HIS 401: Historical Research and Writing: Resources

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JSTOR provides access to a wide variety of scholarly journals and monographs in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Use JSTOR to find historical information rather than current articles.

What’s Inside?
Academic and scholarly articles and books.

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Academic Search Premier is a great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic.

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Academic and peer-reviewed journals, magazine and newspaper articles, trade publications, reviews, books, and more.

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ProQuest Research Library is a great place to start your research, providing one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals, allowing you to search for both popular and scholarly articles.

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Academic and peer-reviewed journals, magazine and newspaper articles, trade publications, reviews, and more.

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MasterFILE Complete is a multidisciplinary database provides full text for general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

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Reference books, primary source documents, images, and more.

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ArchiveGrid provides online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

What’s Inside?
Detailed archival collection descriptions such as documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials. Also provided is contact information for the institutions where these collections are kept.

Important Information:
On Campus Use Only

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The New York Times offers searchable full text and digital reproductions of every page back to the first issue.

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New York Times issues and indexes. Most recent four year are not available.

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Newspaper Archive is the world's largest online newspaper archive that spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news and more.

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Archived newspapers including the Mitchell Newspaper archives (1885-1877).

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The Government Printing Office (GPO) contains U.S. government resources and covers all types of U.S. government documents and materials issued by executive departments such as Defense, State, Labor, the Office of the President and more.

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Government documents, Congressional reports, hearings, debates, records, judiciary materials, and more.