History Databases

Major Databases
Career Insider
Get help finding a job in your area or explore several interview and resume guides.
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DailyLife Online / World Cultures Today
Daily life for past and foreign cultures
Discovery Education
Download educational videos and clips from sources like PBS, Clearvue, more
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Ebrary eBook Collection
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HeritageQuest Online
Find genealogical information on people and places from various sources
History Cooperative
FullText JAH and AHR articles
Humanities Ebook Collection
Over 1700 FullText Ebooks in history and the humanities
JSTOR
Excellent source for fulltext articles from a range of scholarly sources
netLibrary
Over 50,000 fulltext ebooks covering all areas
Newsbank - World News
Full Text Newspaper Articles from around the world!
Open Access Journals Database
A database of 400+ scholarly online journals maintained by Lund University Libraries
PowerSearch
Cross-searches seventeen scholarly databases at once!
Or search individually: Expanded Academic, OneFile, more...
ProQuest Civil War Era
Primary sources (newspapers & pamphlets) from the Civil War era
Research Channel Videos
Over 3,500 streaming videos on a wide variety of subjects
SIRS Researcher, Renaissance and Government Reporter
FullText reference information, historical documents, demographics, geography profiles, more
Vault Career Library [MOVED]
Now titled Career Insider (see above)
Women And Social Movements In The U.S., 1600-2000
Full Text database
Additional Databases
American National Biography Online
Biographies of 18,000 Americans
AP Images
Research database of pictures from every news event covered by the Associated Press for the last 150 years
A To Z Maps Online
Climate maps, geographical maps, demographic maps, topo maps, geology maps, NASA maps and more
Cambria Press eBooks
FullText Reference eBooks
Credo Reference - History
Fulltext Reference articles, plus video, audio, and images
Encyclopedia Britannica
The complete multi-volume encyclopedia
Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks
FullText Reference eBooks
Global Road Warrior
Information on governments, cultures, demographics, economies, etc from around the world
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory
Critical survey of figures, schools and movements in literary theory
Lexis-Nexis Academic
FullText news and law items covering several decades
Oxford Reference Online - Classical Studies
Fulltext reference books in classical studies
Oxford Reference Online - History
Twenty two fulltext reference books in history
Web Resources
"The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro" Debate
Video of famous debate between William F Buckley and James Baldwin at Cambridge University, October 26, 1965
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Contains digital legal and historical documents from 17th Century - present
Black America Web
News and information featuring a wide array of viewpoints and perspectives
Digital Tennessee History
Photographs, original documents, digital archives of Tennessee history
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A searchable collection of theses and dissertations published by UT-Knoxville
Photographs of TVA Archaeology
Several hundred images of prehistoric sites along the Tennessee River
Southeastern Native Americans, 1730 - 1842
Over 2,000 artifacts and original documents - letters, military orders, maps, etc.
Tennesse Document History 1796-1850
Documents and images related to antebellum Tennessee
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Multilingual, open content encyclopedia on the Internet
World History Sources
World history survey on the web