Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides article abstracts from journal literature on the history and culture of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Along with its sister database, America: History & Life, provides the most comprehensive indexing of the scholarly periodical literature in history. Link directly from America: History and Life into JSTOR and other full-text databases. For many history research projects, this is the only database you'll need.