History 202: Doing History
Resources for students in History 202: Doing History, the gateway seminar for history concentrators.
Best Databases for History
These databases focus on scholarly articles. Please note you can't find scholarly articles through the Library Catalog - you must use an article database.
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America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)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.
These databases cover more than just history, which might be more useful to you depending on your topic.
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JSTORFull-text access to the archives of 2,600+ journals and 35,000+ books in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
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Project MUSEFull-text access to scholarly journals & e-books published by over 120 scholarly societies & university presses.
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U-M Library Articles SearchUse Articles Search to locate scholarly and popular articles, as well as reference works and materials from open access archives.
More Specific History Databases
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European StudiesCovers journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the U.S. and Canada.
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Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerialsATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA). This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Coverage of this database dates back to 1949.
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Bibliography of Asian StudiesContains over 410,000 citations to western-language periodical articles and books published on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
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Bibliography of British and Irish HistoryProvides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009.
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Gender WatchA full text database of 140 international publications devoted to women's and gender issues, including scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings.
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History of Science, Technology, and MedicineIndexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews & dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine & allied historical fields. Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
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Index IslamicusIndexes materials on Islam, the Middle East, and the entire Muslim world from periodicals, monographs, and other collections in European languages. Includes coverage arts & humanities, history and social sciences topics. Also provides excellent coverage of the Turkish diaspora in Germany.
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Black Studies CenterProvides indexing for 127 currently published scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies, with links to full text from 40 of them. Also provides retrospective indexing for 45 older periodicals.
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International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)Lists articles, notes, etc. in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays on all aspects of medieval studies from 450 to 1500 for all of Europe, plus the Middle East and North Africa when controlled by Christians.
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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and RenaissanceIncludes index to citations from more than 1,600 scholarly journals in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies (400-1700).
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L'Année Philologique: Bibliography of the Classical WorldThis is the key resource for ancient history. Includes citations to Classical Studies articles in 1,500 journals and 500 collections & conference papers in French, English, German, Italian and Spanish, 1924-2016.
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