Research Guides: History, American

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History, American Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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America: History and Life
Without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history and culture.
Coverage: Updated quarterly
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of journals that spans many disciplines. Provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Includes such History titles such as Public Historian, The American Historical Review, The Journal of Southern History, and The Journal of Military History.
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive Tutorials
Academic Search Premier
Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. Includes such titles as American History, American Heritage, Smithsonian, and Civil War History.
Project Muse
Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, arts and social sciences. A non-profit collaboration from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Includes such titles as Film & History, The Journal of Military History, Ohio History, and Reviews in American History.
Coverage: 1995 - present
Project Muse Tutorials
Historical New York Times
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. For more recent full text indexing, see Academic Search [Lexis-Nexis].
Coverage: 1851 - 2007
Historical New York Times Tutorials
Civil War Era
Provides full text from eight regionally balanced cover-to-cover newspapers and nearly 2,000 pamphlets. Primary sources covering cultural, regional, ethical, and economic viewpoints from the American Civil War period.
Coverage: 1840 - 1865
Accessible Archives
Full-text databases contain primary sources of historical information including eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.
Coverage: 18th and 19th century
Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index
Kenton County Public Library's index to local newspaper articles.
Newsdex
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's index to local newspaper articles.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (print index)
Indexes popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Includes current events and news, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health and nutrition, consumer affairs, and others.
Steely Library Reference Collection - Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
Coverage: 1900 - 2000
Access Newspaper Archive
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700's. It is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Use the archive to view, save, and print full-page newspapers from around the world.
Coverage: 1700 - present
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
"This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."

The History, American Research Guide is maintained by Allen Ellis. Suggestions and comments are welcome.