Embedded Files
Books
Books
Click on the Spartan head to search the SPA Library Catalog to discover books in our own collection and beyond. If you find a book you would like to request from our collection, please fill out the form below. Please note that this is different than requesting a book from interlibrary loan.
Click on the Spartan head to search the SPA Library Catalog to discover books in our own collection and beyond. If you find a book you would like to request from our collection, please fill out the form below. Please note that this is different than requesting a book from interlibrary loan.
Click on the WorldCat logo to search the catalogs of academic and public libraries.
Click on the WorldCat logo to search the catalogs of academic and public libraries.
Click on the University of Minnesota Libraries logo to search for books (you can also search for articles).
Click on the University of Minnesota Libraries logo to search for books (you can also search for articles).
Databases and Web Resources
Databases and Web Resources
Reference Sources
Reference Sources
Reference sources provide background and context for your topic. These might include general or subject specific encyclopedias, specialized dictionaries, or handbooks. They come in a both print or digital forms. Many of the digital resources also contain primary source or secondary source documents. Click the downward arrow to the right to expand this section.
International in scope, enables students and researchers to discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.
Provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: Reference articles; periodical and newspaper articles; primary sources; multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables; and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources.
Great Events and Great Lives offer far-reaching view of history, and include worldwide coverage of important events, men and women in all areas of achievement from ancient times to the modern era.
Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics.
The OED is the definitive guide to the English language. Look up the meaning of over 600,000 words, discover when a word was first used, and track how its meaning may have changed over time.
Developed in collaboration with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, Oxford University Press has developed new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries
Pro vs. con essays that present multiple sides of current or controversial issues. Plus magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and more related to those issues.
Statista is a statistics/infographics portal that allows access to quantitative data, market reports, statistics and studies from a wide range of sources.
Covering history from the Renaissance to today. In addition to articles, includes media, visuals and maps.
Covers religion around the globe, from prehistory to the present. Includes articles, media, visuals, statistics and timelines
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
Primary sources give you direct first-hand information about your topic. They are from the same time as your famous person or historical event. Some examples of primary sources could include: Letters, news articles, witness reports, photographs or other images and certain kinds of objects, like statues, artwork or possibly daily use objects. Many archives and museums have digitized their collections and made them accessible online or through specialized databases and websites. Click the downward arrow to the right to expand this section.
Search 18th and 19th Century newspaper and periodical collections, including eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical record. Specific collections include material related to the Civil War, slavery, women's suffrage, early American county histories and more.
Arranged chronologically from earliest explorations to contemporary time.
Includes newsreel footage, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel as well as award-winning documentaries.
Hosted at UC Santa Barbara, the American Presidency Project brings together 135,730 Presidential and Non-Presidential Records from the earliest presidents to the present.
This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).
The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.
Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II, offering irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources.
Highlights the collections from libraries, archives and museums across the United States.
Hosted by UNC Chapel Hill Libraries, DocSouth is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Includes selected access to the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history.
Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics.
These sourcebooks offer collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts related to Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.
Primary source material including historical documents, maps, photographs and sound collections from The Library of Congress.
Includes founding documents, archived presidential websites, and other collections.
Includes: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); The Guardian (1821-2003); The Observer (1791-2003); Los Angeles Times (1881-1988); Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922); The New York Times (1851-2008) with Index (1851-1993).
Newspapers.com has over 300 million pages of historical newspapers from more than 11,100 newspapers. The collection includes full runs and parts of runs of regional, state, and local newspapers from the United States and other countries. The majority of the collection covers the 19th and 20th centuries.
Statista is a statistics/infographics portal that allows access to quantitative data, market reports, statistics and studies from a wide range of sources.
The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents on one site, in a variety of ways. Content on the WDL includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.
Secondary Sources
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources give you a scholar’s well-researched opinion about the significance of your person or event. They re-examine or discover new primary sources and build on one another’s research. Some examples of secondary sources could include: Scholarly monographs, peer-reviewed articles, and information from respected websites. Click the downward arrow to the right to expand this section.
From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, investigates the people, events, and stories of the United States' evolution.
Portal of several large EBSCO databases covering all subjects and ranging from popular magazine articles to scholarly peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that includes full-text content of more than 1,400 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content.
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 110 document projects and archives with almost 4,200 documents and 56,000 pages of additional full-text documents. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, news from the archives, and teaching tools.
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