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Discovering Collections (Science, U.S. and World History) (off-campus access restricted to ccsu users)
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. Access provided by iCONN, the CT Digital Library.
Historical Abstracts (off-campus access restricted to ccsu users)
Indexes articles from nearly 1,700 scholarly journals in a variety of historical topics. These include social history, military and political history, economic history, Asian history, African history, Australian history, European history, North and South American history and more. Time periods range from the Paleolithic to the present. Full text is not directly available through this resource, but include links to full text articles sources like Project MUSE, JSTOR and more. Coverage is 1954 - present.
History Reference Center (off-campus access restricted to ccsu users)
Offers full text from more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video. HRC is provided by iCONN, the CT Digital Library.
19th Century Masterfile (Including Poole's) (off-campus access restricted to ccsu users)
The 19th Century Masterfile is an accumulation of various indexes to printed materials from the nineteenth century. The library subscribes to Series I, which includes the following:
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1907
Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922
An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899
Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and other Personal Narratives
Provides indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. There are more than 260,000 pages of full-text by over 9,000 individuals from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds.
Search the Library Catalog (CONSULS)
Note: REF = Reference Dept. – Third Floor
Cassell's Chronology of World History: dates, events, and ideas that made History (REF D11 W635)
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (REF DE5 O9)
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, c2003
Revolutionary movements in world history: from 1750 to present (REF D295 R49 v. 1-3)
Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, c2006
The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged (REF D21 E578)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001
The Cambridge Medieval History (REF D117 C3 v.1-8)
New York: The Macmillan Co.; Cambridge: The University Press, 1924-36
The Cambridge Ancient History (REF D57 C25 v.1-12)
Cambridge: The University Press, 1923-39
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (REF D114 D5 v.1-13)
New York: Scribner, 1982-89
The Cambridge Modern History (REF D208 C17 v.1-12)
New York: Macmillan; London: Macmillan and Co. 1902-12
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall. The Sourcebooks include: an Ancient History Sourcebook, a Medieval Sourcebook, and a Modern History Sourcebook. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook contains thousands of sources in dozens of categories. Subjects covered include the Late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and the Early Reformation, as well as dozens of other topics.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Voice of the Shuttle-History Page
Part of an extensive guide to humanities resources that provides numerous links to feature sites, teaching resources, electronic journals, course syllabi, and much more.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Early Modern Resouces
Early Modern Resources, a gateway site for the early modern period (c.1500-1800). It contains a wide range of links. Subject themes are Old and New Worlds, Material and symbolic cultures, Society, economy, and demography, Politics, rebellions and revolutions, Women, gender, and sexuality, Crime, law, and disorder, Religion, science, and philosophy, Literature, art, and performance, and Medicine and illness. Also includes links to General Resources, E-tests, E-journals, and more.
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/
World History: HyperHistory
Hyper History Online covers 3000 years of history through timelines, lifelines, maps and graphics.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
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