HST 312 - Dr. Ramey

Databases

List of All the History Databases Available to the MSU Community

List of All the Ethnic Studies Databases Available to the MSU Community (some overlap with the History Databases)

***Essential***

America, History & Life -- Index to articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian History.

***Other Databases***

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century -- Digitized editions of the following newspapers:

Title	City	Dates
Freedom's Journal	New York, N. Y.	1827 - 1829
Colored American/Weekly Advocate	New York, N. Y.	1837 - 1841
North Star	Rochester, N.Y.	1847 - 1851
National Era	Washington, D.C.	1847 - 1853
Provincial Freeman	Chatham, Ontario	1854-1857
Frederick Douglass Paper	Rochester, N.Y.	1851-1852
Christian Recorder	Philadelphia, Pa.	1861-1862

American Periodical Series -- A compilation of American periodicals and journals from colonial times to 1900. It is available in the following formats:

Microform -- the entire set is avaible in the Microforms Library at MICROFILM 313. A Web-based index (under construction) is available.
Full-Text APS (under construction) -- Part of the ProQuest stable of databases. When you get to the ProQuest page, click on this icon (in upper left hand corner of the page):

Then check the box for "APS Online."

Archives USA -- This database lists collections in archives and manuscript repositories in the U.S. Note: MSU is limited to one user at a time. Click here for more information.

Black Studies on Disc -- Index to books and articles.

Ethnic NewsWatch -- "a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press". Coverage begins with 1985; Ethnic NewsWatch now has more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish

Harper's Weekly -- "the leading illustrated newspaper of its time."

Print version -- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RARE BOOKS folio AP2 .H32 (1857-1916; some vols. missing)
HarpWeek -- indexing and full text of the original (1857-1877). Click here for a more detailed description; click here to connect.

Making of America -- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

New York Times -- On microfilm in the Microforms Library in the Major Newspapers Microfilm section. These newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title. Indexes:

Print index -- Main Library Reference AI21 .N44 (1851-present)
Historical Index to the New York Times (1863 to 1905; 1913 to September 1922)

ProQuest Research Library -- Coverage begins in the early 1980s. Contains articles from a wide number of popular and scholarly publications in a variety of fields. Some but not all articles are full text.. Try using the "Guided" search method which is quite powerful and fairly easy to use.

United States Historical Census Data Browser -- contains data that describe the people and economy of the US for each state and county from 1790-1960

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