Best of History Web Sites

History- from Academic Info

History Resource Center: World - 1,500+ primary sources Full-text articles from 110+ academic journals. More than 1,600 historical maps and atlases. Annotated Web links to primary source special collection sites. Historical timelines. For off-campus access, contact a librarian.

Internet Public Library History Resources

History Guide: Resources for Historians

Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides indexing to over 8,000 periodicals and includes the full text of nearly 4,700 of these titles (approximately 3,600 are peer-reviewed journals). Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating back as far as 1975. Available to the Converse community both on the campus network and off campus. Contact a reference librarian for information on off-campus access.

InfoTrac
Covers academic journals, magazines, newspapers. Includes citations, some abstracts, some complete articles. Available to the Converse community both on the campus network and off campus. Contact a reference librarian for information on off-campus access.
For journal titles included in the InfoTrac databases, click here.
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

Encyclopedia Britannica Online Available only on Converse campus.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Grolier Online Encyclopedia
Available to the Converse community both on and off campus. Please contact a librarian for off-campus access.
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

HyperHistory Online

InfoPlease.com - Information Please Almanac

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Over 100 subject-specific encyclopedias from Oxford University Press

Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World

Exploring Ancient Cultures

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

ANYDAY - "Today in History"

HyperHistory Online

People Index - Lifelines of Important Persons

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web

History Resource Center: U.S. - covering all periods of American history, this resource includes over 4,000 primary historical documents as well as complete articles from 100+ journals and 30+ reference sources. Available to the Converse community both on and off campus. Contact a librarian for more information.

U.S. History - from Academic Info

Making of America - a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

United States Civil War Center

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present

POTUS - Presidents of the United States

American Slave Narratives