JSTOR
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Best for finding older, peer reviewed, scholarly articles in history, humanities and sciences. If you need current articles, use a different database.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? This database covers global history from the fifteenth century to the present. It excludes content covering the United States and Canada. Topics include world history, military history, and much more.
SAGE Journals Online
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers over 1,000 online journals in business, education, health, law, criminology, and more. Many are top journals. Includes articles from 1999 to today.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? A free resource with laws, court cases, books, and articles about slavery in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. Covers materials published before 1920.
CQ Researcher
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Provides in-depth reports on current and controversial issues, offering unbiased analysis, background, and pro/con perspectives to help students explore topics and support research with credible, balanced information.
ProQuest Central
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? A good place to start your research because it covers a broad range of topics. You'll find many source types here like articles, news, videos, and more.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Why search here? This directory contains free, full text, academic sources that cover a wide range of subjects and languages. These articles are peer reviewed and come from reputable journals.
Multidisciplinary eBook databases:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Why search here? This is a comprehensive collection of ebooks covering a wide range of subjects including business, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and more.
Ebook Central (ProQuest)
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? These ebooks cover a wide range of subjects including business, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and more.
Alexander Street Videos (History)
"Key documentaries, commercial and governmental newsreels, public affairs and archival footage, and much more to facilitate research and teaching in a comparative, transnational, and thematic way. Areas of focus include Trade and Exploration, The American Revolutionary Era, The American Civil War, Imperialism and Colonialism, World War I, The Jazz Age, The Post-World War II Era, The Sixties, Women’s History, Black History, and International Newsreels."
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? These full length films cover a wide range of topics including the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, and more.
ImageQuest (Britannica)
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? This is a collection of free to use images from a wide range of organizations.
Credo Reference
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference books across subjects, helping students start research, understand key concepts, and find reliable background information for papers and projects.
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Credo Reference
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference books across subjects, helping students start research, understand key concepts, and find reliable background information for papers and projects.
Britannica Academic
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? Offers reliable, up-to-date encyclopedia articles, images, maps, and videos across subjects, helping students start research, understand key topics, and find trusted information for assignments and projects.
Gale eBooks
This link opens in a new windowWhy search here? A collection of encyclopedias and reference materials that covers multiple subject areas.
The Historical Journal
The Historical Journal, formerly known as The Cambridge Historical Journal, is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.
History & Theory
"Articles, review essays and summaries of books in the areas of critical and speculative philosophy of history, historiography and history of historiography, historical methodology, critical theory, time and culture and related disciplines."
Journal of Contemporary History
"A quarterly peer-reviewed international journal publishing articles and book reviews on twentieth-century history, covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural."
American Historical Association (AHA)
Founded in 1884 to serve the entire field of history. This association "encompasses every historical period and geographical area and serves professional historians in all areas of employment." Check out their website for publications, events, news, member services and more!
Oral History Association
"Seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity."
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
Publishes the Journal of American History, holds meetings and conferences, and "promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history."
Best of History Websites
Click on the categories on the left to access resources on specific time periods/topics. Contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
This guide is designed to help you with your research, introducing a range of History resources available to you. The History Research Databases box lists recommended databases in your subject area that you can search to find articles, eBooks, etc.
