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: Limit your search to English-only publications by selecting the language limit/filter.
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.
Search both America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts at the same time in Ebsco:
1. While in Ebsco, click on the link to "Choose Databases"
2. Select the two databases from the list and click OK.
Many items in your results list will have links to the full text. Look for the links to pdf or html full text, or a link to the content in JSTOR. If no full text exists in the Academic Search Complete database, click on the 
button/link to find out if the article is in full text in another database or be presented with a link to request the article via our interlibrary loan system.
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*
2. If you want to limit results to just articles or just books, after you see the results list, check one of the boxes to show a specific type of content:
3. After you see the results list, use the subject limit (on the left) to find content in a specific discipline: 
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.