History Resources
Contents- Books
- 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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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 Loan link below.LSU Libraries Interlibrary Lending
Request books and other materials not in the collections of LSU Libraries. - JOURNAL ARTICLES
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- History-Specific Indexes
America: History and Life **
Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts covering the historical literature of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Sources include journals, books, dissertations, and book reviews.Historical Abstracts **
Indexes and abstracts scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.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 Includes periodical articles, historical documents, historical photos and maps, and biographies of historical figures.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.**Please note: Searches in these databases must be conducted by a librarian or library staff member. Contact Joseph Nicholson for assistance.
- General Indexes and Abstracts
Specialized History Indexes
Indexes for selected disciplines of historical study.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.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.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.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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 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
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.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.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.Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Articles Archive
Provides access to newspaper materials pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Covers the period just prior to Kennedy's assassination, the assassination itself, and the immediate aftermath of the assassination and presidential funeral.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
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
U.S. Congressional Serials Set
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, orignally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.Archival Directories and Indexes
Archives USA
Directory of 5,581 repositories and over 160,000 collections of primary source material housed across the United States.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.UNESCO Archives Portal
This international gateway to information useful to archivists and archives users provides links to websites of 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.
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 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.
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.
British 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.
Royal Genealogies
Site based at Pennsylvania State University features extensive genealogies of British monarchs
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.
Dutch History
Dutch Studies Web: History
Provides access to scholarly resources in Dutch history. Includes some links to information on Belgian history.
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.
Napoleonica
Maintained by the Fondation Napoléon, this site features digitized primary sources dating from the Napoleonic era.
General 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Medieval History
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Page maintained by Georgetown University features links to numerous sites with information related to medieval studies.
Middle Eastern History
Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Web Resources
Webpage from the University of Exeter in the U.K. features large collection of links to sites dealing with all aspects of Middle Eastern history, culture, literature, and art.
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 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.
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.
United States History Internet Resources
A comprehensive listing of weblinks to sites dealing with all aspects and periods of American history from the New York Public Library.
