See also the History Research Guide.

Please send any comments or suggestions about this subject portal to Kathy Dobda .

Need Help? Ask a Librarian or go to Research Help for more research options.

CSU History Department

• About the CSU History Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions
• Social History & the City Project (Cleveland history)

Journals

• History Cooperative (full text of 21 major journals)
• History Journals (Journal Finder)
• Internet Library of Early Journals (British)

Primary Resources

• Accessible Archives (19th century American newspapers)
• The African-American Experience in Ohio: Ohio Newspapers (selected issues)
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
• American Memory (Library of Congress digital archives)
• American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (full text)
• American State Papers (Congressional documents, 1789-1838)
• America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922)
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• Cleveland Newspapers on Microform in Cleveland State University Library (list)
• Defining Gender (1450-1910): Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online
• Early American Newspapers, Series II - See American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1871)
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
• Making of America (Cornell) - books and journals, 19th Century
• Making of America (University of Michigan) - books and journals, 1850-1877
• Marquis de Lafayette Collection
• Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project (U.S.)
• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (searchable)
• Primary Sources on the Web (uses, gateway)
• The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (searchable)

Research Tools

• American Historical Association
• A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities (HNet)
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• Current Value of Old Money
• Dating Old Photographs (Family Chronicle magazine)
• Digital Resource Commons (incorporating Digital Media Center)
• Digitising History (how-to)
• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
• First Ladies of the United States Bibliography
• Founders' Constitution (searchable anthology)
• Historic Supreme Court Decisions
• History Research Databases (Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University)
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine (discussion lists, book reviews, etc.)
• Mapping History (U.S. and European)
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (detailed catalog)
• Oxford English Dictionary (histories of words)
• Oxford Reference Online: History
• Project Gutenberg
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A & I (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
• Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library
• Reading, Writing, and Researching for History
• Scholarly Societies Project
• A Student's Guide to the Study of History
• Turabian Quick Guide
• United States Historical Census Browser (historical statistics)
• Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University (audio files)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • America: History and Life
  • Historical Abstracts
  • Historical Statistics of the United States
• Additional Databases:
  • Ancestry Library Edition (1300- ) on-campus use only
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • Accessible Archives (full text historical newspapers)
  • American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
  • America's Historical Newspapers:(1690-1922)
  • Art Full Text
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  • ARTstor
  • Biography Reference Bank
  • CIS History Universe: Access to African American Studies
  • ClasePeriodica (Latin American journals, sciences and humanities)
  • Electronic Journal Center : History
  • European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
  • Gender Studies Database
  • HarpWeek: the Civil War Era and Reconstruction I 1857-1871
  • Hapi Online Hispanic-American Periodicals Index
  • Historic New York Times1851-2006
  • History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • Humanities International Complete
  • Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • JSTOR 1838- (history journal backfiles, no current issues)
  • Niles Register Index (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
  • Women's Studies International
  • Viva Database

Selected Interest Areas -- African History

• African Studies Internet Resources
• African Timelines (Central Oregon Community College)
• African Voices (Smithsonian exhibit)
• World History Archives: Resources For the Study of African History

Selected Interest Areas -- British History

• COLLAGE (images from the Guildhall Art Gallery)
• A Dictionary of British History (Oxford University Press)
• History On-Line (Institute of Historical Research)
• The Kings and Queens of Britain (Oxford University Press)
• National Archives (archival databases)
• Oxford Companion to British History
• Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography on CD-ROM (At library Reference Desk)
• Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: British History, 1700-1950 (scroll down)
• The Timeline of Britain (British Archaeology)
• The Victorian Web

Selected Interest Areas -- North & South America History

• Canadian Genealogy & History
• Early Canadiana Online
• History in Latin America (Latin American Network Information Center)
• Guides to Research on Latin American Studies

Selected Interest Areas -- Ohio History

• The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 (Ohio Historical Society)
• Center for Public History & Digital Humanities
• Cleveland Digital Library
• Cleveland Historical (CSU History Department)
• Dunham Tavern Museum
• Friends of Freedom Society (Ohio Underground Railway)
• Former Cleveland Mayors
• Northeast Ohio Journal of History: Primary Documents
• Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases (databases)
• Ohio History Central Online Encyclopedia
• Ohio in the Civil War
• Ohio Memory (primary documents)
• OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons: History & Archival Collections
• Ohio's Historic Canals
• Special Collections (Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University)
• Steamer William G. Mather Museum
• U.S. Colored Troops Buried in Ohio
• United States Resources: Ohio (genealogy)
• Western Reserve Historical Society
• Western Reserve Historical Society Collections

Selected Interest Areas -- U. S. History

• American Civil War Homepage
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
• American National Biography
• AmericanRevolution.org
• American Slave Narratives: an Online Anthology
• Black Power Movement Microform Collection (resource guide)
• Black Studies (Michael Schwartz Library's subject portal)
• Dictionary of American History, ed. Thomas L. Purvis, ed. (select "View this eBook")
• Documenting the American South
• From Revolution to Reconstruction (hypertext)
• History Matters: The US History Course on the Web
• Korean War Project
• National Museum of American History
• New Perspectives on the West
• Oxford Companion to American Miltary History
• Oxford Companion to United States History
• Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
• Scholar's Guide to WWW: History: USA (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• The Sixties Project
• U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State University)
• U.S. Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996, 2000, 2004
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
• Vietnam War Bibliography (Edwin E. Moise)
• WestWeb (American West)

Selected Interest Areas -- Women's History

• American Women's History: a Research Guide
• Early Modern Women Database
• First Ladies' Gallery
• Suffragists Oral History Project
• VIVA Database
• Votes for Women (Library of Congress)
• WWW Virtual Library: Women's History
• Women in America, 1820-1842
• Women Military Veterans (all U.S. wars)
• Women-Related Web Sites in the Arts & Humanities

Selected Interest Areas -- World History

• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Chronology of Russian History
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (Oxford University Press)
• A Dictionary of World History (Oxford University Press)
• Discoverers Web (voyages of discovery)
• Early Modern Resources
• Early Modern Studies: Resources
• Eighteenth Century Resources
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
• European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• Library Of Congress Country Studies
• The Middle East: History
• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies
• Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries

Selected Interest Areas -- World War I: The Western Front

• Doughboy Center: The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces
• First World War.Com
• In Flanders Field Museum (choose English and go to Main Menu)
• Trenches on the Web
• Wars and Conflicts: World War I (BBC)
• The Great War 1914-1918 (PBS series)
• World War I Document Archive

Teaching History

• American Historical Association Directory of History Depts. (and degrees offered)
• DoHistory
• EDSITEment: History and Social Studies (Natl. Endowment for the Humanities)
• National Archives Digital Classroom
• PBS History
• Primary Resources for Teachers (Ohio Historical Society)
• Teacher Resources (Library of Congress)
• TeacherServe
• Teaching History Online (newsletter)
• Teaching the Journal of American History