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Research Guide: 
Undergraduate Seminar in History (100.193)
Fall 2004


Research Guides

Research Guide:  History
Research Guide:  Primary Sources

Selected Reference Sources

Encyclopedias

The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia.
Eisenhower GEN REF E111 .C7741 1992 Quarto

Colonialism:  An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia.  2 vols.
MSEL GEN REF HV22 .C59 2003

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Encyclopedia Britannica Online

 

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara.  4 vols.
Eisenhower GEN REF DT351 .E53 1997 Quarto

Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800.
Eisenhower GEN REF G80 .H68 2003

Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. 3 vols.
Eisenhower GEN REF E45 .E531 1993 Quarto

Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism
Eisenhower GEN REF D217 .H571 2001

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire.
Eisenhower GEN REF DP56 .H571 1991

Literature of Travel and Exploration:  An Encyclopedia.  3 vols.
Eisenhower GEN REF G465 .L565 2003 Quarto

Bibliographies & Indexes

AFRICABIB.ORG
Combines three databases, each listing titles published 1975 - present:  Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database; African Women's Database; Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa:  1763-2000.

JHU

 

African Studies

New

African Studies Companion:  A Guide to Information Sources.  3rd ed.
Eisenhower GEN REF DT19.8 .Z45 2003

American Foreign Relations Since 1600:  A Guide to the Literature.  2nd ed.  2 vols.
Eisenhower GEN REF Z 6465 .U5 G84 2003

Homewood

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Bibliography of Asian Studies

 

Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History Since 1600.
Eisenhower GEN REF DA16 .Z9 B4 2002

Homewood

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America: History & Life

 

Caribbean Abstracts (Use Explorer browser)

Homewood

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Historical Abstracts

 


 

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Handbook of Latin American Studies

 


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Periodicals Contents Index

 

Royal Historical Society Bibliography. Institute of Historical Research.
A guide to writing on British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day.

Slavery and Slaving in World History:  A Bibliography, 1900-1991.  2 vols.
Eisenhowr GEN REF HT861 .Z9 M543 1993 Quarto

 Women and the British Empire:  An Annotated Guide to Sources.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ1107 .B328  1983

Examples of Reprinted Primary Sources 

Print

British Documents on the End of Empire. Series A and B.
Call number varies by volume.  Check the JHU Libraries Catalog.
Introduction to the collection with volume descriptions

Nineteenth-century Travels, Explorations, and Empires:  Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910
8 vols.
Eisenhower Stacks G465 .N525

Repertorium Columbianum
Call number varies by volume. Check the JHU Libraries Catalog.
Introduction to the collection

Microform
Most microform held by the MSE Library is kept at the Libraries Service Center. To retrieve the microform, find the microform number in the catalog and fill out a Libraries Service Center Request Form. You will be notified when the film arrives at the Audio Visual (AV) Department on M-Level. You can ask the AV Department to keep the film here at MSEL for the period of time that you will be using it. Printed Guides to most of our microform collections are shelved in the AV Department by the microform number. 

Africa Through Western Eyes. Part I and Two. 
Film No. 3653 and 3654
Online Guide

Church Missionary Society Archive.
Film No. E890
Online Introduction

Colonial Discourses. Series One. Part I-Part III. Women, Travel, and Empire, 1660-1914.
Film No. 3520
Online Guide (to part 1 only)

Papers and Correspondence of the South Sea Company. (1711-1846)
Film No. 3675

Digital Collections

JHU

 

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, 1500-1900

 


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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment

 


JHU

 

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

 


JHU

 

Electronic Collections Online (ECO)

 


JHU

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Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800)

 


JHU

 

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945

 


JHU

 

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

 


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The Times (London) Digital Archive 1785-1985

 



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