Research Guides: History: Additional Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale eBooks
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A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Places to Find Images

ARTstor
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ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

Images of Medieval Art & Architecture
In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library, this resource has developed searchable image databases for Chartres Cathedral and the Benedictine Abbey Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vézelay. The Chartres database, which contains over 3,000 images, is coordinated with web pages to allow for a more structured approach to these images.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
WorldImages
WorldImages database provides access to 80,000 images via the California State University IMAGE Project.

Theses and Dissertations

Index to Theses
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1716.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT Global) contains over 3.8 million graduate works, with 1.7 million in full text. It provides access to millions of dissertations and theses from over 700 academic institutions, dating back to 1861.

Government and Official Documents

Archival Research Catalog - Online catalog of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.

Foreign Relations of the United States - Official historical records of major U.S. foreign policy decisions, from the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, other foreign agencies, and private individual papers. This is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It is an incomplete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed.

GPO Access - The U.S. Government Publishing Office provides official information from all three branches of the Federal Government, including the public papers of the U.S. presidents from 1991 forward.