History
Selected History Databases
U. S. History Databases
The major U. S. history databases that are available to users with an LSU ID are listed below. Hover over the "info" icon for a description of each resource.
For a complete list of History databases that the LSU Libraries subscribe to, click here.
Selected resources:
- America's HIstorical Imprints This link opens in a new window Digital library of books printed in British North America and the United States, 1639-1800.
- European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new window Catalog of books about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field.
- Proquest History Vault This link opens in a new window Materials on slavery and southern plantations.
- Women and Social Movements 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window Collection of primary source documents on American women's history.
- LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window More than 120 historically significant LGBT journals and newspapers, and more than 150 full-text books.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 This link opens in a new window The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitute a rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of approximately 369,000 publications published in 14,500 volumes and over 11 million pages.
- ProQuest Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window Description: Provides access to Committee Prints & Miscellaneous Publications, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports, and Congressional Hearings (1824-2003)
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window More than 1,300 titles from all 50 states, 18th-20th century.
- New York Times with Index (1851-2018) This link opens in a new window This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-2018) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window 270 newspapers published in 36 states.
- American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window Hundreds of magazines and journals from colonial times to the early 20th century.
- Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines This link opens in a new window llustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines: Important and Rare Periodicals from Confederate, Union, Abolitionist, and British Presses is the definitive online Civil War media resource. The database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865.
- HarpWeek This link opens in a new window Full-text of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War era (1857-1865) and Reconstruction I (1866-1871).
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News.
- Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window
- American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society (Parts 1- 6) This link opens in a new window
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender This link opens in a new window
- Colonial America This link opens in a new window
- Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
- Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 This link opens in a new window
- Papers of George Washington This link opens in a new window
- Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
- Washington Post 1877 - 2005 This link opens in a new window
- Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new window
A full list of History databases can be found here
- Latin American Newspapers Series 1 (1805-1922) This link opens in a new windowLatin American Newspapers, Series 1, 1805-1922, offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a dozen other countries, these resources provide a wide range of viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures. Together, both series of Latin American Newspapers chronicles the evolution of Latin America over two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.
- Latin American Newspapers Series 2 (1822-1922) This link opens in a new windowLatin American Newspapers, Series 2, 1822-1922, offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a dozen other countries, these resources provide a wide range of viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures. Together, both series of Latin American Newspapers chronicles the evolution of Latin America over two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.
- Fuente Academica This link opens in a new windowFuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. Fuente Academica provides full text (including PDF) for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals.
A full list of History databases can be found here
Louisiana History Databases
The major Louisiana history databases that are available to users with an LSU ID are listed below. Hover over the "info" icon for a description of each resource.
- Digital Sanborn Maps of Louisiana This link opens in a new window
- Louisiana Digital Library This link opens in a new window
- Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past This link opens in a new window
- Baton Rouge Advocate Collection Current and Historical Archives 1845 - present This link opens in a new window
- Times-Picayune Collection Historical and Current This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 180 years of New Orleans history with The Times-Picayune Collection. Coverage from 1837 through today. Explore current and archived issues of the Times-Picayune with full-color newspaper images and individual articles.
A full list of History databases can be found here
European History Databases
The major European history databases that are available to users with an LSU ID are listed below. Hover over the "info" icon for a description of each resource.
- British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of 19th-century British society.The collection includes Parts I-V and covers the years 1732-1950.
- British Periodicals I and II This link opens in a new window Hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th.
- Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 This link opens in a new window
- Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window Digital images of virtually every book printed in English, 1473-1700.
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life This link opens in a new window
- Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window Iter's bibliography includes art, art history, foreign languages and literatures, and literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
- Mass Observation Online This link opens in a new window
- Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) This link opens in a new window Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland sources online.
- Medieval Family Life This link opens in a new window
- Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957 This link opens in a new window
- Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
- State Papers Online I, 1509-1603 Tudor Domestic This link opens in a new window
- State Papers Online II, 1509-1603 Tudor Foreign This link opens in a new window
- Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 This link opens in a new window The Telegraph Historical Archive provides access to an archive of 1 million pages. The paper is considered to be Britain's first "penny newspaper" and became the largest-selling newspaper in the world by 1876.
- The Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 This link opens in a new window
- Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowECCO contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. From books and directories, bibles and sheet music, to sermons and pamphlets, ECCO features a variety of materials to provide a critical tool for both faculty research and classroom use.
A full list of History databases can be found here
World History / General History Databases
The major world history databases that are available to users with an LSU ID are listed below. Hover over the "info" icon for a description of each resource.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window Introductory scholarly essays on hundreds of topics and geographic areas.
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index This link opens in a new window Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
- Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window Index to publications on Islamic subjects throughout the world, 1906-present.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window This is the online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window The Foreign Broadcast Information Service is a federal agency that monitors and translates foreign media into English. FBIS Daily Reports are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information.
- Access World News This link opens in a new window Articles from the U.S. and more than 150 other countries (1978-current).
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window More than 400 major and regional newspapers from around the world.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Offers full-text online news, business, legal, legislative, and regulatory information, updated daily.
- Apartheid South Africa This link opens in a new window
- First World War Portal This link opens in a new window
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window
A full list of History databases can be found here