History Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Yvonne Mulhern
Reference Department - Office 110B
phone: 254-968-9934
email: mulhern@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing at reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
Archive of Americana - A family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries which includes: American State Papers, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, U. S.Congressional Serial Set, and the Dallas Morning News Historical Archive.
Dissertations and Theses - Full Text - includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than 1.7 million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.
Eighteenth Century Collection - a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm™. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Handbook of Texas - This is the encyclopedia of Texas. The full-text electronic version of the reference work.
History Cooperative - Founded by The American Historical Association, The Organization of American Historians, The University of Illinois Press, and The National Academy Press, this database is adding several historical journals each year and is adding audio clips, digitized archives, and other material to help history "come alive."
In the First Person - is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals they indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world.
JSTOR - is a database which includes full text journals in a number of different subjects. Coverage varies for different journals and includes issues of journals from the early 20th century, but does not include current material.
Lexis Nexis - Try Lexis Nexis "Reference" for the full text of historically important Polls and Surveys.
New York Times Historical Newspaper - includes the whole run of the New York Times Newspaper from 1851 to 2001 and allows for viewing the the whole page at once.
Periodicals Contents - The indexing for this database goes back over 200 years, but it does not come up at the present time. Great contemporary coverage for modern history topics and a link to JSTOR make this database one of the best for historical research.
Project Muse - provides full text online access to over one hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Additional information may be obtained using the broad topic databases, such as Academic Search Complete.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by Category (Subject).
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by title.
- METALIB: search multiple subject specific databases at once
- INTERNET LINKS: including Ancient History, Canadian, European, Latin American, Texas and the West, United States, and world history.
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