Freeing the Power of the Individual
Department of History

History Writing Lab - Online Resources

NOTE: Many of these links will only work on USM's campus or with a USM login.

Writing Centers

USM Writing Center
Help right here on campus.

History Writing and Resources Center at the College of William and Mary
"The" source for history writers

On-Line Writing Lab at Purdue University
The best writing center in the country, with the handouts to prove it.

Writing Center at Tidewater Community College, Virginia
Some great handouts, especially on grammar.

 

Documentation Help

The Chicago Manual of Style's Style Sheet On-line
The documentation most USM history professors prefer.

USM's Cook Library's Style Sheet on Chicago Manual of Style/Turabian Style

 

Research Links

USM's Cook Library Home Page
The place for USM students to begin their research.

USM's Library Collection--the Anna Catalog
Books and materials actually in USM's libraries.

WorldCat
Search the libraries of the world for books and other materials (not journal articles).

America: History and Life & Historical Abstracts
The place to start looking for history articles, reviews, and other works in periodicals; AHL for North American topics, HA for the rest of the world. Offers citations and some links to full-text articles.

JSTOR
Journal Storage: home of some of the best scholarly articles on the web, most full text.

Project Muse
Another great site for history journals.

Dissertation Abstracts
The place to begin an advanced search for Ph.D. dissertations on all topics.

Oxford English Dictionary On-Line
The place to look up words and word origins, also great in finding archaic word meanings for historical research

Early English Books On-Line
The place for research in early books printed in English from 1473 to 1700, including those printed in colonial America.

Sabin Americana 1500-1926
An astounding collection of primary documents on-line for American History research.

WW-VL History Central Catalogue at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
A great place to start web research in history.

 

Department of History
http://www.usm.edu/history
601.266.4333 • history@usm.edu