Selected European History Online Resources

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

• *ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
  Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. Online Journals.
• *Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
  A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
• *Dictionary of National Biography
  An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain′s past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.
• *Early Encounters in North America
  Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.
• *EEBO - Early English Books Online (1473-1700)
  Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth.
• In the First Person
  A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
• *Military & Intellience Database
  The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet those content needs. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
• *North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries & Oral Histories
  Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
• *Oxford Islamic Studies
  Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur′anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.
• *WorldCat
  The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

Online Journals

• *Blackwell-Synergy
  A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.
• HistoryNet.com
• *JSTOR History Journals
• *Nation Archive
  Established in 1865, the Nation offers an online 135-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. It is an important collection of primary source material for history, politics, culture and the arts.
• *Online Journals for History (SerialsSolutions)
• *Oxford Journals Online
  A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
• *Project Muse History Journals

Online Reference Sources
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History
• *Chambers World History
• *Concise Atlas of World History (Andromeda) *Companion to British History (Routledge)
• *Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the Present
• *Dictionary of World History
• *Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century World History *Dictionary of British History *Dictionary of British History
• *Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• *Dictionary of Political Biography
• *Dynasties of the World
• *Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
• *Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
• *Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance
• *Encyclopedia of World History
• *Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages  
• *Reader′s Guide to British History
• *Hutchinson Chronology of World History
• *Kings and Queens of Britain
• *Oxford Companion to Scottish History
• *Oxford Companion to Black British History
• *Oxford Companion to Military History
• *Oxford Companion to British History
• *Oxford Companion to Irish History
• *Oxford Guide to Countries of the World *Oxford Dictionary of Popes
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
• *Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
• *Oxford Companion to World War II
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
  Through its fluent global coverage, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. The Encyclopedia contains articles on world events; countries; organizations; regions; ethnic groups; and themes such as social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture. It offers coverage of standard geographic and ethnic units—such as Scandinavia, Korea, or the Gypsies—in the modern period. Significant institutions such as the International Red Cross and the League of Nations are treated at length. Comprehensive coverage enables readers to broaden their research outside a particular time or region and to explore topics within the context of modern world history.
• *Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
• *Who′s Who in the Twentieth Century

Websites

• Best of History Websites
• British History Online
  British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.
• British History Interactive Timeline (BBC)
• 18th Century History
  History1700s.com is the starting place to find information about the 18th century. Each link is hand picked by your editor. This site is about the long 18th century and will cover the period from approximately 1660 through 1840. It will have articles discussing the various aspects of the era. Provide the documents of the period and point out interesting and useful resources found on the Internet.
• European History Resources (Voice of the Shuttle)
• European Integration History Index
  The European Integration History Index provides Internet resources on the History of Europe after WWII in all languages. European Integration is here understood as the process of political, economic and cultural integration and co-operation between various European countries in the 20th century - mainly in the period after 1945.
• History On-Line Websites
• European National Libraries National Treasures
• European National Libraries - Links to Libraries
• European History Websites (Washington U)
• German History - Virtual Library
• Intute: History Links
• Renaissance Websites
• Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825 (NYPL)
  Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825 traces Russia’s movement from relative isolation to global empire through its contacts with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. 
• Web Readings on Russian History (Sam Houston State University)

Texts, Documents, Maps

• At Cold War′s End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 (CIA)
• Documents on Russian History (Seton Hall)
• Documents on World War II (Mt. Holyoke)
• Domesday Book (National Archives)
• Euratlas
  Atlases (physical and historical of Europe)
• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History (BYU)
  These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history.
• Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
  The Garibaldi / Risorgimento digital archive seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process (1807-1882), against the historical backdrop of 19th-century Europe, reconstructed with the help of materials from special collections at the Brown University libraries.
• German Propaganda Archive (Calvin College)
  Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists.
• Hanover Historical Texts Project
• Historical Text Archive
• Historical Texts - British Museum
  Includes Bede′s History; Magna Carta; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
  The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
• Marxist History Documents
  From the Marxist Internet Archive.
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
  The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
• ORB: On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies. Links are provided to other Medieval websites: Labyrinth, Netserf, Argos, WWW Virtual Library/Medieval.
• Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)
• Voices of the Holocaust