- Articles
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List of history journals available at CSUB
- History Databases
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
- Multidisciplinary database with full text for scholarly journals. Many peer-reviewed titles,
including history journals.
- America: History & Life
(ABC-CLIO)
- Core resource for historians. Index to published materials covering United States and Canada from pre-history to the present.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
- News, culture and history from the ethnic and minority press.
- Humanities Full Text (WILSON)
- Multidisciplinary database with abstracts and selected full text in history.
- JSTOR
(JSTOR)
- Electronic full-image database of the back issues of core history journals.
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Los Angeles Times Historical (ProQuest)
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The Los Angeles Times (1881-1984) offers full page and article images with full
text back to the first issue. Digital reproductions of every page are available.
- Project Muse
(Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Full text scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and math,
including some important history journals.
- Social Sciences Full Text (WILSON)
- Multidisciplinary database with abstracts and selected full text in history.
- Library Catalogs
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Books about American history are normally found in the E and F sections on the
third floor of Stiern Library.
The
CSUB Interlibrary Loan Service can be used by CSUB faculty, students and
staff to obtain materials unavailable at CSUB.
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- CSUB Library Catalog
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Searches materials at CSUB's Stiern Library.
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CSU Libraries Catalog
- Searches all the CSU libraries at once.
Books can be requested directly from other campuses using this system.
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Kern County Library
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The Kern County Library has a local history
collection and historical Bakersfield newspaper holdings on microfilm.
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Library of Congress
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U.S. national library.
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MELVYL - The University of California Library Catalog
- Searches
the research libraries of the UC system, California State Historical Association
and the California State Library.
- New York
Public Library
- Searches NPL and provides access to it research libraries.
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Other Library Catalogs
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Links of catalogs from comprehensive list of libraries in the United States.
- Archives and Archives Management
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Stiern Library's
Special
Collections and Archives holds a small collection of books that
are fragile or
rare, University history documents, as well as a small number of materials
relating the political and social history of the southern San Joaquin Valley. To
arrange a visit, contact the
American History
Liaison
National Archives, Research Room, Selected topics and finding aid -
U.S. national library.
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Online Archive of California, California Digital Library
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Historical materials from California institutions.
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Repositories of Primary Sources, University of Idaho
- Comprehensive list
of links to archives and primary source repositories around United States and
world.
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UNESCO Archives Portal, United Nations
Links to national, regional, state and university archives around the world.
Sources
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Digital Texts
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ACLS Humanities Ebook , American Council of Learned Societies
- Links to digital versions of hundreds of important history books.
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HyperTexts, American Studies Program, University of Virginia
- Digital collections of important American texts.
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Online Exhibits of the Library of Congress,
Library of
Congress
- Manuscripts and documents of national importance.
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Outline
of American History,
US Department
of State
- Online textbook describing major events in U.S. history
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Statistics
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Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts , U.S. Census Bureau
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Historical statistics complied by the United States government from colonial
times to present.
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Collections of General Resources-
American Memory,
Library of Congress
- Digital collections of the Library of Congress, including
California As I Saw It, a collection of first person accounts of early
California.
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Avalon
Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Government,
Yale University
- Full-text documents relevant to the field of law, history, economics,
politics, diplomacy and government..
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Chronology of Historical
Documents, University of Oklahoma School of Law
- Text of major legal
U.S. documents.
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Digital History, University of Houston
- Extensive collection of documents and online textbook.
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eHistory, Ohio State
University
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Thousands of pages of historical content.
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History and Culture, Smithsonian Institute
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Online resouces from the museum's collections.
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Internet Documentaries, Ohio State University
- Documentary
collections of documents with contextual analysis
- National Security
Archives, George Washington University
- Critical declassified records
on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and
military history.
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Collections Relating to Specific Events, People, or Movements-
American Slave Narratives: An Online
Anthology, University
of Virginia
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Text of interviews with former slaves. Interviews were conducted by writers for
the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.
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American Women's History: A Research Guide, Middle Tennessee State
University
- Vast collection of links to women's history resources.
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Civil War Homepage, civil-war.net
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Large collection of high-quality digital resources maintained by Civil War
historian Michael Frosch.
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Dust Bowl Migration Digital Archives,
California State University,
Bakersfield
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Interviews with Dust Bowl migrants to Kern County.
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Famous Trials, University of
Missouri, Kansas City
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Documents and information relating to famous trials.
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FBI Electronic Reading Room,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Declassified and frequently requested FBI
files on famous people or events.
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Jefferson Digital Archive, University of Virginia
- Scholarship about
and papers of Thomas Jefferson.
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Martin Luther King,
Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University
- Papers of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Presidential Libraries,
National Archives and Records
Administration
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Links to all twelve presidential libraries.
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Valley of the Shadow: Two communities in the American Civil War,
University of Virginia
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Digital archive of thousands of primary sources that document the lives of
people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County,
Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.
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Papers of George Washington,
Library of Congress
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Digital images and text of diaries and other documents of the first president.
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Women Working 1870-1930,
Harvard University
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Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's
library and museum collections.
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Collections Relating to Regions-
California As I Saw It, Library of Congress.
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A collection of first person accounts of early California
- California
Shipwrecks, California State Lands Commission
- Doumentation on
shipwrecks in California coastal waters.
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Digital Library of Georgia,
University of Georgia
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Georgia History.
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Documenting the American South,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and
culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
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Historical Maps of US Cities, The University of Texas at Austin
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Collection of historical city maps.
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Kentuckiana Digital Library, University of
Kentucky
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Historical material from fifteen Kentucky colleges, universities, libraries, and
historical societies.
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Online Archive of California, California Digital Library
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Historical materials from California institutions.
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San
Joaquin Valley and Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage, San Joaquin
Valley Library System
- Early photos of the San Joaquin Valley.
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