Research Guides: LAW 8308: History of Anglo-American Legal Institutions: Journal Articles

Law Journals (limited to SMU and VPN)

HeinOnline. Unlike Lexis and Westlaw, HeinOnline's Law Journals library is an excellent source for older articles, since most of HeinOnline's 2000-plus journals have complete coverage back to their initial volume.

Legal Periodicals Indexes

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981

This database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Michael Widener & Ryan Greenwood, Histories of Legal Literature: A Hundred Years of English-Language Scholarship. (2024) [K140 .W53 2024]. An indexed checklist of "183 monographs, 275 essays in collective works, and 540 journal articles" published from 1921 until 2022 on the topic of Anglo-American legal history.

History Journals

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
Contains the full text of a large number of history periodicals such as American Historical Review; Journal of American History and its predecessor, Mississippi Valley Historical Review; and William & Mary Quarterly. Coverage includes the complete run of these journals except for the most recent five years which are not available due to licensing restrictions.

Subject Guide

Greg Ivy