Forest History Society Databases

The Forest History Society has six databases that are searchable on our website via InMagic's Web Publisher software. All of the databases provide useful, detailed information about primary or secondary resource materials that aid research in the broad fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history.

Visit the links at left or the brief descriptions below to learn more about the scope, content, and organization of each of the databases and to search the databases individually.

You may also do a keyword search across all FHS databases for titles, authors, dates, and/or subjects. This works best with more specific search terms or combinations of terms; searching for broad terms like "forest history" will produce an unmanageable number of results.

Individual Database Descriptions

• Forest History Society Image Database 
  A catalog of images digitized from the Society's Photograph Collection. Search results display thumbnail images along with descriptive cataloging information pertinent to each image.

• Environmental History Bibliography Database
  A bibliography containing annotated descriptions of over 40,000 books, articles, and dissertations on topics in the fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history.

• Guide to Environmental History Archival Collections Database 
  The Society cooperates with other institutions, particularly in the United States and Canada, to save all historically significant records related to forest, conservation, and environmental history. Descriptions of records housed in over 450 repositories across North America and throughout the world are included in the Society's Environmental History Archival Collections Database.

• U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection Database
  A catalog of the holdings of the U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection housed at the Forest History Society.

• Environment of South and Southeast Asia Bibliography Database
  A specialized bibliography on vegetation change in South and Southeast Asia compiled as a companion tool to the John Richards Collection of publications relating to the impact of tropical land use change on global atmospheric CO₂ concentrations.

• Forests in Fiction Collection Catalog 
  A catalog of a special collection of nearly 400 twentieth-century novels documenting Forests in Fiction.

Search Assistance Available

If you don't find what you are looking for when searching any of our electronic databases, please feel free to contact the Society's librarian Cheryl Oakes coakes@duke.edu, who will be glad to perform custom searches of the databases on the main library computers and email the results to you.