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Subjects: History, Humanities, Newspapers, Philosophy, Religion

Key Resources

Academic Journal Articles

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes journal articles covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history, the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450–present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics.
Resource URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=hia
Abbreviation: hist-abs
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1964–Current
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Type: Indexes / Catalogs

Primary Source Collections

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Provides full-text access to resources included in the English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
The Nineteenth Century Collections Online includes papers of British statesmen, Home Office records, ordnance surveys, working class autobiographies, and other unique collections. Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange features primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century. These documents include government reports, diplomatic correspondences, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more. European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the long nineteenth century, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores.

Newspapers & Periodicals

Burney Collection
The Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 17th and 18th century newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library. For an excellent guide dedicated to the Burney Collection, copy the following link and paste into your browser: http://subjectguides.wcupa.edu/burney

British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
British Library Newspapers, Part I and II (1800–1900) include 60 regional and local newspaper titles that illuminate diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press. Part III adds even more regional and local depth, encompassing powerful provincial news journals, local interest publications, and specialist titles.
FSU Libraries owns access to Parts I, II, and III of the British Library Newspapers collection.

Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/BNCN?u=tall85761
Abbreviation: britln
Vendor: Gale
Subjects: History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
Caribbean Newspapers, Series I: 1718–1876 This link opens in a new window
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718–1876—the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region—will provide a comprehensive primary resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within this important group of islands. This unique resource will prove essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century.
Resource URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/welcome?p=EANACN
Abbreviation: carinp
Vendor: NewsBank
Coverage: 1718–1876
Subjects: History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browsable digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the London Times in PDF files, 1785–1985 and 2015-2019. The PDFs in this database are not transcribed into text, so you may need to search for keywords with unusual spelling for earlier copies. For articles outside of these dates, use the database Times (The London Times).
Resource URL: https://link.gale.com/apps/TTDA?u=tall85761
Abbreviation: tdar
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1785–1985, 2015–2019
Subjects: History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Images, Newspapers and Newswires
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This resource offers facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth century. The titles were selected by Professor Daniel Fader of the University of Michigan on the basis of their importance and difficulty of access in American libraries, and issues were sourced from over 100 libraries worldwide. FSU has access to collections one through four.
Resource URL: http://www.proquest.com/britishperiodicals?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: bpc
Vendor: ProQuest
Subjects: History
Type: Historical / Primary Sources

Historical Books

Early English Books Online (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475–1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641–1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640–1661).
Tutorials:
ProQuest EEBO LibGuide

Resource URL: https://search.proquest.com/eebo/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: eebo
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1475–1661
Subjects: History, Literature
Type: E-Book Collections, Historical / Primary Sources
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Note, you must use the instructions below to access Hathi Trust:

Go to the HathiTrust homepage.
Click on the yellow 'Log In' button.
Select FSU from the drop-down menu and click 'Continue.'
Enter your FSU ID and password and click 'Continue.'

FSU users have full-text access and downloading capabilities for those items in the public domain, including:

US federal government documents
Works published before 1923
Works still protected by copyright, but made available to HathiTrust with the permission of the copyright holder

See also: Research Guide: HathiTrust Digital Library

Resource URL: http://www.hathitrust.org/
Abbreviation: hathi
Vendor: HathiTrust
Coverage: 1564–Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
Literary Print Culture This link opens in a new window
Sourced from the archive of The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers, located at Stationers Hall in the City of London, Literary Print Culture: The Stationers Company Archive, 15542007, allows access to a vast and unique collection of primary source documents. The collection is widely regarded as one of the most important primary sources for studying the history of the book as well as publishing history, the history of copyright and the workings of an early London Livery Company. Explore the variety of documents to uncover the story of the role the Stationers Company played in the history of the book trade.
Resource URL: http://www.literaryprintculture.amdigital.co.uk
Abbreviation: amlpc
Vendor: Adam Matthew Digital Ltd
Coverage: 15542007
Subjects: History, Literature
Type: Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Images

Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (10 concurrent user limit) This link opens in a new window
A ground-breaking and engaging reference work providing 58,700 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original DNB, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and important reference sites available online.
Please note: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography only allows access for 10 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.

Resource URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/
Abbreviation: dnb
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Coverage: 1400Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Biographies

Additional Resources

Professor Upchurch's webpage
FSU History Professor Charles Upchurch points to these and other resources on his webpage!
British History Online (BHO)
British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800. While FSU Libraries does not subscribe to this database, many of the more than 1,200 historical documents are freely available without a subscription.

This guide was substantially revised in 2018 by Adam Beauchamp and Dr. Charles Upchurch of the FSU History Department.

Except where otherwise noted, the content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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