LibGuides: Migration History: Additional Databases

Chronological

Eight Centuries: 1106-1960
"Eight Centuries is a vast database of historical citations and links to full text documents. It aggregates scholarly indexes to journals, newspapers, books, documents, art work and images. Eight Centuries currently comprises 27,408,426 discrete links to primary source historical documents in 24 languages." (Paratext) This collection is the first stop for researching pre-1960 materials. it aggregates all kinds of indexes to books, periodicals, newspapers, government documents and patents into a single resource.
Fondren owns access to Series I and V.

Medieval to Renaissance Eras

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
Publishing information on articles, book chapters, and other scholarly writings from on the medieval period, covering Europe and the Middle East and produced from 1981 onward. Topics include music, art, religion, history, classics, languages, rhetoric, and education. Provides links to either the full text where available at Fondren, or to request items through interlibrary loan.

Part of Brepols Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, Festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogs).
Loeb Classical Library
Library of the Greek and Latin texts with English translations from the Classical World.

Perseus Digital Library
Originating out of the Classics Department at Tufts University, this Website now includes primary and secondary resources in Classics, the English Renaissance, etc.

Late 17th to Early 20th Centuries

Eighteenth Century Journals (1685-1835)
"Bringing together rare journals printed between c. 1685 and 1835, this resource illuminates all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion." (Adam Matthew) We own access to parts 1-5.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Finding aids and bibliographic information for books, periodicals, newspapers, and other publications from the nineteenth century, in literature, law, history, then-contemporary issues, and other subjects.
Included sources:
- Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
- The Nineteenth Century
- American Periodicals
- British Periodicals
- Cotgreave's Index
- An Index to Legal Periodical Literature
- Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811-1849
- Periodicals Index Online
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
- Stead's Index to Periodical Literature
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- The U.S. Serial Set
- Archive Finder
- Palmer's Index to The Times
- The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors
- Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism

General

Making of the Modern World (the)
Reports, letters, articles, and other historical documents on the history of economics in the West, with coverage of political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.
The Making of the Modern World consists of:
- Part 1: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850
- Part II: 1851-1914
- Part III: 1890-1945
- Part IV: 1800-1890
Global Commodities
"This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices." (Adam Matthew)

Women in World History
"Women in World History reflects three approaches central to current scholarship in world history and the history of women: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilizations in isolation; a focus on contacts among different societies; and an attentiveness to “global” forces, such as technology diffusion, migration, or trade routes, that transcend individual societies. "
D-Place: Database of Places, Languages, Culture and Environment
"Brings together a dispersed body of information on the language, geography, culture and environment of more than 1,400 human societies." Find information on pre-industrial societies described by anthropologists mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries [pre-1950]..
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR is a large social science data archive that includes datasets relating to a wide variety of social sciences topics, including different forms of migration from around the world. You will need to create an ICPSR account to download datasets.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
"a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. "