Skip to Main Content

HIST 366: The American Civil Rights Movement

Find Book Reviews

JSTOR: You can limit a search to book reviews in JSTOR by selecting the "Review" limit:

 

TIP #1: When searching for a book title in JSTOR, put quotation marks around the title.

And, if your book has fairly common title words, you should also use the author's last name in the second search box.

 

 

Items that are not already in full text in JSTOR might be available in other databases or in Seymour Library. Click the  button to check for full text elsewhere.

Book Review Digest indexes book reviews in magazines and journals from 1965 to the present.

Put the title of the book in the search box, then select the TI Title index, like this: 

There will be some full text reviews in the database, but if the review you seek is not there in full text, use the  (Find It) button to get the review by another method.

Search for Journal Articles on the Historiography of a Topic

The historiographical debate is frequently on display in journal articles. Use the history database America: History & Life to discover them. A good search uses keywords that describe your topic plus the word "historiography" as in this example: