Key History Databases
- Academic Search Complete Large scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database containing over 5300 journal titles, about half with full image and/or full text articles. Most indexing dates back to 1993, and most full text only goes back to 1998.
- America: History and Life Indexing and abstracting for periodicals and dissertations on US and Canadian history. Published since 1955. Some links to full text.
- Historical Abstracts Indexing and abstracting for periodicals and dissertations on all *except* US and Canadian history. Covers 1450 to present, published since 1955. Some links to full text.
- JSTOR A full-image collection of the back issues of over 1100 scholarly journals representing most major academic disciplines including 97 of the top journals in history. Access from first issue to within 3-5 years of present.
Additional Journal and Periodical Databases
- American Periodical Series Online
Includes over 1,100 full-text periodicals that were first published between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, and children's and women's magazines. - PAO: Periodicals Archive Online Covers over 350 fulltext journals in the humanities and social sciences published from 1770 to the present.
- Project Muse Over 100 full-text journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, over 40 of them in history. None of the holdings are older than 1995, some only back to 2000.
- Google Scholar Covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. Click on Scholar Preferences, go down to Library Links, fill in University of Texas at Tyler, then Find Library. Check box.
- Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) Full image database of one of the main American periodicals of its age. Search by date, genre, index terms, or search full text.
- Making of America (Cornell) Provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Making of America (Univ. of Michigan) Contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online Includes primary source material published from 1543-1945, possibly the greatest single source for the study of international women's history and the feminist movement. Includes books and periodicals.
If you have a citation from a book or article bibliography...
Go to the Online and Print Journals page, enter the title of the journal, and see if it is available in any of our subscription databases or in the Library. Check to make sure your date is covered, then click on the database name, or make a note to come by the library. If we don't have direct access to the journal issue you need, please fill out an interlibrary loan request form.
Printed Periodical Indexes
Yes, there was life before computers! We still have the old printed journal indexes which are useful for earlier time periods. For example, if you are looking for public reaction to Pearl Harbor, check Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature for 1941-1942.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-2001). Ref. AI3 .R47.
Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide (1890-1899). Ref. AI3 .R47.
Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History, 1838-1974. Ref. Z6205 .C18.
Humanities Index (1974-1996). Ref. AI3 .H35.
Social Science and Humanities Index (1955-1974). Ref. AI3 .R49.
International Index to Periodicals. (1907-1965). Ref. AI3 .R49.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906). Ref. AI3 .P7 1938.
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