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 more. It indexes over 1800 journals going back to 1955; some of the journals covered are non-English language publications.
Search tip: Filter your search results to English-only publications. Click on the "All filters" button and then filter by language.
America: History & Life is a database focusing on the history and culture of North American places covering prehistory to the present. The database includes citations, from the early 20th century to the present, to articles in history journals and other allied social sciences disciplines as they relate to the study of history.
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JSTOR contains full text of both journal articles and books. See these tips for making the most effective use of JSTOR to discover journal articles and books or book chapters on your topic:
1. Try using the FIELDS to limit your search terms. If you do not use the fields to limit your search, JSTOR will look for your search terms anywhere in the full text of the article. (Sometimes this is helpful, but most of the time, it results in too many irrelevant results.)
Tip: Think of synonyms and use the OR search operator to combine terms. Example: disease OR plague OR epidemic
Tip: Use the * as a truncation symbol to retrieve search terms with variant endings, for example: disease*
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Political Science Complete. Provides full text access to over 500 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals; also includes full-text reference books and monographs and full text conference papers.
SocINDEX. A comprehensive sociology research database with over 2 million records containing informative abstracts for more than 1,200 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
The Left Index. This database has an emphasis on political, economic, social and cultural scholarship inside and outside academia. It includes hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts and covers historically significant left publications.