Lincoln Memorial University Libraries: History: Find Sources

Find Databases

Which Database is right for you?

When searching through the Library Databases, narrow by subject for History.

All databases will have the following:

Title: Click to get redirected to the database.
Abstract: general topics, findings, and dates they hold

The below selection may help you start your search.

Find History Articles, Collections, and eBooks

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online, fully searchable collection of 4,680 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences. Frequently cited in the literature, these titles are recommended by scholars and learned societies and include many prize-winning works. Users may also access online book reviews from leading journals.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts™ covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, the history of education, and much more. It is appropriate for upper level undergraduate and graduate students. This authoritative database provides citations to articles from more than 2,300 journals.
World History Collection
This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History
Gale OneFile: U.S. History is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher. This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field. Articles included are updated daily and come from leading journals such as: Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, American Jewish History, Indian Life, Journal of Folklore Research and more.
Oral History Online
Oral History Online is a landmark database of English language oral histories. It contains at present more than 34,000 pages of full-text content that is available exclusively in Alexander Street Press databases. This full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews. With each quarterly update of Oral History Online, we will add more of such proprietary (in-copyright) full-text interviews.
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three “General Correspondence” series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidential years, 1860-65.
Accessible Archives

Important full text historical collections including period newspapers ,magazines, e-books and county histories from the 18th century to the early 20th century in the United States.

Find More History Resources
Extensive list of more online history resources available at the LMU Libraries

Find Articles in Major History Publications

LMU libraries provide full-text access to articles from many history journals and magazines. You can access them one of two ways:

Ex. American Historical Review

Search the library's Full Text Journal Finder by title.
Select "American Historical Review" from the list of results. It should be the first one. A list of three options should appear to the right. These are the companies that the library subscribes to The American Historical Review through. You will see that our subscriptions goes back farther with some than others.
From the list of options that appear to the right, select one of the three "American Historical Review" links. Additionally, be careful when selecting a link as not all subscriptions contain the more recently published articles. These will all take you to a new page where you can search the magazine like you would search a database.

Or:

Search the library catalog for "American Historical Review." You will get a number of results, but you should only need the first one.
From the first result, click on the green "Access Journal" button. A pop-up menu will appear with several links. These are the companies that the library subscribes to American Historical Review through. You will see that our subscriptions goes back farther with some than others.
From the list of options that appears in the pop-up, select one of the three "American Historical Review" links. These will all take you to a new page where you can search the magazine like you would search a database.

Other popular publications include:

Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Presidential Studies Quarterly
Latin American Research Review
American Antiquity
Social Forces
Political Geography
Past & Present
Theory & Society
Archaeometry
Europe-Asia Studies
History and Theory
Journal of Social History