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    American History Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books on American History: 973-979

    Full-Text Articles on American History

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for 1360 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters and journals; wire service reports; transcripts of television & radio news broadcasts; reviews, entertainment & sports news; Chronicle of Higher Education and student newspapers; foreign language news; and more.
      • Includes full text of the New York Times (June 1980 through current; abstract from 1969 to May 1980); Baltimore Sun (Jan. 1994 through current); and Washington Post (1997 through current).
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • History Universe: African American Studies (LexisNexis) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Primary and secondary materials covering the colonial era to the present day, including major federal legislation, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, colonial legislation, colonial court cases, autobiographies, manuscript materials, scholarly articles, photographs, speeches, and government documents.
      • To access this database off campus, go to Maryland Digital Library, then click on "login."
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • History Cooperative
      • Searchable and full text of the:
        American Historical Review         (June 1999, Vol. 104 No. 3 to present), and the
        Journal of American History (June 1999, Vol. 86 No. 1 to present).
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text history journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.
    • Social Science Online Periodicals (UNESCO)
      • Links to over 426 social science periodicals with full text. Cannot search for articles.

    Indexes with Citations

    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • America: History and Life
      • v.0 (1972) to v.30 (1993) only
      • (Call number: Index 905 A512); provides citations and abstracts.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    Documents of American History

    General Resources

    U.S. Flags

    • Flags (University of Oklahoma Law Center)
      • Current and historical flags of the U.S. and U.S. laws governing the U.S. flag.