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Books

Helmke Library Catalog
Find books, e-books and more available at Helmke Library.

Proquest Ebook Central
Search and view the full text of ebooks.
WorldCat
Search for books in over 7,000 libraries. After searching, you can use the "Request Item" link to borrow items from other libraries. After searching, you can filter by "Book" to narrow your results.

Google Books
Search the full text of books. Copyright (as applicable) will prevent you from reading the full text in Google. If you find a book of interest, search Helmke Library's Catalog or WorldCat to locate a print or digital copy.

Scholarly Articles

America: History and Life
Includes a large collection of scholarly journals by historians. You can limit by "Historical Period." After searching, you can limit by "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
JSTOR
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can narrow by date and also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Project MUSE
Includes the full text of journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. After searching, you can limit by subject, year, and more.

Library "Everything" Search
Search across many Helmke Library databases to find both primary sources and scholarly materials. After searching, try the filters at the left hand side. This is also a good place to look for items found in footnotes or a bibliography. If you don't find the full text of the item you're looking for, make a Document Delivery request. The "Everything" search is also the default search on the Library's homepage.

Reference: Selected Databases and Books

Credo Reference
A collection of e-reference books from a variety of publishers.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
A collection of e-reference books from Oxford University Press.

Chronology of world slavery
Available online and in print.
Encyclopedia of world trade: from ancient times to the present
Available online.
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World.
Available online.
Oxford encyclopedia of economic history
Available online and in print.
Princeton companion to Atlantic history
Available online.

Primary Sources

Primary Source Databases

Gale Primary Sources
Search across over thirty-five Gale primary source databases. Click the down pointing arrow to view and select specific databases.

Making of the Modern World
A large collection of documents related to Western trade and wealth covering the last half of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Sabin Americana: 1500-1926
Primary documents relating to the Americas dating from 1500 to 1926.

American Historical Periodicals (AAS)
The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-6, with journals, magazines, and periodicals from 1684-1922.

Annual Register
A year-by-year record of British and world events published annually since 1758, including historical context and perspective, a mass of biographical information, and key insights into contemporary 18th and 19th century attitudes towards the political and social events, issues, developments, and trials of the time.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
A collection of the diaries and correspondence of approximately 500 British and Irish women. Includes primary materials spanning more than 300 years, as well as biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. From Alexander Street Press.
C19, The Nineteenth Century Index
Discover nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. The C19 Index provides integrated access to 13 bibliographic indexes.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Identify American newspapers published between 1690-present. This directory can help locate what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.
Colonial State Papers
Access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records covering colonial history from 1574 to 1757, including the American colonies, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Covers early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery. From ProQuest.

Early Encounters in North America
Covers 1534 to 1850 and includes personal accounts from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. From Alexander Street Press.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere, from 1473-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Full text English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800, as well as sources from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, University of Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
Indigenous Peoples: North America
Includes full text books, manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals from the seventeenth through the twenty-first century.
Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
An online collection of trial documents based on the holdings of the law libraries of Harvard, Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. See also the entire Making of Modern Law series.
NewsVault
Search across all collections or scroll down to choose a specific collection. Includes 17th-20th century British newspapers, 19th century U.S. newspapers and 19th century British periodicals.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Full text books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other documents in both Western and non-Western languages
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: a Transnational Archive
Covers topics such as debates over slavery and abolition, the slave trade in the Atlantic World, the institution of slavery and the age of emancipation.
State Papers Online
Original materials from 1509 to 1782 covering British and European history from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne.
U. K. Parliamentary Papers
Includes papers from the House of Commons (1700-present) and House of Lords (1800-1910) as well as Public Petitions to Parliament (1833-1918) and Hansard (1803-2005).

Websites & Digital Archives: Selected Sources

Please note that secondary as well as primary sources may be included in some of these resources.

HathiTrust
A large-scale online archive with digitized books, journals, documents and more. Especially useful for finding materials in the public domain.
Early Canadiana Online
A full text collection of more than books, pamphlets, and other sources documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century.
Records of the American Colonies
Legislation, court proceedings, records, correspondence, etc. from the 13 original colonies and their predecessors. From HathiTrust.
Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network
An open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. Hosted by Michigan State University.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
A digital memorial that allows for an analysis of the slave trade, as well as interactive maps, timelines, and animations.
Transatlantic Literature 1500-1800: Primary Sources on the Web
From Saint Louis University Libraries.
H-Atlantic
An interdisciplinary discussion network for scholars who study Atlantic World from 1500 to 1800.
H-Slavery
A discussion network that seeks to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation.
Bibliographies in Atlantic History
Created in conjunction with the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 2000 and 2002.

Citation Guides

Chicago Manual of Style
Online version of the Chicago Manual of Style addressing style, usage, and grammar issues encountered in writing research articles and other academic papers.

Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.

The Chicago Manual of Style
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