History

Search thousands of peer-reviewed articles published in open access journals.

50,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in American between 1639 and 1800. Includes 1,100 supplemental works printed between 1670 and 1800 from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Designed to offer current news through a collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs for all branches of the military and government.

The New York Times Academic Pass provides each Ferrum College student, faculty and staff member an online subscription to the nytimes.com site.

Collects thousands of reference entries from a wide selection of Oxford encyclopedia, dictionaries, images, and other reference sources.

Accesses articles from American newspapers from 1758-2011.

Contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters, memoirs, The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.

Offering 2 million searchable and downloadable images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with detailed descriptions of each piece, for academic use. It is divided into a Public Collection, with images free for downloading without a subscription or login, and a subscription Core Collection, featuring downloadable images from museums, artists, libraries, scholars, and photo archives.

The Ferrum College collection contains items from the archives of the college's Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, Virginia's State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore. Ferrum's entries in the Digital Library of Appalachia include images, documents, and recordings documenting traditional culture (customs, crafts, music, storytelling, material culture, etc.) primarily in southwest Virginia and the southern Virginia Blue Ridge.

Provides the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.

Provides more than 500 Spanish-language journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.

Abstract database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses and dissertations and other sources. NOT ALL RESULTS ARE FULL-TEXT.

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Coverage for North American resources starts in 1669, whereas worldwide coverage starts in 1933.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters from Colonial Times to 1950. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Indexes 479 American and English periodicals from (1802-1906). PDF version of original print index provided by Hathi Trust.

Provides extensive coverage of topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political or historical philosophy. Includes more than 300 full text journals.