History and Philosophy Databases and Web Pages

Databases

America: History and Life
This database is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to present, with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.  (Available through Ebsco)

Historical Abstracts
An exceptional resource that coverst he history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present. It includes world history, military history, women's history, the history of education and much more. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages starting coverage in 1955.  (Available through Ebsco)

Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,500 periodicals, inlcluding more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications inlcuding monographs, reports, conference proceedings and more. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.  (Available through Ebsco)

Humanities International Complete
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities Internatinoal Index (more than 2,000 journals and 2 millioni records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 730 journals.  (Available through Ebsco)

Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database has a thourough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content. It provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.  (Available through Ebsco)

Religion and Philosophy Collection
This collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major demoninations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, inlcuding more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.  (Available through Ebsco)

Women's Studies International
Covers the core disciplines of Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. (Available through Ebsco)

Free Online History and Philosophy Web Pages

American Memory
A project from the Library of Congress that provides access to digitized material, in a variety of media, that serve to document the American experience. There are various collections as well as documentary projects.

The History Net
From the publisher of several history journals, this website features free online articles.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of online sources of information, including primary writings. The editor, Paul Halsall, has divided the website into ancient, medieval and mondern history sections.

Voice of the Shuttle: History Resources
A huge, award-winning page, VoS is an excellent tool for research in the humanities. Includes various primary resources.

General Primary Source Websites

ADD: Access to Archival Databases
From the National Archives and Records Administration, AAD contains material from more than 30 archival series of electronic records. The series selected for ADD identify specific persons, geographic areas, organizations and dates.

E-Text Center
Digitized collections of materials, including online collections of primary source material on the Civil War, Salem Witch Trials and African American Studies. (Site in process of moving)

Eurodocs
Links to primary historical documents from Western Europe.

Making of America
A searchable digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. It inlcudes around 8,000 books and 50,000 journal articles, with imprints.

Repositories of Primary Resources
An online directory of primary resources.

General Regional Databases

Documenting the South
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.

Virginia Heritage
A searchable guide to manuscript and archival collections in Virginia.

Slavery

Virginia Runaways
Ruanway slave advertisements published in the 18th century Virginia newspapers. Searchable.

Philosophy

Philosophy Pages
Includes a dictionary of philosophy terms, timeline, and philosopher's biographies. Focused on Western philosophy.

Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Free and Searchable.

Religion

Adherents.com
Statistics on religions and religious practitioners.

Biblical Studies on the Web
Includes a search engine that searches electronic articles within the field.

Internet Sacred Text Archive
In addition to religious texts, this website gives basic information about various religious traditions.

Virtual Religion Index
Lists websites on religion that are organized according to tradtion, discipline and geography.