Subject Guide - History | Library Services

Research Databases

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History Reference Center: Reference books, history magazines, historical documents, etc.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.
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
  - American History
  - European History
  - World 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.

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.