LibGuides: World History: Online Resources

Recommended Websites

Best of History Web Sites
An award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Maintained at Brigham Young University, links to primary historical documents from Europe.
History World: History and Timelines
Historyworld’s aim is to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. Click on the "Histories" link to view an alphabetical list of the subjects covered. Each narrative history contains a brief outline and a link to an interactive timeline, complete with additional links.
Mapping History
A learning tool for observing and interacting with color maps and tables illustrating key events and problems in world history from ancient Greece to the contemporary era. The English version of the site has multiple modules or illustrations covering the history of the US and Europe, as well as a few on Latin America and Africa.

Smithsonian Collections Search
Search Smithsonian's collections, ranging from art, to air and space, science, nature, technology, history, and people and places.
World Digital Library
This resource makes available significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Recommended Databases

ABC-CLIO
Collection of 40 reference ebooks on topics including: history, popular culture, health, psychology, religion, and current events.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A great starting point for any type of research. A multi-disciplinary, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This scholarly collection provides full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. and nearly 4,000 full-text scholarly publications.
Credo Reference
Full-text articles from nearly 800 reference eBooks on topics including: art, food & beverage, language, medicine, psychology, social sciences, biographies, geography, law, music, religion, technology, business, history, literature, philosophy, and science.
EBSCO eBook Community College Collection
The EBSCO eBook Community College Collection offers over 40,000 books from a variety of publishers.These books are non-fiction, selected to help students do research for school work or personal interest. There are books on most subjects, including art, history, nursing, psychology, zoology, and much more.
Gale EBooks
Collection of Reference eBooks on topics including: the arts, biographies, business, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation & world, religion, social sciences, science, and technology.
History Reference Source
Designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges and undergraduate research, this database features full text for thousands of primary source documents and informational texts.
JSTOR Early Journals
Access to 500,000 articles from over 200 core scholarly journals published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere.
ProQuest Research Library
A good starting point for research on any topic. Provides access to over 3,600 full-text journals on topics including: the arts, business, education, health and medical, humanities, law, military, multicultural studies, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's studies.
Salem Press
Online reference eBooks including Magill's Literary Annual, Masterplots, Decades(America in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s), Applied Science, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, Forensic Science, etc.
SIRS Issues Researcher
Provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues by delivering the pros and cons from relevant, credible documents and graphics selected by trained editors and curated from over 2,000 global sources. Topics include business & economic, civil rights & liberties, communication & technology, crime & punishment, drugs, health & wellness, environment & science, ethics, school, family & youth, world cultures & poitics.

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