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WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
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World's most comprehensive bibliography with over 40 million records of all types of materials (e.g. books, dissertations, manuscripts, serials, sound recordings, videos and more) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Coverage:1200-present. Selecting WSU custom page provides localized content from Wichita State University Libraries' collection.
ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
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An index to historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the world. Entries include collection descriptions and contact information.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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A platform that allows searching across all of Gale primary source collections. Collections include: 19th Century UK Periodicals, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Indigenous Peoples: North America, Making of the Modern World, Ninteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana 1500-1926, and the Times Digital Archive
Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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This is a platform for searching across Readex collections for which the University Libraries subscribes. Collections include: American's Historical Newspapers; American State Papers; U.S. Congressional Serial Set; African American Newspapers; Early American Imprints and American Territorial Papers. Terms of Use
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
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Provides primary, unpublished archival documents presented as topically-focused digital collections of historical documents which cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. The collections included are: Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers’ Project and Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
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American West Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
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Digital archive of sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Note: Access to this resource is provided through the generous support of the Betty Holmer and Leo O. and Maud Swaim Morgan families.
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Migration to New Worlds This link opens in a new window
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This collection provides a wide-ranging and in depth look at the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Personal diaries, letters, travel journals and scrapbooks are supplemented by original maps, watercolours, engravings, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material which provide significant context to these eye-witness accounts. Included within the collection are also documents from the late-eighteenth century discussing the early stages of emigration and mid-twentieth century photographs showing the immigration process.
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Indigenous Peoples: North America This link opens in a new window
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Collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the 17th into the 20th century. Including diverse manuscripts; book collections; newspapers from various tribe and Indian-related organizations; materials such as Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages.
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Native American Archives This link opens in a new window
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A primary-source collection of original historical documents pertaining to Native American history, culture, and life from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Includes the Cherokee Indian Agency (TN), Dawes Enrollment Cards, Dawes Packets, Eastern Cherokee Applications, Guion Miller Roll, Indian census Rolls 1885-1940, Rhinehart Photos, and Ratified Indian Treaties.

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African American Communities This link opens in a new window
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A wealth of diverse primary source material has been sourced from six contributing archives, libraries and museums, depicting various aspects of African American community and culture. Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina this collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Also featured is a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, postcards, maps and ephemera.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery Collection This link opens in a new window
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Collections on the transatlantic slave trade and the global movement for the abolition of slavery from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. The collection includes - part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, part III: the Institution of Slavery, and part IV: Emancipation. It contains books, serials, manuscript collections, Supreme Court records and briefs, essays, biographies, bibliographies, and more.
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Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new window
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The Making of the Modern World provides digital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Full-text searching across millions of pages of works from the period 1450-1850 (and 1851-1914 in Part II) It is a collection of material for research in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more.
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HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
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A growing partnership of over 70 libraries and research institutions, primarily university libraries, pooling their resources to create a digital library. The primary goals are long-term preservation of fragile collections, along with methods for making these records more readily accessible while still respecting in-copyright works. While WSU faculty, staff, and students can search across the entire digital library, they have full-text access to only the items in the Public Collections.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Access to New York Times (2008- 3 months ago) and The Wall Street Journal (2008-3 months ago), historic American newspapers from ProQuest: Civil War Era, the Michigan Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, New York Tribune/ Herald Tribune,, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, historic British newspapers The Guardian and the Observer, and historic Black newspapers Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News. Terms of Use
19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Digital facsimile images of full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Each issue is captured cover-to-cover with access to every article, advertisement and illustration. Alternate title: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
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New York Times (1851-3 years ago) with Index (1851-1993) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the New York Times online for the years 1851-three years ago. This database offers full-page-images and article images. Digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.
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Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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This is a platform for searching across Readex collections for which the University Libraries subscribes. Collections include: American's Historical Newspapers; American State Papers; U.S. Congressional Serial Set; African American Newspapers; Early American Imprints and American Territorial Papers. Terms of Use
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (Series 1-5) This link opens in a new window A comprehensive collection of American periodicals documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction (1691-1877). These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry & professions, religious issues, culture, the arts, and more.
Series 1: (1691-1820) Covers early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic.
Series 2: (1821-1837) The subject matter represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, & politics.
Series 3: (1838-1852) The themes in this series reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences,and life on the western frontier were daily realities. Subjects include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, & religion.
Series 4: (1853-1865) While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans-both leading up to and during the war- is captured. This series includes news from the battlefront. Subjects include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, & religion.
Series 5: (1866-1877) The themes reflect a nation that persevered through the Civil War, the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; and a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Subjects include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion, family life, & religion.
African American Newspapers (1827-1998) This link opens in a new window
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Provides online access to newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. It features over 300 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Terms of Use
Times (London) This link opens in a new window
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First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive has over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.
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Newsbank This link opens in a new window
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Current full-text access to six Kansas newspapers: Emporia Gazette (2002- ), Kansas City Star (1991- ), Lawrence Journal-World (1990- ), Manhattan Mercury (1997- ), Topeka Capital-Journal (2002- ) and Wichita Eagle (1984- ). Also accessible, Access World news, which is a comprehensive news collection of local, regional, national, and international topics. Terms of Use
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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NexisUni, formerly LexisNexis Academic, Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.

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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
ProQuest Databases This link opens in a new window
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Use this link to search multiple ProQuest databases simultaneously. Terms of Use
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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For Optimal Performance, use Firefox or Edge. Full-text access to current content from high quality, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences, including literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Coverage varies.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
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A growing partnership of over 70 libraries and research institutions, primarily university libraries, pooling their resources to create a digital library. The primary goals are long-term preservation of fragile collections, along with methods for making these records more readily accessible while still respecting in-copyright works. While WSU faculty, staff, and students can search across the entire digital library, they have full-text access to only the items in the Public Collections.
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WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
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World's most comprehensive bibliography with over 40 million records of all types of materials (e.g. books, dissertations, manuscripts, serials, sound recordings, videos and more) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Coverage:1200-present. Selecting WSU custom page provides localized content from Wichita State University Libraries' collection.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window How to Use Google Scholar off-campus Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text when available.
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Government Information Research Guide
Please use this website to find resources that will assist you in class assignments and research projects in federal, state and international information, as well as government statistics. Most of these resources are available online.
Guide to Federal Records
USE THIS LINK FIRST to search for records at the National Archives, in order to determine the Record Group of your materials.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
1. Click on Advanced Search.
2. Enter your search terms.
3. Limit your search by the Record Group Number you found using the Guide to Federal Records.
Tips for Using the National Archives Catalog
Citing Records in the National Archives
This pamphlet describes the guidelines for citing unpublished records held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in the Washington, DC, area, in the regional archives, in the Presidential libraries, and in the affiliated archives. All material types.
HathiTrust
A growing partnership of over 70 libraries and research institutions, primarily university libraries, pooling their resources to create a digital library. The primary goals are long-term preservation of fragile collections, along with methods for making these records more readily accessible while still respecting in-copyright works. While WSU faculty, staff, and students can search across the entire digital library, they have full-text access to only the items in the Public Collections.
Library of Congress: American Memory
The digital collections of the Library of Congress

American State Papers, 1789-1838 This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789-1838. Arranged by topic: Foreign Relations, Indian Affairs, Finances, Commerce and Navigation, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post Office Department, Public Lands, Claims, and Miscellaneous. Part of the Archive of Americana collection. Terms of Use
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 This link opens in a new window
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Readex offers reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes from 1817-1994. Terms of Use
Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight 1784-1991 This link opens in a new window
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The theories, feats, and record-breaking efforts of the pioneers of aviation. Images, diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, government documents, and other primary source materials are from the National Air and Space Museum Archives, the National Air and Space Museum Library, the Smithsonian Archives, and Smithsonian Libraries.

WSU Special Collections Home
WSU Digitized Archival Collections
Access to archival collections held by Wichita State University Libraries that have been digitized and can be browsed online.
WSU Special Collections
Link to the online finding aids for the Archival Collections at WSU Libraries. Some of these collections have been digitized, however many others will require you to make an appointment with Special Collections to view them in person.

The Information-Literate Historian by Jenny L. Presnell
Call Number: D16.2 .P71 2019
ISBN: 9780190851491
Publication Date: 2018-05-31
A Practical Guide to Studying History by Tracey Loughran
Call Number: D16 .P685 2017
ISBN: 9781472529985
Publication Date: 2017-01-12
History by Peter Claus; John Marriott
Call Number: D13 .C62 2012
ISBN: 9781405812542
Publication Date: 2012-02-20
What Is History? by Edward Hallett Carr
Call Number: D16.8 .C33 1962
ISBN: 9780394703916
One copy available on the third floor.
The Routledge Companion to Big History by Craig Benjamin (Editor); Esther Quaedackers (Editor); David Baker (Editor)
ISBN: 9780429299322
Publication Date: 2019-08-01
A Concise History of History by Daniel Woolf
Call Number: D13 .W687 2019
ISBN: 9781108426190
Publication Date: 2019-01-17
Debating New Approaches to History by Marek Tamm; Peter Burke (Editor)
Call Number: D13 .D389 2019
ISBN: 9781474281911
Publication Date: 2018-10-04
Research Methods for History by Simon Gunn (Editor); Lucy Faire (Editor)
Call Number: D16 .R37 2016
ISBN: 9781474408769
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Entangled by Ian Hodder
Call Number: GN406 .H63 2012
ISBN: 9780470672112
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
History by Lynn Hunt
ISBN: 9781509525577
Publication Date: 2018-04-27
The Art of History by Christopher Bram; Charles Baxter (Contribution by); Charles Baxter (Series edited by)
Call Number: PN3383.N35 B73 2016
ISBN: 9781555977436
Publication Date: 2016-07-05
The Impact of History? by Pedro Ramos Pinto; Bertrand Taithe
ISBN: 9781317537212
Publication Date: 2015-03-12
Comparative-Historical Methods by Matthew Lange
ISBN: 9781849206273
Publication Date: 2012-11-29
What Is Public History Globally? by Paul Ashton; Alex Trapeznik (Editor)
Call Number: D16.163 .W43 2019
ISBN: 9781350033283
Publication Date: 2019-01-10
Thinking about History by Sarah C. Maza
Call Number: D16 .M417 2017
ISBN: 9780226109169
Publication Date: 2017-09-18
Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
ISBN: 9780807080535
Publication Date: 2015-03-17

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