History
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A collection of electronic reference books on a variety of topics. Includes encyclopedia entries for arts, business, environment, history, religion, science and technology, as well as general...more info
JSTOR (Journal STORage) is an archive of important scholarly journals in a variety of subject related to the humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences. JSTOR is not the place to search for...more info
A collection of over 450 online, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content in many disciplines including Management and Organization Studies, Communication Studies, Psychology and Sociology...more info
ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research...more info
One of the world's leading literature sources in the sciences, social sciences, biology, arts and humanities. Also includes proceedings from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and...more info
WorldCat is an online catalog that contains the holdings of more than 8,000 libraries worldwide. You can place requests in WorldCat for materials (minus textbooks) not owned by IIT or I-Share...more info
Historical Statistics of the United States is an online database of statistics, tables, charts, and other quantitative data covering the history of the United States. Census data from 1790 to 2000 is...more info
Hierarchical thesaurus of nearly 900,000 places. The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a...more info
Sanborn Maps of Illinois, 1867-1970 provides digital access to large-scale historical maps of Illinois towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in...more info
An index of papers presented at conferences. Includes every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at the British Library.more info
ArchiveGrid allows users to locate primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums, and historical societies using an interactive map. The map provides users with the locations and...more info
Newspaper Source provides full text for many international and regional newspapers. In addition, television and radio news transcripts are also provided.more info
International directory of digital newspaper collections. It is a freely accessible electronic resource intended to provide reliable information on newspapers published outside of the United States. more info
Index of Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities.more info
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content. The Military...more info
Online archive of issues of Harper's Weekly, one of America's leading 19th-century illustrated newspapers. Access is available from 1857-1912.more info
This database allows users to simultaneously search the contents of over 60 online encyclopedias. Topics covered include African American Studies, Aging & Gerontology, Anthropology, Business...more info
Online version of the popular encyclopedia, featuring over 25,000 entries, covering a broad array of topics.more info
Online database of doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full-text is available for many items, and ordering/purchasing information is included for those items with no full-text.more info
Subset of Dissertations and Theses, an online database of doctoral dissertations, featuring work by IIT students. Full-text is available for many items, and ordering/purchasing information is...more info
Search for dissertations and theses held in over 8,000 libraries worldwide. Covers all disciplines and subject areas.more info
Online collection of 150,000 books published during the 18th century, covering the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.more info
Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all...more info
Index of worldwide conference proceedings. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.more info
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center's provides access to over 75,000 e-books. You won't find the latest best sellers or modern computer books at Project Gutenberg, but it does contain works that are...more info
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Set the preferences to include Institute of Technology as...more info
The Smithsonian Institution Archives captures, preserves, and shares with the public the history of the Institution. From its inception in 1846 to the present, the records of the history of the...more info
This site offers efficient access to facts about people, businesses, and geography from the U.S Census. FactFinder tables are summary profiles showing frequently requested data items from various...more info
Complete issues of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2014. Includes headlines, articles, images, editorials, advertisements and from the United Kingdom's paper of record. more info
Digital collection offering access to text and audio of first-hand interviews conducted in 1946 with victims of the Nazi holocaust by former IIT professor David P. Boder.more info
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 is available.more info
An online collection of over 12,000 illustrations and full-text images from four rare nineteenth-century volumes about the Chicago World's Fair.more info
Digital collections created by member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research libraries of Illinois (CARLI). Subjects mostly include art, photography, and Illinois history.more info
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts,...more info
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines, full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and...more info
Digital collections, including the American Memory project from the Library of Congress include written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet...more info
Building History is a digital collection and interactive map project that shows how the Illinois Tech campus has grown over more than a century, and explores the intersections between the campus and...more info
The Ethics Codes Collection (ECC) is the largest database of codes of ethics and guidelines in the world. It contains over 2,500 individual codes from around 1,500 different organizations, and...more info
University Archives and Special Collections is responsible for collecting and preserving the historical records of Illinois Institute of Technology. The majority of our holdings are open to...more info
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and...more info