Subject Guides: History: History

Subject Librarians

Doris Wagner
USA, United Kingdom, Continental Europe
Denis Lacroix
Continental Europe, Latin American and Caribbean
Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn
Slavic Studies
Kim Frail
Canada, Continental Europe

Not sure? Start with D oris Wagner and she'll direct your question.

Starter Searches: topic and known item

Known citation search starters

If you know the title , start with "search the library"

Tips: Use whole titles or distinctive portions. Use quotation marks to get fewer but more exact matches. Select "catalogue only" box on the main library page before you search, or databases > "university of Alberta library" in left menu of search results.

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Search the Library
Books (print, ebook), journal, articles (and films, music, maps, primary sources, etc) from UAlberta/NEOS catalogues and 300+ specialized search engines via ebsco). Use advanced search for boolean, wildcards, truncation, proximity, field limiters).
NOTE: this does NOT search everything we have access to!!

Proquest Databases
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Cross searches 150+ databases. Academic articles, ebooks, historic and current newspapers, theses/ dissertations, reports, etc. Often better for Canadian content.

Specialized History Searches

Historical Abstracts
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Academic articles about world history from 1450 to the present.

Contains text in Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French / Français, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh languages.
America: History and Life
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Academic articles on all aspects of the history of Canada and the United States specifically, from pre-historic times to the present.

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Economist Intelligence Unit
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European Data Portal
Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room (CIA)
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CREST records are divided into collections on the left-hand side of this page. To view a collection, click on the “CREST: 25-Year Program Archive” link on the left. Once the link is clicked, the collections will appear below. To view the records of a specific collection, click the collection name on the left.

In addition, CIA has also made an advanced search capability available. To access the advanced search, click on the “Advanced Search” link just below the search bar on this page. The advanced search allows for search across collections, as well as searches within specific metadata. Additional information and guidance can be found in the “Search Help” link.
The World Factbook (CIA)
World Leaders (CIA)

History Visualization

A fun timeline of the past through wikipedia articles. A dot for every event.

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