Subject Guide - History
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- Britannica Online Academic Edition: A full text encyclopedia with video, maps, and more.
- Duke University Press Books: eBooks across the humanities, social sciences, and more.
- Gale Ebooks: Reference sources for just about any research topic.
- History Reference Center: Reference books, history magazines, historical documents, etc.
- JSTOR - The Scholarly Archive: Articles from scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, humanities.
- Military and Government Collection: Almost 300 journals covering military and government topics.
- Oxford Reference: Full-text general and subject-specific reference sources.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection: Covers over 300 journals on religious history, theology, and philosophy
- Films On Demand: Academic, Career and Technical, and Archival & Newsreel film collections across all disciplines.
- Archival Films & Newsreels: Collections range from WWI through to the 21st Century.
- Biography
- History
- African American Newspapers: Covers selected newspapers from 1827 to 1998.
- America’s Historical Newspapers-Louisiana: Find newspaper articles from Louisiana’s past.
- Black Life in America: The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.
- Hispanic Life in America, Series 1: 1704 – 1942: The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media.
Find books and DVDs shelved in these call numbers:
C through CT - History - Related studies of history, e.g., archaeology, genealogy, biography, etc.
- CB 3 to CB 482 - History of Civilization
- CT 21 to CT 9999 - Biography
D through DX - World History - History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
- D - General History
- D 51 to D 90 - Ancient history.
- D 111 to D 203 - Medieval history.
- D 204 to D 475 - Modern history.
- DA through DX - History by nation, geographic region.
- DA - Great Britain.
- DC - France.
- DD - Germany.
- DL - Northern Europe.
- DS - Asia.
- DT - Africa.
- DU - Oceania (South Seas, South Pacific)
E through F - History of the Americas.
- E 11 to E143 - America.
- E 31 to E 49.2 - North America
- E 75 to E 99 - Indians of North America
- E 151 to E 909 - United States.
- E 184 to E 185.98 - Elements in the population: African-Americans
- E 186 to E 199 - Colonial history.
- E 201 to E 298 - The Revolution.
- E 456 to E 655 - Civil War Period
- E 740 to E 837.7 - Twentieth century.
- F 1 to F 975 - United States local history. By region, state,
- F 366 to F 380 - Louisiana
- F 965 - Territories of the United States
- F 1001 to F 1145.5 - British America.
- F 1201 to F 3799 - Latin America.
We also subscribe to these print titles:
- Current History
- Smithsonian
- The Louisiana Digital Library "is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories."
- The Historic New Orleans Collection is located in the French Quarter and houses major collections from Louisiana's past.
- Louisiana Historical Association: Resources include its Dictionary of Louisiana Biography and Online Presentations.
- Louisiana History Museum is located in Alexandria.
- Louisiana State Museums consists of several historic properties throughout the state, including the Cabildo, Presbytère and the Old U. S. Mint, in New Orleans.
- Louisiana Travel: History and Heritage: From the Louisiana Office of Tourism, this site lists historic sites throughout the state, such as Louisiana Civil War Sites. Includes a search interface with searching by category, area and city.
- Poverty Point World Heritage Site dates back over 3400 years and is located in the far northeast corner of the state, just over 50 miles east of Monroe.
- The National WWII Museum, Formerly known as the D-Day Museum, is located in New Orleans.
- Library of Congress Digital Collections Offers access to numerous online collections of primary documents, maps, images, and multi-media.
- Civil War Maps with images and articles.
- Country Studies offers historical, social, political, economic information on countries around the world.
- Chronicling America 1880 - 1910, a digitized collection of historic American newspapers.
- National Archives and Records Administration: The repository for the nation's records. Digital images and transcripts of "100 Milestone Documents" are available for viewing online.
- Smithsonian: Explore History & Culture - "Experience America and the world." Includes digital collections and multi-media.
- American Battlefield Trust seeks to preserve America's Battlefields from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the Civil War. Site includes articles and videos covering topics from 1754 through 1945.
- World History Encyclopedia provides articles, primary resources, & multi-media content.
- World History Matters - This site from the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University curates a collection of online history resources.
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project, from Fordham Univ, is "a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
- Remote Teaching Resources from the American Historical Society lists numerous online resources on history and related subjects.
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