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Making of America Journals
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion,and science and technology" (University of Michigan). Browse the full-text of thirteen 19th-century journals including DeBow's, Ladies Repository, and Southern Quarterly Review. Over 50,000 journal articles currently available.
Sample Article Bibliography
In honor of The War by Ken Burns, find below a list of scholarly journal articles about the 6-month-long Battle for Guadalcanal published over the last ten years. Click on a title to open up a new page with a complete article citation. Accessing the full-text article online, if available, takes about two more clicks; simply follow the TUlink icon: 
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn how to set up a similar bibliography for a class or project.
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Find Articles - Tier 1 History Databases
The following Temple databases index and in many cases provide full-text access to the peer-reviewed journal literature, i.e. secondary literature, of history. Track down the full-text article if not already available in the database by clicking on the TULink icon:
- America: History & Life
Provides article abstracts for 1,700+ scholarly journals (1964-date) that focus on the history of the region now occupied by the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Not sure why you'd use this database when JSTOR already works well for you? Quickly read about the advantages of America: History & Life or try MultiSearch, above, to search both databases at once. - Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History
The only offline source in this list, the Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History covers the historical literature published between 1838 and 1974 in an 11-volume printed index available on the 1st floor of Paley Library, Reference Stacks. See also Periodicals Index Online, below. - Historical Abstracts Provides article abstracts for 1,800+ scholarly journals (1955-date) that focus on the history and culture of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Not sure why you'd use this database when JSTOR already works well for you? Quickly read about the advantages of Historical Abstracts or try MultiSearch, above, to search both databases at once.
- History Cooperative Journals
Created by a consortium of academic publishers and professional history associations, History Cooperative Journals offers full-text access to 25 peer-reviewed titles including The Journal of American History. - JSTOR JSTOR is the premier scholarly journal archive. The Arts and Sciences I-VII Collections currently offer full-text access to almost 130 core history journals dating back in some cases to the early twentieth century.
- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) PAO is a "major online periodical archive that makes the [full-text] backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically." PAO currently offers access to over 500 journals spanning some 300 years.
- Periodicals Index Online (PIO) PIO is an "electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years."
- Project MUSE Project MUSE, a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins Press and Milton S. Eisenhower Library, provides full-text access to the Press's scholarly journals. Well over 60 important history titles are included in the database. Coverage begins in 1995.
- World History Collection World History Collection consists of a subset of Ebsco's Academic Search Premier covering only the history journals. This database provides full-text access to 150 periodical titles, including many peer-reviewed journals, dating back to 1964.
Find Articles - Tier 2 History Databases
Although not as comprehensive or wide-reaching in their coverage as the databases listed above, the following history databases nevertheless provide access to important peer-reviewed journal literature.
- Blackwell Synergy
Direct, full-text access to 20 of this publisher's history journals including Diplomatic History, Gender & History, Journal of Religious Studies, and The Journal of the Historical Society. - Cambridge Journals Online Direct, full-text access to 26 of this publisher's history journals including Central European History, The Historical Journal, The Journal of African History, and Urban History.
- History Compass History Compass is an online peer-reviewed journal written by historians with undergraduate students in mind. It is unlike the other databases listed here in that it covers only a single journal title. Unique features of this database include RSS feeds, lists of the most read and cited articles, podcasts, and teaching and learning guides. (Cambridge Journals, above, also has RSS feeds.)
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine International bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. Covers 1975 to date.
- Sage Journals Online Although known primarily for its science periodicals, Sage Journals Online provides full-text access to eight important history titles including European History Quarterly, Indian Economic & Social History Review, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Urban History, The Medieval History Journal, Studies in History, and War in History.
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