Online edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Includes a dictionary and thesaurus. (more info)

Electronic version of Oxford reference books across a broad range of subjects. (more info)

Contains nearly 27,000 annotated citations (primarily to English language works) divided into forty-eight sections; citations refer chiefly to works published between 1961 and 1992

This book traces the scholarship on topics dealing with American History. Excellent bibliographies and literature reviews.

A multi-volume exhaustive encyclopedia that covers American history from an academic perspective.

Instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Covers economic, political, literary, social history as well as the arts and philosophy. (more info)

A free-content encyclopedia in many languages that anyone can edit.

Biographical portraits of prominent, dead American men and women. Includes bibliographies. (more info)

Expanded second edition of the Dictionary of National biography (more info)

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated - Find more than 147,000 substantive profiles, plus links to further information (full text articles, abstracts, book review excerpts, and more) from thousands of periodicals. (more info)

Index to biographies of persons from ancient times to the present. (more info)

Indexes the scholarly literature on the history of the U.S. and Canada. Includes links to full text of the articles also included in JSTOR. (more info)

Indexes the scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (more info)

The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. (more info)

A research database for history sponsored by the American Historical Association that searches core journals in history. (more info)

Indexes and abstracts more than 8,300 journals; almost 4,700 of these titles are in full text. (more info)

An archive of citations from alternative, radical, and left publications. (more info)

Offers images of current events, people in the news, historical figures, political leaders, sports greats, and more. (more info)

Contains records referencing arts and humanities subjects. (Tip: in an Author search, use the last name and first initial). (more info)

CiNii (pronounced "sigh-knee") searches academic papers and articles published in Japan. (more info)

EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 (more info)

ECCO delivers the full-text and page images of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. (more info)

Contains over 40,000 annotated citations to books, articles, and dissertations published from 1633 to the present. (more info)

Multi-disciplinary cross-cultural resource for women's history spanning 4 centuries and 15 languages. (more info)

A collection of resources for historical research in the Pacific Northwest. (more info)

An interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 300-1500 A.D. (more info)

Citations to articles and books on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (more info)

Full text of scholarly journals, from earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. (more info)

Leads to articles in left-leaning periodicals about politics, economics, and society. (more info)

Provides access to full text articles, photos, and advertisements in the New York Times from 1851 through 2003. (more info)

Locates 19th century articles from selected American and British magazines. Includes Poole's Index. (more info)

Full text articles from scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. (more info)

Index of articles in 350 popular, general-interest magazines published in the U.S. and Canada. (1983-present) (more info)

Index of more than 3 million articles from 375 popular and general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. (1890-1982) (more info)

Use Web of Science and other Citation Indexes to discover articles that have cited a specific article or author. (more info)

ARC is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. (more info)

NUCMC is a catalog of historical manuscript collections in the United States. (more info)

Provides enhanced access to more than 2,400 archival and manuscript collections in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington (more info)

Contains text of 150 Early American Travel Narratives.

Reports of the U.S. Congress between 1789 and 1838 (more info)

The Avalon Project provides mostly European or American documents in law, history and diplomacy. They are arranged by date, title or topic.

The Government Printing Office offers "direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society."

Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Collections include: * First-Person Narratives of the American South * Library of Southern Literature * North American Slave Narratives * The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 * The Church in the Southern Black Community

The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most Broadsides are one page in length, others range from 1 to 28 pages.

Maintained by the European Studies Bibliographer at BYU, EuroDocs links to primary historical documents from Western Europe and hopes to shed light on key historical happenings. EuroDocs operates as a wiki to which historians can contribute "online facsimiles, transcriptions, or translations of historical documents that illuminate the history of Europe."

Exact page images of law journals, U.S. Reports, Federal Register, and treaty & international agreements etc. (more info)

These historical collections from the National Digital Library contain photographs and manuscripts and can be searched by either subject, time and/or location of event, or by format.

A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1850-1877). The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Contains historical records of government agencies, genealogical resources, current government information, and the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), which describes textual records, maps & charts, photographs and films from its collection.

Contains birth, death, marriage and probate records for Oregon. Limited years available.

Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials.

Contains full text documents of the Southern Oregon Bioregion and First Nations material in the collection of Southern Oregon University. Searchable by author and title.

Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes for the period 1817-1980. (more info)

This site includes electronic versions of primary documents on: * AmDocs: Documents for the Study of United States History * World Constitutions * Documents of the First World War * many other areas of history

Contains This Day in History, which allows you to see the events of this or any day in four different categories. The History Channel page also has daily quizzes, polls, biographical profiles and a useful collection of speeches.

The History Guide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history with a focus on Anglo-American history.

The History Index is the WWW Virtual Library site for history and is produced by the EuropeanUniversity Institute in Florence, Italy. It is very comprehensive, with over 4,000 links. Links are organized by continent, era, topic, and method.

Looking for a book review on a historical topic? This is a good place to start. H-Net is an international grouping of scholars connected by over 100 electronic discussion lists. Most of the lists deal with history, and new book reviews are posted every day.

Impressive coverage of international labor history.

Connects to the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. These provide essays, as well as annotated and well-organized sources for copy-permitted historical texts.

This is a library metasite with links to resources in seven broad subject categories, as well as to collections of electronic museum exhibits, maps and e-journals.

This metasite from the University of Washington covers general African-American history as well as topics such as the Civil War, Slavery and Civil Rights, and formats such as electronic texts and images.

This site from the Library of Congress provides teachers and students with access to documents and images about Northwest and Plateau Indian peoples and cultures

This is a series of web guides on the decades of the Nineteenth Century.

A series of web guides on the decades of the 20th century, produced by the librarians at Kingwood College. Each decade has a bibliographic essay, some statistics and links to relevant sites.

A "virtual Lincoln library," created by the Abraham Lincoln Association. Allows visitors to search all eight volumes of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln for any word or phrase.

The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.

History of Washington State. Short-cut links to materials on specific cities (Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma), counties (King County), and topics (baseball, music, 1999-2000 WTO protests).

Locates 19th century articles from selected American and British magazines. Includes Poole's Index. (more info)

Tables of contents and identification of contributors with bibliographies of their articles and stories.

Index of articles in 350 popular, general-interest magazines published in the U.S. and Canada. (1983-present) (more info)

Index of more than 3 million articles from 375 popular and general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. (1890-1982) (more info)

Full text of national, regional, and international newspapers, business, and legal sources and more. (more info)

Indexes articles from 1989 to the present from Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, Los Angeles Times, and others (more info)

Articles are indexed from the Oregonian, 1851-1979, the Oregon Journal, 1902-1979, plus some other local newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous monographs. The subjects pertain to Oregon, Portland, and the Northwest

An historical guide to newspapers, organized by location.

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Also see:Newspapers in microform. Foreign countries

Valuable for location existing newspaper indexes at the local level.

Useful for finding index coverage of older periodicals.

Detailed annotations of more than 400 indexes/bibliographies covering pre-1900 publications.

Index to The Portland Oregonian from Dec. 1850-1987; The Register-Guard, and UofO campus newspaper.

Bibliographic Checklist for Historical Materials