History, Religion, & Philosophy

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• All Humanities

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is a database of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on a wide range of subjects including the humanities, social sciences, language and literature, business, and education, among others. Many of the articles in ASP are available full-text.

FRANCIS

FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, religion, archaeology, geography, linguistics, and sociology.

Humanities Abstracts

Includes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs from hundreds of periodicals. Indexing dates back to the 1980s.

JSTOR Journal Archive

Stores over one thousand scholarly journals in full-text format from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups. For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today's date are available in full-text.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100-percent full-text, online access to more than 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

• History

EBSCO Databases in History

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research in history. Resources include America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts. You will see a short description of both databases, and you may choose to search only the database that is most suitable to your research.

American History in Video

With 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion, this video collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

American Periodical Series Online

Full page images of more than 1,000 periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and other historically-significant periodicals.

Augustana Observer

The Augustana Observer, Augustana's student newspaper, covers the years 1902-present and is an invaluable resource on the history of Augustana College.

Augustana Yearbook

Provides the Rockety-I, Augustana's yearbook, from 1900 to 2004, its last year of publication.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

References western-language journal articles, books, and book chapters published since 1971 about all parts of Asia. The BAS is particularly strong in the humanities (including history) and social sciences.

Black Studies in Video

This collection features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.

Clase & Periodica

A database of scholarly journals from Latin America and the Caribbean and published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. These journals specialize in science, technology, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Filmakers Library Online

Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America, consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.

HarpWeek

This database enables you to directly experience the richness and historical significance of Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. Coverage extends from 1857-1912. Full text of the magazine from the Civil War era, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age is available.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

Database of journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI covers the social sciences and humanities.

In the First Person

Provides the full-text of personal narratives in English from around the world, including diary entries, letters, and oral history. (About 25% of the material in this database is copyright-protected and cannot be accessed for free. Use the Search Documents advanced search to limit to free products only.)

ITER

ITER is a database of published materials relating to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, ITER is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters); New York City; and Tempe, Arizona.

LexisNexis Academic Universe

Provides access to the full-text of newspapers from across the United States and the entire world. Lexis-Nexis is also excellent for information on legal cases, public figures, and countries across the world.

New York Times

The Historical New York Times offers full text and image coverage of the newspaper from 1851 to 2009. For access to more recent NYT articles, use LexisNexis (covers 1980-present).

Newspaper Archive

Newspaper Archive, one of the largest historical newspaper databases, contains millions of pages from American newspapers published 1753 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date; you may also browse by location.

Newspaper Source

Full-text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers, and selected full-text for nearly 400 regional U.S. papers. Includes full-text of television and radio transcripts. Updated daily.

PRISMA

PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish-, Portuguese- and English-language content. Coverage includes anthropology, business and economics, history, literature, political science and sociology.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online

This collection of full-text primary sources includes the following databases:

Oral History Online
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries
Black Thought and Culture
Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the Antiquarian Society
American Civil War Letters and Diaries
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries

Women and Social Movements

Contains documents from 1769-present pertaining to women and social movements; new content added annually. This database is organized into "document projects," which pose a question (e.g., How Did Women Participate in the Underground Railroad?) and present a collection of documents to address that question.

• Religion

EBSCO Databases in Religion

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research in religion. Resources include ATLA Religion Index, Old Testament Abstracts, New Testament Abstracts, and Philosopher's Index. You will see a short description of each database, and you may choose to search only the database(s) that are most suitable to your research.

Encyclopaedia of Islam

The most important and comprehensive reference resource on Islam, in an electronic edition. Limited to three simultaneous users.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

L'Année Philologique

Database of articles, essays, and conference papers on subjects from the classical time period. Includes references to articles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Searches may be limited to one or more of these languages.

BAS (Biblical Archaeology Society) Online Archive

Full-text database covering publications of the Biblical Archaeology Society, including the Biblical Archaeology Review (1975-present), and numerous conference proceedings.

Review of Biblical Literature

The Review of Biblical Literature is a source of book reviews on multi-author volumes, reference works, biblical commentaries, dictionaries, bible translations, and books for the biblical studies classroom from 1996 onwards.

• Philosophy

Philosopher's Index

Philosopher's Index covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. It is the most thorough index on the subject and contains research published since 1940.

L'Année Philologique

Websites

American Memory

American Memory provides free access to digitized images and recordings of primary source documents from throughout United States history. Sponsored by the Library of Congress, American Memory contains materials from LoC and other institutions. It is an excellent place to start searching for primary documents on U.S. history on the Internet.

Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)

ARDA is a huge collection of national and international data, largely but not completely numerical, about religion. Provides information about U.S. denominations and congregational membership as well as religious profiles of various countries, including both demographic information and, in some cases, public opinion data.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

This site, from the Library of Congress, allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Encyclopaedia Iranica

This is the online version of Encyclopaedia Iranica, a peer-reviewed resource covering all facets of Iranian studies, including religion, history, culture, and more.

Making of America

This digital library of primary sources in American social history contains books and journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction, covering subjects in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Making of America is a collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan and houses primary source material from both institutions.

Perseus Digital Library

The Perseus Digital Library consists primarily of materials - textual and visual - on ancient Greece and Rome. Other areas covered include early modern England and 19th century America.