History Resources
Contents- Books
- Dissertations
- Journal Articles
- Primary Sources
- Louisiana History Resources
- Statistics
- Images
- Atlases and Maps
- Historical Associations and Organizations
- Selected History Web Resources
- BOOKS
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Cambridge Histories Online
An online compendium of every volume in the renowned Cambridge histories series. Volumes are grouped under topical headings for easy access and browsing.WorldCat
Search the collections of local libraries and of libraries around the world. To request items not owned by LSU Libraries, use the LSU Libraries Interlibrary Borrowing link below.WorldCat Local
WorldCat Local allows you to search the LSU Libraries collections and the collections of libraries worldwide simultaneously.LSU Libraries Interlibrary Borrowing
Request books and other materials not in the collections of LSU Libraries. - DISSERTATIONS
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Dissertation Abstracts
Contains citations to 1.2 million dissertations and masters theses. Coverage begins in 1861, with abstracts available since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988. (Note: Many institutions will lend dissertations or copies thereof through Interlibrary Borrowing. Search titles in WorldCat to find available copies.) - JOURNAL ARTICLES
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- History-Specific Indexes
History Reference Center (full text)
Full text history reference database covering U.S. and world history. Includes periodical articles, historical documents, historical photos and maps, and biographies of historical figures. Geared primarily towards undergraduate researchers. - General Indexes and Abstracts
Specialized History Indexes
Indexes for selected disciplines of historical study.America: History and Life
Comprehensive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.Bibliography of Asian Studies
Features over 687,800 citations to articles and book chapters primarily in western languages on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) related to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.C19: Nineteenth Century Index (full text)
An all-inclusive bibliographic resource for 19th century studies, C19 draws on established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, the Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of millions of books, journal and newspaper articles, archival collections, and official publications.Index Islamicus
Produced by an editorial team at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Index Islamicus indexes literature in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.Iter - Medieval and Renaissance History
Features citations to books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues) pertaining to the Renaissance and the Middle Ages.
These databases contain citations to literature in history journals as well as in journals covering other disciplines. Some databases are full text.
Web of Knowledge (some full text)
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which indexes 1,414 of the world's top-tier arts and humanities journals.
Ingenta (some full text)
Contains over 19 million citations from more than 29,000 journals covering a range of disciplines. Ingenta allows LSU users to link to the full text of articles in journals to which LSU Libraries has subscription rights.
JSTOR (full text)
Interdisciplinary, full text archive of over six hundred journals in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Full text coverage of indexed journals generally begins five years before the current issue.
PAIS Archive
The PAIS Archive database is the online version of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. Providing historical perspectives on many of the 20th century's public and social policies, the PAIS Archive provides references to monographs, periodicals articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.
PAIS International
Provides references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and publications of international agencies. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. Some indexed materials are in Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese.
Project Muse (full text)
Provides full text access to over 350 top-tier, heavily indexed, and widely held journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Online Newspaper and Periodical Articles
Current Newspapers
LexisNexis Academic
Provides full text coverage of major U.S. and world publications (English and non-English), news wire services, TV and radio broadcast transcripts, and more.Newspaper Source
Offers selected full text coverage of nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.Historical Newspapers and Periodicals
Accessible Archives
Provides access to primary source material from 18th and 19th century American newspapers and periodicals. Includes large collection of 19th century African American newspapers.Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Offers access to 3,720 issues containing 65,000 pages drawn from 49 American periodicals published between 1860 and 1865.American Periodicals Series Online
Includes digitized images of pages of American magazines and periodicals published from the Colonial Era to the 20th century.America's Historical Newspapers
Allows users to search more than 1,000 historical American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922 in all 50 states. Features scanned, searchable images of original newspaper pages.British Periodicals I and II (full text)
Forming an exhaustive record of more than two centuries of British history and culture, this digital archive consists of almost 500 periodical runs from the 1680s to the 1930s, with six million keyword-searchable pages.Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project (DLNP)
LSU Libraries' own newspaper digitization project offers 56 newspaper titles (a total of 100,000 pages) published in Louisiana between 1860 and 1922.Harpweek (Harper's Weekly)
Contains full text, scanned images of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War era (1857-1865) and part of the Reconstruction Era (1866-1871).Historical Chicago Defender
Covering the years 1909-1975, the Historical Chicago Defender contains the complete text of the influential African American newspaper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in PDF format.Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870
Provides full text access to articles in the London Times. Full indexes are available for articles published between 1790-1905 and page images for articles published between 1800-1870.
Online Books
Early American Imprints, Series 1
Features scanned, digitized images of nearly every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America between 1643 and 1800. Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography.Early American Imprints, Series 2
Provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted -American Bibliography, 1801-1819- by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.Early English Books Online
Contains digitized facsimile pages of almost every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works printed elsewhere in English between 1473 and 1700.Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Features scanned, digitized images of a range of medieval and early modern British and Irish sources from c. 1000 to c. 1800.Online Letters, Diaries, and Other Documents
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Weaves together more than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs by politicians, generals, slaves, soldiers, landowners, farmers, wives, and spies to provide access to a multiplicity of perspectives on almost every aspect of the U.S. Civil War.American Civil War Research Database
Online resource for researching the soldiers, regiments, and battles of the U.S. Civil War contains indexed, searchable information on over four million soldiers and thousands of battles. Features regimental rosters and officer profiles.North American Women's Letters and Diaries
A large collection of diaries and correspondence recording the experiences of some 1,325 women over the past 300 years.Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Offers access to more than 32,000 pages of documents relating to women and social movements in the U.S. Resources include books, journal articles, manuscripts, and pamphlets.U.S. Government Sources
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Legislative and executive documents, many dating from the period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.U.S. Congressional Serial Set
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, orignally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.Congressional Hearings
Provides transcripts of the proceedings of Congressional committee hearings from 1824 to 2003. Transcripts include all oral statements, committee questions, and discussion.Archival Directories and Indexes
Archive Finder
Directory of 5,581 repositories and over 160,000 collections of primary source material housed across the United States and in the United Kingdom/Ireland.In the First Person
Index of nearly 4,000 collections of personal narratives written in English from around the world.Repositories of Primary Sources
Links to over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary source materials in archives around the world.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
Searchable database provides information about the African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, and places of origin of slaves brought to Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Bayou State Periodical Index
Indexes articles in Louisiana periodicals from 1985-2006.
Governors of Louisiana
Features brief biographies and portraits of Louisiana governors from 1699 to the present.
Louisiana Digital Library
An online library containing photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture.
Louisiana State Legislature
Go to "legislators" link at top right-hand corner of page to get complete lists of House and Senate members from the 19th century to the present.
LSU Libraries Special Collections
Special Collections comprises more than 200,000 volumes of published works, 10 million manuscript items, 200,000 historic photographs, 16,000 reels of newspaper microfilm, hundreds of oral histories, and other diverse materials for research. The Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC) is exceptionally rich in materials concerning Louisiana history.
Webindex of the Louisiana Newspaper Project
A parish and chronological index covering over 1700 current and historical newspapers dating from 1794.
American FactFinder
U.S. Census Bureau website provides population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
Historical Census Browser
Browsing tool from the University of Virginia allows for easy searching and viewing of U.S. census data from 1790 to the present.
National Statistics Online
Provides free access to data produced by the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom.
Online Sources of International Statistics
Webpage from the University of Maryland Libraries contains links to sites presenting statistical data collected by governments and organizations around the world.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Library of Congress American Memory Project
Provides free and open access to historical maps, photos, documents, audio, and video.
Images of the American Civil War
At completion, Images of the American Civil War will present 75,000 images drawn from military and civilian sources to present imagery of nineteenth-century America from social, military, and political perspectives.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Library at the University of Texas at Austin
Vast collection of online historical, climatic, population, industrial, military, and other maps.
U.S. Congressional Serials Set Maps
Includes 56,000 maps originally appearing in the U.S. Congressional Serials Set, and represent some of the first geologic, soil, and population maps of states, territories, and places outside the United States.
American Association for State and Local History
American Historical Association
International Institute of Social History
List of Scholarly Historical Societies from the University of Waterloo
Middle East Studies Association
Organization of American Historians
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Southern Historical Association
African History
African Studies - Columbia University
Vast collection of internet resources on Africa from Columbia University.
Africa South of the Sahara - Stanford University
Site maintained by Stanford University features large selection of web resources pertaining to Sub-Saharan Africa.
African American History
Historical Text Archive
Rich collection of links to sites with content relating to all aspects of African-American history and culture.
LSU Libraries African Americana Subject Guide
LSU subject guide to resources in African American history, literature, culture, and art.
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Bringing together digitized documents and collections from libraries and archives throughout the Atlantic world, this resource is a vast portal for slavery and abolition studies.
Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern History
Diotima
Resources for the study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world. Features bibliographies, course materials, translated texts, and images.
Perseus Digital Library
A rich collection of online materials for the study of the Greek world. Includes images, maps, diagrams, texts (Greek and English), lexicons, and encyclopedias.
ABZU: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
Provides access to networked open access data related to the study of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean World.
Asian History
Digital South Asia Library - University of Chicago
Features digitized historical materials for research on South Asia.
Portal to Asian Internet Resources - University of Wisconsin
Offers more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged, and annotated resources concerning Asia present and past.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Site based at the Australian National University features numerous hyperlinks to resources dealing with all aspects of Asian history and culture.
China
Classical Historiography for Chinese History
Materials compiled by Benjamin Elman of Princeton University concern Chinese history generally, with a special focus on the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.
Chinese Digital Archive
Site maintained by Australian National University features digitized materials dating from the Chinese Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976).
East Asian Collection
Collection of images documenting early 20th century China including the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945).
LSU Libraries China Studies Subject Guide
Comprehensive subject guide to resources pertaining to Chinese culture, business, society, and history.
Japan
Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912
Newly revised edition of a bibliography compiled by Peter Kornicki of Cambridge University covering Japanese history up to the end of the Meiji period.
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
Digital database documenting Japan's relations in Asia and elsewhere provides access to official documents dating from the Meiji era through 1945.
National Archives of Japan Digital Archive
Features digitized images of manuscripts, maps, documents, and cultural properties from all eras of Japanese history.
India
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
A collection of links to public domain and copy-permitted texts concerning Indian history.
India and Its Neighbors
Site created by Vinay Lal of the Department of History at UCLA contains essays, profiles, and bibliographies pertaining to Indian history, politics, and culture.
Vietnam
Virtual Vietnam Archive
Comprises over three million pages of scanned materials documenting the Vietnam War.
European History
EuroDocs
Links to European primary historical documents that have been transcribed, digitized, or translated.
European Navigator
Multimedia reference tool on the history of modern Europe. Features more than 5000 documents including photographs, treaties, newspaper articles, interviews, and maps documenting the history and institutions of post-war Europe.
Reformation Europe
Page maintained by Fordham University contains links to history texts and documents pertaining to the Reformation.
Austrian History
History of Austria: Primary Documents
Site features an assortment of links to primary documents pertaining to the history of Austria.
ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online
A project of the Austrian National Library in association with Parliamentsbibliothek, ANNO features digitized issues of Austrian newspapers and periodicals from 1738 to the present day.
British and Irish History
British History Online
Digital library features some of the core primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Tudor History
A collection of useful links to biographies, historical narratives, images, and transcripts of some primary sources pertaining to Tudor England.
Royal Genealogies
Site based at Pennsylvania State University features extensive genealogies of British monarchs
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
A searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published. Contains reports of 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
A Vision of Britain through Time
Interactive website uses maps, statistical trends, and historical descriptions to provide a portrait of Britain between 1801 and 2001.
Victorian Web
Website from Brown University features vast, encyclopedic collection of historical narratives, biographies, critical essays, and images relating to the Victorian era.
Imperial War Museum Online Exhibitions
Collection of online exhibits documents conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth from the First World War to the present day.
British Pathé
Digital news archive from British Pathé features over 3500 hours of video and 12 million photographs covering news, sports, social history, and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.
Battle of Britain
Website on the Battle of Britain maintained by the Royal Air Force features biographical profiles, daily reports, descriptions of units and stations, and a full military roll of honour.
Act of Union Virtual Library
Collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers, and manuscript materials concerning the 1800 Act of Union between Britain and Ireland.
The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives
Online exhibition from the National Library of Ireland draws on books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, proclamations, and manuscript materials to create a multifaceted view of the events of Easter Week 1916.
Dutch History
Dutch Studies Web: History
Provides access to scholarly resources in Dutch history. Includes some links to information on Belgian history.
Memory of the Netherlands
Vast digital archive of photographs, films, texts, and audio fragments pertaining to Dutch history.
Het Parool Archive 1940-1945
Digitized issues of an underground newspaper produced during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
East European and Russian History
Guide to Slavonic and East European Internet Resources
Webpage of the British Library features large collection of links to Slavonic and East European websites of interest to researchers in East European history.
Internet Resources on Russia and the CIS
Maintained by the University College London's Slavonic and East European Resources Library, this site contains an abundance of links to sites on Russian history, culture, journalism, and government.
French History
French Studies Web
Vast collection of links to digitized historical documents, reference sources, libraries, archives, and more.
Gallica
Digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France features a stunning array of texts and images. Site can be searched chronologically, by theme, title, and author.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Site maintained by George Mason University in collaboration with the Center for History and New Media features more than 600 primary documents as well as topical essays, songs, maps, timelines, and a glossary.
Napoleonica
Maintained by the Fondation Napoléon, this site features digitized primary sources dating from the Napoleonic era.
The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
Site from McCormick Library at Northwestern University contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris. Also included in the digital archive are caricatures, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and about 1000 posters.
German History
German Studies Web: History
Provides numerous links to reference works, libraries and archives, societies and academic centers, and collections of primary source documents.
Digital Library of the Berlin State Library
Features a large collection of digitized books, manuscripts, and historical newspapers in German.
German History in Documents and Images
A collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present.
Flugschriften im Netz
Online collection of digitized pamphlets from the 1848 revolution.
Compact Memory
Digitized collection of Jewish-German periodicals dating from the 19th and early 20th century.
Iberian History
Iberian Studies Web: History
Features a rich assortment of links to sites dealing with the history of Spain, Portugal, and Andorra. Maintained by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
A joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas, LIBRO features recent but out-of-print university press monographs and basic texts and sources in translation. LIBRO focuses on peninsular history from the 5th to the 17th centuries.
Italian History
Italian Studies Web: History
Maintained by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this site features links to primary source documents, statistics, data files, archives, and more.
Jewish History
Jewish History Resource Center
Comprehensive collection of weblinks to over 4500 sites in 25 categories dealing with Jewish history.
Latin American and Caribbean History
Latin American Network Information Center
Rich collection of web links to information about Latin American and Caribbean history and culture from the University of Texas at Austin.
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
Digitized pamphlets housed at the Widener Library at Harvard University document the emergence of Latin American colonies as independent states. They describe boundary disputes, territorial expansion, the description of unexplored territories, and the relationship between Church and State.
Oxford Latin American Economic History Database
Provides statistical series for a wide assortment of economic and social indicators for twenty Latin American countries for the period 1900-2000.
Biblioteca Digital Hispanica
This online archive of digital collections of the National Library of Spain contains hundreds of early books and other materials on Latin America.
Carribean
Cuban Heritage Collection
A vast collection of digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps, and other resources pertaining to Cuban history and culture at the University of Miami Libraries.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical, and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
South America
Memoria Chilena
A collection of digitized books pertaining to Chilean history and culture.
Medieval History
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Page maintained by Georgetown University features links to numerous sites with information related to medieval studies.
History of Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents
Links to texts--many of them translated, many in the original language--of important primary historical documents from the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Middle Eastern History
Middle East Studies Internet Resources
Comprehensive collection of hypertext links to websites covering Middle Eastern history and culture. Features links to news sources, graphics and images, bibliographies, journal articles, organizations, etc.
United States History
American History Online
Provides access to distributed digital library collections pertaining to 19th and 20th century United States history.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
This web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard University's libraries and archives documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the Great Depression.
Documenting the American South
Provides access to a wide array of primary resources dealing with southern history, literature, and culture. Resources include books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, images, oral history interviews, and songs.
Foreign Relations of the United States
Produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, the Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.
American Presidency Project
Online archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara, contains messages and papers of U.S. presidents, public papers of presidents, and other documents consolidated in a single searchable database.
Native American History
Index of Native American History Resources on the Internet
This clearinghouse page features a large collection of hyperlinks to sites with materials pertaining to Native American history and culture.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
Site maintained by the Digital Library of Georgia contains around 2,000 documents and images related to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States.
Early Modern Period
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Maintained by Emory University, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade database contains information about almost 35,000 slaving voyages to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Early Americas Digital Archive
A collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
America's Historical Documents
Site of the National Archives features digitized copies and transcriptions of basic American historical documents, from the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution to the Louisiana Purchase.
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
Maintained by the Library of Congress, this site contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
James Madison Papers
Consisting of approximately 12,000 items captured in 72,000 digital images, the James Madison Papers document the "father of the Constitution" through correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters, and miscellaneous manuscripts. (Please note that LSU Libraries owns the published version of James Madison's papers, which are divided into the papers, the presidential series, and the secretary of state series.)
George Washington Papers
The complete George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress consists of around 65,000 documents, including correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, journals, military reports, and notes accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799. (Please note that LSU Libraries owns the published version of George Washington's papers, which are divided into the colonial series, the Revolutionary War series, the presidential series, the confederation series, and the retirement series.)
Nineteenth Century
Making of America
Maintained by the University of Michigan Libraries, Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. The collection contains around 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Civil War
American Civil War Homepage
An incomparably rich collection of hypertext links to resources pertaining to the American Civil War. Includes links to photographs, primary source documents, maps, comprehensive bibliographies, and more.
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
A compilation of links to primary sources documenting women's experiences in the Civil War.
The Valley of the Shadow
Site maintained by the University of Virginia Libraries contains thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, and census and church records of men and women in Augusta County, Va., and Franklin County, Penn.
Abraham Lincoln Papers
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 20,000 documents, all available in searchable digital images.
Twentieth Century
Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
The Scripps Library and Multimedia archive contains more than 2,500 hours of secret White House recordings, hundreds of presidential oral history interviews, and documents pertaining to the executive branch of American government.
Emergence of Advertising in America
Presents over 9,000 images related to the early history of advertising in the United States.
