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Features of Journal Articles:

Also known as peer-reviewed or academic articles, they are written by experts and/or highly trained professionals in a particular field.
The rigorous peer-review process ensures articles are vetted and fact-checked before publication.
Journal articles typically focus on a topic through a very narrow lens.

Find Journal Articles:

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Database of the world's scholarly literature in history (except U. S. & Canada) and related fields.
Indexes articles from more than 1,800 journals, and provides access to 349 full text journals and more than 120 full text books.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly U. S. and Canadian history journals, with full-text coverage for nearly 290 journals and more than 100 books.
Good source for book and media reviews and dissertation information. 1955 - present
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Artstor is now part of JSTOR. Recent issues of most journals are embargoed.
Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Includes full text for more than 1,400 journals with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides book reviews.

Features of Scholarly Books:

Due to the length, they typically cover a topic more broadly than journal articles.
They are typically written for a larger audience than journal articles.
They may contain a collection of related chapters by different authors.

Important Note: In most cases you'll only use a chapter or two for your research so don't be scared off by the length of a book.

Find Books:

Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search for materials in the Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield libraries plus online books, online media, and government publications.

Milestone Documents in World History by Brian Bonhomme (Editor); Cathleen Boivin (Consultant Editor)
ISBN: 1935306103
Publication Date: 2010
Important and influential primary source documents from the third millennium BCE to the twenty-first century.

Hathi Trust Digital Library
Hathi Trust Digital Library includes both copyrighted and public domain materials. According to the Welcome to HathiTrust! webpage, “ Hathi Trust preserves and provides lawful access to the 17+ million digitized items.”

Websites:

African Online Digital Library
AODL is an open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, scholars, and communities around the world.
Digital Witchcraft Collection
Cornell’s Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.
EuroDocs
Primary documents from Europe from prehistory to the modern era, collected by Brigham Young University.
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Publishing Office.

Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Digital record of American history and creativity through written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Contains the former American Memory collection as well as many other collections. From the Library of Congress.

Pennsylvania County Histories and Biographies
Listing of digitized or scanned histories.
Pennsylvania State Library Collections
Find books, databases, and primary resources available through the Pennsylvania State Library

Find Statistics and Data:

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (PDF)
PDF from the Census Bureau of a multi-volume set containing historical statistics about the US
Archived Statistical Abstract of the United States 1878-2012
Older editions of the Statistical Abstract, from the Census Bureau
Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790-2000 (PDF)
Publication from the Census Bureau comparing data across the early Censuses

Datapedia of the United States by George Thomas Kurian
ISBN: 0890598622
Publication Date: 2004
Based on "Historical Statistics of the United States from Colonial Times" this new edition is a one-reference source to the best available data in the United States. Available in print or online at each of the campuses.

Features of News Articles:

Written by journalists and typically reviewed by one or more editors.
Can provide in the moment coverage of current events.
Written for a broad audience.

Find News Articles:

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text access to digitized collections of thousands of American newspapers dating from 1690-1917 and from all 50 states.
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This free site from the Library of Congress allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1789 - 1925 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present.
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the LOC as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Selected full text for 40+ national (U.S.) and international newspapers,full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
New York Times (Account Activation) This link opens in a new window
Use this link to activate your New York Times online subscription. Once created, you can access nytimes.com directly on the web or mobile app. Includes breaking news, multimedia, opinion, blogs, videos and more.
NOTE: Create your account using your university email.
Includes access to archived articles between 1851-2002 (5 pdf downloads per day per user)
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Searches all the ProQuest databases: ABI/INFORM Global, Ebook Central, Digitized Newspapers (NY TImes & Phila Inquirer), Historical Newspapers (Phila Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wash Post).

Adam Matthew Explorer: Primary Sources Online This link opens in a new window
Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. You'll find award-winning digital resources spanning the social sciences and humanities, developed in collaboration with leading libraries and archives.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection -- All 5 Series (1691-1877) This link opens in a new window
Entire collection of digitized articles from early American magazines (1691-1877), re-published by the American Antiquarian Society. Primary historical documents of American life, medicine, religion, agriculture, science, and more.
American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922 This link opens in a new window
More than 3,500 printed books, pamphlets, graphic materials and ephemera about slavery, all digitized in full color.
Materials include books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera.
Civil War Primary Source This link opens in a new window
Captures various accounts of the Civil War, including firsthand perspectives from hospitals and prison camps, and reactions to the War from the home front. Focus is on the War years, but it also includes important documents from the years leading up to the War and after the fall of the Confederacy.
Drawn from the holdings of the New-York Historical Society, contains over 110,000 pages from over 400 individual collections focus on the War as it was fought from both Northern and Southern perspectives.
Historic Bloomsburg Digital Projects This link opens in a new window
Primary collections related to Bloomsburg University and the community, including Student Newspaper, Postcard Collection, Map Collection, Alumni Magazine, Morning Press Image Collection, Book Collection (Obiter), and Local Newspapers.
Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Digital record of American history and creativity through written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Contains the former American Memory collection as well as many other collections. From the Library of Congress.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 This link opens in a new window
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.
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Try also the links from the Government Information Guide. Click on Getting Started, then the History tab.

Government Information
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CIA - The World Factbook
The standard source for basic information about a foreign country, produced by the CIA.
Global Gateway: World Cultures and Resources
Information and links about the countries of the world, from the Library of Congress
Country Studies Series
Written by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress for the U.S. Army
World Digital Library
Primary sources about countries and cultures around the world
Country Reports
Over 35,000 pages of information about countries and cultures around the world
Nationmaster
Graphically compare statistics on countries' economy, health, crime, and much more

Search Everything

Search Everything is the library's equivalent to Google. In addition to searching everything in the Library's Catalog (books, ebooks, media, etc.) it also searches most of our databases containing journal articles and other electronic resources.

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