Internet Resources for History
Databases
Reference Tools
Journals and Electronic Books
Internet Links for History
Databases
Allison Library:
Ebsco databases
ProQuest Religion database
RTA
UBC Library:
ATLA Religion (is also offered through Ebsco via UBC Library)
Academic Search Complete (UBC--Ebsco)*
Historical Abstracts (UBC--Ebsco)*
Humanities International Index (UBC--Ebsco)*
*Note: If you log in to the EbscoHost database list (rather than just Academic Search Complete, or Historical Abstracts), you can search several databases simultaneoulsy.
International Medieval Bibliography Online (UBC)
JSTOR (full text via UBC)
Project Muse (full text via UBC)
Web of Science On the Web of Science page, click 'Change Limits' next to 'Limit to' at the bottom of the interface; choose Arts and Humanities Citation Index UBC.
Reference Tools
See the bibliography of materials in the Allison reference section on the History Moodle site. This list includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other works that are helpful for background information and terminology of your topic.
Electronic Sources via UBC (requires your UBC username and password and the VPN)
Journals and Electronic Books
The journals listed below are freely available on the Internet. Also look in the article indexes listed above.
Internet Links for History
For numerous websites related to historical periods of time or geographical locations (e.g. Renaissance and Reformation history; or African history) see the following book in the library:
‘The History Highway 3.0” edited by Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman. (D 16.117 H57 2002)
- AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity (Yale Divinity School)
- Ancient History Source Book
- Ancient and Medieval Atlas historical maps of Europe for every century from 1 CE to 1500 CE.
- Anit-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Breaking the Seal " the Open University Web site to accompany the television series "Breaking the Seal" - 6 half-hour programmes investigating documents, what we can learn from them, and their use and abuse of documents as evidence. "
- British History Online "the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research."
- Byzantine Studies
- CAPITULUM: Research Group for Medieval Church History
- Celtic Literature Collective collection of medieval Irish, Welsh, and Arthurian texts (in translation). Not all translations are attributed.
- CELT 'the online resource for Irish history, literature, and politics"
- Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto one of the most prominent medieval studies centers in the world.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library extensive collection of classic theological works from all periods of church history. Contains all the works of the church fathers.
- Christian Texts maintained by Saundra Litpon at the University of Calgary
- Creeds of Christendom
- Cult of the Saints anthology of texts illustrative of the medieval cult of the saints.
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910 (UBC username and password required)
- Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in Antiquity
- Ecole Initiative primarily a finding aid for pre-reformation church history and historical theology on the web. It includes links to many primary source documents translated into English, as well as some original articles and many images.
- Essays in Medieval Studies: the proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association published by West Virginia University Press
- Eurodocs online sources for European history
- Feminisit Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Finding Primary Resources on the Web
- Gift of Speech archive of women's speeches from around the world that have influenced history or were given by famous women.
- A Guide to Research in the History of the Medieval Church
- Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections a geographical listing of libraries (mostly in the U.S.) with archival collections relating to women's history.
- The Hall of Church History
- History of Missiology Over 700 complete books and resources have been digitized for the use of scholars and students.
- History Research Guide--Primary Sources (North Carolina State University)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook one of the most extensive online collections of medieval texts, both excepts and full texts.
- Images of Medieval Art and Architecture (University of Pittsburgh)
- Jewish Roman World of Jesus
- Jonathan Edwards Online
- Labrynth: Resources for Medieval Studies
- Medieval Literary Resources excellent metasite with links to primary sources, modern criticism. academic sites, journals, etc.
- Monastic Matrix: a scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
- Project Wittenburg :home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts such as short quotations, commentaries, hymns , statements of faith, theological treatises, biographies, and links to other places where words and images from the history of Lutheranism live.
- Theology.ie (sponsored by the Irish Theological Association)
- Through the Front Doors: Methodist Women's Journey to Oridnation (Pitts Theological Seminary Library)
- Using Primary Sources on the Web (University of Washington)
- ViVa Women's History "Viva is a current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals. Articles in English, French, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages are selected from 180 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals. All bibliographic descriptions are stored in the ViVa database. It now contains more than 10,000 records describing articles from 1975 onwards. It is online and freely accessible. You can search the database, and, for titles from 1995 on it is possible to browse by year of publication."
- Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (browse by subject)
- Wesleyan Studies (from Seattle Pacific University)
- World Wide Web Virutal Library (large gateway site to other websites with digital information for history research)
- Women's History Network a national association concerned with promoting women's history and encouraging women interested in history
- The Works of Augustine
- The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale University)
- Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library "provides digital resources for teaching and research"
