HHP 301/601 Article Databases
Owens Library recommended History, Humanities, & Philosophy Databases page
JSTOR
Online
"The JSTOR database is unique because the complete archives of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. New titles and fields are being added regularly." Many issues start in the 1800's and continue to 2-5 years before the currently published year
Historical Abstracts
Online
This source indexes historical periodical articles, books and dissertations concerning the world with the exception of the United States and Canada. It covers information written about events from 1450 to the present. Owens Library has this title in print from 1955 to 1970 with the call number Ref. 016.9 H67h
America: History and Life
Online
This collection includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Owens Library has this title in print from 1964 to 1996 in the Reference Collection on first floor under the call number Ref. 016.917 A51a.
The New York Times Archive
Online
This site allows you to search the The New York Times and retrieve selected full text of articles back to 1851. Users must search the archives in two parts: 1981 to present and 1851 to 1980.
Google Scholar
Find references to scholarly journal articles, books, and documents. Full text of selected articles are available. For books references most often link to Google Books. From Google Books you can link to Worldcat using the Find in a library link to check full text availability in Owens Library or MOBIUS.
In the First Person
"In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world." Selected sources are available in full text.