LibGuides: History Databases: History Databases

How do I get articles from Google Scholar without having to pay for them?

As a University of Akron student (or faculty member) you can access the full-text of many (but not all) articles retrieved through Google Scholar searches. All it takes is a few simple steps, and you should only have to do this once!

Configuring Google Scholar

1. Go to the upper left of the main Google Scholar screen and select the three lines:

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2. On the next screen, choose Settings from the left-hand column:

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3. Now choose Library Links from the left-hand column (in red font below), type in OhioLINK, and hit Enter:

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4. Check the "OhioLINK--Find it with OhioLINK" box which appears:

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5. Next, type Akron in the same search box, and click on "The University of Akron Libraries" link which appears:

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6. Click the blue Save button at the bottom of the screen:

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7. Now when you conduct a search, many articles will have a full-text access link with UAkron and/or OhioLINK options to see the full-text free of charge!

History Databases

Historical Abstracts
Access to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).

1955-
America: History and Life
Comprehensive resource for articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

1910-
Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary source for scholarly, popular, professional, and news publications. This is a good place to start many searches or to gather material from various disciplines at once.

1887-
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
This database is a systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
ProQuest Congressional
Includes full-text resources and indexing for the U.S. Congress. Access Congressional hearings, committee reports, witness testimony, and other publications. Content also includes the Congressional Record and its predecessors, documents from the Congressional Research Service, and information about current and historic members of Congress.

1789-
Historical New York Times Online
Full text archive of the New York Times.

1851- (5 yr Embargo)
19th Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive
Digital archives of hundreds of 19th Century U.S. newspapers.

1800-1899
17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Online access to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.
American Periodicals
Provides access to special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and trade magazines. Especially helpful for historical research into 18th and 19th Century America.

1740-1900
Jstor Collections
Complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals.

1600-
Humanities Full Text
Provides full-text of the most important scholarly sources in the humanities.

1984-
Humanities E-Book
Fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Humanities International Complete
Includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
WorldCAT
Indexes library catalogs from around the world.
Akron Beacon Journal Digital Archive
A simple and convenient way to access Akron Beacon Journal in a digital format. Retrieve, view, print and save digitized images of the Akron Beacon Journal pages and articles.

Text: 1984-
Image: 2019-
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world.

1861-
Sabin Americana
Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from the 1500s-1920s. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.

1500-1926
America's Historical Imprints
Full text access to historical American newspapers, books, broadsides, ephemera, government documents, and more.

1639-1819
Bibliography of Native North Americans
A database of literature dealing with all aspects of native North American cultures. Includes materials from the sixteenth century to the present.
Digital Resource Commons - OhioLINK
OhioLINK's digital repository is a treasure trove of unique digitized content from Ohio's colleges and universities.
E.W. Scripps Papers, 1868-1926
Collection of letters and photographs from the Scripps Manuscript Collection at Ohio University.

1868-1926
Early English Books Online
Contains titles from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare.

1470-1700
Greek and Latin Inscriptions
A collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of Greek and Latin inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia.
HarpWeek
Full text archive of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Includes all pages as scanned images.

1857-1912
Kent State Shootings Oral Histories
Collection of oral histories relating to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Includes eyewitness accounts of the event and its aftermath from students, faculty, residents and guardsman.
Gale Biography in Context
Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people.
Lake Erie's Yesterdays
Collection of historic photographs documenting the history of the Erie Islands and Lake Erie's western basin by Sandusky, Ohio photographer Ernst Niebergall between 1909 and 1915.

1909-1915
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Provides digital images on every page of legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

1800-1926
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926
Digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.

1620-1926
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
Describes the courtroom dramas that rocked society in America, the British Empire and the world through unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitrations. Collections include not only published trial transcripts, but also popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery and other scandalous crimes.

1600-1926
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Digital archives of early U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs.

1832-1978
National Underground Railroad Digital Images
Collection of documents relating to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady, letters and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and other presidents, and other historic letters, documents, and pictures.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Covers the immediate experience of women in the form of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Law encyclopedia that provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of world legal systems. An international and interdisciplinary reference work, this encyclopedia covers legal history from ancient to modern times.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1867-1970, Ohio
Large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970 that show the outline of buildings and street names, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

1867-1970
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Full-text resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. beginning in 1600, this collection includes document projects and archives with more than thousands of documents.

1600-2000
Wright Brothers Digital Photographs
Collection of photographs documenting the invention of the airplane, the lives of the Wright brothers and their family, and the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Anthropology Plus
A compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index and Harvard's Anthropological Literature. The World's largest source of anthropological, archaeological, and related interdisciplinary research.

1805-
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

1851-2009
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
This database is a systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.

History Web Sites

Ohio History Web Sites

Akron City Profile
Akron Ohio History
Cleveland Memory Project
Digital Journals of the Cincinnati History Library and Archives
The Digital Journals project is a full-text electronic database of seven journals published by Cincinnati Museum Center, the Cincinnati Historical Society and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.:

Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio (1906-1923)*
Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio (1943-1963)*
Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin (1964-1982)*
Queen City Heritage (1983-1999)*
Ohio Valley History (2001-2006)**
Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science (1874-1875)
Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History (1878-1945).
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Ohio Historical Society
Ohio History Central, an Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History
Ohio History Journal online
Ohio History was established in June 1887 as the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. For more than one hundred years, the journal has published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on topics spanning the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of our region.
Online issues here range from 1887 to 2004.
Ohio History Teachers
Ohio Memory—An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History
Ohio Pix—Selections from the Ohio Historical Society’s Collection

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Streaming Video

Kanopy
Web-based digital video service streaming educational titles in dozens of subject areas.
Films On Demand
Web-based digital video service streaming educational titles in dozens of subject areas.
Swank Motion Pictures
A repository of select popular movies in a streaming format.

OhioLink Digital Resource Commons
Educational Films & Documentaries contain full-length educational videos covering a wide variety of subjects. The collection currently includes videos from two distributors, Ambrose Video and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Careers in History

Careers in History Bibliography

Alaca, Eray, and Tercan Yildirim. “Preservice Social Studies Teachers’ Opinions Regarding History Education.” Journal of Education and Training Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, Journal of Education and Training Studies, Apr. 2018, pp. 110–17, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1174367&site=eds-live.

Dunham, Sarah, and Lisa J. Vollmer. What to Do with Your History or Political Science Degree. New York : Random House, 2007., 2007, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat02507a&AN=ohiolink.b25749103&site=eds-live.

Gardner, James B., and David F. Trask. “Serving Time in the Trenches: David F. Trask, Public Historian and Federal Historian.” The Public Historian, vol. 22, no. 2, University of California Press, 2000, p. 9, doi:10.2307/3379601.

Grafton, Anthony. “What We Owe Our Young: Honest Information about Placement.” Perspectives, vol. 44, no. 2, American Historical Association, Feb. 2006, p. 14, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=20007583&site=eds-live.

Grafton, Anthony, and Robert B. Townsend. “Historians’ Rocky Job Market.” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 54, no. 44, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2008, pp. B10–11, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&AN=33225726&site=eds-live.

Hoyden, Michael, and Michael Hayden. “Historians as Explorers.” Canadian Journal of History, vol. 40, no. 3, University of Toronto Press, Dec. 2005, p. 419, http://10.0.12.66/cjh.40.3.419.

Hoyt, Frederick. “Confessions of an Ex-Historian.” Diplomatic History, vol. 41, no. 2, Oxford University Press / USA, Apr. 2017, pp. 231–32, http://10.0.4.69/dh/dhw070.

Hsu, Jeremy L., et al. “The Explorations Program: Benefits of Single-Session, Research-Focused Classes for Students and Postdoctoral Instructors.” Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 45, no. 6, National Science Teachers Association, July 2016, pp. 78–86, http://10.0.9.201/4/jcst16_045_06_78.

“Jobs for Historians Rose Last Year, but Competition Remains Tough.” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 59, no. 18, Jan. 2013, pp. A16–17, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eft&AN=84680244&site=eds-live.

Kammen, Michael. “On Mentoring Apprentice Historians and Appreciating Mentors—Gleaned from the Memories of Others.” Reviews in American History, vol. 40, no. 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, p. 339, doi:10.1353/rah.2012.0053.

Kriebel, Leslie, and Leslie Lapham. “Transition to Electronic Resources in Undergraduate Social Science Research: A Study of Honors Theses Bibliographies, 1999-2005.” COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 268–83, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edswss&AN=000256183000005&site=eds-live.

Marcos, Angie. “CSUF History Students Have Plenty of Career Options.” Orange County Register, The (Santa Ana, CA), Orange County Register, The (Santa Ana, CA), 23 Mar. 2016, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=2W63347975004&site=eds-live.

Navarro-Garrido, Yanet. “Curricular Strategy to Enhance the Labor-Research Component of the Career Degree in History, through the Improvement of Scientific-Methodological Work.” Maestro y Sociedad VO - 1, no. 3, Universidad de Oriente, 2018, p. 31, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.b258587ca636434cac38157c3b944fc1&site=eds-live.

Pubols, Louise. “Doing History in Exhibit Halls: The History PhD and a Museum Career.” Perspectives, vol. 42, no. 2, American Historical Association, Feb. 2004, p. 34, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=13873012&site=eds-live.

Rutkowski, Joanne. “II. Curriculum Models That Include Undergraduate Research. Issue Reaction: Honors Theses in the Creative and Performing Arts.” Innovations in Undergraduate Research & Honors Education: Proceedings of the Second Schreyer National Conference, National Collegiate Honors Council, Jan. 2004, pp. 51–52, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=42113093&site=eds-live.

Salerno, Beth. “Recasting History: The Public Option.” New England Journal of Higher Education, New England Journal of Higher Education, Apr. 2014, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1043393&site=eds-live.

Sandleback, Nancy. “Career Choices through Trial and Error: So I Can Actually Do Something Useful with This History Degree?” MAC Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 4, Midwest Archives Conference, Apr. 2005, p. 35, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lih&AN=22990723&site=eds-live.

Smith, Mitch. “At Struggling Rural Colleges, No Future for History Degrees.” The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 2019, p. A1, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgov&AN=edsgcl.569251726&site=eds-live.

T., Hoffman Jon. “Chief Historian’s Footnote : The Graduate Research Assistant Program.” Army History, no. 104, The U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2017, p. 67, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.26300931&site=eds-live.

United States Army, Center of Military History : Considering a Career as a Historian in the Federal Government : A Quick Guide. U.S. Army, Center of Military History, 2008, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat02173a&AN=akr.b3000421&site=eds-live.

W., Stewart Richard. “The Chief Historian’s Footnote : Career Program 61: Setting the Standards for Historians, Museum Personnel, and (Now) Archivists Army-Wide.” Army History, no. 83, The U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2012, p. 54, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.26298768&site=eds-live.

W., Stewart Richard. “The Chief Historian’s Footnote : Historical, Museum, and Archival ‘Competencies.’” Army History, no. 86, The U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2013, p. 46, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.26298786&site=eds-live.

Wilson, Joan Hoff. “Is the Historical Profession an "Endangered Species?” Public Historian, vol. 2, no. 2, Jan. 1980, pp. 4–21, http://10.0.9.3/3376966.

Wood, L. Maren, and Beatrice Gurwitz. “Who Prepares Humanities Ph.D.’s for a Nonacademic Search?” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 59, no. 42, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2013, p. 8, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&AN=89333687&site=eds-live.

Worsley, Lucy. “My Dad Said: ‘You’ll Be Cleaning Toilets for a Career If You Do a History Degree’.” Mail on Sunday, Associated Newspapers Ltd, Dec. 2016, p. 7, http://ezproxy.uakron.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bwh&AN=120254432&site=eds-live.