Databases for History
- Academic OneFile (Gale) 1980 to present
Access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in all major disciplines. Includes thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. - American History in Video (Alexander Street)
Streaming videos with responsive transcripts. The collection also contains documentaries, featuring dramatic reenactments and analysis from prominent scholars and experts. - Ancestry.com (Tennessee State Library & Archives)
Access to several important collections of Tennessee records including birth and death records, wills and probate records, early land registers and records, early tax list records, and Revolutionary War land warrants. - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Gale)
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present including 125 newspapers from Tennessee. - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. - eBook History Collection (EBSCOhost)
Features history titles across a variety of subjects, including History of Music, History of the World, Art History, History of Technology & Engineering, History of Business & Economics, History of Religion, and History of the United States. - eBook Religion Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides titles ranging from introductory texts for undergraduate coursework to more complex works for scholars. Items included in the subscription cover diverse worldwide religions and explore popular areas of study such as the social, cultural, and historical impacts of religion. - Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. - HeritageQuest Online (Gale)
Collection of genealogical and historical sources, with coverage dating back to the 1700s. Searches U.S. census records, full-text family and local history books, Freedman's Bank records and more. - Infotrac Newsstand (Gale)
Access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. - JSTOR
Provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. - Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
Designed to supply general information about the state of Tennessee in a user-friendly format. Entries include images, audio, and video. - U.S. History Collection (Gale)
Collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field. - United States Census Bureau
Provides current facts and figures about America’s people, places, and economy. - Volunteer Voices (Gale)
Volunteer Voices is a state-wide digitization project that will provide access to primary sources that document Tennessee's rich history and culture. Volunteer Voices combines the collaborative efforts to Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools. - War and Terrorism Collection (Gale)
Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily. - World Book (Gale)
Online encyclopedia that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. It also includes up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials. - World History Collection
Scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers offering balanced coverage of events in world history. - World History in Video (Alexander Street)
A wide-ranging collection of documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.
