How to Use This Guide
Welcome to the Tisch Library guide to resources for the study of History. Use the table of contents to find definitions, topic overviews, books, articles, and more that will help you with your research.
Getting to Know Your Topic
Reference sources--like dictionaries and subject encyclopedias, provide overviews of topics and descriptions of concepts and ideas. They can also provide definitions, statistics, and other details. You can use this type of source to help narrow your research topic, find data to support your thesis, and identify keywords and main ideas to use as search terms.
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CREDO Reference798 online reference resources from numerous publishers. This reference resource can be searched by individual title, broad subject headings, cross-references, audio and images.
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Brill Online Reference WorksOffers online access to books and journals in the fields of History, Classical Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies, International Relations, Law, Asian Studies, Biblical Studies, African Studies, Jewish Studies, Language and Linguistics, Religious Studies.
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Oxford ReferenceProvides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, science, technology and medicine, the performing arts, and religion. Works can be searched separately or across the entire databases. Includes over 1.5 million entries.
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryGale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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Oxford English Dictionary OnlineThe Oxford English Dictionary is the most authoritative dictionary of the English language. Entries include a history of where a word was first published, alternate spellings, pronunciations, and an etymological analysis.
Find Books and Articles in JumboSearch
Want to discover everything that Tisch Library has on your topic? Try searching for your topic in JumboSearch, which simultaneously searches across all of the library's resources, including: books from the library catalog; journal articles in databases, online and in print; research guides on your topic; digital files from the Archives; and much, much more!
Selected Web Resources
There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find historical information as well as collections of primary source documents and much more. Have fun exploring!
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is the nation’s leading American history organization dedicated promoting the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources. At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history.
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National Museum of African American History & CultureThe museum's collection of historical artifacts, documents, photography, and media now numbers close to 37,000. Many of the objects have been digitized and the collection is fully searchable.
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National Museum of American HistoryThe National Museum of American History collects artifacts of all kinds—from gowns to locomotives—to preserve for the American people an enduring record of their past. The Museum has more than 3 million artifacts in its collection. Information and photos of selected objects are available in the online collections database. The database is a work-in-progress and new items will be added regularly.
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade DatabaseFrom Emory University, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
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World History MattersWorld History Matters is a portal to world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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World History | SmithsonianOrganizes world history articles from the Smithsonian Magazine. Many of the articles in this collection provide useful background information on major events in world history.
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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & RenaissanceIter is a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Access medieval and Renaissance resources featuring the Iter Bibliography, Iter Italicum, bibliographies of Milton and English women writers, and its full-text journal collection.
