Databases

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	America: History and Life	Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database covers 1700 journals, and in addition to its historical coverage, the database includes citations to related materials for...	Connect
	Historical Abstracts	Bibliographic information pertaining to world history from the 15th century to the present—excluding the United States and Canada.Historical Abstracts is an exceptional bibliographic database that covers the...	Connect

CBCA Complete: History	Focuses on history periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues. It is a subset of CBCA Complete.	Connect
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980	A variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It also provides multiple...	Connect
CIHM Monograph Collection	More than 80, 000 volumes dating back to the early 17th century that are about Canada, or written and published by Canadians, freely available online. This CIHM digital archive complements the materials digitized and...	Connect
Classical Music in Video	More than 400 hours of streaming video and growing to 1,000 hours on music history, music appreciation, music performance, analysis, and theory from Medieval to the twenty-first century, recordings from the 1950s up to...	Connect
Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969	Consists of confidential print documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office since c1820. This collection covers: the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century; the Middle...	Connect
Defining Gender, 1450-1910	Source materials from European archives intended for researching the humanities from a gendered perspective.Defining Gender contains original source material from British and European archives for those studying history...	Connect
Dictionary of Canadian Biography	Contains authoritative biographical information about historical Canadian figures. A joint initiative between the University of Toronto and the Université Laval, Dictionary of Canadian Biography provides...	Connect
Duke University Press	Duke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals across humanities, social sciences, and other fields. Duke University Press provides access to online journals and books.	Connect
Early Encounters in North America	Collection of primary sources of early encounters, specifically focused on present-day Canada and the United States. Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs, images and accounts of...	Connect
Early European Books Online	A diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-...	Connect
EBSCOHost eBook Collection	Access a multidisciplinary collection of ebooks on the EBSCOhost platform. This includes ebooks the library has subscribed to individually, and ebooks that come from some of our subject databases. You can also search...	Connect
Eighteenth Century Journals Portal	Rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer effective coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to...	Connect
Empire Online	Collection of primary source documents spanning the 16th through 20th centuries pertaining to colonial history, politics, culture and society.Empire Online contains a vast array of primary source documents, sourced from...	Connect
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750	Collection of bibliographic information for European works regarding the Americas published from 1493 through 1750.The collection contains citations and bibliographic information for European works regarding the...	Connect
FamilySearch	Must use an in-library computer to access. Click on the title for more info. Registration is required for some features in this resource. Click on the title for more info. A catalogue and collection of primary source materials primarily designed for genealogical research, but also helpful for historical work. FamilySearch contains both a catalogue of print and online records and also...	Connect
First World War	The primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents along with a range of contextual secondary...	Connect
Frontier Life	Frontier Life is a digital resource designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. With a vast array of primary source...	Connect
Gale Databases	Explore all the Gale databases available at the University of Windsor. This includes primary source content from across the ages, and full-text journal and ebook content.	Connect
Gale Virtual Reference Library	Access to reference eBooks across a broad range of disciplines including history, law, medicine, and more.Gale Virtual Reference Library provides an electronic collection of premier reference eBooks across a multitude...	Connect
Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs	Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection is a source for the study of women's history in the world,...	Connect