Best Bet Databases in
History
- America: History and Life
Summarizes scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada.
1964-current.
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Summarizes scholarly articles in all aspects of US & Canadian history, on topics from the Sioux Indian Ghost Dance or labor movements in Canada.
Includes some scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Also indexes historical books and dissertations.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- JSTOR
Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology.
Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
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Subjects include:
- African American Studies
- African Studies
- American Indian Studies
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture & Architectural History
- Art & Art History
- Asian Studies
- Botany
- Business
- Classical Studies
- Ecology
- Economics
- Education
- Feminist & Women's Studies
- Film Studies
- Finance
- Folklore
- General Science
- Geography
- History
- History of Science & Technology
- Language & Literature
- Latin American Studies
- Law
- Mathematics
- Middle East Studies
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Population Studies
- Psychology
- Public Policy & Administration
- Religion
- Slavic Studies
- Sociology
- Statistics
UConn subscribes to all available JSTOR Collections.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- New York Times Historical (1851-2007)
Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper.
1851-2006.
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Includes articles, editorials and commentary, display and classified ads, obituaries, birth & death announcements, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc. Also shows the entire page display of the newspaper, so you can see where articles, advertisements, and photos appear on the page.
Articles are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat. You may download the reader
here.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Full-text of over 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Covers history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
1701-1800.
Also Known As
- ECCO
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Part II: New Editions
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital edition of
The Eighteenth Century, the world's largest library of the printed book on microfilm. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Search every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
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