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Books

Worldcat- An international catalog of books and other items.  If you can't find a book in our catalog, you can order it (borrow it from another library) online while you are in WorldCat.

Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog, Lyon College- Our books, videos, dvd's, and other items.

Netlibrary ebooks---
There are about 30,000 ebooks in our collection and these books are completely online and full text.  These books are also listed in the Mabee Simpson Library Catalog.  When you see one listed it will have [computer file] next to the title.  Click on the URL and follow the links into the book.

Journals

Journal Storage: JSTOR (3 to five years before the most recent issue, full text)
Multidisciplinary
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MEMSO (Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online)
(1100-1700 approximately, full text ebooks)
History
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New York Times Historical (1851-2003, full text)
Newspaper
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Wall Street Journal Historical (1889-1989, full text)
Business Newspaper
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History Cooperative (last five years, full text only for "The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, and the American Historical Review- All other records include 500 to 600 words of beginning of article)
American and World History
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ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection (full text books)
History
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Research Library (1971-present, citation, full text)
Multidisciplinary
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Academic Search Premier (1975-present, full text, abstracts)
Multidisciplinary
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980-present, citations)
Arts, Humanities
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Project Muse (1993-present, full text)
Humanities, Social Sciences
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LexisNexis Academic Universe-  (newspapers;1977-present, supreme court cases; 1789-present)
Multi-disciplinary newspaper and journals
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The Web

For government document searches use Google's advanced search, with the domain as .gov.  Type in your subject in the box and you should get governmental archival materials ranging from digital to print resources.

Arkansas Encyclopedia of History and Culture- Published by "The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies."

Arkansas Historical Association

Arkansas History Comission

Arkansas Historical Quarterly Index- From 1942-2000  Remember that the electronic database Research Libraries indexes The Arkansas Historical Quarterly from 1999 to the present.  Keep in mind that we also have the print copy.

Links for the History Profession-  Organization of American Historians.

Repositories of Primary Sources- University of Idaho

Making of America- Cornell University, antebellum to reconstruction.

American Memory- Library of Congress
American History books and media.

New York Public Library Picture Collection-  30,000 digital images created before 1923.

Cold War International History Project- Woodrow Wilson International Center

International Tracing Service- In Bad Arolsen, Germany: the largest Holocaust archive in the world.

The Valley of the Shadow-  University of Virginia's Civil War sources.

Historical Research Center Digital Collections-  Over 500 photos related to the history of UAMS and the history of health sciences in Arkansas.


Contact  The Mabee-Simpson Library, Lyon College
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Interlibrary Loan (870) 307-7505
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