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History: Non-WIU Resources

Discipline and Department Research Guides identify and define standard information retrieval tools for a specific department or discipline. Each guide was created and is maintained by the library liaison for that department. We encourage you to recommend

Google

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research (from http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html).

Library of Congress

American Memory Project
American Memory is a gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections [from the Project’s homepage]
The LC Catalog
Most of LC’s holdings are also in WorldCat, but you may not always have access to the latter.
Law Library of Congress
This library houses one of the most complete collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original format. Visit the A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation link.

Miscellaneous

Discussion Lists

Visit www.H-Net.org. H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web [from the website]