History Databases

Coverage: This database offers the full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Sources: See complete list of sources.
Dates covered: Varies by title.
Subscription service: EBSCO.

Coverage: This is a greatly expanded version of a 5-volume reference set standard in American libraries. Bringing together statistics from over 1000 sources, this set covers U.S. population, work and welfare, economic performance, governance and international relations. It includes statistics on thousands of topics such as slavery, migration, Native Americans, poverty, health, prices, crime and even the Confederate States of America. Essays by recognized experts place the numbers in historical context. Browse an index or search by keyword. Users can also graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
Sources: Over 1,000.
Dates covered: Varies by document.
Subscription service: Cambridge University Press.

Coverage: JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a journal archive that holds the complete digitized collections of scholarly journals within several large collections. The collections cover a wide variety of topics in the arts, sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. All articles are included full text. Users can search the entire set at once or search subsets of journals by broad subject disciplines.

 

JSTOR does not include current journal issues. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, the so-called "moving wall" between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.

 

Read JSTOR FAQs, about the Moving Wall and for more information, see Links to Recent Content.
Sources: See complete alphabetical list of journals. Browse complete list of journals by subject discipline.
Subscription service: JSTOR.