History: Introduction
Resources: Start Here
Historical Databases
Includes Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life
Resources: Main
Oxford Bibliographies
A collection of core resources in a variety of subjects. Selected by experts.
American History in Video
Video collection for the study of American history.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
Contains citations to books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and government documents.
Eight Centuries
An index to a variety of primary sources from the 12th century up to 1930.
Cambridge Histories
Historical summaries providing larger perspectives on a variety of subjects.
History of Feminism
Primary and secondary source material on feminism in the 19th century.
Champlain Society Digital Collection
Online publications of the Champlain Society.
Resources: Also Useful
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Index for western-language materials on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
A bibliography that lists books and articles pertaining to British and Irish history
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Index to books, magazines, documents, newspapers.
Canadian Foreign Relations Index
Index to articles, books, research papers, government documents, etc.
Canadiana
Digitized texts published between the first European settlement of Canada and the early twentieth century.
Center for Research Libraries: Digital Collections
Primary source material, in digital format or available for request through Interlibrary Loan.
Canadian Historical Association: Register of Dissertations
Citation database of dissertations completed and in progress at Canadian universities in history and related fields.
Digital National Security Archive
Full-text U.S. policy documents.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail
Full text of the Globe and Mail newspaper, from 1844 up to four years ago.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Interdisciplinary bibliography of scholarly research on the period from 400 to 1700.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
Full-text biographies, autobiographies, diaries, letters, personal narratives and speeches.
Oral History Online
Full-text oral histories in English, including an index to freely available histories on the Web.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Biographies of people of distinction in the British Isles and its colonies, from the 4th century to the 21st.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Toronto Star.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
Interdisciplinary database with articles from more than 1200 English-language periodicals.
Canadian Research Index
Citations to monographs and annual publications from Canadian government and institutional resources.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Historical, biographical dictionary with scholarly articles on thousands of individuals.
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
Full-text articles on art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics and history. Published 2003.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Full-text articles on Egyptian civilization, from the predynastic era to the seventh century CE.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
More than 900 articles on all aspects of seafaring from ancient Egypt to the present.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Includes more than 650 biographies of influential women and more than 600 topical articles.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Full-text articles covering the period from the 5th to the 15th century, with a focus on Europe and Christianity.
Black Women in America
Reference work covering the achievements and contributions of African American women.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment
Full-text letters, diaries and memoirs.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
Thousands of pages of diaries and letters from hundreds of women in North America.
Libris Canadiana
Index for historical Canadian periodicals.
Empire Online
Images of original manuscripts and printed materials produced between 1492 and 1962. Covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceana and South Asia.
Mass Observation Online
Papers from the archive of a pioneering British social research organization.
Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice
Includes manuscripts, books, pamphlets, maps and images.
Archive Explorer
Search tool for all Adam Matthew databases.
Periodicals Archive Online
Full-text articles from journals in the humanities and social sciences.
JSTOR
Current and back issues of journals in arts and sciences.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers
Digitally scanned Sessional Papers & supplementary material from Great Britain's House of Commons. (Some House of Lords papers, if presented to the House of Commons.)