COAST is the Library's online catalog of over 1.25 million books, periodical titles, media and government documents.
Below are a selection of a few general subject headings for world history. Click on any of the following hyperlinked subjects now to retrieve records from COAST. If you would like to search for a subject other than those listed, click here now.
Follow the subject heading formulas below to find other topics in COAST:
These titles are essential resources for the study of general history. Items with REF preceding the call number will be found in Reference on the First Floor of the Library.
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. (REF D20 A537 1995). Extensive annotated bibliography described in its preface as consisting of "the finest and most useful books available in every field of historical scholarship."
China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. (REF DS733 C58523 1998).
Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. (REF DE59 C55 1988).
3 volumes.
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. (REF DS57 C55 1995). Detailed 4 volume encyclopedia.
Dictionary of Modern Arab History : An A to Z of Over 2,000 Entries from 1798 to the Present Day. (REF DS38.9 B53 1998).
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. (REF D114 D5 1982). Comprehensive 13 volume encyclopedia of history spanning 500 c.e. to 1500 c.e.
Online Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada. Lists history departments, and their websites.
Encyclopedia of Asian History. (REF DS31 E53 1988). 4 volume encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. (REF D14 E53 1999). 2 volumes.
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. (REF DS557.7 E53 1998). 3 Volumes.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. (REF F1406 E53 1996). A 6 volume comprehensive encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. (REF DS43 E53 1996). 4 volumes.
Historical Dictionary of Russia. (REF DK36 R39 1998)
History of Humanity. (REF CB69 H47 1994). A two-volume history encyclopedia of mankind up to 700 B.C.
New York Public Library Book of Chronologies. (REF D11 W47 1990). A dictionary of dates from ancient times to the present, arranged by broad subject categories.
Oxford Companion to British History. Online (2002) edtion available to CSULB users. (older edition at DA34 O93 1997).
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. (REF DS35.53 O95 1995). 4 volume encyclopedia.
Sources of Information for Historical Research. (D20 S64 1994). Bibliography of essential works for historical research.
Here is a selection of recent history atlases available in REFERENCE. Many more atlases are available in the University Library. Search COAST under the subject heading formula:
Atlas of Irish History. (REF DA911 M26 1997).
Atlas of Jewish History. (Loweer Level Maps G1030 G45 1993).
Atlas of Palestine: The West Bank and Gaza. (REF G2237.W4 M34 2000)
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . 2 vols (Map Room Oversize G1033 B3 2000)
Dent Atlas of Russian History. (REF G2111 S1 G52 1993).
Goode's World Atlas. 21st ed. (REF G1021 G6 2005).
Harper Atlas of World History. (Lower Level Maps G1030 G68513 1987). Colorful general atlas of world history.
Historical Atlas of Africa. (Lower Level Maps G2446.S1 H5 1985).
Historical Atlas of China. (REF G2306 S1 H4 1966).
Historical Atlas of Islam. (Oversize REF G1786 S1 H6 2002)
Historical Atlas of the Holocaust. (G1797.21 E29 H5 1996).
History Atlas of Africa. (REF G2446.S1 K3 1998).
History Atlas of Asia. (REF G2201.S1 B25 1998).
History Atlas of South America. (REF G1701.S1 E4 1998).
Latin American History: A Teaching Atlas. (REF G1541 S1 L6 1983).
Macmillan Atlas History of Christianity. (MAP ROOM ATLAS SHELVES G1046 E4 L5 1976).
Oxford atlas of world history. (REF G1030 .O94x 1999b)
Times Atlas of European History. (REF G1797.21 S1 T5 1994).
Times Atlas of World History. (Oversize REF G1030 T54 1979). A comprehensive atlas of world history.
Using Primary Sources on the Web A valuable guide finding and citing primary historical web sites.
Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers. Maurice Crouse, Dept. of History. U of Memphis
These resources may be relevant to research in World History. They are available in the Main Library, or if you are a student or Faculty member at CSULB you may be able to access most from home. Review our instructions for how you can do this. You must register with the library and make a one-time change to your web browser.
Academic Search Complete. A large interdisciplinary index and full text database of over 1300 full text and 1800 citation only journals. Journal articles go back to the early 1990s to the present date. CSULB authentication required
America History and Life. The premier periodical index for research in U.S. history. It provides citation and abstract indexing for 2400 scholarly journals, review articles and dissertations covering the culture and history of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. It covers publication years 1950s to date. For world history, use Historical Abstracts.
L'Annee Philologique. (PA2 A56). In Library General Book Stacks back to 1926. This is a periodical and book index for ancient history (ca. 500 b.c.e. to 500 c.e.). Its focus is on Greco-Roman classical period. For indexes beginning in 1969, use the online L'Annee Philologique
Article First (CSULB authentication required). Comprehensive "citation only" database to over 12,000 different scholarly and popular journals. A good database to cover a wide range of interdisciplinary social science and science journals.
Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History. (REF D1 C18). Multiple volume index for finding old journals. Volumes are arranged by geographic region. Entries are arranged by keyword in title. The index covers articles in scholarly journals published from 1838-1974.
Early American Periodicals Index To 1850. (Lower Level Storage, in red microcard boxes). This eight box microcard set indexes American periodicals from 1728-1850. Most notably for history research are: Box 1. General Prose: authors and anonymous titles, (1 box); Box 5. Book Reviews: authors and anonymous titles, (1 box); and Boxes 7-8. Subjects.
Ebsco E-Journals. Provides electronic full text access to over 400 journals Additionally it indexes many more citation only journals. Emphasis is on scholarly publications.
FACTIVA Primarily a business database, but it also has full text searchable access to over 6000 newspaper and popular magazines. CSULB authentication required.
Historical Abstracts. The premier index for searching modern world history. It provides citation and abstract indexing for over 2000 scholarly journals, books, book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertations covering world history (exclusive of the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage: late 1950s to date. For U.S. and Canadian history use America History & Life.
Historical New York Times, 1851-2001. Full text, page to page content of the New York Times. Includes complete articles, photographs, advertisements, classified ads, legal notices, comics, editorials, commentary, letters to the editor, sports, radio and television schedules.
Humanities Index. A citation and abstract index to over 400 scholarly periodicals in the humanities, including history. Goes back to publication years 1984 online. From 1974-1984 use the Humanities Index in REF AI 3 I59. For the years 1906-1974 use the International Index in REF A13 I57.
Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies Online Contains citations to approximately 300,000 records dating to 1967. It indexes periodical articles, book articles, conference proceedings and other publications published world wide and in 30 languages. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Europe, the Middle East and North Africa are the database’s focus.
JSTOR. A growing archive of full text core scholarly journals. Digitizes the complete backfiles of selected journals in the areas of: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, statistics, sociology, and population/demography. Coverage: not a current file. Most current issues of the JSTOR journals are two to five years old. CSULB authentication required.
Lexis Nexis Academic. Provides full text searchable access to several thousand journals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and international publications. Coverage begins around the 1970s to the present.
19th Century Masterfile. CSULB subscribes to Series I of the 19th Century Masterfile. Series I accesses over one million journal citations published from 1786-1922 and includes the contents of four 19th Century periodical indexes: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906; Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902; Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922; and An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899.
Project Muse. An online full text access to more than 160 scholarly journals including 30 history titles. See Periodicals Chart above for a list of journals available in Project Muse.
Readers Guide Abstracts. Covers popular magazines and journals. You can find articles published from 1984 to the present.
Reader's Guide Retrospective. Covers popular magazines from 1890 through 1983. Useful to find contemporary accounts of any event in the 20th Century.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This is a digital library of Greek literature which has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453.
Times (Of London) Index. (REF AI21 T46). Indexes the London Times from 1785 to the present. Library has London Times in microfilm from 1751 to date. See also 19th Century Masterfile. which indexes the London Times, from 1880-1890.
Magazines for Libraries (REF PN4832 M23 Year) Bill Katz, editor. Describes hundreds of journals, serials, periodicals received generally received by libraries. Describes their philosophy, editorial practices and indicated where that journal is indexed.
Ulrich's International Periodical Directory (REF DESK AO2 U5 Year). A comprehensive listing of journals published worldwide. See volume 5 for "Refereed Serials" list.
Browsing recent history journals can be quite valuable for finding current or "hot topics" for research. You may also want to take a look at how they are described in Magazines for Libraries or Ulrich's International Periodical Directory mentioned above.
The library has access to hundreds of scholarly history and history related journals. First search for periodical under Journal Title in COAST. If you don't see it there, go to the Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings. You might find your history journal in one of our many full text research databases.
View list of newspapers at CSULB, arranged by country of publication
Historical newspapers are filed in microfilm or under call number.
For more newspapers available in our library, see Chronological tables of American newspapers, 1690-1820 (REF AP2 A2 L3 1972) being a tabular guide to holdings of newspapers published in America through the year 1820. Those checked off in this reference book are available in Microcard format.
These Internet sites may be of particular interest to students and faculty in History. For more historical links, see CSULB's Links to Historical Documents page.
Best of History Websites. Described as "an award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites...(are) rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History"
World History Archives. Self described as "A collection of documents for teaching and understanding world history from a working class perspective.
WWW Virtual History Central Catalogue. Extensive number of links to a wide range of historical web sites.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Extensive links to medieval history including full text medieval documents. Provided by Fordham University.
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