Books
Our online catalog is a great place to start. Use the search box below to find books, or try using the advanced search for more searching options.
Need a book on history? The following call number ranges, located on the second floor of the library, are a good place to start.
| CB | History of Civilization |
| CC | Archaeology |
| D | General History. |
| DA-DR | History of Europe |
| DS | History of Asia |
| DT | History of Africa |
| E | History of the United States |
| F | United States: Local Histories. History of Canada. History of Latin America. |
Use the search box below to find books through our online catalog. If you need more search options, try using the advanced search.
We also have several ebooks through NetLibrary which you can browse right from your computer. Adobe Reader is required to view them.
If we don't have it, somebody does. WorldCat is a catalog maintained by libraries world wide. If you can find a book in WorldCat, you can request it via interlibrary loan.
Articles
Our periodical collection (journals & magazines) is located on the first floor. You may find the journal title search on the articles page helpful as well. The list below includes some of our related periodicals:
| American Historical Review | 1895 - 1982 1995 - current Online |
| Contemporary European History | 1995 - current Online |
| Current History | 1924 - 1981 1995 - current |
| English Historical Review | 1995 - current |
| European History Quarterly | 1986 - current Online |
| History Cooperative Journals | Online |
| Journal of American History | 1964 - 1983 1995 - current Online |
| Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History | 1972 - 1986 1995 - current Online |
| Journal of Modern History | 1961 - 1982 1995 - current Online |
| Journal of the Early Republic | 1995 - current |
| New England Quarterly | 1995 1995 - current Online |
| Panhandle-Plains Historical Review | 1928 - current |
| Southwestern Historical Quarterly | 1897 - 1983 1988 - 1992 1994 - current |
| West Texas Historical Association Yearbook | 1925 - current |
| Western Historical Quarterly | 1990 - 2007 Online |
| William & Mary Quarterly | 1963 - 1983 1995 - current Online |
Databases
Databases are an effective way of researching articles. Databases allow thousands of journals to be researched within a single search. The following should get you started:
- Academic Search Complete
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- New England Quarterly
- Wilson Select Plus
- History Databases
- General Databases
- Reference Databases
- All Databases
Internet Sites
The following internet sites have been reviewed by our staff or suggested by professors in the relating field:
- Africans in America
- American Memory - Resources pertaining to American history and culture.
- American Presidency Project - Data and documents, including the public papers of the presidents from Washington to G.W. Bush
- Amdocs - Primary source documents from 1,000 years of American history
- Archiving Early America
- The Avalon Project - 18th Century Documents
- Britannia: British History
- The British Empire
- The British Empire: An Internet Gateway
- British History Online - A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the Medieval and modern history of the British Isles."
- The British Library Online Gallery
- EuroDocs: Online Sources of European History - Selected transcriptions, facsimiles, and translators, arranged by nations.
- Lone Star History Links - links to selected Texas history primary source documents
- History Central Catalogue - Web resources in world history
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collections of historical texts
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Portal to Texas History - "a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections."
- Signal Alpha
- Talking History
- Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive