Articles
For historical research you will need to be familiar with a wide range of resources including a number of article databases provided by the library.
Here is a list of some important article databases you will need for most undergraduate historical research.
- America: History and Life
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Provides access to citations and abstracts of journal literature, full-text articles, reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. - Historical Abstracts
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Covers events from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. - American Periodicals
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Scanned and searchable full-text images from over 1,000 American magazines and journals, including 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 and 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras. Coverage includes popular and scholarly as well as regional and niche publications. Coverage 1741 - 1900
Historical news articles can be very important to historical research. Here are some historical newspaper databases.
- New York Times Historical Edition
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Searchable full-text of the NYT from ProQuest, with keyword searching and date limiting. Coverage is from 1851-2015. - America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1998
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Full-text access to colonial and early American history, with titles from 23 states and D.C. Also covers large collection of African American publications. - America's Historical Imprints
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Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other scarce printed material. - African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
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Featuring 270 newspapers published in 36 states. - African American Newspapers (from Accessible Archives)
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Nineteenth century newspaper collection that includes The Christian Recorder, The Colored American/Weekly Advocate, Frederick Douglass’ Paper/Douglass' Monthly, Freedmen's Journal (Freedmen's Record), Freedom’s Journal, The National Era, The Negro Business League Herald, The North Star, and Provincial Freeman. - Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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This database has news articles and much more. Speeches, essays, articles, letters, leaflets, trials, interviews, monographs and periodicals written by leaders within the black community from 1700 to 2005. - New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
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From ProQuest Historical Newspapers. - London Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
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Over two centuries on-line for full-text searching of the London publication, more than 7 million articles, from 1785-1985. Widely recognized as the source for authoritative reports on politics, law, business and society. Extensive coverage of parliamentary debates, royal doings, obituaries, official appointments. - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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Access to scanned newspaper pages from 1690-present and information about other American newspapers published between 1690-present. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). - Kentucky Digital Newspapers Program
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Kentucky's National Digital Newspaper Program (KY-NDNP) website offers comprehensive lists of the University of Kentucky's digitized historic newspapers available in both the Kentucky Digital Library and the Library of Congress' Chronicling America. The website also provides an extensive "how-to" on historic newspaper digitization per the NDNP specifications. - UK Libraries Microfilm Holdings Database
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This site is a database of the University of Kentucky microfilm masters, including newspapers, manuscript collections, and other primary sources. Not all Kentucky newspapers available are included in this database (e.g., The Lexington Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal). To find other available Kentucky newspapers, search InfoKat, the Libraries' online catalog.
