Nypl world history in context
Places to Start Your Research
Not sure which database to use? Try these. To learn more about starting your online research, read this guide. To see where a database can be used, note the image to its left:
Available while onsite at an NYPL library location
Available remotely with an NYPL library card
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full-text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. More info»
Ancestry Library Edition
Access to billions of names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records and Passenger Lists. Library version of Ancestry.com. Click here for more info and a link to access this database at the Library»
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on more than 380,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines. More info»
Business Source Premier
Full text for over 2,470 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. More info»
Credo Reference
Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all subjects
History
Primary sources help history come alive by giving a voice to the past.
A primary source is a document that was created at or during the time period being studied. Using primary sources in your research will help you:
Support or disprove the ideas and conclusions published in secondary sources
Provide evidence to support new conclusions
Get as close as possible to the person, event, or time period being researched
Primary source example
A letter from Abigail Adams to political writer, Mercy Otis Warren, written in 1776.
Secondary source example
The book
First Ladies of the Republic
by Jeanne E. Abrams published in 2018.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
The New York Public Library Digital Collections is a vast database of material primarily, but not exclusively, documenting 19th- and 20th-century life in the U.S. The collections are composed principally of visual sources, and include digitized versions of such material as rare prints and photographs, scanned images from books, sound files, and moving images.
The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to over 755,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, illustrated books, and printed ephemera. The topic index lists 2772 results treating subjects related to children and over 1000 links to topics treating girls; both demonstrating enormous spatial, temporal, and subject breadth. Entries vary from street photographs from 1936 New York City to a 1778 engraving of a Patagonian woman and boy to illustrations from an American anti-slavery tract from 1836.
The NYPL Digital Gallery is also organized into separate collections concentrated on topics related to children, including: Children’s Book Illustrations and the and the Cigarette Card collection. In t
World History: Starting Points
Welcome to the UB Research Guide for World History. On the current tab,
Starting Points
, you can find some excellent points of departure for historical research in our library's collections as well as resources from across the Internet. To explore reference works (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.) on specific topics, eras, or problems in history, click on the
Topical Overviews
tab. Under the tab
Primary Sources
, you can uncover original historical source material in multiple media, including texts, images, audio, video, maps, and statistics. The links listed under
Tools for Researchers
connect you to vital additional software and tools for more effective research in history, including citation indices, book reviews, repositories, dissertations and theses, citation management software, and guides to academic research and writing.