Environmental History

• Merchant, Carolyn. The Columbia guide to American environmental history
   [electronic resource] New York : Columbia University Press, c2002. GF501 .M47 2002  (Also
  available electronically through NetLibrary <http://www.netlibrary.com/>
• Encyclopedia of American forest and conservation history.  Richard C. Davis, editor. 
  New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers,  1983.
• Environmental History Timeline

Monographic Sources

• The Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatments of historical topics. Use
  PILOT (http://pilot.passhe.edu:8001/) our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic reserve
   items and other valuable information on the Internet.
• To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, search PALCI 
  and  log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
• WorldCat --search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles. Books located through this database can
  generally be acquired through Interlibrary Loan.

• Netlibrary-- Electronic versions of copyrighted books available to IUP patrons.
• Nineteenth Century in Print
• Digital Dissertations
• University of Pennsylvania On-Line Books Page
• Making of America

Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer concise and timely treatment of  many topics of
historical interest. IUP patrons can access large collections of such information through the journal
aggregators.  (To gain access from home,  use your 16 digit I-card number.)

• EBSCOhost--provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
   access  to thousands more.
• Gale/Infotrac-provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
   access to thousands more.

• Project MUSE -- provides more than 200 full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses
   covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies,
  education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
• JSTOR-- Online archives of over 125 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,
  Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,
  Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for archiving journals,
  so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.

Searching for Specific Journal Titles

• Use PILOT (http://pilot.passhe.edu:8001/) to determine if a journal is available in our stacks or through
  one of our databases.

Historical Newspapers and Journals

• Historical New York Times -- full-text and full-image articles for
  from 1851-2000 for The New York Times.
• Times Digital Archive  -- digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 1985 
  Historical Wall Street Journal -- full-text from 1889-1987.
• Humanities & Social Science Retrospective -- cites articles from English-language periodicals from
  1907 - 1984.
• American Periodicals Series Online -- digitized images of the pages of American magazines
   and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile:Series I  periodical indices spanning nearly all the periodicals
   of the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. 
• Readers' Guide Retrospective -- indexes articles published from 1890 through 1982.

• In the First Person --In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
• Women and Social Movements -- history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000
• WorldCat --limit search to Archival.

• America: History & Life -- coverage of historical literature of the United States and Canada
  from prehistory to the present. 
• Historical Abstracts--historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
  United States and Canada)
• Other online databases--many other databases are available from the Library's webpage
  under Databases. 

 United States Government

• Congressional Universe most comprehensive online resource available for Congressional
  hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research.

Reference, Biographical and Literary Sources

• History Resource Center -- full text history reference database includes reference books, articles,
  and video clips of historical events.
• Biography Resource Center--  database of biographical information on nearly 220,000
  people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Book Reviews

Internet

Useful Sites

• Environmental History Timeline

Citing What You Have Found:

• Chicago Citation Guide
• Easybib -- free online bibliography maker.
• Endnote  Bibliographic Management Software -- availalbe free to IUP students and faculty with
  valid I-card. More information at: http://www.iup.edu/ats/helpdesk/lib/enote.shtm .