Howdy! Welcome to the History Majors guide of Library Resources.
This is not a guide for research on a particular subject. For specialized assistance please visit a librarian at the Ask Here Desk. This guide gives suggestions on places or types of searches to help you find information regardless of topic. The tabs to the left will get you started.
What to make an appointment for one-on-one help? Please contact your liaison history librarian, Katherine Owens, at kowens@flagler.edu or 904-819-6485.
Title searching in the library's catalog requires you to enclose your title in quotation marks. For example you could search, "War and Peace" or "Oxford History of England". When searching for an exact title leave off the 'the,' the 'a' and the 'an' at the beginning of the title.
Author searching is the same, only invert the author's name: "Maxwell, Leona" or "Graham, Thomas". In the library world, we organize people by their last name, not their first name.
Subject searching is a more targeted search than just typing words into a search bar. Subject terms are "official keywords" for a person, place, event, and/or historical time period. To find subject headings on your subject go to the Library of Congress LC Subject Headings search page. Once you find the official keywords to find books on your topic, you are able to use them in our catalog, for example "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783" or "Ponce de Leon Hall (Saint Augustine, Fla.)".
Just because we no longer have an advanced search feature does not mean you cannot create your own compound search. For example, you are doing a search on Plato: Plato and Greece; or Plato not Socrates. However, a compound search that includes a specific publication date range can now only be conducted from the results page of your search.
This is the alphabetical list of the databases most useful to the history major:
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 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
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
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
Flagler College Digital Archives:
The Digital Archives consists of Flagler College yearbooks, college catalogs, the Flagler Review magazine, and a selection of photographs ranging from the late 19th century to the present.
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
History Vault:
Primary source collection that includes government, organizational, and personal files covering the history of African-Americans in the United States between 1910 to the early 1980’s. FBI files and NAACP files are included.
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
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
Not all websites are equal! Many private, governmental, or collegiate organizations have put together fine websites that provide online, usually free, access to primary or secondary resources. This list is not complete, but representative of some of the better online collections.
A-LAbraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide American Memory The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South Bibliography of British and Irish History Biblioteca Digital Ciudad Seva - Sobre el Arte de Narrar Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed The Browning Letters Casgliad y Werin Cymru: Peoples' Collection Wales Chronicling America: Historical American Newspapers The Circus in America: 1793-1940 Digital History Project Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World dLOC: Digital Library of the Caribbean Duke University Libraries Digital Collections EarlyModernWeb Europeana: 1914-1918 Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discoveries in the Modern Age Explore Collections FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of MesoAmerican Studies, Inc. The Florida Historical Society Florida Memory: State Library & Archives of Florida Florida Museum of Natural History Fold3 The Gilder Lehmann Institute of American History The Great Depression Interviews Global Gateway: World Cultures & Resources The Green Book Les Guillotines de la Revolution Francaise Hansard The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online The Hemingway Papers Historical Maps of the United States Historical Mexican & Mexican American Press Ibero-American Electronic Text Series Internet History Sourcebooks Project Lanic: Latin American Network Information Center Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project |
M-ZMaking of America Making of America - University of Michigan Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom, 1909-2009 The National Archives (Great Britain) The National Archives: The Cabinet Papers The National Security Archive: Latin American Projects The New York Public Library Digital Collections Our Documents PALMM: Publication of Archival Library and Museum Materials; State University Libraries of Florida Papers of the War Department: 1784-1800 P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History Political Database of the Americas Pomoerian The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 Proyecto Sherezade: Publicando Cuentos de Todo el Mundo de Habla Hispana Desde 1996 September 11, 2001 Oral History Projects Southeast Asia Visions: A Collection of Historic Travel Narratives St. Augustine Historical Society: Research Library St. Augustine History TOL: 20 Years After; Life Beyond Communism in Central and Eastern Europe The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages Tudor England TudorHistory.org UFDC: University of Florida Digital Collections University of Florida Map & Imagery Library Veterans History Project: A Project of the American Folklore Center at the Library of Congress The Vietnam Center and Archive WorldVitalRecords.com |
The following two databases are digital collections of materials pertinent to St. Augustine and hosted here in the Proctor Library.
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
Flagler College Digital Archives:
The Digital Archives consists of Flagler College yearbooks, college catalogs, the Flagler Review magazine, and a selection of photographs ranging from the late 19th century to the present.
Has Peer Reviewed: No
Searchable in Discovery: No
For questions about the Civil Rights Library, please contact Blake Pridgen, bpridgen@flagler.edu.
For questions about the Flagler College Digital Archives, please contact the Archives Specialist, Jolene DuBray, jdubray@flagler.edu.
Please access our Citation Guide using the link below. Our Citation Guide contains numerous examples on using the Chicago citation system for writing papers and citing sources.