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History Online provides a portal for nineteen history collections published by ProQuest Information and Learning
Company. From the History Online home page, any of the following collections can be accessed. Click on a
title below to read more information:
All of these collections are available on an individual subscription basis.
American Periodical Series Online, 1741-1900
This unique and valuable collection includes digitized images
of the pages of American magazines and journals published from
colonial days to the dawn of the twentieth century. Titles range
from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's
first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular
magazines still in print, such as Vanity Fair and the
Ladies' Home Journal. Over 1000 titles are included,
chronicling the development of America across 150 years.
The database is available on the Web through ProQuest®, and the complete ASCII text in the
American Periodicals Series (including tables of contents) is searchable by keywords and Boolean operators.
Articles are linked to the corresponding page images, which are downloadable in Adobe PDF.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
ArchivesUSA
ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,400 repositories
and over 124,400 collections of primary source material across
the United States. In using ArchivesUSA, researchers
are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to
determine whether a collection contains material useful to their
work as well as find the information they need to contact the
repository directly. Repository records provide detailed information
including phone and fax numbers, hours of service, materials
solicited, email and home page URLs when available. Each collection
record links to its corresponding repository record, simplifying
the research process. Included in ArchivesUSA are important
collections such as the entire collection of the National
Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), from 1959
to the present, covering more than 88,700 collections.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive is the most comprehensive
collection available of significant primary documents central
to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Included in the
database are nearly 40,000 of the most important, declassified
documents - many published here for the first time - totaling
more than 250,000 pages. There are fifteen complete collections,
and each contains a diverse range of policy documents including
presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting
notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications,
email, confidential letters and other secret material. Additionally,
contextual and reference supplements are provided for each collection,
including general introductory material, a chronology, glossary
and bibliography. Documents have been selected and identified
by leading scholars in each of the topic areas covered, and
have been indexed to permit item and page-level searching across
more than 20 combinable fields. In its totality, Digital
National Security Archive offers the most powerful research
and teaching tool available in the area of US foreign policy,
intelligence and security issues during this pivotal period
of twentieth-century history.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970
No maps are consulted more in academic and public libraries
than Sanborn fire insurance maps; the detailed property and
land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in more
than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities across a century of change.
Now they're as close as your keyboard with the Digital Sanborn
Maps™ collection, available online from ProQuest Information
and Learning. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn
Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire maps
for over 100 years, repeatedly mapping towns and cities as they
changed. There are some 660,000 maps in this collection, and
combined with other reference sources; city directories, photographs,
small-scale maps, census records, genealogies, and statistical
data, the Sanborn maps provide an unparalleled picture of life
in American towns and cities. The electronic interface makes
it easy to find the locations you want, and although initially
accessible by state and community, the maps also pinpoint the
streets, landmarks, and other places noted in the map's index.
Once displayed, the maps can be manipulated, expanded, printed,
and downloaded.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online is a priceless library of
classic early English works as they appeared in their original
form. It includes more than 96,000 titles from the earliest
printed works in the English language and spans over two centuries
of writing. Now you can explore a wealth of knowledge, published
between 1475 and 1700, with documents that range from ballads
about Robin Hood to advice on cleaning your clothes, how to
succeed at love, or literary masterpieces by Machiavelli, Faust,
and Chaucer. Also included are works by Malory, Spenser, Bacon,
More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton and Galileo; musical exercises
by Henry Purcell; novels by Aphra Behn; and prayer books, pamphlets,
proclamations, almanacs, calendars and other primary resources.
This online version enables researchers to view complete, digitized
images of original pages from all the works in the database.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
The Gerritsen Collection
The Gerritsen Collection is an incomparable collection
of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution
of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
Begun in the late 1800s by Dutch physician and feminist Aletta
Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen, and completed in 1945,
The Gerritsen Collection includes more than 4,700 publications
from continental Europe, the US, the United Kingdom, Canada,
and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. This online resource
delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in
the original printed works. Users can trace the evolution of
feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one
country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it
also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available
only in a few rare book rooms. The ASCII text is searchable
by keyword and Boolean operators, and records are linked to
the corresponding page images, downloadable in Adobe® PDF.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Harper's Magazine Online
Harper's Magazine Online is a fascinating archive of
articles from America's oldest continuously published monthly
magazine. Founded in New York City in 1850, Harper's
is a truly general interest magazine publishing reports, essays,
criticism, fiction, poetry, art, humour and argument, and has
been the recipient of eight National Magazine Awards, among
its many other journalistic and literary honours. Harper's
Magazine Online provides electronic access to every page
of the full run of Harper's Magazine, facilitated through
the comprehensive Harper's Cumulative Index®. Over
150,000 articles can be found easily and viewed electronically
in the original printed format, providing unprecedented electronic
access to the full run of the magazine. Harper's Magazine
Online is published through a partnership between ProQuest
Information and Learning Company and the Harper's Magazine Foundation.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
HeritageQuest Online
Digitized
from the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History collection on
microfiche, the HeritageQuest Online database is an essential collection of unique
material for both genealogical hobbyists and professionals. It provides
a unique, ongoing collection of research materials for tracing family
lineage and American culture, beginning with the 13 original colonies.
The amateur interested in tracing family trees, the folklorist,
and the professional genealogical researcher can now find otherwise
inaccessible documents in digital format. Many of the digital images
in this collection are not available to researchers anywhere else.
They include genealogical monographs and serials, local histories,
tax rolls, cemetery lists, military rosters and the complete US Federal Census from 1790-1930. The database also
contains maps, atlases, wills, and church, court, and school records.
When complete it will encompass materials from all 50 states, with
over 25,000 titles and more than 7 million pages. New content is
added monthly, and the entire project will be completed by 2003.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
The
Historical Index to The New York Times
The Historical
Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922 is part of ProQuest's
collection of electronic newspaper indexes, which have revolutionised
access to the archives of the world's most important English-language
newspapers. This index offers researchers the opportunity to
search through seventy years of The New York Times,
from its beginnings in 1851 (when it was known as The New
York Daily Times), up until 1922. It is an excellent starting
point for students and scholars researching all aspects of American
life during this period of great transition, and is currently
the only historical electronic index available for The New
York Times. The Historical Index to The New York Times
contains records for 3.3 million articles, from the passing
of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the advent of Prohibition. Every
word of the Index can be searched, the results are
returned in a matter of seconds, and users can also restrict
their searches to main headings and to particular dates, pages,
text types and publications.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Palmer's
Index to The Times
Palmer's
Index to The Times, 1790-1905 is the only index to The
Times® in the nineteenth century, and is the standard
reference work in any library holding the newspaper in print
or on microfilm. Launched in 1868 by Samuel Palmer and providing
coverage of 115 years, from 1790 to 1905, it is a vast resource
with more than 450 quarterly issues and 3.7 million entries.
The sheer size of the Index means that searching the
print version is often a slow and laborious task, which can
frequently be unsuccessful. With this online version every word
of the Index can be searched, and results are returned
in a matter of seconds. Users can restrict their searches to
main headings and to particular dates, pages, text types and
publications, and the full range of Boolean and proximity search
operators is available, as well as the facility for wildcard
and truncation searching.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Periodicals
Contents Index
The
Periodicals Contents Index is an online catalogue of
every article available in thousands of scholarly journals published
from 1770 until 1995. This electronic index currently includes
almost 4,000 journals that deal with the humanities and social
sciences, and over 13 million indexed articles. It offers a
broad subject base, with deep chronological coverage going back
over 200 years. The periodicals included range over a wide subject
base and publications in around 40 languages are available,
including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Every
year index records for between 300 and 500 journals are added,
equating to over one million new articles. PCI will
continue to grow to cover more than 5000 journals and 20 million
individual articles. Also, participants in JSTOR's Arts &
Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II Collections can link directly
from the relevant index records in PCI to the full
image of articles held within the JSTOR archive.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
Periodicals
Contents Index Full Text
Periodicals
Contents Index Full Text gives students, researchers and
academics online access to the full text of over 3.5 million
article pages taken from article records that have been indexed
in the Periodicals Contents Index. This separate collection
provides the full text of over 50,000 articles from 200 leading
journals and covers over two hundred years of journal publishing.
It is a full text collection that makes it extremely easy for
students and researchers to locate articles relevant to their
study, and contains many of the most important journals in the
disciplines of humanities and the social sciences. In addition
to providing the full text of the recent back file of many leading
journals, PCI Full Text has also digitized journals
of historical interest that were published in the nineteenth
century, such as Academy and Literature, and offers the full
run of well-known twentieth century publications such as History
Today.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
With more than 1.6 million entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for
information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over
1,000 graduate schools and universities. We add some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the
database each year.
The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861,
to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include
350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Starting with
those titles published in 1997 and going forward, there are 24 page previews on-line and the full text of the
manuscript is available for download.
ProQuest
Historical Newspapers New York Times
This database is part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™
collection, which offers full-text and full-image articles for
newspapers dating back to the 19th century. The New York
Times® is considered to be the 'official' U.S. newspaper,
and so has been chosen as one of the first newspapers to be
digitized. When completed, coverage will span 150 years, from
its first issue in 1851until 1999. This will include over 3,400,000
pages and offers a span of issues not currently available in
any other electronic resource. Content is provided as both full-page-images
and as article images, meaning that it is not just news, editorials,
letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements
that can be found, but also historical photos, stock photos,
and advertisements. The database is available on the Web through
ProQuest®.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete
and submit the trial request form.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Wall Street
Journal
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was four pages
long and sold for two cents. Today, the paper is considered
the preeminent publication for business news and information
on financial markets worldwide. This database is part of the
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ collection, which
offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating
back to the 19th century. The Wall Street Journal®
is one of the first leading newspapers to be digitized and when
completed, coverage will span nearly 100 years, from 1889 until
1985. Over 1,400,000 pages will be available, and content will
be provided as both full-page-images and as article images,
meaning that it is not just news, editorials, letters to the
editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements that
can be found, but also historical photos, stock photos, and
advertisements. The database is available on the Web through
ProQuest®.
If you would like more information or a free trial please complete and submit the trial request form.
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