Research Guides: HIST 2600: Violence in the United States, 1860-Present: Academic Journals

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

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Academic Journals

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

Academic Journals

These journals are particularly useful for this class:

Journal of Negro History/Journal of African American History
American Historical Review
Journal of Southern History
Journal of Urban History
Georgia Historical Quarterly
William and Mary Quarterly
Journal of Black Studies
Hispanic Historical Review
Phylon
Latin American Historical review