Research Toolbox
Articles
These are the databases that all history majors need to know and use.
- America: History and LifeIf you are exploring a topic on any cultural, historical, political, or social topic that involves the United States or Canada, search this database.
- Historical AbstractsHistorical abstracts is the first place to go for scholarly journal articles relating to history of all areas of the world except for the United States.
- JSTORYou will want to search JSTOR as it provides access to many of the core English language history journals in the social sciences and humanities. All but the last five years available is available for most titles.
How do historians do research?
The study of history offers students an opportunity to investigate the past, gain perspective on the present, and develop their critical faculties and their imaginations. History provides an integrating principle for the entire learning process, and students gain a sense of human development and interrelatedness and an understanding of social processes. History demands a confrontation with the mythologies and achievements of our own society and with the reality of "otherness," both at home and in the larger world.
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