History

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Subject Databases

• America: History and Life
• Historical Abstracts

Some Related Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• African Periodical Literature Database
• L'Année philologique
• ARTFL Project
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
• Cairn
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Canadian Labour History Bibliography
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
• Education Index
• Cairn
• Erudit
• Eureka.cc (Biblio Branchée)
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies)
• Index to Military Periodicals
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• JSTOR
• Libris Canadiana
• Military and Intelligence Database
• National Newspaper Index
• Ontario Scholars Portal Philosopher's Index
  • Cambridge Suite (alternative access)
  • Oxford Suite (alternative access)
  • Project MUSE
• Revues.org
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984
• ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
• War & Terrorism Collection
• World History Collection
• WorldCat
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Archival Links

• ARCHEION, Ontario's Online Archival Information Network
• ArchiviaNet
• Archives of Ontario
• Canadian Archival Information Network
• Laurentian Archives
• Library and Archives Canada
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Primary Source Material

• 1871 - Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)
• 1881 Census of Canada
• 1901 Census of Canada
• 1906 - Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906
• 1911 Census of Canada
• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• 1930 US Census
• Archives Canada France Adobe SVG Viewer required (can be downloaded from this site)
• British Colonist, 1858-1910
• Canada Yearbook Historical Collection, 1867-1967
• Canada's Digital Collections
• Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides
• Canadiana Discovery Portal
• Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906
• A Century of Lawmaking for the New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875
• Champlain Society Digital Collection
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793 - 1980
• Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers
• Early Canadiana Online (ECO)
• Defining Gender
• Early Toronto Newspapers (1793-1867)
• Early English Books Online
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• Empire Club Speeches
• Empire Online
• Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert
• Globe & Mail (Historical)
• Google News Archive
• Google Newspapers
• Hein Online Sessions Law Library, inc. Canada 1792-
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• In the First Person: A Guide to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
• Internet Library of Early [British] Journals of the 18th and 19th Centuries
• InteLex Past Masters
• Laurentian's Microfilm Collection Inventory
• Making of America (Cornell)
• Making of America (Michigan)
• Mass Observation Online
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Memory of the World (UNESCO)
• New York Times (Historical)
• Nineteenth-century short title catalogue
• Old Bailey Online
• Ontario Veteran Community Archive
• Our Roots
• Peel's Prairie Provinces
• Slavery Abolition and Social Justice, 1490 - 2007

Some Internet Portals

• Best of History Websites
• BUBL Link: History
• History Online
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Research Aids

General

• eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

Book Reviews

• Book Review Digest
• Canadian Book Review Annual (on-campus use only)

Biographies

• Biographical scrapbooks : index
• Dictionary of American Biography (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. E 176 D563)
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Dictionary of National Biography (British) (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. DA 28 D47)

Dictionaries

• OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

Encyclopedias

• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Encyclopædia Britannica On-line
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
• Encyclopædia Universalis
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Oxford Companion to World Exploration
• Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
• Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

Maps / Atlases

• The Changing Shape of Ontario: A Guide to Boundaries, Names and Regional Governments
• Historical Atlas of Canada. (In Print - 2nd Floor: ATLAS G 1116 S1 H58)
• Map Collections at the USMA Library
• Maps and Pictures of Europe
• Ontario's History in Maps. (In Print - 2nd Floor: ATLAS G 1146 S1 G46 1984)
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Notetaking

• Scribe (computer notetaking)