Research Guides: HIST 2600: Cold War Culture in the US and Europe: Find Articles

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

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the US and Canada. See Historical Abstracts for world history.
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).
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.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database includes a citation mapping feature that allows you to track research across time, including almost 1.7 billion cited references allowing for comprehensive searches.