Guide to Historical Information and Library Research

History Resources at Texas Tech

• History Department at Texas Tech
• Research and Writing Guides by Professors Howe, Snead, and Stoll
• Library Guide to the Database of Classical Bibliography
• Southwest Collection
• The Vietnam Archive
• Microform Sets in Current Periodicals and Microforms
• Major Micoform Collections in TTU Government Documents
• Major History Sets and Series in the Stacks
• Older Issues of Newspapers:
  Papers in the Current Periodicals and Microforms Department
  Papers in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
  US Ethnic Papers available from the Center for Research Libraries (2000 titles)
  Foreign Papers available from the Center for Research Libraries (6000 titles)

Databases, Libraries, and Archives

Indexes and Full Text Databases:

• America: History and Life
  Books & Articles on US & Canadian History published from 1964 on
• Historical Abstracts on the Web
  Articles on the history of the world outside the US and Canada published from 1955 on
• Declassified Documents Reference System
  Full text index and images of selected U.S. documents from the late 1940s on, declassified since 1975. Duplicates our microfiche set with the same title.
• Handbook of Texas Online
  Searchable Text of the 1997 Edition, with Updates
• Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
• World Biographical Index
  An index to entries in thousands of biographical dictionaries.
  Free access via the U. of Braunschweig Library, probably temporary.
• ASCII codes for foreign characters
  Use this table to generate accented letters for Spanish, French, and German for word processing or when using foreign databases.
• Historische Bibliographie Online
  Index and search engine to German and international historical monographs, journal articles, and articles in anthologies or collective works, published since 1990.
• HLAS: The Handbook of Latin American Studies
• American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)

Libraries:

• CCFR: Catalogue collectif de France
  A union catalog of French rare book collections, with 2.2 million records as of September 2000
• Library of Congress; Library of Congress Online Catalog
• Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund
  German Resources Project Document Delivery
• Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
  Simultaneous searching in one to fifteen major European and American catalogs and book databases.

Archives:

• National Archives and Records Administration
• ArchivesUSA
  NUCMC and archival finding aids, from Chadwyck-Healey
• RLIN-AMC File
  Public access gateway to archives and manuscript records in RLIN.
  May include information not in ArchivesUSA.
• Public Record Office, London
• Archives on the Internet: Best Compilation for Archives outside the US

 

Freely Available Electronic Journals (Selected E-Journals)

• The History Cooperative (Free Access to the AHR and JAH)
• Journal of the Association for History and Computing
• African Studies Quarterly
• Cromohns
  Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
• Essays in History
  Maintained by the Corcoran Department of History, the University of Virginia
• Journal of Southern Religion
• Intermarium
  History and Politics of Central and Eastern Europe since WWII
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• The Medieval Review: Formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review

Important Internet Sites

• The History Guide / InformationsWeiser Geschichte
  A historical database, compiled by an academic network in Germany and Switzerland.
• H-Net Home Page
• H-Net Book Reviews
• WESSweb: Best interdisciplinary site for Western European studies
• WWW Virtual Library for History
• The Labyrinth
  Premiere site for resources on medieval history at Georgetown University.
• De Imperatoribus Romanis
  An Online Encyclopedia of Roman and Byzantine Emperors

Historical Document Collections on the Web

• American Memory
  Collection of photos, videos, audio, and documents, maintained by the Library of Congress
• NARA Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
  Database for an eclectic mix of record descriptions and facsimiles from the US National Archives
• Documenting the American South
  Diaries and slave narratives from the nineteenth century American South.
• The Making of America
  Searchable full text of several thousand American books from 1850-70
• The Valley of the Shadow
  Sources on the Civil War in Franklin County, Pa. and Augusta County, Va.
• The Historical Text Archive compiled by Don Mabry of Mississippi State

Organizations

• History Departments Around the World
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Council for European Studies
• University of Waterloo Electronic Library Scholarly Societies Project

Library Services for History at Texas Tech

• Library Instruction: Use this form to schedule library instruction for your class.
• QuestionPoint: Ask reference questions online, in real time. 
  
• Reference and Consultation: Email the subject librarian or contact the Reference Desk to schedule a research consultation.
  
• Book Recommendations: Use this form to recommend book purchases.

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Maintained by Jack Becker, Information Services Librarian for History.
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