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As you can see from the sidebar on the left, this guide contains a wide variety of sources. For students in the Hoosier History class, I thought it would be helpful to see some of the most useful resources on one page. Read about the resources below and, if they do not fit your needs, feel free to contact me or use the chat window on the left to talk to someone at the Wells Library reference desk.
Scholarly articles and book reviews about all of American history.
In addition to the principle English language sources in the field, it includes some (about 10%) in other languages, as well as some state and local history journals. All aspects of historical inquiry are represented: diplomatic, ecclesiastical, agricultural, cultural, economic, political, military and others. The index also provides citations to book and media reviews from about 100 journals and references to abstracts of dissertations in the field. All abstracts are in English.
Peer-reviewed articles, research notes, annotated primary documents, reviews, and critical essays that contribute to public and scholarly understanding of midwestern and Indiana history.
The Indiana University online catalog. Find books, magazines, journals, movies, sound recordings, government publications, digital collections, and more.
Of most use for you, Hathitrust contains full-text and images of millions of pre-1924 books and journals (much like Google Books, but with a searching mechanism that often works better).
Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers.
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Contemporary News (newspapers, television transcripts, etc.)
Full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes newspapers, newswires and news magazines, as well as television and radio news transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Newspaper Source Plus provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) including the Bloomington Herald Times, and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for articles in the following major newspapers beginning in January 1, 1995:
Includes articles from local, regional, national and international newspapers, magazines, online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, transcripts, and legal research, as well as federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790.
Provides access to digital images of Indiana's historic newspapers.
Hoosier State Chronicles is operated by the Indiana State Library and funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. The Indiana titles digitized through NDNP are also available at the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, along with over 8 million newspaper pages from around the United States.
Digitized copies and content of local Indiana Newspapers, including Bloomington Evening World (1907-1923), Indiana Daily Student (1867-1923), Madison Herald, Indianapolis State Sentinel, Indianapolis Star, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Terre Haute Star and Indianapolis Sun.
A collection of over 10,000 newspapers, 133 of which are from Indiana. The Indiana newspapers are mostly from small towns and cities and date from around 1850 to 1970.
Includes access to newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, and Panama.
Access to high-definition, color Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information.
Indiana Historic Maps provides images of a small portion of maps that focus on Indiana. The majority of this collection focuses on maps produced prior to 1923 unless known to be in the public domain as state or federal documents.
This website lists all of the historical markers around Indiana, including images of the markers, texts, dates of installation, locations, and keywords.
This site includes information about all of the historic sites in Indiana that are listed in the national and state registries of historic places, as well as historic bridges and cemeteries.
Mostly from the nineteenth century, this collection of maps includes color Sanborn maps (the colors provide added information, such as building material), panorama maps, and railroad maps.
You will find a wide variety of data types available for download including georeferenced scanned maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, vector datasets developed from collections in the Alexander Architectural Archives, geospatial data from the Benson Latin American Collection, and more.
Digitized photographs from the IU Libraries. The images are not just of Indiana, let alone IU, but the collection contains many historic photos of the state.
Popular consumer online genealogy resource that includes birth, death, and marriage records as well as searchable manuscript census records for the U.S. 1790-1930. Similar records are also available for the U.K., Germany, and a few other countries. Only works with the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari browsers.
