History

Print Indexes

Poole's index to periodical literature Reference Room AI3 .P78 1958
An index to articles published between 1802 and 1907. For later articles see Readers' guide to periodical literature, AI3 .R47

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks

Dictionary of national biography, Reference Room DA28 .D47
For British biographies
Dictionary of the Middle Ages Reference Room D114 .D5
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history Reference Room E185 E54 1996
Encyclopedia of Asian history Reference Room DS31 .E53 1988
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture Reference Room F1406 .E53 1996
Oxford classical dictionary Reference Room DE5 .O9 1996
Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world Reference Room DS35.53 .O95 1995

Additional Print Sources

Day by day, the forties / Reference Room D427 .D29 1940-49
This series covers each decade from the 40s through the 80s.
Working Americans, 1880-1999. Reference Room HN57 .D47
Social and economic conditions, cost of living and important events as seen from the daily life of an average working class family.

Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.

Selected Internet Resources

1901 Census for England and Wales Census data for 32 million people living in England or Wales in 1901. Searching is free and copies of records are available for a fee. You can also search by address, institution, or vessel.
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent over 3,000 images and hours of sound from Africa, digitized by the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Africa South of the Sahara Arts, music, book dealers, human rights, news, religion, this site by Karen Fung for the Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association, USA, has an extensive listing of resources in 35 topic areas.
African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture an introduction to four themes: the colonization of Liberia by free blacks; abolition; migrations after the Civil War; exhibits of books by African-American authors and the Federal Writers Project and photographs and interviews with former slaves done by the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.
American Civil War Homepage A comprehensive collection of links to documents, photos, bibliographies and other resources
American Memory Digital historical collections (photos, sound, movies, text) at the Library of Congress.
American Slave Narratives from the University of Virginia
Ancestry's Social Security Death Index Search the Social Security database for information on deceased relatives.
ARC "The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries." As well as being an index to the Archives over 124,000 digital images are available at the site
Asia Society Links to the Asia Society in New York, information on its exhibits and programs, and links to cultural, political and business information about Asia
Asian Studies from the Australian National University.
AsiaSource Sponsored by the Asia Society, AsiaSource provides news, calendars of events, statistics, maps, and other resouces on Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Assignment Calculator This very helpful site from the University of Minnesota lets you create a timeline of activities that are necessary to write a research paper and provides definitions, tutorials, research guides, and other helpful aides.
Booker T. Washington Papers a a searchable web site the University of Illinois Press and the History Cooperative of the full text of the 14-volume printed work. It includes Up from Slavery, collected articles from Outlook, letters and other publications.
British Pathe archive ITN now manages this important newsreel collection, covering the period from 1896-1970, with over 3,500 hours of historical news film available for viewing.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 Counting Walt Whitman among its editors, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle is an important resource for American history. This site, created by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services,allows keyword searching off the full text, including advertisements and returns graphical image or pdf files.
CAIN: The Northern Ireland Conflict a site devoted to resources on the "Troubles" in Ulster.
Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños/Center for Puerto Rican Studies This research center and library at Hunter College in New York City studies history and culture of Puerto Ricans
Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Michigan An almost overwhelming collection of links to texts, exhibits, documents. Includes a search engine.
Collect Britain Similar to the American Memory site from the Library of Congress, this site from the British Library will have over 100,000 images: sheet music, maps, illuminated manuscripts, early photographic book illustrations, and more. For a companion site, see British Library Images Online
COMPASS: The British Museum A searchable database of over 5,000 images from the British Museum. Each image has links to related items and background text.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet Over 175,000 links in 120 categories. From surname lists to sites on understanding colonial or Cyrillic scripts, this is the ultimate genealogy metasite
Dictionary of National Biography The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a new 60 volume, 60,000 page biographical dictionary of 54,922 individuals who have made important contributions to British history. It also includes original and newly revised entries on all 38,607 lives in the original DNB publised between 1885 and 1900, and its supplements. The new Oxford DNB cost over £ 22 million and took 12 years to produce. Entries cover the period from ancient times to the year 2000. Like the American National Biography, the Oxford DNB does not provide biographies of living persons, and, just as the ANB is limited to individuals associated with the United States, the DNB only includes individuals associated with the British Isles or with former British colonies. Ten thousand portraits are also included. The O'Toole Library carries both of the print editons (Reference Room DA28 .D47) and has a one-year subscription to the online edition
Documenting the American South From the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this digital collection of over 300 books and manuscripts includes the following projects:"North American Slave Narratives;" "A Library of Southern Literature to 1920;" "First-person Narratives of the American South;"The Southern Homefront, 1861-65;" and "The Church in the Southern Black Community."
Ellis Island Online Online records of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and an exhibit on the immigrant experience.
EuroDocs:Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe links to documents covering Medieval to modern times, collected by Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer at Brigham Young University
FamilySearch Search this extensive database from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This version searches their Ancestral File of over 35 million names contributed by family researchers and their International Genealogical Index® of over 285 million names extracted from vital records around the world.
Foreign Relations of the United States Published by the Department of State, this is the "official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions..." Volumes are online from the Kennedy era, with some earlier volumes added as well.
Galileo Project A "hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time." from Rice University
Genealogical resources at The National Archives How to do genealogical research at the National Archives
Genealogy Home Page "What's Really New in WWW Genealogy Pages" is a daily update of new genealogy sites.
Gotham Center for New York City History schedules of forums, activities, links to museums, archives, walking tours, and Web resources related to NYC history.
Government Views of Iraq This site, compilied by the City College of New York, has almost 200 pages of information about Iraq, most from the U.S. government but also from the UN and abroad.
H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences links to Web sites and discussion groups.
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reviews of books and articles in history and the social sciences. The list is searchable by keyword and searches by publisher or call number are also possible.
Historic Cities sponsored by the Historic Cities Center within the Department of Geography at Hebrew University and the Jewish National and University Library, this site provides high-quality digial maps from 1486 to 1720, either held by the sponsors or at other sites.
Historical Research in Europe From the Wisconsin Center for European Studies and its General Library, this site united "both web-based and printed resources which provide information about European libraries and archives in a single interactive database."
History Matters A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this site is designed for high school and college American history survey courses and has links to material covering the period from 1876 to 1946. It also has an impressive search engine for its site that provides detailed abstracts of available material.
How the Other Half Lives The The Hypertext Edition of Jacob A. Riis's classic study and photo essay on the tennements of New York. Although Riis expresses the casual racism of his day, his book resulted in the destruction of the worst of the tennements and contributed to urban reform movements.
Humbul Humanities Hub Links to humanities resources in Archaeology, Classics, History, Philosophy, History of Science, Religion & Theology, American Studies, Humanities Computing, Linguistics, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian and Slavonic Studies; Comparative Literature.
International Institute of Social History From the the Netherlands, the Institute has extensive links to archival and other resources in social history, business and the labor movement.
Internet African History Sourcebook Part of the "Sourcebooks" of historical documents from Fordham University
Internet Archive The Internet Archive and its "Wayback Machine" maintains copies of Web pages at its own site, thus providing an historic snapshot of the Internet at various time periods.
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook Documents on the histories of China, Japan, and Korea
Internet Indian History Sourcebook primary source material on the history of India, from Fordham University
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook A subset of texts from the history sourcebooks at Fordham, with additional material added
Internet Library of Early Journals This project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford have created searchable digial image files of three 18th-century journals (Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society) and three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook Links to full-text documents from the Reformation to the post-World War II world. This and the Medieval Sourcebook above contain thousands of historic documents, bibliographies, reading guides and course links. Highly recommended.
Italian Studies Web From the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
Jersey City: Past and Present This site, hosted by New Jersey City University and its library is an historical encyclopedia of Jersey City history, people, buildings, and events.
Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 1610 to 1791 This project by Thom Mentrak, an interpreter at Ste. Marie among the Iroquois and Fr Raymond Bucko, SJ will provide an English translation of all 70 volumes of the Relations, important accounts of early America written by Jesuit missionaries. The site also includes bibliographies of materials on the Iroquois and Huron, as well as the Jesuits.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution A joint project of George Mason University and the City University of New York, this site has images, texts, songs, a timeline and a glossary.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum An online tour of the museum, along with a 97 page Lower East Side Tenement Museum Encyclopedia
Making of America Funded by the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MoA is a major collaborative project by Cornell University and the University of Michigan to provide a digital collection of 19th century books and journals. Cornell's site includes The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901), The Century (1881 - 1899), Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899), Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894), The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900), Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870), Scientific American (1846 - 1869), Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896), Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)), and The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859). Michigan's collection includes Appletons'(1869-1881; 2 series), Catholic World (1865-1901), Ladies Repository (1841-1876;3 series), Princeton Review (1831-1882; 3 series), Southern Quarterly Review (1842-1857; 3 series), and Vanity Fair (1860-1862). MoA includes over 4,200 books and has a total of over 1.5 million fully searchable pages that are displayed as scanned images of the original text.
Middle East Report Published by the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), this site has in-depth studies of Middle East politics and society.
Museum of the City of New York The Museum, located 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street in Manhattan, houses an outstanding collection of art and artefacts from or about the city. It also includes an ongoing, online "virtual Union Square," a tribute in a variety of media by New Yorkers to the events of September 11th 2001.
National Security Archive "combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding." You will find documents on this site relating to Nixon, Castro and Kennedy, and American support of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
NativeWeb "Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World" NativeWeb has almost 5,000 linkks to resources for and about Native Americans and other indigenous cultures.
New Deal Network A database of over 20,000 items from and about the depression, put together by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI), in collaboration with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Marist College, and IBM.
New Jersey Historical Society Exhibit information and finding aids for New Jersey history
Online Medieval Sourcebook Full text of Medieval documents and papers, links to The Byzantine Studies page and Lives of The Saints.
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) Prepared by medievalists and peer reviewed, ORB features an online encyclopedia and and a textbook library. The section on "What Every Medievalist Should Know" consists of annotated bibliogrphies on all aspects of Medieval life and culture.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Extensive links to current and historical map sites from the Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas
Perseus Project Ancient Greece & the Classical World in texts, images, maps, and links from the Department of the Classics, Tufts University.
Points of Heraldry a basic introduction to design and terms.
Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) Links selected and maintained by The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin Libraries,
POTUS: Presidents of the United States From the Internet Public Library, with links to encyclopedia articles and other documents
Presidential Elections 1860-1912 HarpWeek presents political cartoons and commentary from Harper's Weekly, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, Vanity Fair, Puck, Judge, and the Library of Congress Collections of American Political Prints, 1766-1876.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 Searchable transcripts of over 100,000 trials held at London's Old Bailey courthouse.
Public Papers of the Presidency Searchable by keyword or by date, this free collection at American Presidency Project contains the published papers from Hoover to the current incumbent, along with other materials, such as presidential ratings and executive budgets
Race and Ethnicity collection from the EServer at the University of Washington presents searchable articles, essays, and discussions in full-text. Documents include the selections from the works of Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History This extensive guide to writing history papers is divided "into several categories: reading, writing, researching, and evaluating"; some topics about thesis writing are covered in depth in several different sections.
Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865 This database, from the original publication prepared by William S. Stryker, Adjutant General in 1876, is hosted by the New Jersey State Library and is fully searchable.
Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order? an overview from the Annenberg/CPB Projects.
Resources in Black Culture from the Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library The Schomburg Center now has two digital collections online: Images of African Americans from the 19th Century and African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
September 11 Digital Archive Images, audio, New York Times articles, stories, and e-mails document September 11th and it aftermath.
United States Historical Census Data Browser U.S. Census data, 1790-1970. Economic and demographic data to the state and county level, provided by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
USGenWeb links to resources in each state and county.
Victorian Dictionary The dictionary is actually an extensive collection of contemporary writings on Victorian London, Dickens and Mayhew to The Lancet on the dangers electric advertisements. A detailed demograpic map, Reynolds' Shilling Coloured Map of London, 1895 and Greenwood's 1827 map of London are also available here.
Victorian Studies on the Web Free registration to an extensive database of citations to Victorian studies materials from 1945 to the present.
Vietnam Project Search an extensive archive of materals related to the Vietnam war - over 1.5 million pages -- inculding photographs, video recordings,and oral histories. Hosted by Texas Tech University.
Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1975 Developed for a course by Robert Brigham at Vassar College, this site is rich in documents and photos on our most troubling war to date.
Will Durant Foundation Biographical and other information about Saint Peter's graduate Will Durant, author, with his wife Ariel, of the "Story of Civilization" and other writings, and of a "Declaration of Interdependence" of religious and racial groups in 1944 that is still of interest and importance today.
World LinQ Queens is one of world's most diverse areas and this site, provided by the Queens Borough Public Library in partnership with AT&T, serves that diversity by providing links in English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and French. An excellent site, and a wonderful place to tour the world and explore many cultures in depth
World Statesmen is an "encyclopedia of nations, colonies, international and religious organizations, and other polities mostly since the year 1700." It also includes background information on terrorist groups and chronological lists of mayors of U.S. cities: for New York City it also includes the boroughs and their flags.
World War I Document Archive primary documents and a collection of images, assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).
World War II Resources Primary source material on the origins and progress of World War II, by the Pearl Harbor Working Group

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