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Department of History

Resources

Departmental

• Events Calendar
• Sakai: Secure Site for Faculty
• History of Science and Technology
• Hertog Global Strategy Initiative

Graduate

• Graduate History Association (GHA)
• Guide to GSAS and Other Important Contacts
• Centers and Institutes
• Areas of Study
• American Historical Association
• Directory of Classes

At Columbia

• Society of Fellows
• Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
• Center for International History
• Center for Intellectual and Cultural History
• Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
• Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
• Institute for Research in African-American Studies
• The Heyman Center for the Humanities
• The Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History
• Weatherhead East Asian Institute
• Law and History Program
• Institute for the Study of Human Rights
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• The Harriman Institute
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Anthropology
• Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
• Institute of Latin American Studies

Scholarly Organizations and Publications

• The American Historical Association is the main scholarly organization for historians in the United States.
• The Organization of American Historians is the principal scholarly organization for historians of the United States.
• The American Historical Review (AHR) is the official publication of The American Historical Association(AHA). The AHA was founded in 1884 and chartered by Congress in 1889 to serve the interests of the entire discipline of history.
• H-Net provides access to a vast range of online services for historians (and others), including links to e-mail discussion groups in many different fields of history.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education is the trade journal of the academic world.

For Research

• The Columbia Libraries' Humanities and History Databases page provides links to many databases in history, some of which are not accessible except through the university. Some other resources include the history subject guidesand the history e-journals.
• The Library of Congress website provides access to the nation's largest library catalogue as well as to a considerable collection of digital resources.
• Dissertation Abstracts allows you to search a database of dissertations stretching back over several decades by topic, title, or author.
• The AHA Guide to Dissertations in Progress provides information on most dissertations currently underway, by author, title, subject, or university.
• The National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections allows you to search a very large collection of manuscript depositories in the United States for guides to collections, references to individuals, and other resources.
• The History Channel Web Network offers a portal to a wide range of historical websites, some of interest to scholars.
• Columbia Interactive is a gateway to selected e-learning resources developed at Columbia University. You can browse a growing collection of e-resources, including hundreds of class websites and learning tools, learn about semester-length e-courses, and enjoy shorter e-seminars, which are free to Columbia students, faculty, and staff.