Find items in UIC Library collections, including books, articles, databases and more.
Find items on the UIC Library website, including research guides, help articles, events and website pages.
Background sources, referred to as tertiary sources, can provide useful facts and summary information about historical people and events. Consulting an encyclopedia can give you insight into key names and dates associated with historical events which can be useful when conducting research for primary and secondary sources.
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors
Provides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.
Oxford Reference Online is a digital reference shelf of topical encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries with emphasis on Literature and Western Civilization . Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
The library subscribes to numerous databases for finding secondary sources, both subject specific and multidisciplinary in nature.
America: History and Life provides articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. The database also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 140 major journals of American history and culture, and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
America: History and Life is a resource for a variety of disciplines, including:
* History
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Genealogy
* Interdisciplinary Studies
* Literature/Folklore
* Multicultural Studies
* Popular Culture
* Sociology
* Women's Studies/Gender Studies
* History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law
Historical study of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Published since 1954, this database has long been recognized as among the leading bibliographies for historical study of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Digitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.
Collections of back issues of scholarly journals in the following disciplines: arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, and general science.
Searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
In addition to consulting the bibliographies of secondary sources such as books and journal articles, you can search digitized primary source collections to find sources from historical periods. The history research guide provides comprehensive access to tools for searching for primary and secondary sources at UIC.
Primary source keywords: In addition to searching the collections below, you can search the UIC Library search/catalog, combining your topic with certain keywords that will connect you to primary sources.
Here is a list of some useful keywords that can connect you to primary sources: "correspondence," "diaries," "personal narratives," "interviews," "speeches," "documents," "sources," "manuscripts," "letters," "pamphlets," "photographs," "oral history," "archives," "first-hand accounts," "eyewitness," "early works," and "primary."
Provides full-text PDF articles from several major U.S. newspapers including: Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Pittsburgh Courier, and Washington Post.