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Articles (from journals)
America: History and Life (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (HW Wilson)
Indexes articles in the subjects of gerontology, history, international relations, journalism, law, linguistics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique)
[guide]
There is a useful guide to using this index at http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/lannee/ [more info]
Campus/Remote
Bibliographic Index Plus Full Text (HW Wilson)
Full text bibliographies on almost every topic help guide you in your search. [more info]
Campus/Remote
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Clase and Periodica (OCLC)
Index of Latin American journals, books, and more... [more info]
Campus/Remote
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (OCLC)
Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and... [more info]
Campus/Remote
HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) (Library of Congress)
A multidisciplinary bibliography of materials on all aspects of Latin American studies ... [more info]
Unrestricted
Index Islamicus (CSA)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
Full text for journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Project Muse (John Hopkins University Press)
An index of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts.
An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire... [more info]
Unrestricted
WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson)
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Articles (from magazines)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Alternative Press Index (OCLC)
Indexes alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Alternative Press Index Archive (OCLC)
Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from 1969-1990... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Black Studies on Disc (G.K. Hall)
Indexes periodicals by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry... [more info]
Carrier Lib. Reference Desk
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
Campus/Remote
WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson)
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Audio (Music, Spoken word , etc.)
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Internet
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
Encarta Africana (Microsoft Corp.)
A multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent ... [more info]
Reference Desk
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
Unrestricted
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Biography
American National Biography (Oxford University Press)
A biographical resource for notable people in American history with a database offering portraits... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale)
Indexes more than 15 million biographical sketches from reference books. Find a citation and then look in LEO to see if JMU Libraries has the reference book it is in. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (Oxford University Press)
Biographies of 55,000 men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past from the earliest times. No living person is included in the dictionary. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Books / Book Chapters
America: History and Life (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
[more info]
Internet
WorldCat (OCLC)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ACLS Humanities E-Book (American Council of Learned Societies)
Collection of over 2100 books of high quality in the humanities online ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique)
[guide]
There is a useful guide to using this index at http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/lannee/ [more info]
Campus/Remote
ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing. [more info]
Black Studies on Disc (G.K. Hall)
Indexes periodicals by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry... [more info]
Carrier Lib. Reference Desk
Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans... [more info]
Campus/Remote
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex) (Readex)
A collection of full-text digital books. Digital version of the Early American Imprints ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker: 1801-1819 (Readex)
A collection of 36,000 fully searchable digital books... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (OCLC)
Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and... [more info]
Campus/Remote
HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) (Library of Congress)
A multidisciplinary bibliography of materials on all aspects of Latin American studies ... [more info]
Unrestricted
Index Islamicus (CSA)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology
Searchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. [more info]
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts.
An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire... [more info]
Unrestricted
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)
Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts Online with Digital Dissertations (ProQuest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text for doctoral dissertations and master's theses... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Government Information
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Congressional Masterfile 1 (CIS)
Note that JMU has access to the full text of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition, which will eventually cover 1789 to 1980. See the listing for that Research Database for more information. [more info]
Reference Desk
GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC)
The printed catalogs to Government documents published from March 1939 to September 1992 are shelved in the Government Documents reference area (1st floor) of Carrier Library. [more info]
Campus/Remote
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
  An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Images
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: 1760-1900 (Readex)
Fully searchable facsimile editions of nearly 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed in colonial... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Internet
American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first... [more info]
Campus/Remote
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (The University of Chicago)
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Empire Online (1492-1962)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info]
Campus/Remote
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
LIFE Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. [more info]
Internet
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Legislative & Congressional Information
Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Congressional Masterfile 1 (CIS)
Note that JMU has access to the full text of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition, which will eventually cover 1789 to 1980. See the listing for that Research Database for more information. [more info]
Reference Desk
CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Researcher Plus Archive (CQ Press)
Full text reports on current and controversial issues in U.S. politics, health care, education, economics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Weekly (CQ Press)
In-depth reports on current issues facing the U.S. Congress, Senate, and House of Representatives. A complete wrap up on the week’s news... [more info]
Campus/Remote
GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC)
The printed catalogs to Government documents published from March 1939 to September 1992 are shelved in the Government Documents reference area (1st floor) of Carrier Library. [more info]
Campus/Remote
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
  An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Letters & Diaries
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs... [more info]
Campus/Remote
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (The University of Chicago)
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native... [more info]
Campus/Remote
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
Unrestricted
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of primary sources written by North American immigrants from 1800 to 1950 ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of letters and diaries reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington:  Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement from 1748-1799. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online (Alexander Street Press)
Experience the past through thousands of private writings and personal narratives... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Maps and Atlases
David Rumsey Map Collection (Cartography Associates)
The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials... [more info]
Internet
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Serial Set Maps 1817-1980 (Readex)
50,000 Historical maps from within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. [more info]
News Articles
Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Access World News (Readex)
Includes full text of Harrisonburg's Daily News-Record (4/28/1993 to present) and Staunton's Daily News Leader (6/22/1999 to present). [more info]
Campus/Remote
Alternative Press Index (OCLC)
Indexes alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Alternative Press Index Archive (OCLC)
Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from 1969-1990... [more info]
Campus/Remote
America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
Campus/Remote
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Full text and indexing for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Facts.com Reference Suite (Facts On File News Services)
Facts and overviews of historic events and issues since 1940. Content includes full text articles, essays... [more info]
Campus/Remote
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
LexisNexis Academic
This resource's interface will be updated in late December. To view the changes, please click here. Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information and more... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Nation Digital Archive (Nation Publishing Company)
According to a review in Magazines for Libraries, "The Nation is one of the most openly left-wing publications in existence," proud of its independence from any company or political party. [more info]
Campus/Remote
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote
U.S. Newspaper Program
The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort . . .
[more info]
Internet
Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Primary Sources
Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Access World News (Readex)
Includes full text of Harrisonburg's Daily News-Record (4/28/1993 to present) and Staunton's Daily News Leader (6/22/1999 to present). [more info]
Campus/Remote
America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: 1760-1900 (Readex)
Fully searchable facsimile editions of nearly 30,000 broadsides and ephemera printed in colonial... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Internet
American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first... [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
American Social History Online
A web tool for finding and using digital content from over 175 American Social History research collections.  A project of the Digital Library Federation. [more info]
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
Campus/Remote
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ArchiveGrid (OCLC)
Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories... [more info]
Campus/Remote
ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Provides the complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing. [more info]
Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans... [more info]
Campus/Remote
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
Campus/Remote
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Civil War CD-ROM : the War of the Rebellion (United States War Dept.) (Guild Press of Indiana)
Contains the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies consisting of battle reports... [more info]
Reference Desk
CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Historic Documents Online Library (CQ Press)
A full-text database of primary source documents. Each volume contains approximately one hundred documents highlighting the year's most important events and issues... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck-Healey)
This database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (Readex) (Readex)
A collection of full-text digital books. Digital version of the Early American Imprints ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker: 1801-1819 (Readex)
A collection of 36,000 fully searchable digital books... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (The University of Chicago)
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)
Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics.... [more info]
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Empire Online (1492-1962)
Full text primary source documents, including original manuscripts and printed material... [more info]
Campus/Remote
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
Unrestricted
Nation Digital Archive (Nation Publishing Company)
According to a review in Magazines for Libraries, "The Nation is one of the most openly left-wing publications in existence," proud of its independence from any company or political party. [more info]
Campus/Remote
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago... [more info]
Campus/Remote
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of primary sources written by North American immigrants from 1800 to 1950 ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of letters and diaries reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women ... [more info]
Campus/Remote
OAIster Database
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Oral History Online (Alexander Street Press)
This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington:  Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement from 1748-1799. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology
Searchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. [more info]
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 (Gale)
Full text of every book about the Americas published anywhere between 1500 and 1926... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
  An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]
Reference Information
Bibliographic Index Plus Full Text (HW Wilson)
Full text bibliographies on almost every topic help guide you in your search. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books in history. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Researcher Plus Archive (CQ Press)
Full text reports on current and controversial issues in U.S. politics, health care, education, economics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Weekly (CQ Press)
In-depth reports on current issues facing the U.S. Congress, Senate, and House of Representatives. A complete wrap up on the week’s news... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Encarta Africana (Microsoft Corp.)
A multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent ... [more info]
Reference Desk
Facts.com Reference Suite (Facts On File News Services)
Facts and overviews of historic events and issues since 1940. Content includes full text articles, essays... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Guide to Reference (ALA)
A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline... [more info]
Campus/Remote
History Resource Center: World (Gale)
A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, and images, maps and charts... [more info]
Campus/Remote
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) (Oxford University Press)
This database contains the entire text of the Oxford English Dictionary... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (Oxford University Press)
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Reports & Proceedings
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
Legislative and executive documents of the United States government... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Congressional Masterfile 1 (CIS)
Note that JMU has access to the full text of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition, which will eventually cover 1789 to 1980. See the listing for that Research Database for more information. [more info]
Reference Desk
CQ Press Electronic Library (CQ Press)
Searches CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Historic Documents, all in one... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Historic Documents Online Library (CQ Press)
A full-text database of primary source documents. Each volume contains approximately one hundred documents highlighting the year's most important events and issues... [more info]
Campus/Remote
CQ Press Researcher Plus Archive (CQ Press)
Full text reports on current and controversial issues in U.S. politics, health care, education, economics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Edition (Readex)
  An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Statistics & Datasets
Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia. Geospatial & Statistical Data Center)
Detailed U.S. census information by state and county from 1790-1960. [more info]
Internet
Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge University Press)
Historical Statistics of the United States from 1790 to 2000. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Contains records of nearly 35,000 trans-Atlantic slaving voyages made between 1514 and 1866... [more info]
Videos
LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
[more info]
Internet
Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
Encarta Africana (Microsoft Corp.)
A multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent ... [more info]
Reference Desk
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Streaming video of news from CBS (1968 to date) and CNN (1995 to date) plus indexing of television network news from all the major networks, 1968 to date. [more info]
Campus/Remote
  
Related Subjects
18th and 19th Century History
20th Century History
Africa, Asia, Middle East
Ancient and Medieval History (through 1450)
British & Irish History
Early Modern History (1450-1700)
European History
History of Science
Latin American History (including Carribean)
North American History
Other Regions
See more History Resources by type of information:
Articles (from journals)
Articles (from magazines)
Audio (Music, Spoken word , etc.)
Biography
Books / Book Chapters
Dissertations
Government Information
Images
Legislative & Congressional Information
Letters & Diaries
Maps and Atlases
News Articles
Primary Sources
Reference Information
Reports & Proceedings
Statistics & Datasets
Videos
History Librarian's Lists of Resources:
African History Databases
Age of Explorers: Indexes & Abstracts
American Civil War Databases
Indexes & Abstracts: Byzantine Empire
Contact the History Librarian:
Patricia Hardesty