Guides: HST 4610/4620: Senior Thesis in History: Home

Welcome!

This research guide is here for you to use with your HST 4620 course assignment(s). Here you can find curated resources from the University Library that will be most helpful with your research. To access journal articles and databases, you will be asked to log in with your Bronco name and password to access materials.

You have two History subject librarians that can help you with your questions related to research and library resources. Please contact Jennifer Bidwell (jabidwell@cpp.edu) and Elizabeth Hernandez (evgomez@cpp.edu). You can copy the both of us on your email to ensure that it will be responded to in a timely matter. Thank you!

History Databases

JSTOR
Searches back runs of scholarly journals; art & architecture, language & literature, history, economics, social sciences, mathematics, ecology and music. JSTOR now includes some current issues for selected titles. Ebooks from scholarly publishers are also available.
America: History and Life (EBSCO)
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Cambridge Histories Online
This database includes the full text of over 250 volumes of the Cambridge Histories series on subjects such as Latin American, British, American, World and regional history; the history of philosophy, music, literary studies, religious studies, science, economics, language and linguistics, theatre and performing arts, political and social theory, and warfare.
Project Muse
Includes over 300 full text scholarly journals in humanities, arts, and social sciences from 60 scholarly publishers. Dates vary, 1990 to present.

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. The majority of the books are in the public domain so you don't special permission to use them.

Ebook Databases

E-Book Central (ProQuest)
ProQuest Ebook Central (formerly ebrary and EBL) is a multidisciplinary collection of ebooks from numerous academic publishers. Visit the help page. NOTE: Titles can be dropped by the publisher without prior notice.
EBSCO E-Books
This collection includes over 8,000 ebooks covering a range of academic topics. Watch a how-to video.
GALE EBOOKS. Formerly called Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
The GVRL collection includes encyclopedias and other reference works supporting a wide range of academic disciplines.

Primary Sources

The following are links to primary source databases and websites.

Hathi Trust: HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: The collection of more than 170 million items includes more than 39 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 73 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.
Online Archive of California: An online repository of finding aids to primary source materials from a variety of universities and organizations.

Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources is an online collection of primary sources with access to books, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more. This resource includes access to: Archives Unbound, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana, History of the Americas (1500-1926), and The Times of London Digital Archive (1785-2014).
Archives Unbound
Content includes primary sources regarding African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBT studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
An online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Covering a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean, this fully searchable digital archive is an essential tool for the study of the western hemisphere. It provides primary source material critical to the understanding of the society, politics, religious beliefs, literature, customs and momentous events of the times.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Primary source newspaper content from 1800-1899, featuring full-text content and images from about 500 newspapers from a range of territories and urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Includes topics such as the American Civil War, the Confederacy, African-American culture and history, Western migration, immigration, elections and Antebellum-era life. Funded by the History Department.