History
Library Subscription Services
Current PVCC students, faculty and staff have access through computers both on and off campus.
Gale U.S. History in Context offers a wide selection of full-text journals, reference entries and primary documents in U.S. history.
Gale World History in Context offers a wide selection of full-text journals, reference entries and primary documents in world history.
EBSCO (for mobile devices) provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
EBSCO 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.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.
Project Muse is a database with more than 300 full-text journals covering a wide range of topics, including literature, social science and theatre.
CWI Contemporary Women's Issues provides a global perspective on critical issues and events that affect women.
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.
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
Credo Reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
A Dictionary of World History
Dynasties of the World
Encyclopedia Britannica
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
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Who's Who in Classical World
World Maps
