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- America: History and Life
Citations
and abstracts from more than 2,100 journals published in approximately
40 languages covering the history of the United States and Canada.
Of these journals, about 900 are published in the U.S. and Canada,
including journals of state and local historical societies, and
journals in the social sciences and related fields of knowledge.
Also included are citations and abstracts of dissertations, as
well as reviews cited from a subgroup of 140 journals.
- Baker Library, Harvard.
Historical Collections Department
Comprehensive and diverse collections
in business and economic history; including historic corporate
reports, business manuscripts, credit reports, etc.
- BOPCRIS, British
Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
Search
and browse information from British Official Publications over
the period 1688-1995. Includes 18th
Century Parliamentary Publications.
- Census
of England and Wales, from the Public Record Office
- Center for Population
Economics (CPE) at University of Chicago
CPE specializes in the development
of life-cycle and intergenerational data sets to study demographic,
epidemiological, and economic processes, and, among other things,
develops software to facilitate the retrieval of data from archival
sources, to clean the data sets and to manipulate the data for
purposes of analyses.
- China Census Data 1 and 2
Historical county population census data with maps. Available years: 1953, 1964,
1982, 1990, 2000. CDRom; inquire in Government
and Geographic Information and Data Service Department.
- Corporate
Reports Online. Collection of Historical Annual Reports, University
of Pennsylvania
Project of the Lippincott Library at the University of Pennsylvania. The Collection
consists of annual reports in PDF format from U.S. companies and covers the period
1800 through 1955. Reports are continuously added.
- Digital 18th
Century: A Selection of Full-Text Electronic Resources Available
to the Northwestern Community (PDF)
- The Economist Historical Archive
“The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 (’EHA’) is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.” Recent issues of The Economist are available.
- EH.Net: Economic History Services
- EH.Net Encyclopedia
- EuroDocs.
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
- FRASER. Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
Includes numerous historical collections, such as All Bank Statistics 1896-1955, and A History of the Federal Reserve, vol. 1. Collections are listed alphabetically. Significant new additions to the site includes William McChesney Martin Jr. Documents Collection, which is a reflection of the life and times of William McChesney Martin Jr. (b. 1906- d. 1998): stock brokerage partner, New York Stock Exchange member and president, U.S. Army inductee and officer, President of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Materials are drawn primarily from the William McChesney Martin Jr. Papers located at the Missouri Historical Society. Audio, video, and image files from other sources that are relevant to the Collection have also been included.
- GATT Digital Library
- Geostat,
from University of Virginia
Historical data sources contain information from 1960 and earlier. They cover
all subjects, but there are especially rich sources for demographic and political
information.
- Historical Abstracts
Citations and
abstracts from more than 2,100 journals in approximately 50 languages.
In addition to major historical journals, many journals of regional
history, as well as the most important titles in the related social
sciences and humanities are included. Also covers dissertations
and book reviews from 13 major historical
and bibliographic journals.
- Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest Times to the Present
Millennial edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Revised update
of: Historical Statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970 (Bicentennial
ed. Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975). Access
to the 2006 online edition is restricted to the Northwestern University community.
- History
Subject Guide web site, Northwestern University Library
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Between 1801 and 2000, around 9.5 million pages for over 184,000 parliamentary
papers were published. Since 2001, the number of papers has grown by approximately
4,000 for each parliamentary session. HCPP delivers searchable full text for
each paper, along with a detailed index. Currently contains an index for 1801-2004,
full text for the entire 19th century, and for 1901-1945. Further installments
forthcoming.
- Illinois State Archives Databases
Online finding aid for a wide variety of archives and records for the state of
Illinois, chiefly 19th and early to mid 20th century material.
- LexisNexis
Includes online guides to microfilm collections in U.S. history, among other
things.
- Making of Modern Law
Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
- Making
of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic
Literature 1450-1850
This database provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works
of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text
searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access
to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions,
politics, trade and transport. Formerly known as Making of the Modern Economy.
- Oxford
Encyclopedia of Economic History
- OxResearch/Oxford
Analytica
- Past
Masters
Full text of major theorists, including Marx & Engels,
David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill. Also included is
the full-text of The
Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith with
supplementary texts. Consult the database for a full list
of authors and their works.
- Public
Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Recent material available online. For older material, consult
Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department.
See also University
of Michigan Digital Library.
- U.K. Census Data, for the National Archives of the U.K
Includes
19th century data.
- U.S.
Census Bureau, Census of Population and Housing
Information and data sets, ranges from
most recent census to the historical decennial census conducted
throughout the decades, starting with 1790.
- U.S. Congressional
Serial Set
- WESS:
(Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research
Libraries) Social Sciences and History Web
Access to scholarly
resources within selected areas of Western European Studies, including
Economics, Political Science, and Immigration and Migration Studies.
Includes links to contemporary as well as to historical sources.
- Women Working, 1800-1930
Part of the Harvard Open Collections Program, this database provides
approximately 500,000 digitized
pages and images focusing on women's role in the U.S. economy.
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
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