America: History & Life is the definitive database for scholarly literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. It provides indexing for 1,700 journals from the late 1950s to the present, and includes records for scholarly journal articles, historical magazine articles and dissertations. Historical Abstracts is a companion database covering scholarly literature about the rest of world history from 1450 to the present.
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. This authoritative database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 2,300 hisotrical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, with over 1.4 million records for journal articles, books, magazine articles, and dissertations. America: History and Life is a companion database covering the U.S. and Canada.
Covers slave trade voyages between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history. Freely accessible database
Published in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the most prominent American newspapers from 1728 until 1800, often called the The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. It also included the full-text of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne’s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and much more.
General Resources
These databases contain broad subject coverage which applies to many disciplines.
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.
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Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Sage Premier is one of our largest journal archives featuring 1000+ scholarly journals and over 2 million articles. The major areas covered are the social and behavioral sciences, but it also includes strong offerings in Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, and the Humanities.
JSTOR is our most comprehensive interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journal articles. It includes the full-run of some 4,000 journals, from the journal's first issue up until the most recent 3-5 years (typically). Covers a wide variety of subjects, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, as well as extensive area studies collections and applied fields, such as business and criminal justice.
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.
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History Journals
If you want to know whether the library provides access to a journal your professor mentions in class, you can browse lists of journals in the overarching subject area of History in the Journal Titles A-Z list, or search to see if we have access to a specific title.
