History

Databases and Indexes

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  
• America: History and Life (Print, in Periodicals)
  
• Biography Reference Bank
• Contemporary Authors
  
• Historical Abstracts (Print, in Periodicals)
  
• Kentuckiana Digital Library (KYVL)
  
• eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
• ProQuest
  

Reference Sources

History

• Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (REF D 23 .B45 2005)
• Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean (REF DE 59 .C55 1988)
• Civilization of the Ancient Near East (REF DS 57 .C55 1995)
• Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000 (REF HN 373 .E63 2001)
  
• Dictionary of American History (REF E 174 .D52 2003)
• Dictionary of the Middle Ages (REF D 114 .D5 1982)
• Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (REF E 468 .E53 2000)
• Encyclopedia of American History (REF E 174 .E53 2003)
• Encyclopedia of Asian History (REF Ds 31 .E54 1987)
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (REF B 802 .E53 2003)
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (REF D 804.3 .E53 1990)
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture (REF F 1406 .E53 2008)
• The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky (REF F 451 .E55 2009)
• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (REF CB 361 .E52 1999)
• Encyclopedia of Russian History (REF DK 14 .E53 2004)
• The Encyclopedia of World War II (REF D 740 .E516 2005)
  
• Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (REF D 209 .E97 2004)
  
• A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (REF D 13 .G47 1998)
  
• The Kentucky Encyclopedia (REF F 451 .K413 1992)
  
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (REF DT 58 .O94 2001)
  
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (REF D 205 .O94 2008)
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (REF BR 302.8 .O93 1996)

Biography

• American National Biography (REF CT 213 .A68 1999)
• Contemporary Authors (PN 771 .C6)
• Current Biography (REF CT 100 .C8)
• Dictionary of American Biography (REF E 176 .D562)
• Dictionary of National Biography (REF DA 28 .D47)
• Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (REF D 14 .G75 1991)
  
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography (REF CT 103 .M27)
  
• The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (REF CT 213 .S37)

Recommended Websites

General

• Best of History Web Sites
  
• The Historical Text Archive: Articles, Books, and Links for Historical Texts From Several Countries.

Local

• The First American West: the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
• Kentuckiana Digital Library (Access through KYVL)

Ancient History

• Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World

Medieval History

• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

American History

• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  
• American Presidents: Life Portraits
• American Slave Narratives
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congresses
• Documenting the American South
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
• Making of America
• United States Historical Census Data Browser
• WWW Virtual Library-American Indians: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

European History

• EuroDocs
  
• The Nizkor project (Holocaust information)
• Russian & East European Studies Virtual Library
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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