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History Research Databases

Access to all 60 FSU library databases available via ResearchPort or Databases A-Z. Login required off campus

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals
Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Information on articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on North American history from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 international worldwide. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
Information on articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers more than 2000 international worldwide. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
The complete full-text of several thousand books in a variety of fields, including history.
A collection of electronic books covering a wide variety of subject material.
Google Scholar - Connected to FSU Ort Library This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources such as articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites. Use this link to search Google Scholar to connect to full text resources subscribed to by the Ort Library.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities disciplines, including history, art, music, and literature This database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works.
Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international journals, books and reference works. Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The FSU Library subscribes to the JSTOR Language & Literature Collection. The titles in this collection span the literary cultures of many different countries. Some history journals are included.
The FSU Library subscribes to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences IV, Language & Literature, and Life Sciences collections.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Also includes the full-text of 245 pamphlets.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text of peer-reviewed journal articles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many other arts and humanities and social science disciplines.
Full text of recent issues of 200 journals from 30 scholarly publishers. Search the full text of articles from the entire collection or, using the advanced search, from individual titles. Use the advanced search to search by date, by combining terms, to find book reviews and creative writing.

Historical Newspaper Databases

National Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Indexes and provides access to online full text for five newspapers: Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
NewspaperArchive - Maryland Collection This link opens in a new window
NewspaperArchive Maryland Collection provides access to historical newspaper content from over 20 localities dating back to 1752. Archives for both Cumberland and Frostburg newspapers are included in the collection.
New York Times / NYTimes.com - Account Creation Required This link opens in a new window
Access to NYTimes.com, both on and off campus, requires creation of an account using your Frostburg State University email address. After creating an account, you may navigate directly to nytimes.com with a web-enabled device and log on with your account credentials.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new window
Includes all articles published since 1893-1988. Provides digital reproductions of every page.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun This link opens in a new window
Includes all articles published since 1837. Provides digital reproductions of every page. Content is updated annually.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times This link opens in a new window
Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1851. Provides digital reproductions of every page. Content is updated annually.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Includes all articles published since 1889. Provides digital reproductions of every page. Content is updated annually.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post This link opens in a new window
Includes all articles published since 1877. Provides digital reproductions of every page. Content is updated annually.

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