Historical Databases at Moore Library
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History on the Web
Finding primary sources has never been easier. These excellent web sites place history at your fingertips.
Top US History Sites (General)
- (Library of Congress holdings including Woman Suffrage Movement, American Life Histories from the Federal Writers’ Project (1936-1940), and Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s and much more)
- (includes colonial charters, the Constitution, the Cold War, Treaties between the U.S. & Native Americans, and World War II)
- (includes the "Amistad" affair and the role of African American troops in the Civil War)
- (Strong in the WWI period)
- (interactive website makes more than 1,200 items available)
- (Features audio files, abstracts, transcriptions of oral arguments, and written opinions from more than 3,300 Supreme Court cases)
Top US History Sites (Early America)
Top US History Sites (Slavery and the Civil War)
Top US History Sites (Modern America)
- (rare collection of early films reveals how the birth of cinema emerged alongside, and shaped, changing ideas of gender, race, sexuality, and nation)
- (presents 500 hours of video interviews and 8,300 images, providing first-hand accounts of Japanese Americans interned during World War II)
- (archive offers full text of more 80,000 documents, 60,000 photos and slides, hundreds of interviews with veterans, audio and video recordings, maps, museum objects)
- (a valuable resource for students of American political history, consumer culture, and advertising history)
Top European History Sites (Ancient)
Top European History Sites (Medieval)
- (collection of 11,000 manuscript illuminations drawn from close to 400 manuscripts from France and the Low Countries dating from the 8th -16th centuries)
Top European History Sites (Early Modern)
Top European History Sites (20th Century)
Top Asian History Sites (East Asia)
- (collection of western travel photographs taken during the second half of the 19th century when Japan formed a modern nation-state)
Top Asian History Sites (South Asia)
- (wide range of materials for studying South Asia, including 1,200 Excel spreadsheets of statistical information on British India between 1840 and 1920)
Writing Guides/Methodology
- (classic reference guide for writing)