History
Library Subscription Services
The following sources may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles and Books
EBSCO provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books. Databases relevant to art include Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
America: History and Life is an extensive database of U.S. and Canadian history, as well as world history. This resource has citations from more than 2,000 journals. It has a limited number of full-text articles.
Harpweek, a collection of electronically reproduced and enhanced pages of Harper's Weekly, is now available online for the Civil War and Reconstruction eras (1857-1877). Indexes include illustrations, advertising and articles.
Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. There are citations from more than 2,000 journals, but there are no full-text articles.
ciao, or Columbia International Affairs Online, is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects and proceedings from conferences from the year 1991 to present.
Reference Works
American Decades
American History Through Literature 1820-1870
American History Through Literature 1870-1920
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
A Dictionary of World History
Dynasties of the World
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Melton's Encyclopedia American Religions
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
The Oxford Companion to Military History
The Oxford Companion to United States History
The Oxford Companion to World War II
Who's Who in Classical World
World Maps
Internet Resources
The Ancient World
Perseus Project is a digital library for study of the ancient world. Its collection includes ancient texts and translations, maps, secondary sources by scholars and students and pictures of museum art.
Bulfinch's Mythology is a link to "The Age of Fables," a retelling of the myths of Greece and Rome and other myths important to western culture. Search by word or phrase.
Maecenas Images of Ancient Greece and Rome has a diverse collection of images including the Roman Forum, the Arch of Septimius Severus and Mt. Etna.
A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors lists Roman emperors and the years they ruled and provides images of portrait sculptures and coin portraits.
Western Civilization
ORB, the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies is an academic Web site written and maintained by medieval scholars. It contains an alphabetical list of primary documents and an encyclopedia of refereed articles arranged by time period and topic. Search by keyword.
The Labyrinth, developed by Georgetown University, provides access to electronic resources for medieval studies with text and image databases, journals and related links.
Non-western Resources
Africa South of the Sahara offers information, including history, art, news and literature, about African countries. Search by country, region or topic.
U.S. History
American Memory is a collection of historical materials from the Library of Congress. The materials include primary documents, maps, photographs and prints.
Jefferson Library on the official Monticello Web site gives access to a wealth of information in its private collection, as well as links to other Web sites relating to Thomas Jefferson.
The Picture Collection is a collection of Time-Life pictures from the 20th century. While the database exists primarily for marketing within the publishing industry, this is a wonderful resource for educational purposes. Free registration requires you to agree to the terms of use of the pictures.
History Now, launched in September 2004, is a quarterly online journal for American history teachers and students.
Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education is a collection of nearly 6,000 photographs documenting black schools in Virginia and the South from 1906 to 1932.
The American Civil War Homepage is a well-organized Web site with public documents (Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation) and private or personal documents (diaries and letters of soldiers), rosters of combatants and links to images and maps.
Nineteenth Century Children and What They Read has an anthology of works for children written between 1800 and 1872. As the compiler of this Web site remarks, "This is what 19th-century American citizens, voters and politicians read in their most impressionable years."
The Valley of the Shadow is a Web site that tells the story of the Civil War as seen by two communities in the Great Valley of the United States: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia. This project is the work of students at the University of Virginia who conducted research at the National Archives.
First World War.com provides an extensive catalog of events, battles, people, primary documents, memoirs, poetry and literature.
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s has links to many resources. Search by keyword or scroll through the alphabetical list of contents.
The Wars for Viet Nam is a collection of materials for a senior seminar class at Vassar College. There are numerous official documents, such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and a link to a map of Viet Nam.
Edwin Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War lists books and government publications covering all aspects of the Vietnam War.
The Library of Virginia preserves, digitizes and provides access to significant archival and library collections of rare and unique Virginia materials.
History Matters provides a wide range of resources for U.S. social history. While it is designed primarily for U.S. history instructors, this Web site is a rich resource for students. Click on "full search" to choose from a list of topics, time periods and types of resources.
African-American History in Virginia, a database of the Virginia Foundations for the Humanities, maintains this collection of biographical materials and information on significant African-American historic sites. It is useful for anyone interested in the experience of African-American people in Virginia.
