History Librarian
History Databases
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Articles on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
- American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window
Digitized images of the pages of historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers. Includes or has links to full text.
- Bibliography of indigenous peoples in North America This link opens in a new windowCitations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents covering native North American culture, history, and life.
- HarpWeek : The Civil War Era This link opens in a new windowPage images and index to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
- Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new windowData from American history on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences
- JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text articles, eBooks, and primary sources for many disciplines.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867-1970, Ohio This link opens in a new windowLarge scale street plans of Ohio communities, produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company from 1867-1970.
Off Campus Access
When using library resources off campus, the system prompts for your Ohio Northern University username and password
- When prompted for your username, type your ONU username.
- Your password is the same password you use to sign into your ONU email.
Please contact reference@onu.edu with any questions.
Database Guides
Google Scholar
Helpful Websites
- Best of History WebsitesAn award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites.
- Digital HistoryUniversity of Houston’s Digital History database offers a wealth of links to textbook, primary sources, and educational materials in digital history. The database has multimedia, an interactive timeline, active learning, and resources for teachers.
- Early Modern ResourcesA research portal for the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE).
- National Archives: Access to Archival DatabasesProvides online access to records in a small selection of historic databases preserved permanently by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- The Avalon Project at YaleThe Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval StudiesFree, organized access to resources in medieval studies.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. A wide variety of resources such as texts, images, audio files, video files, and other resources digitized by libraries and other organizations in the United States are available.
- Women in World HistoryCreates an online curriculum resource center to help locate, analyze, and learn from primary sources dealing with women and gender in world history.
Citation Finder
- Electronic Journal Center/EJC (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new windowFull text of research journals.
Have a citation but need to find the actual article? Use the form found at this link to look up a specific journal title.
If you are looking for articles on a certain topic, please see the links for HML databases. If you are looking for a specific book or an entire journal, please use the HML journal finder.