video content producers such as The History Channel that Covering the full gamut of American history from the pre-Colonial period through the twentieth century.

American Memory
Date range
1450-current

Library of Congress historical collections online, comprised of written and audio-visual materials, with roughly 120 collections in all subject areas.

American Song
Date range
1750 - 1960

American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 763 albums, equaling 12,542 tracks.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI)
Date range
1980-current

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies
Date range
400-1500 AD

Includes: International Medieval Bibliography, Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale, and International Directory of Medievalists. Brepolis is a comprehensive index for Medieval Studies. The online database comprises over 300,000 records. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 400-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

C-SPAN Video Library
Date range
1987- present

The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming. It contains every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours.

Cambridge Journals Online
Date range
Dates vary

Full text access to Health Sciences and Social Sciences titles from Cambridge University press.

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

The database will initially provide links to hundreds of manuscripts, which we expect quickly to grow to thousands. Basic information about the manuscripts is fully searchable, and users can also browse through the complete contents of the database.

Constitutions of the Countries of the World and Constitutions of the United States: National and State
Date range
Dates vary

Offers access to English language translations of the current constitutions of 187 countries, with scholarly commentary and citations to secondary works. Historical documents (usually earlier constitutions) in English translation are available for many countries. Also includes up-to-date constitutions for the United States (with commentary) and all 50 U.S. states, plus 15 U.S. territories. Historical documents include proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution and earlier constitutions of many U.S. states.

CQ Global Researcher
Date range
Current

CQ Global Researcher provides in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, these reports make use of such popular sections as "current situation," "pro-con," and a new feature called "voices from abroad."

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
Date range
1639-1800

Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans

Economist Historical Archive
Date range
1843-2003

Contains full text of The Economist magazine from 1843 to five years before the present. It includes full color images and exportable financial tables, and allows searching of photographs, advertising, tables, maps, supplements, or commentary.

eHRAF Archaeology
Date range
Dates vary

A cross-cultural database containing information on the world's prehistory.

HLAS Online
Date range
1936-current

The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Date range
1907-1984

Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.

In The First Person
Date range
Dates vary

In the First Person is an index which provides limited full-text access to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.

JSTOR
Date range
Dates vary

Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Left Index
Date range
1982-current

Guide to literature of leftist and radical media, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Date range
Dates vary

Large database covering federal and state court opinions, statutes, and regulations. Also has extensive coverage of news publications, news transcripts, and company information.

LexisNexis Congressional
Date range
1789 - Present

Includes Serial Set, CRDC Historical, Statutes at Large, and Congressional Indexes from LexisNexis.

LexisNexis Statistical

Drexel no longer subsribes to Lexis Nexis Statistical. For questions or comments about this change, please send feedback to The Suggestion Box.

Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Date range
1600-1926

Contains full text of more than 10,000 accounts of civil and criminal trials published between 1600 and 1926, including trial transcripts, briefs, transcripts of oral arguments, records of legislative and administrative proceedings, arbitration records, and popular accounts of trials.

Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature
Date range
1450-1850

Collection of more than 61,000 full-text books and 466 periodicals on business and economics, published from 1450-1850.

Nation Digital Archive
Date range
1865 to Present

all Nation articles from July 1865 through the present

New York Times (Current)
Date range
1980 - Present

Full text of the New York Times from 1980 to present (no images). Full text of New York Times Magazine and New York Time Book Review from 1997 to present.

New York Times (Historical)
Date range
1851 - 2003

Full Text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 - 2003, including original images.

Newton Project

The Newton Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to making his unpublished and published works freely available online. Over 4.8 million words are currently available and more are on the way.

Project Muse
Date range
Dates vary

Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Web of Knowledge (ISI)
Date range
1980-present

ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.

WorldCat
Date range
1200-current

Records for materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. WorldCat offers holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.

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