History Databases

Academic Search Complete:
Full text for nearly 4000 scholarly publications in almost every discipline including social sciences, humanities, education, arts & literature, and many more.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

African American Communities:
Primary sources on the African American experience through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the challenges of racism, and a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, maps and ephemera.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

African American Newspapers (1827-1998):
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection:
The premier library documenting the life of America’s people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

American Indian Histories and Cultures:
Primary sources with 130,000 volumes, 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, 11,000 photographs, and 3,500 drawings and paintings, covering American Indian history, archaeology, voyages, accounts of early America, the development of cartography, Philippine and Hawaiian history, and Latin American history.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

American Periodical Series:
American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

ArchiveGrid:
Contrary to what you may think, this database does not provide access to articles or papers. It does however tell you which universities, archives, museums own what manuscript collections.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
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Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies Online:
Brepolis Medieval & Early Modern Bibliographies gathers together the International Medieval Bibliography, the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale, and the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance. This resource does not contain full text, but has some records that link out to other databases for the full text.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: No

Chicago Manual of Style:
This has the complete text of the Chicago Manual of Style. Both the Table of Contents and the Index are hyperlinked, allowing you to move from one section to another.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine:
A digital archive of primary source materials that document the history of St. Augustine’s civil rights movement.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

Discovery:
Search all of the Proctor Library’s print books, e-books, DVDs, and almost all databases.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes

Empire Online:
Primary source materials in this collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires; from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Films on Demand:
Instant 24/7 access to thousands of high-quality television programs, documentaries, and educational films covering all subject areas.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

Global Newsstream:
Contains The New York Times from 1999 to the present and 500 national and international newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present and 13 Florida newspapers.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

JSTOR:
Our only database dedicated solely to scholarly literature with articles in the fields of history, political science, archaeology, art history, anthropology, literature and languages, music, and more; however, JSTOR usually is unable to provide access to the most recently published articles.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

Kanopy:
An on-demand streaming video platform that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

NewsBank Access World News:
Includes full text access to major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

New York Times 1851 – Present:
Create an account using your Flagler email address and enjoy access to the entirety of the New York Times from 1851 to today. PLEASE NOTE: At this time, access to articles from the date range 1923 to 1980 is limited is limited to 5 articles per day per user.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No

Project MUSE:
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

SAGE Premier:
Provides access to over 600 journal titles in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine with backfile to 1999.

Has Peer Reviewed: Yes
Searchable in Discovery: Yes

WorldCat:
A powerful database that includes the book collections of over 70,000 libraries in the world. Most useful as pre-research to doing an Inter-Library Loan request.

Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No