History
The following databases and websites are good starting points for History research
Databases
History Resource Center -- World 
This is a heavily-hyperlinked set of primary and secondary world history documents.
Films on Demand 
Films on Demand is a well organized collection of several thousand educational films on history, business, the humanities, psychology, science, and careers.
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary covering all the ways in which a particular word has been commonly used. It is the longtime standard reference on the English language.
ArchiveGrid
Good source for finding primary source materials for history and archaeology at museums and libraries.
CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
High quality image search engine that contains art images from digitized museum collections.
OAIster (pronounced 'Oyster')
This is a great research tool for History and Archaeology students that need to find primary source material from archives.
World Almanacs
This site combines several atlases and biographical resources to create a single source for geographical & political background information.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFilehas the full-text of a few million of articles from all domains of knowledge.
OmniFile Full-Text Select
OmniFile is a social sciences and humanities database that only contains full-text articles.
ArticleFirst
ArticleFirst is a search interface that can link you to the articles you need. It searches descriptions of 23 million articles from all domains of learning.
Ebrary eBooks
This search engine exclusively searches our collection of 70,000 eBooks. A large portion of our business collection is eBooks.
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Online
This general purpose encyclopedia is a great place to begin your research and obtain the background knowledge on industries or countries that will make your research process go quicker.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Nearly 400 specialized reference eBooks on all academic subjects to dig deeper into the background information.
Clase and Periódica
Helps you find Latin American journals in the sciences (Periódica) and humanities (Clase).
Websites
World History
Ancient Greek World
"the Ancient Greek World virtual gallery at the University of Pennyslvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
Ancient History Sourcebook
"contains hundreds of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net."
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts"fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web."
Cold War International History Project
"disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on 'the other side' -- the former Communist world."
EH.net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
"Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations"
Famous Trials
"original works of authorship, government records, works for which copyright protection has expired, works reprinted with permission, or works that I believe are within the fair use protection of the copyright laws."
Historical Directories
"a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history."
Imperial War Museum Collections Online
"provides unprecedented access to large parts of this rich resource and is continually updated. Web users can now access over 219,000 collection records online, this includes over 33,000 photographic images, 11,000 records of works of art, 27,000 records related to audio recordings, 14,000 records related to document collections and almost 100,000 records of material held in the library."
Internet History SourceBooks
"a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
Library and Archives Canada
"includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents such as websites.
Digital MappaeMundi
Digitized Medieval Maps!
Manuscripts and Archives Digital Image Database
"contains digital reproductions of photographs, posters, drawings, text documents, and other images taken from the research collections of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library."
Medieval History Sourcebook
"contains hundreds of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net."
Middle East Studies Internet Resources
"Columbia University's collection of Middle East Studies Internet Resources is an ongoing compliation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on the Middle East and North Africa (in the broadest sense) available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the Middle East Studies Department
of Columbia University Libraries."
Modern History Sourcebook
"contains hundreds of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net."
NetSerf
"The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources"
Perseus Digital Library
"covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world."
Texts in Context
"a rich and unusual collection of over 400 British Library texts. It includes menus for medieval banquets and handwritten recipes scribbled inside book covers. It opens up the first English dictionary ever written and explores the secret language of the Georgian underworld. It allows you to examine the shopping lists of the East India Company and to practise sentences from colonial phraseBooks. It presents smugglers' songs, rare dialect recordings, and the logbooks of the 18th century trading ships."
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
"digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."
Women Working (1800 - 1930)
"Collection featuring approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images focusing on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections."
World War I Document Archive
"International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War."
United States History
American and British History Research Guides
Maintained by Rutgers University
American Journeys
"contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later."
American Memory: The Library of Congress Collections
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Maintained by Middle Tennessee State University
Amistad at Mystic Seaport
"explores the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how we make history of it... This web site also gathers resources to open up and explore this history. The heart of the web site is the Librarywhich contains thousands of pages from over 500 primary documents including court documents, journal entries, and newspaper stories. Each can be viewed in the original print or hadnwriting or in transcription. All texts are available for searching."
Ancestors in the Americas
"helps to round out the stories and ideas presented in this groundbreaking series. Visit the Asian American Timeline to learn about specific moments and events that shaped Asian American history."
Appalachia Digital Library
"provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries."
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: AVisual Record
"The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery."
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
"digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government."
Chronicling America
A collection of information about American newspapers from 1690 till today. About 3.5 million pages of newsprint from 1860-1922 have been digitized such as this New York Tribune front page from the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
Documents from 1215 to today, maintained by the University of Oklahoma College of Law
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Record
"fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. In executing this effort, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries seek to: 1) enhance access to primary source material, 2) preserve original materials by creating digital surrogates, 3) create learning opportunities for remote users, and 4) create an infrastructure for continuing digitization program."
Documenting the American South
"digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitzed primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture."
Evolution of the Conservation Movement (1850-1920)
"documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through a collection of the Library of Congress consisting of 62 books and pamplets, 140 Federal statutes and Congressional resolutions, 34 additional legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and the Congressional Record, 360 Presidential proclamations, 170 prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and 2 motion pictures."
FindLaw
"U.S. Supreme Court Center"
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
"documents the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement (University of California, Berkeley, September-December 1964), as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements and its legacy of political activisim and educational reform that can be traced throughout the country and the world down to the present."
Gottscho-Schleisner Collection
"comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida. Included are the homes of notable Americans, such as Raymond Loewy, and of several U.S. presidents, as well as color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Many of the photographs were commissioned by architects, designers, owners and architectural publications, and document important achievements in American 20th-century architecture and interior design."
Harlem History
"presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia University about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods."
History Channel: American History
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
Maintained by Cornell University Mann Library: "core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as additional journals. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site."
"I will be heard": Abolitionism in America
Maintained by Cornell University Library
In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives
"a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes - those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world."
Library of Congress: American History
Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
"presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois." Maintained by Northern Illinois University.
Making of America
"a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." Maintained by Cornell University Library.
Miller Center on the American Presidency
Non-partisan institute dedicated to advancing knowledge about American Presidents and the presidency.
Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
"highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Papers housed in the Manuscript Division contain approximately 20,000 items including correspondence and papers accumulated primarily during Lincoln's presidency."
National Archives and Records Administration
Federal government documents
National Museum of American History
"collections and scholarship dedicated to insipiring a broader understanding of our nation and its many peoples."
Online Archive of California
"access to tens of thousands of photographs, paintings, graphical materials and other types of images." Browse images and texts.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Maintained by the library at the University of Texas at Austin.
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
"Explore the lives and administrations of twelve Presidents of the United States."
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Photographs from American history.
The New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
"a select group of images from the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, Picture Collection, begun in 1915"
UMDL texts
e-texts provided by the University of Michigan Digital Library
United States Civil War Center
"promoting interdisciplinary study of the American Civil War. It was founded in 1993 by novelist David Madden, Professor of English at Louisiana State University"
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
"details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction. In this digital archive you may explore thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania." Maintained by the Virginia Center for Digital History
Virginia Black History Archives
"attempts to help document the history of African Americans in the Richmond and central Virginia area. Begun in 1990, over 50 collections make up the VBHA. They include published and unpublished documents dating primarily from the 20th century. While most of these collections are housed in Special Collections and Archives, some were digitized in the early 1990s and are available either online or on CD-ROM [at Virginia Commonwealth University]."
Women Working (1800 - 1930)
"Collection featuring approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images focusing on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections."
