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History eResources

“Articles, Books, and More”

Use the library’s Discovery Service to retrieve BILLIONS of journal articles, books, book chapters, entries in reference resources (etc.) from thousands of individual databases. Type in your search terms and then select “Articles, Books, and More” from the drop-down menu.

Reference Resources

African-American History – a multimedia database made up of articles from reference works and newswires, as well as primary sources, images, and videos.

History Reference Center – a multimedia resource that includes reference sources, academic journals, primary historical documents, and videos.

Credo Reference – brief entries from over 1k reference works, such as subject-specific encyclopedias and language dictionaries, covering all subject areas.

Oxford Reference – brief entries from 300+ reference works in all subject areas.

Britannica Academic – a general encyclopedia intended for college students.

Gale in Context: Biography – information about notable people, both contemporary and historical, from a wide range of sources, such as biographical dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

Books

Converse – to find books, both print and electronic, in Converse’s Mickel Library, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “Converse Catalog.”

PASCAL Delivers – to find books, both print and electronic, in South Carolina’s college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “PASCAL Delivers.” You can borrow these books by signing in and following the instructions to “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”

WorldCat – records for millions of books in thousands of libraries; most of these are “borrow-able” through our Interlibrary Loan Service.

Women Writers Online – complete transcriptions of texts written by women and published in English between 1526 and 1850.

Periodical Articles

Subject-Specific Databases

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers – a searchable database of digitized American newspapers from 1789-1963; produced by Library of Congress.

History Reference Center – a multimedia resource that includes reference sources, academic journals, primary historical documents, and videos.

Women’s Magazine Archive – six women’s interest magazines from the 19th through the 21st century.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete – one of the world’s largest databases of academic journals and magazines on all subjects; indexes over 12k periodicals and provides complete articles from over 8k of these titles.

JSTOR – non-current full-text articles in core academic journals in all subjects; Converse’s JSTOR collections focus on the humanities.

New York Times (a searchable/browsable version of the New York Times from 1851 through the current day; includes photos and other graphical elements. To create an account with your Converse email address, enter “Converse University” in the search box and follow the instructions.)

Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega – complete articles and citations to articles from several hundred popular magazines.

Periodicals Available at Converse

Periodicals by Title – Key in some or all of a periodical’s title (NOT the title of the article itself) to retrieve a listing of periodicals the library owns in either electronic or print/physical format.

Interlibrary Loan

To request books held by South Carolina college/university libraries, please go to our Discovery Service, key in your terms and select PASCAL Delivers, click on the book you’d like to borrow, sign in, and then click on “Request via PASCAL Delivers

To request articles and other non-book materials, as well as books NOT held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to Interlibrary Loan and select the correct form