There are many direct and indirect online resources relating to the study of History. This list of database resources, while by no means exhaustive, provides a basic starting point for your research.
Collection of digitized text and images from 17th and 18th century America.
Articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. NOTE: In many cases, articles from the last 3-5 years are NOT available due to publisher copyright restrictions.
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present
Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews.
A database of humanities and social science content. Offers complete, full-text versions of more than 700 scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies and more than 60,000 books from more than 100 publishers.