World History I

Reference resources provide good background information for your paper. They give you a basic overview and elucidate key concepts you might wish to pursue further.

Includes general topical overviews, dictionary and thesaurus tools, and other basic reference resources.

Provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: Reference articles; periodical and newspaper articles; primary sources; multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables; and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources.

Provides summaries, articles about people, events & places written by historical scholars.

A selection of primary sources compiled by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

Great site for historical overviews, timelines, general information about epochs.

Gateway website for topics such as the Renassiance, Reformation and Enlightenment periods. Includes oral histories, maps and general history topics.

International in scope, enables students and researchers to discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.

Use this tool to find secondary (and possibly primary) source articles related to your specific topic. Will include results from GoogleBooks and this is helpful as sometime a large portion of text will be available online.

Great Events and Great Lives offer far-reaching view of history, and include worldwide coverage of important events, men and women in all areas of achievement from ancient times to the modern era.

Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics.

Great resource for primary sources in both medieval and ancient history.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that includes full-text content of more than 1,400 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources.

Good source for certain topics of medieval history-includes some primary sources.

The largest part of this digital library covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content. 

Covers religion around the globe, from prehistory to the present. Includes articles, media, visuals, statistics and timelines.

Online Resources

An excellent resource for multiple citation styles, including APA, Chicago, and MLA. This resource also offers guides to writing in specific subject areas such as writing in the sciences, writing in literature, and creative writing.

Excellently models proper MLA citation style. From Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Citation Management Tools

Citation management tools allow you to easily keep track and organize the information you cite in your writing.

Noodle Tools offers integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing. Includes MLA and APA styles. Users must create an account.

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