Research Guides: HIST 4600: U. S. South 1860 to Present: 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

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.
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.

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

Dissertations and Theses @ University of North Carolina Charlotte This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to the dissertations and theses produced by students at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Includes indexes and full-text of doctoral dissertations and master's theses.