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History Research Guide

Welcome to the History research guide. This guide is intended to create a pathway to research tools and other resources to assist you with research projects and assignments for HIST 1301, HIST 1302, and HIST 2311.

You will find information about:

Databases

Books & eBooks

Streaming Media

Evaluating Sources

Research, Writing, and Citation Tools

Find and Search Sources

Reference Databases

Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a comprehensive digital reference source that covers a broad array of topics including Foods Science, Biography, Literature, Business, Health and Medicine, Job and Career, Math, Science, Social Science and Technology & Engineering.
Handbook of Texas
The Handbook of Texas is a digital state encyclopedia developed by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) that is free and accessible on the Internet for students, teachers, scholars, and the general public. The Handbook consists of an overview, general, and biographical entries focused on the entire history of Texas from the indigenous Native Americans and the Prehistoric Era to the states diverse population and the Modern Age.

Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
JSTOR Open Access
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, eBooks, and primary sources. This database includes content across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The library does not subscribe to JSTOR, this content is accessible through open access.
Texas Reference Center
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston.

Databases & Other Sources

Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.

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Users can browse and search the DPLA’s collections by timeline, map, format, and topic; save items to customized lists; and share their lists with others. Users can also explore digital exhibitions curated by the DPLA’s content partners and staff.
Harvard Digital Collections
Harvard Digital Collections provides free, public access to more than 6 million objects digitized from our collections - from ancient art to modern manuscripts and audiovisual materials.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress has an extensive online collection of primary source material. Their online collection includes prints, photographs, historic newspapers, maps, sound recordings, oral histories, diaries, letters, family papers of prominent Americans, manuscripts, and more.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
Provided free of charge by HeinOnline, the Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law collection contains an array of primary and secondary source materials focusing on slavery and in particular slavery within the United States. The collection contains scholarly articles, select books chapters, slavery statutes, judicial cases, and a comprehensive bibliography.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities across a century of change.
Texas Slavery Project
From the University of Virginia, this is a database of primary source documents which tell the story of those who lived with slavery in early Texas.

Books & eBooks

Search the library catalog to find books and eBooks. Books give you a detailed analysis of a topic and provide background information.

To browse the History collection, look for items in this call number range.

Call Number Range	Subject
CS	Geneology
CT	Biographies
D	World History
E 100	History of America
E 200	United States History
F 100-900	Local Histories
F 380	Texas History

Streaming Media: Academic Video Online (AVON) & Films on Demand (FOD)

The library has two streaming media databases, Academic Video Online & Films on Demand. AVON and FOD allow students access to a wide range of titles on subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

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Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations.
Films on Demand
Films On Demand is a database of documentaries, educational videos and news footage. Highly desirable items include the works of the Best of Ken Burns as well as PBS programs, selected TED talks, CNBC political footage, the Biography Channel and films from the American Museum of Natural History and so much more!

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