History Databases

Full-text articles from the world's leading journals, newspapers and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of The New York Times from 1990, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available.

Full text for nearly 4,500 multi-disciplinary journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)

In addition to full text, Academic Search Premier offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

A comprehensive collection of almost 400,000 bibliographic entries about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage: 1955 - current

America: History & Life is an excellent resource for a variety of disciplines including American History, Canadian History, Popular Culture, American Studies, Literature/Folklore, Genealogy, Women's Studies/Gender Studies, Multicultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource and contains overviews of historical periods and detailed chronologies for major events and issues of each period.

Citations and abstracts from more than 1,700 journals dealing with the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Coverage: 1954 - current

Historical Abstracts includes 75-120 word abstracts to journal articles and citations to books and dissertations. Every year over 20,000 new entries are added from over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide. Over 600,000 entries currently available. The Web version is updated monthly.

Over 1500 full text and fully searchable books of major importance, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Coverage: 1956 - 2003

The ACLS HEB collection allows users to perform keyword and Boolean searches, search full text across all titles in the database, in selected titles, or in a single title, by author and title as well as by Library of Congress subject headings for highly accurate results. Users may also search important book reviews. Search engines allow readers to find text and graphics, and to perform complex string searches for names, dates, phrases, or concepts in great depth and context.
New XML titles are enhanced with hypertext links and search features, some with direct links to web-based digital archives of appropriate source materials so that the reader can access many of the original source materials used by the author; and some titles feature enhanced illustrations, graphs, charts, maps, and other visual materials, often in full color, as well as video, sound, and music in appropriate titles.

Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras whose lives have shaped the nation.

Updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency, the ANB includes thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. Appended to each article is a descriptive bibliography, which may include mention of primary sources, the most useful published biographies, articles or monographs about specific aspects of the person's career, and obituaries.

Includes digitized images of pages from over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Coverage: 1740 - 1940 present, HaPI 1985-Present

APS Online covers three broad periods:
 * 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from a British colony to an independent nation.
 * More than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century showcase "the golden age of American periodicals." General interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women are among the historically-significant content.
 * 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the 1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern America.

Offers bibliographic information on over 5.8 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles.

Integrates over 1,000 volumes of Thomson Gale publications with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. Marquis Who's Who provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present. Narrative biographies provide an in-depth overview of the subject's life and accomplishments. Over 538,000 full-text magazine articles bring coverage of the subject up-to-date and broaden the view of his or her place in history, society, a particular field of endeavor, or the news

A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
Coverage: 1936 - current

Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology. Starting with Volume 54, the Handbook also includes a section on Electronic Resources for Latin American studies. In addition, some of the earlier volumes included other disciplines such as Cartography, Film, Folklore, Law, and so forth.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: March 4, 1872 - Dec. 31, 1924

The Historical Boston Globe covers not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. Each article and page image is available as searchable ASCII text. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

An influential black weekly newspaper with cover-to-cover full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: Jul. 31, 1909 - Dec. 31, 1975

The Chicago Defender has been the voice of the African-American Community in Chicago and across the United States. It was the nation's largest and most influential black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two thirds of its readership base located outside of Chicago.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: Sept 18,1851 - Dec 31, 2003

The database covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2002. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.

A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: July 8, 1889 - Dec 31, 1989

The database covers The Wall Street Journal from its first issue in 1889 through 2003. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.

A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

Bibliographic citations from articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods.
Coverage: 400-1700

Iter contains more than 935,000 citations collected from over 6,600 publications, including over 1,600 journals. The search interface permits expert searching by keyword, title, author and, for selected records, by Library of Congress subject headings and Dewey Decimal Classification. The interface supports Boolean and positional operators, and allows limiting by language, publication type and publication year. Results lists can be sorted by author, subject, title, relevance or publication year. Records can be marked and conveniently e-mailed or downloaded.

Full-text access to 144 core scholarly journals covering diverse subject areas in the liberal arts and sciences.
Coverage: 1863 - 2005

UML has access to these two JSTOR collections:
Arts & Sciences I includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines. It includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Arts & Sciences IIcontains 125 titles covering economics, history, and Asian studies. It also offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.

Full text from 25 journals, magazines and newspapers covering general and regional history, law, government and current events.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Combine searches from the Boston Globe and Boston Magazine with the Massachusetts, BU, and BC Law Reviews plus William and Mary Quarterly, American Heritage, History Today, Journal of American History, Presidential Studies Quarterly along with 15 other titles in a database collection of nearly 200,000 documents.

Search combined full-text coverage of 14 Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Lowell Sun, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
Coverage: varies by title, oldest is 1980 - current

Full-text access to all 300 journal titles in the Standard Collection that cover diverse areas of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Coverage: varies (earliest date 1995) - current

The Project MUSE Standard Collection is particularly strong in literature and history, but also global in scope with political and social coverage of Africa, Latin America, Asia, Canada, and the Middle East. View a complete title list.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Full-text access to 25 history reference books and dictionaries covering all aspects of world history.
Coverage: Publication dates 1993 - current

Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.

Guidance on best resources for History research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.