Research Guides: American Civil War: Databases

Databases

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to hundreds of humanities, social science, and science scholarly books and journals.
ProQuest Central
Brings together complete databases across major subject areas, including business, health and medical, language and literature, social sciences, education, science and technology, as well as core titles in the performing and visual arts, history, religion, philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

Hein Online
Contains more than 145 million pages and 150,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
Military & Government Collection
Provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of military and government.
Military Database?
Covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more.

Accessible Archives
Full-text searchable collections of African American Newspapers, Quarantine and Disease Control in America, and Texas County Histories.
American Periodicals
Contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
ARTstor
A digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Civil War Primary Source Documents
Captures various accounts of the Civil War as it was experienced on land and at sea; the collection provides firsthand perspectives from hospitals and prison camps and reactions to the War from the home-front.
Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
A full-text collection of books, periodicals, and pamphlets focused on women's history in the world.
HarpWeek-Harper's Weekly (1857-1912)
Provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization," for a 56-year period: 1857-1912.
Periodicals Archive Online
An archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Texas Historical Newspapers
Search 43 historical Texas newspapers, with coverage dating from the 1800s.

Google Scholar
Covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. Click on Scholar Preferences, go down to Library Links, fill in University of Texas at Tyler, then Find Library. Check box.
Library of Congress--Making of America
Maps from 1500 to the present, mostly of the US, including panoramic maps and the Jedidiah Hotchkiss Civil War map collection.
Making of America - Cornell
Making of America - Mich

If you have a citation from a book or article bibliography...

Go to the Online and Print Journals page, enter the title of the journal, and see if it is available in any of our subscription databases or in the Library in physical form. Check to make sure your date is covered, then click on the database name, or make a note to come by the library. If we don't have direct access to the journal issue you need, please fill out an interlibrary loan request form.


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