Starting Research: History

Basic resources for starting research in history.

Databases and Indexes=

Historical Abstracts: The scholarly index for history excluding North America. Journal articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of history after 1450 are included.

America: History and Life: The scholarly index for the history of North America, including journal articles, books, and dissertations.

JSTOR: Backfiles of scholarly journals in history and other disciplines, not including the most recent two to five years.

Project Muse: Access to 100 scholarly electronic journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Resources for the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) including citations in journals(1784-), books, reviews; a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts; etc. Some online full-text resources are available.

Humanities International Complete: Covers journals as well as books and reference sources in the humanities, including history.

Library Catalogs

Grinnell College Libraries: Burling Library, Kistle Science Library and beyond.

WorldCat: A huge catalog of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries around the world. Most items in WorldCat are available through interlibrary loan.

Center for Research Libraries: Journals, foreign dissertations, newspapers, and microform collections available through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

Reference Sources

American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature : a useful bibliography of key resources in all areas of history. Reference D20 .A43x 1995.

Dictionary of Historians and Historical Writing : A two-volume dictionary with entries on prominent historians and themes in historical writing. Reference D14 .E53 1999

Timetables of History: a historical linkage of people and events: Reference D11. G78 2005

The Information-Literate Historian: a guide to research for history students. Reference D16.2 .P71 2007.

Selected Web Sites

Internet Modern History Sourcebook : Collection of primary sources of historic documents from the early modern period to the present for both Europe and the Americas. Includes links to other sources of information on modern history, on the nature of historiography, and links to maps, images, and music.

WWW Virtual Library:History: This is the central catalogue for the WWW-VL network of indexes to Historical materials on-line. It is intended for general public use, but its coverage and selection of sites concentrates on creating a facility useful for those pursuing historical research on-line. An extremely comprehensive index of links, it covers nearly every geographic area and many subjects

American Memory : Provides information on, and access to, the digitized version of the Library's primary-source collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents, sound recordings, and motion pictures

Labyrinth: A guide to electronic resources in medieval history.

LANIC:Latin American Network Information Center. Provides links to information about and from Latin America.

Style and Citation Guides

Chicago Manual of Style : Perm Reserve Z253 .U69 2003

Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper: Duke University Libraries

RefWorks A web-based service that allows you to import citations, create bibliographies, and more.

Resources at Grinnell

Department of History

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