Clark Family Library: Early American History: Find Articles

Why use articles?

Academic articles are good resources because:

They provide information about specific and recent topics
They include bibliographies to refer you to additional information
Many articles are scholarly or peer-reviewed, meaning they have been critically reviewed by experts to ensure they are of highest quality and especially suitable for academic resources.

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Use EBSCO Discovery Service to search all of the Library's databases at once.

Enter keywords in the search box
After you press 'search', use filters to refine results to include journal articles, full-text, and, if desired, scholarly/peer-reviewed
Click on the title to access the full text, if available.

See Databases A-Z to search for databases. Most databases are paid for by the library, but some are freely available to all.

Specific databases to try include:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text access to over 12,000 journals, including more than 10,000 peer-reviewed titles. A great database to start your research
Historical Abstracts with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional research database covering world history from the 15th century to the present. Coverage extends to related disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology and sociology.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provides full-text of more than 1,030 journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Another great database to start your research.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full- text of back issues of peer-reviewed journals as far back as the 1800s in the arts, sciences, ecology, botany, language, literature, and music. Multidisciplinary.
Project Muse: Basic Undergraduate Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of heavily indexed and peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Database includes 340 full-text journals from 80 scholarly publishers from 1995 to present. MUSE.

Examples of e-journals in this discipline include:

Civil War History
This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal contains articles related to all aspects of the United States Civil War.
Journal of American History
This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal contains articles related to all aspects of American history.
Journal of American Studies
This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal seeks to critique and interrogate the notion of "America", pursuing this through international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States.

Search Google Scholar with keywords to find citations and some full text articles.

Look for the "Find Full-Text" link to the right of the citation.

Click the link to retrieve the full text of the article from our Library's databases.