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Welcome to the History & Political Science Research Starter. This guide will help get you started with research for your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Research Starters
Looking for a good place to start your research? Try one of these recommended resources from the Libraries:
History
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window An exceptional resource that 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 much more. This authoritative database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
- America: History & Life w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This database contains selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, and full-text coverage of over 200 journals.
Political Science
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window Provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product.
Other Databases
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor and JSTOR Primary Sources
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window This resource from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) provides full-image views of historic periodicals from 1684 to 1912 in five collections, covering the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Note that coverage past the 1880s is rather limited.
- European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This link opens in a new window The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.