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History: Overview

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America: History & Life (EBSCO)
Any topic regarding U.S. or Canadian history
Historical Abstracts
World history from 1450-
Library Catalog - Advanced
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
JSTOR
Fulltext of the entire back issues of scholarly journals
Project MUSE
Fulltext scholarly journals covering various topics

All History databases

Research Help by Topic

History by Country or Region

World Events

Special Topics

Background Information

The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Contains nearly 2,000 annotated citations

Oxford Bibliographies
Overviews & annotated bibliographies on a variety of subjects

Biography

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biographical reference sources
Ancestry Library Edition
Wide range of resources for genealogical & historical research

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