Subject Guide: History--Europe & the World

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Humanities Liaison Librarian - Joshua Finnell

Databases

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Historical Abstracts
• Humanities International Complete
• ITER (Middle Ages and Renaissance)
• Social Sciences Index, 1975-1996  AI3 .S61 (Annex Floor 1A)
• Social Sciences Abstracts
• The Times (London) Digital Archives, 1785-1985.
• Handbook of Latin American Studies

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

Oxford Reference Books Online: History Collection
Online versions of classic reference books on U.S., European, and World History. Search all 21 books, or select one to search.

Europe:

• Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000
• Europe 1450 to 1789 : Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
• A Dictionary of European History & Politics  D1051 .U78 1996
• Encyclopedia of the Medieval World  D114 .E55 2005
• Reader's Guide to British History  DA34 .R43 2003
• Historical Dictionary of France  DC35 .R39 1998
• Historical Dictionary of Spain  DP12 .S59 1996
• Modern Germany: an Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990  DD14 .M64 1998
• The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich  DD256.5 .G76313 1991
• Encyclopedia of Russian History

The World:

• Hammond Atlas of World History  G1030 .H34 1999 (Atlas Case #2)
• Encyclopedia of World History  D21 .E577 2000
• Chronology of World History  D11 .M39 1999 (4 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of Asian History  DS31 .E53 1987 (4 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations  DS12 .H5 2004
• Women in World History : A Biographical Encyclopedia  HQ1115 .W6 1999 (17 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture  F1406 .E53 1996 (5 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East  DS43 .E53 1996 (4 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa  DT2 .E53 1997
• Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History  DT29 .E53 2003

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• Librarians' Index to the Internet: History Browse or search this librarian-created web directory.
• The Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University
• History Resources from the Institute for Historical Research
• The History Guide
• HyperHistory Online
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe from Brigham Young University
• The Victorian Web
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
• Eighteenth-Century Resources -- History from Rutgers University