Averett University

Note: Use the Journal Locator to find journals or "sources" cited in an index.

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)	9,000 academic journals in all subject areas, 5,500 of them full text, and 2,300 of those refereed (more than twice the number in the Expanded Academic ASAP)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)	full text and abstracts of working papers, proceedings, articles, books, policy brief, economic indicators
Annual Reviews	Citations and abstracts for review articles from 29 annual volumes in biomedical, physical, and social sciences
CQ Public Affairs Collection	analysis of public policy issues, with statistics, historic documents, primary sources, directories of organizations; search by keyword or policy heading (business, communications, culture, education, environment, law, federal budget and taxes, U.S. politics ...); chronology of public issues from 1900 to the present
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	full text news, business, legal, medical and general reference sources
PAIS International	index to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, statistical directories on public affairs, from over 3,600 sources, 1972-
Sociological Abstracts	comprehensive index to international literature in sociology and related disciplines, 1963 to present, abstracts 1974 to present; covers over 1700 journals, plus book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
Social Services Abstracts	index with abstracts to research in social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development; covers over 1,500 serials; cites articles, dissertations and book reviews
Project Muse: Search \| Browse	full text of 221 scholarly electronic journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
American Historical Review	some full text from an official journal of the American Historical Association
Journal of American History	abstracts and some full text articles from this prominent journal published by the Association of American Historians
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (1857-1871)	full text of Harpers Weekly, with illustrations (Press release)
Dissertation Abstracts	index to dissertations on all academic topics, 1861-
PapersFirst	index to papers presented at conferences worldwide, 1993-
ProceedingsFirst	index to worldwide conference proceedings, 1993-

U.S. History: Web Guides

American Studies Web	American history and culture web sources including full text primary and secondary documents
American Studies at the University of Virginia	academic programs, museum, historical texts, maps, and special topics
History: American and British	resources by subject and period from Rutgers University Library
Best of History Web Sites	"links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness" Includes sites recommended for research and lesson plans/activities for teachers.
American Civil War Homepage	encyclopedic web resource including primary and secondary documents
Middle East and Jewish Studies	bibliographic and research resources with some full text covering many aspects of the Middle East, including historical sources
Afro-American Almanac	web site for Afro-American history and culture with biographies, bibliographies, primary sources documents, and organizations
WWW Virtual Library History -- United States	index of United States history subject web sites

U.S. History: Primary Sources

AMDOCS: Documents for the study of American History	digital archive of American documents and significant speeches, from 1492 to the present, including Presidential Inaugural and State of the Union addresses
NUCMC: the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections	Library of Congress catalog of historical manuscripts and their U.S. repositories
Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History Archives Center	web site for archives of American social history with text and images of primary sources materials
National Archives and Records Administration Exhibit Hall	full text American historical documents and art
U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian	Official historical documents of American foreign policy
CQ Public Affairs Collection	analysis of public policy issues, with statistics, historic documents, primary sources, directories of organizations; search by keyword or policy heading (business, communications, culture, education, environment, law, federal budget and taxes, U.S. politics ...); chronology of public issues from 1900 to the present
History and Politics Out Loud	full text and audio of notable speeches of the Twentieth Century
Great American Speeches	video, audio, and full text transcript of famous American speeches
American Memory	other digital collections from the Library of Congress
Making of America (Cornell) \| Making of America (University of Michigan)	books and journals in American social history from the ante-bellum period through reconstruction
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School	documents in law, history and diplomacy, pre-18th century to 20th century
Documenting the American South	collection of full text documents on Southern history, literature, and culture from the Colonial Period through the first decades of the Twentieth Century
The Constitution of the United States of America	full text of the Constitution for viewing or downloading
Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1764-1789	full text digital collection of 274 broadsides with extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
The Anti-Federalist Papers	Eighteenth century papers opposing ratification of the U.S. Constitution
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1710-1799	full text images selected from the largest collection of original Washington documents
Thomas Jefferson Papers (Library of Congress)	full text images from the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, representing the largest collection of original Jefferson documents
Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia	comprehensive site of primary sources with bibliography
The James Madison Center	biographical information and full text documents by and about Madison; includes a guide to Madison's home, the Montpelier restoration
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress	selected full text of 20,000 documents, including correspondence, drafts of speeches, the Emancipation Proclamation, the second Inaugural Address
New York Times, 1851 to 2001	full content of the New York Daily Times, 1851-1857, and New York Times, 1857-2001
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I (1857-1871)	full text of Harpers Weekly, with illustrations

U.S. History: Organizations

The American Historical Association	official web site of the professional association including directories and some full text reports and essays Perspectives (newsletter of the Association)
Organization of American Historians
American Association for State and Local History
National Trust for Historic Preservation
American Association of Museums

Jim Verdini, Liaison Librarian

Reviewed October 2, 2006

U.S. History: Books

U.S. History: Articles

U.S. History: Web Guides

U.S. History: Primary Sources

U.S. History: Organizations