LibGuides: World History: Overview

Introduction

This guide is intended for research about world history. Use the tabs on the left to find resources dealing with a particular geographic area.

Below are some databases that are frequently used to start with, but you can find more resources through the left-side tabs. For resources focused on American history or British history, please see the list of related guides.

For assistance with finding resources, please ask a librarian in the chat box in the right-hand column. For more in-depth help, contact the History Liaison Librarian and Archivist, Colleen Marquis.

Frequently Used Databases

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which is covered by America: History and Life with Full Text) from 1450 forward.

Includes world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. Provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also include full text ebooks and open access content.

Mostly 3-5 years & older full text. African American studies, anthropology, botany, business, ecology, economics, education, general science, geography, history, language & literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics.

Dates of coverage vary by journal title. All go back to the very first issue published, but most have a "moving wall" embargo that excludes issues from the most recent X years (where X can be anywhere from 0 up to 10 years, depending on the particular journal; most are in the 3 to 5 year embargo range).

Hint: Use documents to find useful keywords and concepts, and retrieve matching JSTOR content, via JSTOR Text Analyzer
New York Times, 1851-present
Searchable access to the backfile of the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), in full page images digitized from microfilm.

Searchable access to the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), from the first issue on September 18, 1851 to the present. Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm. Also incorporates indexing and subject headings from the New York Times Index, 1851-1993.
Gale OneFile: World History
40+ journals provides balanced coverage of both the current thought and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field.

Books & eBooks

Books on World history can be found under the following call number ranges:

DA - Great Britain

DAW - Central Europe

DB - Austria, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Czechoslovakia

DC - Franc, Andorra, Monaco

DD - Germany

DE - Greco-Roman World

DF- Greece

DG - Italy, Malta

DH - Low Countries

DJ - Netherlands

DJK - Eastern Europe General

DK - Russia, Soviet Union, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

DL - Northern Europe, Scandinavia

DP - Spain, Portugal

DQ - Switzerland

DR - Balkan Peninsula

DT - Africa

DU - Oceania, Australia

DX - Romanies

Use the search box below to find books form the Flint and Ann Arbor campus libraries.

Use the box below to search for ebooks across multiple databases.