Research Guides: History: Books & Ebooks

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Looking for a book published before 1928? Most likely, it has been digitized and is freely available online.

Hathi Trust Digital Library
A partnership among major research institutions and libraries devoted to providing digitized books, scores, and other texts found in public domain or made openly accessible by copyright holders.
Project Gutenberg: Free Ebooks
An online library of over 60,000 free older ebooks, including literature, history, and more.

EBSCO Ebook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly ebooks in a wide variety of academic subjects
Wiley Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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Over 22,000 easy-to-use titles across most disciplines.
ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly ebooks in the humanities, downloadable by chapter
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Citations to dissertations and theses worldwide, 1861-present, with some full text
Oxford Reference Online - Premium Edition This link opens in a new window
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Full-text dictionaries and other reference works, with downloadable entries
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Full-text reference books in all subject areas, with downloadable entries