Lewis & ClarkCollege of Arts & Sciences

History

Websites: Accessed via Watzek Library Homepage

GENERAL HISTORY

    Brittanica Online

    The History Index

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

    Avalon Project at Yale Law School

    Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

    EuroDocs

    National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

AMERICAN HISTORY

    African American History, University of Washington
    America: History and Life
    American History Resources, Rutgers University
    American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
    American National Biography
    American Women’s History: a Research Guide
    The American Civil War   
    Historical Data Census Browser
    Making of America
    Handbook of Texas Online
    Online Archive of California (OAC):
    Rocky Mountain Online Archive (RMOA):
    Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO):
    US National Archives in DC

AFRICAN & ASIAN HISTORY

    Africa South of the Sahara

    African-American History & Studies

    African Studies Internet Resources

    History of China

    East and Southeast Asia: An annotated directory of internet resources

    The Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975

ART HISTORY & THEORY

    Bibliography of the History of Art (1973-present)

    Grove Dictionary of Art Online (Full Text)

    Art History Resources on the Web

    Artchive

    Gateway to Art History (arranged according to Gardner’s Art Through the Ages)

    Watzek’s Guide to Research: Art

    Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Helios, Photography Online

    World Art Treasures (J-E Berger Foundation)

DATABASES (WATZEK LIBRARY)

    America: History and Life (U.S. and Canadian history only)

    Bibliography of Asian Studies

    Historical Abstracts (Non- U.S. & Canadian history)

    Historical NYT (1851-2001) Full Text

    Poole’s Plus  (19th Century Masterfile)

    Britannica Online - Full Text

    Biography and Genealogy Master Index

    Arts & Humanities Search  (Citation Index)

    American National Biography - Full Text

    ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    Dissertation Abstracts

    JSTOR

    Newspaper Source

    Oregon Index

    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

    Oxford English Dictionary

    Worldcat

BIOGRAPHY

    American National Biography

    Ancestry.com (Limited period for free access. Requires login)

LAND RECORDS

    Bureau of Land Mangagement: General Land Office Records  (BLM land patent database, currently 1820-1908)

IMMIGRATION RECORDS

    www.ellisisland.org (Immigration records, 1892-1924. Requires membership to view entire record.)

GENEALOGICAL RECORDS/CENSUS RECORDS

    www.familyhistory.com  (Free use of ancestry.com for 14 days, requires registration)

    www.ancestry.com  (requires registration & subscription)

    Census Online

    Familysearch

    Oregon Historical Records Index

 EUROPEAN HISTORY

    American & British History Resources

    CELT (Irish History)

    Historie de France

    ITER

    The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

    Russian History Index 
    German History in Documents and Images
    H-German

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

    Handbook of Latin American Studies
    Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas
    Latin American Digital Pamphlet Collection, Harvard University
    Historical Text Archive
    Internet Resources for Latin America 
    Linking the Americas, Stanford University
    Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami
    National Security Archive- Latin America
    Archivo General de la Nación
    Latin Americana, University of California at Berkeley

ONLINE IMAGE COLLECTIONS

    Artist Index

    Artserve

    CORBIS

    David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

    Denver Public Library/History of the American West

    Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

    Library of Congress/ American Memory Project

    Metropolitan Museum of Art

    National Gallery of Art

    Smithsonian American Art Museum  

Contact Us

The Department of History is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.

Emailhistory@lclark.edu

Voice503-768-7405
Fax503-768-7418

ChairAndrew Bernstein

Department of History
Lewis & Clark
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 41
Portland, OR 97219