Guest Databases for History
Alphabetical list of databases:
A B C D E F G H I-J-K L M N O-P-Q R-S T U-V W-X-Y-Z
Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked “IN LIBRARY USE ONLY” can be searched exclusively
from the Public Access computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
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Academic Search Complete (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women’s studies, and other fields. |
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EBSCOhost
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African American Newspapers (1827-1998) (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s. |
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Readex / NewsBank |
| Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) | Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals |
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Gov |
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America: History and Life (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. | EBSCOhost | |
| American Memory Project | Gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections |
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Gov |
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American National Biography Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation. Published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. |
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Oxford University Press |
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ArchiveGrid (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. |
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OCLC |
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Bibliography of Native North Americans (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
BNNA is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. |
EBSCOhost
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Sources indexed include biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, volumes of literary criticism, and indexes |
Gale
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Book Review Digest Plus (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A reference database that provides review excerpts and book summaries for current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for all ages. Abstracting and indexing is included for more than 112,000 books, with more than 8,000 new records from 109 periodicals added per year. Review abstracts contain bibliographic indexing for further reviews. Book Review Digest is searchable by title, author, keywords, subject heading, ISBN, call number and more. Abstracts include age/grade level of children’s books and include the approximate number of words in the complete review, allowing users to search for any word or name in this field. |
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EBSCOhost |
| Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System | Computerized database from the National Park Service containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. Currently contains approximately 2.5 million soldier names from over 30 states and territories. Also includes regimental histories, significant battles, and other historical information | Gov | |
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Dallas Morning News Historical Archive (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A unique historical digital image collection accessible by keyword and date searching. It documents major events in Texas, the United States, and the world, providing valuable primary source information. Classified and display advertising, photos and graphics are also included. |
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NewsBank |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it is not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. |
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TexShare
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Dissertations and Theses (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Contains more than 2 million entries for doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Since 1997, new publications have been available electronically, and many publications can be ordered through the system for a fee. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Angelo State University faculty, students, and staff have free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available, of all ASU theses published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. |
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ProQuest |
| Dissertations and Theses in Texas | Hosted institutional repository service, developed by the the Texas Digital Library, which allows Texas institutions of higher learning to preserve and provide wide online access to their scholarly and pedagogic output. |
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Texas Digital Library |
| European Views of the Americas: 1493 - 1750 | Bibliographic database of European works that relate to the Americas. This database contains more than 32,000 entries and is an extensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. | Free/EBSCOhost | |
| GPO - FDsys | GPO’s Federal Digital system (FDsys) provides free online access to official Federal Government publications |
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Gov |
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Handbook of Texas Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture |
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TexShare
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HeritageQuest Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A research collection of over 25,000 family and local histories plus complete U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 to 1930 |
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ProQuest
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Hispanic American Newspapers (1827-1980) (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Searchable digital archive of Hispanic American Newspapers published between 1808-1980. |
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Readex / NewsBank |
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Historical Abstracts (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
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) | EBSCOhost | |
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Historical Christian Science Monitor (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Searchable digital archive offering full-text and full-image access to the newspaper’s complete backfiles from 1908 to 1995. |
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ProQuest |
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Historical Los Angeles Times (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Searchable digital archive offering full-text and full-image access to the newspaper’s complete backfiles from 1881 to 1986. |
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ProQuest |
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Historical New York Times (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Searchable digital archive offering full-text and full-image access to the newspaper’s complete backfiles from 1851 to 2005. |
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ProQuest |
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Historical Wall Street Journal (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Searchable digital archive offering full-text and full-image access to the newspaper’s complete backfiles from 1889 to 1991. |
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ProQuest |
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Historical Washington Post (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Searchable digital archive offering full-text and full-image access to the newspaper’s complete backfiles from 1877 to 1992. |
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ProQuest |
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History Cooperative (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Full-text database from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press. Once in the site ignore the login instructions and begin searching |
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History Cooperative |
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Humanities International Complete (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals covering worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. |
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EBSCOhost |
| Internet Modern History Sourcebook | Offers a diversity of source material in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of material pertinent to world cultures and global studies |
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Free |
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JSTOR (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Online archive of non-current issues of scholarly journals. For the most part, the time interval between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of these journals varies between 3 and 5 years. |
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JSTOR |
| Latin America Network Information Center | LANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Covers areas such as the social sciences, economy, governments, and history. Includes a Castro Speech Database |
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Free/ UT Austin |
| Making of America | A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. |
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Free / Cornell University |
| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project | Provides access to documents of Dr. King and historical information on the social movements in which he participated |
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Free / Stanford Univ. |
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MasterFILE Premier (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 315 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags |
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EBSCOhost
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The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800) (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This resource provides the reader with a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. |
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Accessible Archive |
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Texas Reference Center (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly. |
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EBSCOhost
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| U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum | The website of the Washington, D.C. research center and museum includes information on exhibits, workshops, fellowships, Holocaust-era assets and a searchable database of International Directory of Organizations in Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research |
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Free |
| Voice of the Shuttle | Annotated guide of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet | Free | |
| The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies | Official records of the Union and Confederate armies |
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Free / Cornell Univ. |
| World Factbook | Online version of the current edition of the Factbook, produced by the CIA |
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Gov |
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World History Collection (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. |
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EBSCOhost
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