What did your Grandparents do? A Global Exploration of Individual Life Histories: Getting Started

Encyclopedia of World History
ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
 History Reference Online
(ABC-CLIO Reference Ebooks)

Oxford Reference Online: History
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  Essays on over 55,000 deceased people from Britain and its colonies.
  

• American National Biography
  Details the lives of nearly 18,000 deceased men and women from all walks of American life.

• World Biographical Information System

Use the library databases to find scholarly materials:

Historical

America: History and Life
Citations and abstracts for articles on the history of the U.S. and Canada.

 

Historical Abstracts
Scholarly journal articles about the history of all world areas except the U.S. and Canada.

 

Ancestry.com

A database of historical information about people.

 

City Directories

Useful to identify individuals in their communities

Contemporary

PAIS and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Indexes academic journal articles, book chapters, and some government documents for Public Policy and Political Science

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, interdisciplinary full text database.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Full text access to a wide range of U.S. and international newspapers, radio and television transcripts.