History

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world , including Australia but excluding the United States and Canada from 1450 to the present, including world history and women's history. The database indexes more than 1700 academic historical journals back to 1955.

America: History & Life covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

This generalist database is useful for all areas of history, including Australian, medieval, European, American and church history.

Large, multidisciplinary database with a diverse mix of scholarly journals, professional & trade publications, and magazines. Covers business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology, social sciences, and the arts.
Note: Research Library can also be searched as part of ProQuest Central.

JSTOR's content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, and provides access to scholarly journals, books and primary sources.

Academic journal articles in social science and humanities. Also known as Australian Public Affairs - Full Text.

This digital archive currently includes 150,000 pages of conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, publications and web pages of women's non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century.

This resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice. In addition to the primary source documents there is a wealth of useful secondary sources for research and teaching; including an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.

The First World War portal showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features.

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. Types of materials include business accounts, mercantile papers, government reports, dock records, and advertisements. The 15 commodities represented are: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, wheat, and wine and spirits.

This collection gives full text with images from nine newspapers that offer primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts.

Provides researchers with online, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events reported in The New York Times from 1851 to 2007.

The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive is a fully streaming video collection of more than 53,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity.

Please be aware that each user will be required to create a user name and password the first time they sign in.

Informit EduTV provides instant access to television content, including documentaries, drama and series. Choose a learning area from the left-hand menu, such as history, to browse the latest content or use search to find videos on a specific topic.

A collection of popular and educational streaming videos.

Image Quest provides access to more than two million images, rights cleared for non-commercial educational use.