History: American Subject Guide
Article Databases
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Indexes and abstracts 2,100 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations about the history and culture of the US and Canada. Searches are by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage from 1964 to the present and is updated monthly. This subscription is limited to six simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Eventually this database will contain the full-text of major 19th century African-American newspapers providing first-hand stories by way of biographies as well as statistics, essays, editorials, and advertisements serving as primary source historical documentation. Search individual newspapers or group together.
America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922
Full text images of articles from early American newspapers for over 700 newspapers from 34 Eastern states, including three Michigan Newspapers, Kalamazoo Gazette (1872-1919), Grand Rapids Press (1893-1922), and Jackson Citizen Patriot (1849-1858).
Contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and more.
Search the full text of 160 British journals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Topics include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974
Z 6205 .C18 (Ref)
This 11-volume set allows the user to search by broad keywords to find articles about history and its related fields in scholarly journals dating as far back as 1838, through 1974. One can also search by author names to get journal citations. No other history index provides access to so many articles from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Indexes and abstracts over 2,100 journals, books, and dissertations in world history, excluding the US and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Searches by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage: 1955 to present. Updated monthly.
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Search all of these newspapers at once or individually for full-text articles in this index:
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1945)
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1987)
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1997)
Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1987)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
The New York Times (1851 - 2006), w/ Index (1851-1993)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1993)
The Washington Post (1877 - 1994)
Indexes more than 465 major humanities journals in art, history, literature, philosophy, religion, music, and related areas. Coverage from 1984, abstracts from 1994 to the present.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexes core journals published in the 20th century in North America and Europe. Coverage 1907-1984.
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An index to over 8 million articles from popular and scholarly journals published between 1802 and 1906. Based on Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the Masterfile adds periodicals, books, newspapers, U.S. and U.K. government documents, and U.S. patents not found in the old print index.
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 to 1982. Some of these periodicals published short stories and book reviews.
Print: AI 3 .R48 (Ref.) 1904-98
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Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.Tutorial
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