Research Guides: #History: Secondary (Scholarly) Sources

Before You Research

Scholarly articles are not the place to start your research. First, you need to get familiar enough with your topic to narrow it down, and for that you need more general information. This will help you develop context for your topic as well as get to know the specialized terms used by experts.

Credo Reference
Useful when you're starting out on a research project. Do simple searches to find topic introductions in a variety of subjects. The mind map tool will help you discover related ideas and terms.

LSC Databases

U.S. History (Gale OneFile)
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
World History (Gale OneFile)
Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
JSTOR
Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. Includes Artstor. (pronounced jay-store)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Project MUSE
Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies, and other fields within the humanities and social sciences.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law
Contains an extensive collection of essential legal materials (court cases, trials, statutes, etc.) on along with books, sermons, slave narratives, speeches, periodicals, pamphlets, poems & songs, and much more from the 18th-20th centuries.

Search Better
Introduces advanced search strategies, including boolean operators.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar Guide