Research Guides: Historiography: Searching

Recommended Databases

America : History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Any topic regarding U.S. or Canadian history
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
World history from 1450-
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals, as well as books and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Near comprehensive list of books from libraries worldwide, includes links to request materials through ILL

Google Books
Book Search works just like a web search, but for digital books. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results.

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. SMU users can log in for full access to text mining tools and other available from HathiTrust.
Current SMU students and employees with documented print disabilities are eligible to access additional materials in HathiTrust. Contact libraryaccess@smu.edu for more information.

Library of Congress Subject Headings
This page provides print-ready PDF files for the 40th Edition of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Library Search - Advanced This link opens in a new window
Use this link to our SMU Libraries catalog to browse books with the subject term "Historiography."

A quick search in the library catalog using "Historiography" as a keyword will get you a host of books on a variety of subjects. See the custom search link above to browse such books.
To find a historiography of a particular subject, you can use the following search structure: specific topic name AND historiography. For example, Holocaust AND Historiography.
As you search different databases, many of them will have an option to limit results by publication date on the search results page. This will be useful to see changes over time.