Game History

I, too, am having trouble finding what I need about the history of games and game designers. I imagined when I started that there would be this magical article out there waiting to be used complete with timeline and an article about where we've been, where we're at and where we're going sort of thing. No such luck!! Instead, I found two outdated books at the campus library and a handful of articles on the web. Everyone seems to be looking at what's happening now or where we're headed and not looking at what we've accomplished (go figure). In my continuing searches, I have found using "history of games" as my keywords to be most successful