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HIST 540 - Library Resources

Online Collections of Primary Sources

Available from the library's home page, Databases by Title, http://www.libraries.psu.edu/eres/PSU_azlist.html#azlist

American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1760-1900
ARTFL -- About 2,000 French works mostly from 1700-1900. Includes some non-fiction
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts -- Works from the 1500's-1700's
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation - 16th and 17th Century works
Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 - Works published in the U.S. colonies Continues: Early American Imprints II, 1801-1819
Early English Books Online -- Books published in the U.K from 1475-1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - books in the U.K from 1701-1800
Empire Online, 1492-1969 - mostly British documents
North American Women: Letters and Diaries
PastMasters - Full text of important works in philosophy
Women's History Online, 1543-1945 - mostly after 1800, but some earlier

Selected Microform Collections

News and Microforms Library
Microfinder

Africans in the New World,1493-1834
Early Western Books, 1500-1599: The Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean
English Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320-1832, in the British Museum
Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic Literature (books published before 1850)
OPIE Collection of Children's Literature (about 800 pre-1800 imprints)
Published American Colonial Records
Royal Society (Great Britain). Early Letters and Classified Papers, 1660-1740
Sex and Sexuality, 1640-1940 (mostly British)
Slavery Pamphlets (mostly British and U.S.)

Early Periodical Literature

British Periodicals (Full-text from roughly 1680-1930)
Early American Periodicals Index to 1850 (microfilm index covers1730-1860)
Early English Newspapers (micro collection, roughly 1600-1800)
Eighteenth Century Journals Online (Full-text of British sources)
Times of London Digital Archive, 1785-1985
IDZ Index of German Journals, 1750-1815

For more consult: “Early Periodical Indexes : Bibliographies and Indexes of Literature Published in Periodicals before 1900”

Scholarly History Articles

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/articlesdatabases.html

America: History and Life (U.S. and Canadian history)
Historical Abstracts (World history from 1450-present)
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Women's Studies International
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Hispanic American Periodicals Index
International Index to Black Periodicals
Francis (European periodicals, focus on French language sources)
IBZ (European periodicals, focus on German Language sources)
Periodicals Index Online (covers many disciplines, but is not current)

Databases in other Disciplines

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/eres/gensubjlist.html

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Art Index
ATLA Religion Database
Philosopher's Index
PsycInfo (articles in Psychology Journals)

The databases Digizeitschriften, History Cooperative, JSTOR, MUSE, and Periodicals Archive Online include the FULL-TEXT of selected History journals.

Bibliographies provide a list of sources on a topic or region. A few to try:

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Bibliographie Annuelle de l'histoire de France . 1955-present
C18-L: Resources for 18th Century Studies Across the Disciplines, http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/
Early Modern Bibliographies, http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/embiblios.htm
The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography
International Bibliography of Historical Sciences
Quellenkunde der Deutschen Geschichte : Bibliographie der Quellen und der Literatur zur Deutschen Geschichte

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