UConn Stamford
Resources for History

Contents:

• Library Collections and Services
• Library Databases
• Class Websites
• Helpful WWW Sites for History
• Campus Connections
• Help
• Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company Records
  This collection is housed in the Jeremy Library Library. The collection contains a broad range of materials documenting the history of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, established in 1868 in Stamford, Connecticut and the leading employer in the area for many years.

Library Collections and Services

• The UCONN LibrariesCatalog: HOMER UCAT
• Ingenta (formerly UnCover)
  Receive research and table of contents information from any of the more than 20,000 titles in the ingenta database. *Resource Guide
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service
  Assists UConn faculty, staff and students in acquiring research materials unavailable in the UConn Libraries.
• Research Guides to Print and Electronic Resources
  
• Current Journals in History on subscription

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Library Databases

• Research Database Locator (dCompass)
  The University of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 Web-Based, commercially-produced research and citation databases. Most of these resources are limited to the University of Connecticut community.
• Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe provides access to the full text of thousands of publications, including national and international newspapers. *Resource Guide Available
• America: History and Life
  Bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• Dow Jones Interactive
  Full text access to hundreds of newspapers, general interest magazines and academic journals. *Resource Guide.
• Historical Abstracts
  Reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
• InfoTrac SearchBank
  Nearly 3,000 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of more than 6,000 titles in all with 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.
• JSTOR
  Backfiles of core scholarly journals, beginning with the first issue up to a ‘moving wall’ of 2- to 5-years. JSTOR includes the full text of 32 history journals, including the following:
  
  

  American Historical Review (1895-1996)	American Quarterly (1949-1995)
  Eighteenth-Century Studies (1967-1995)	Journal of American History (1964-1996)

  
  
• Project Muse
  Full text, keyword-searchable access to over 100 journals.
  
• reQuest
  Library catalogs of Connecticut public and state-supported college and university librarie. Use reQuest to find the location of materials not held by the University of Connecticut Libraries.
• WilsonWeb (formerly JREF)
  OmniFile Full Text Mega (includes indexing, abstracts, and fulltext. *Resource Guide
  

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Class Websites

History 121:Women in History
History 101, 229: Modern Western Traditions /Europe 20th Century
History 232: United States Since 1877
History 277: Modern India
History 290: The Middle East Crucible
Political Science 226 International Relations of the Middle East
History of Human Rights 253

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Helpful WWW Sites for History

Resources in History: Storrs
Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
CIA World Factbook
Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe

Horus' Web Links to History Resource (H-GIG) - University of California, Riverside
H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online
Index of Resources for Historians - University of Kansas
Internet History Sourcebooks Projects - Fordham University
Magna Carta
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences, Athabasca University

Voice of the Shuttle - University of California
World War I: Trenches on the Web
WWW Gateways for History - Yale
Yahoo! History
Yale Avalon Project

New Sites:
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
Public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Historic Government Publications from WWII
WWII-era digitized pamphlets including documents on rationing, civil defense, war work and more.
The Underground Railway: Niagara's Freedom Trail
Includes biographical sketches and photos.

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Campus Connections

Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Center for Oral History
Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776
Connecticut History Online
Steam & Electronic Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad

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