New History Books
Browse lists of new history books purchased by Temple University Libraries. Lists are arranged by Library of Congress Classification Number -- D, E, and F -- not by title or date. Click here to see new book lists in other disciplines.
Database Trials
The Libraries often "trial" or test databases for possible acquisition. Please let me know if you strongly support one of the trialed databases listed below.
- American History in Video (through 11/15/09) "American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries" (Alexander Street Press).
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) via BREPOLS (through 12/31/09) Login: BBIH03
Password: BBIH03 - Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (through 11/25/09) "An historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. When complete it will include five million pages of documents selected by a renowned board of scholars" (Gale-Cengage). Compare with Adam Mathew's Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007.
New History Databases
Temple Libraries provide access to an ever-growing number of scholarly databases. Find below a list of History databases recently acquired or licensed for the Temple community. The Libraries also maintain a list of recently acquired databases in all disciplines.
- ArchiveGrid
This online service provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. ArchiveGrid connects faculty and grad students with important archives. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by libraries, museums, and historical societies worldwide. If you've ever used NUCMC you'll appreciate ArchiveGrid. - Black Historical Newspapers
This database provides full-text, full-page access to six highly influential 20th-century African-American newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-1975), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), and now the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) and the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988). - CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
Contains images of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. - Early Republic The Early Republic currently includes 17 volumes of digitized primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members as collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) With the recent acquisition of ECCO II, this combined database now contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) — in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language book printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of titles printed in America.
- Empire Online A collection of primary-source documents in Empire Studies. Includes thematic essays, written by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies to introduce the material, placing the documents within a broad historical, literary and cultural context. Click on the "i" icon for more information.
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP): The 18th and 19th Centuries The Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the Modern Era. Full-text searchable with detailed subject indexing. Update: Now includes sessional papers from 1715 and supplementary material dating to 1688.
- New York Times (1851-2003) Full-text, full-page image access to the most important U.S. newspaper. The NYT is also available full-text, but not full-page image, from our Lexis and Newsbank databases. See the Newspapers Libguide for more information. Update: Now includes the Historical New York Times with Index! The index allows researches to search by location, person, or subject for focused and targeted results.
- Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (The Johns Hopkins University Press) Online version of the 21 volume print collection of the same name, which includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This collection includes documents, many of them previously classified, from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This database brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
- Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007 Important resource for slavery and abolition studies, this database brings together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
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Contact Info:
Paley Library, Room 319
(M-F, 10-6) AND
History Dept., GH, Room 937
(M & Th, 11-noon)
Phone: 215-204-4250
Send Email
Subjects:
History, Latin American Studies (particularly Ancient Mesoamerica), Spanish & Portuguese
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