Databases
& Websites
America:
History & Life 
American Memory (Library of Congress)
American National
Biography 
American Presidency
Project (University of California Santa Barbara)
Avalon
Project (Yale University Law School) Legal, historical, and diplomatic
documents.
Digital Collections
@ Stanford Collections include the California Legislative
Journal Appendixes, Dime Novels Full Text, Documents to the People, the GATT
Digital Library, Medieval & Modern Thought, the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection, the Stanford
Historical Photograph
Collection, the 1924-1927 Survey of Race Relations, and more.
Historical
Census Browser (University of Virginia)
Historical
Monographs (Cornell Library)
Historical Statistics
of the United States 1975 print edition.
Historical
Statistics of the United States Searchable database.
The
Making of the Modern World The Goldsmiths-Kress
Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850.
Model Editions Partnership: Historical
Editions in the Digital Age (University of South Carolina)
New York Public Library
Digital Collections
The
Online Library of Liberty Classic texts on
individual liberty, constitutional
government, and the free market.
U.S. Congressional Serial
Set (currently 1817-1938)
U.S. Supreme
Court
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Archive
& Manuscript Databases
Archives Grid 
Archives USA 
Dissertations & Theses 
Stanford Dissertations and Theses 
Stanford Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids
In the First Person Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories,
and Other Personal Narratives.
Online Archive of California Finding aids and facsimiles from archival collections throughout California
Oral History
Online 
World
Catalog The world's largest bibliographic database, with collections from more than 10,000 libraries.
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Periodicals
& Books
Academic
Search Premier Articles from more than 4,700 journals in various academic disciplines (1975-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This database indexes articles from arts and humanities, social science, and science journals.
History Cooperative.
Electronic journals, including the latest issues of American
Historical Review and Journal of American History.
Humanities E-Book
More than 1,700 titles selected by American Council of Learned Societies and 12 other professional associations.
Hypertexts
(American Studies, University of Virginia)
JSTOR A
full-text database of back issues of scholarly journals.
Reviews
in American History vol. 1-vol. 33 (1973-2005)
Reviews in American History vol. 23-vol. 35 (1995-present)
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Newspapers
America’s
Historical Newspapers
Atlanta
Constitution Historical 
California Newspaper Project Searchable catalog of nearly 15,000 California newspapers
California Digital Newspaper Collection Searchable facsimilies of selected California newspapers, including the Daily Alta California (1850-1890) and The Call (1899-1910).
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Harper's Weekly,
1857-1912 
Los
Angeles Times Historical (1881-1984 when completed) 
New
York Times Historical (1851-2001) 
The Nation (1865-
) 
Wall
Street Journal (1984-) 
Wall
Street Journal Historical Archive (1889-1985) 
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Maps
David
Rumsey Map Collection
Perry-Castañeda Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
Sanborn Company Maps
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Encyclopedias
& Handbooks
Congressional
Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections, 4th ed. John
L. Moore, Jon P. Preimesberger, David R. Tarr, editors.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c2001.
Location: Law Library, Basement (JK1967
.C662 2001 V.1-2)
Dictionary of American History. Stanley I. Kutler, editor
in chief.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson-Gale, c2003.
Location: Green Library
1) Information Center: Ready Reference, Non-circulating (E174
.D52 2003 V.1-10)
2) Lane Room: Non-circulating (E174 .D52 2003 V.1-10)
Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual
History. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Peter W. Williams,
editors.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (E169.1
.E624 2001 V.1-3)
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Bruce
W. Jentleson, Thomas G. Paterson, senior editors.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997-
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(E183.7 .E53 1997 v.1-4)
The American Historical Association's Guide to
Historical Literature. Mary Beth Norton, general
editor.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Ready Reference,
Non-circulating ( Z6201 .A55 1995 V.1-2)
The Encyclopedia of American Political History.
Paul Finkelman, Peter Wallenstein, editors.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c2001.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(E183 .E48 2001)
The Oxford Companion to United States History.
Paul S. Boyer, editor in chief, .
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (E174
.O94 2001)
A Statistical History of the American Electorate,
Jerrold G. Rusk.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c2001.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating (JK1967 .R87 2001)
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Maps
& Atlases
The
Cambridge Gazetteer
of the United States and Canada: A Dictionary of Places. Archie
Hobson, editor.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(E154 .C36 1995)
The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the
United States Congress, 1789-1989, Kenneth C.
Martis.
New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., c1989.
Location: Green Library (G1201.F9 M25 1989 F)
1) Social Sciences Resource Center
2) Stacks
The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional
Districts, 1789-1983, Kenneth C. Martis.
New York: Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1982.
Location: Green Library (G1201.F9 M3 1982 F)
1) Stacks
2) Information Center: Atlas Shelves (Non-circulating)
3) Social Sciences Resource Center: Atlas Shelves
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in
America, Bret E. Carroll.
New York: Routledge, 2000.
Location: Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating
(G1201 .E4 C3 2000)
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