Quick 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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Core Force & Diplomacy Databases
Essential databases for accessing both the primary and secondary literatures of force and diplomacy / military history.
- [Joint Forces] Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI)
This open-access database serves as a guide to articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and international politics, military history, etc. Covers 1997 to date. - AccessUN AccessUN is a commercially published index with limited full-text to United Nations documents and publications. It indexes resolutions, treaties, and UN periodicals and includes some full text. Covers the years 1945 to date.
- 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.
- AUL Index to Military Periodicals Online (AULIMP) AULIMP is a product of the Air University Library, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. It contains article citations for English language military journals dating back to 1988.
- Columbian International Affairs Online (CIAO) CIAO is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 forward.
- Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945, features full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II.
- Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) After 1974 thousands of previously classified United States government documents were declassified. DDRS was developed to organize this tremendous volume of material and to make it easily accessible to researchers.
- Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) This database maintains full-text access to "more than 63,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions" during the 20th century.
- Empire Online
A collection of primary-source documents in Empire Studies. Includes thematic essays, written by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies to introduce the material, placing the documents within a broad historical, literary and cultural context. Click on the "i" icon for more information. - 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.
- Homeland Security Digital Library This database provides easy access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, national strategy documents, and specialized resources such as dissertations, reports and position papers from universities, research institutions, etc.
- JSTOR JSTOR is the premier scholarly journal archive. The Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, and Complement Collections offer full-text access to dozens of journals relevant to the study of force and diplomacy. Click "i" for more information and title examples.
- Lancaster Index to Defense and Security Literature Published in the United Kingdom, the Lancaster Index is an "on-line bibliographic database, indexed and cross-referenced, of journal articles and monographs dealing with military and security affairs". Click "i" for more information.
- Military & Government Collection Stay up-to-date with developments in the U.S. military establishment; provides cover-to-cover full text access to nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Click "i" for more information.
- PAIS International w/ Archive PAIS contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and more. Covers 1915 to date.
- Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (The Johns Hopkins University Press) Online version of the 21 volume print collection of the same name, which includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This collection includes documents, many of them previously classified, from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
- Project MUSE Project MUSE, a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, makes possible worldwide networked access to the Press's full-text scholarly journals. Covers 1995 to date. Click "i" for more information.
- Terrorism Information Center Database of eDocuments including reports, articles, fact sheets, and links to websites with terrorism-related information. Also provides access to selected ebooks and ejournals upon registration. Click "i" for more information.
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Paley Library, Room 319
(M-F, 10-6) AND
History Dept., GH, Room 937
(M & Th, 11-noon)
Phone: 215-204-4250
Send Email
Subjects:
History, Latin American Studies (particularly Ancient Mesoamerica), Spanish & Portuguese
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