HISTORY 201: The Historian's Craft: The US Empire (Fall 2024) : Find Articles
Multi-Subject Databases
- Academic SearchMulti-subject database with articles in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal ArchiveJSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
History Databases
- America : History and LifeAmerica : History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North American coverage.) Links to full-text articles are included when available. Books and dissertations are included.
- Historical AbstractsHistorical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Links to full-text articles are included when available. It lists articles covering the years 1450 to the present, including more than 2600 periodicals published in 90 countries in 40 languages. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Canadian coverage.) Collections of essays, conference papers, dissertations, and books are also included.
Search Tips
- Use AND to combine different words to find all those words, in any order.
- Germans AND Namibia
- Use OR to combine similar words or synonyms or variations
- genocide OR holocaust
- Use quotation marks ( " ") to search words as a phrase
- "Cold War"
- Use an asterisk ( * ) to find varied endings of words and singular and plural forms.
- colon* to find colony, colonies, colonize, colonial, colonialism
- Look at Subjects to find additional keywords and use them to find relevant and specific results.
- Look for an option to limit to Academic Journals on the left side of search results in most databases
Searching Within Databases
This tutorial shows you how to search for articles in article databases. It shows you how to use AND to combine terms, limit to articles from scholarly journals or by date of publication, use subject headings and abstract to find keywords, find full text of articles, and use tools to generate or export citations.