This presentation focuses on library research resources and freely available digital collections for the history course, HIS 538: Fin de Siecle Europe.

1. Chella Vaidyanathan
History, Political Science, U.S. Govt. &International Docs Librarian
University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL

2. Examples of subject term searches for your
course related topics are:
England – Popular Culture – History – 19th Century
Sex Role – England – History – 19th Century
Nationalism and Art – Europe – History – 19th
Century
France – Social Life and Customs – 19th Century
Austria – Politics and Government 1867-1918
Vienna (Austria) – Intellectual Life
Prostitution – France – History – 19th Century

3. Databases can be searched by using keywords that
pertain to your topic of research. They can also
be searched using “subject” terms
Some of the databases that you should use for
your research are:
The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
Historical Abstracts (1450-present)
JSTOR
Project Muse
ARTstor
Grove Dictionary of Art Online

4. Some collections would be of use are:
Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham
University) –
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.ht
ml
Victorian Women Writers Project –
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Fashion Plate Collection (Univ. of Washington)
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/i
ndex.html

5. Foreign Relations of the United States (University of
Wisconsin Digital Collections) –
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
Volumes 1861-1958/1960 –
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/Browse.html
Volumes To begin search, click on
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-
bin/FRUS/FRUS-
idx?type=browse&scope=FRUS.FRUS1 Then, scroll
down and choose the volume that you would like to
search.
German History in Documents and Images –
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm

6. The European Library –
http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/inde
x.html
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century Journals –
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century –
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris/
A Treasury of World’s Fair Art & Architecture: A
Digital Archive (1856-1986) –
http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/worldsfairs/
The Word on the Street: Ordinary Scots in Bygone
Days – http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html