Research Guides: #History: Home

This guide is organized both by topic as well as by type of information source. Use the navigation options to the left, or keep reading to get explanations of each page's content. This home page also includes links to departmental pages and background info for this subject.

Overviews & Starting Points

This page provides links for introductory and background-level info.

Primary Sources

This link will take you to our standalone guide full of links to primary sources online.

Secondary (Scholarly) Sources

Where to find peer-reviewed research through the library databases.

Course Guides

Find more topical links to supplement the rest of the guide based on course, organized by period.

E-Books & Books

Sampling of topical books from our collection.

Online Sources

Find online topic overviews and other media sources like podcasts. (Includes historical statistics resources.)

Careers

Connect with information about what to do with a history major.

Citations

See examples of Chicago citations for history and connect with citation guides.

Campus Links

LSC-University Park History Department
University Park Historical Society (LSC-UP Student Organization)
Members of the University Park Historical Society use history as a tool to raise awareness of contemporary social, political and cultural issues around the world. Members explore documents, artifacts and events in history to understand how the past has shaped the future and what lessons can be learned.
Advisor: Kevin Tucker
LSC: Get an Associate of Arts (AA) in History

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Genealogical research materials including census records, military records, and family and local histories.
HeritageQuest® Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular ProQuest Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. Powered by Ancestry® with more than 4.4 billion records and coverage dating back to the 1700s.

Resource Guide: Primary Sources
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Citations: Chicago Style
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The Research Process
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History Vault This link opens in a new window
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History Vault provides access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history.
American History (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
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Provides topic pages and overviews for historical events, daily life in different eras, historical controversies, and multimedia supplements as well as primary sources. Covers the colonial/revolutionary period and forward.
Provides a comprehensive range of information: topic introductions, biographies, primary sources, videos and slideshows, images, timelines, and maps and graphs.

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