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HIST 2235: The Age of Revolutions in Europe, 1789-1917

How-To Video: Searching for Secondary Sources

Searching for Secondary Sources
This module will familiarize you with the abstract databases that will help you find scholarly articles for your History papers

How Do I Find Scholarly Articles?

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the world (excluding U.S and Canada).
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Search for Books

Search for books, articles, and more through our library search system.

LC Subject Headings

Finding a Book on the Shelf

Setting up your search

Use the Advanced Search feature.

Example:

Revolution Revolution

AND AND

Prussia OR Germany 1848

AND AND

1848 Cause* OR Influence

* helps you find multiple endings to a term

OR in between keywords in one search box finds one of the terms in that search box