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History - Getting Started
Beyond Walsh Library
- The Internet ArchiveOffers permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Research Resources
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by ISBN: 9780312403577Publication Date: 2003-06-25
The Information-Literate Historian by ISBN: 9780199926046Publication Date: 2012-08-01The Information-Literate Historian is the only book specifically designed to teach today's history students how to successfully select and use sources-primary, secondary, and electronic-to carry out and present their research. Expanded and updated, the second edition of The Information-Literate Historian continues to be an indispensable reference for historians, students, and other readers doing history research.
Databases
See all SHU History Databases or start with these:
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)(A&I) This link opens in a new windowFeatures thousands of annotated references and bibliographic citations on a wide-range of people, places, and specific events which had an impact on shaping world history.
- America: History & Life (EBSCO Publishing)(A&I) This link opens in a new windowFocuses on the history and life of the United States and Canada. Selective indexing includes over a thousand journals dating back over 55 years.
* Use Advanced Search in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life to search by era or date range. Scroll down to lower right corner.
- JSTOR - All library subscriptions This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is database that contains scholarly articles from many disciplines and subject areas. Much of its content is available in full-text (although full-text of recent articles may not be available for a year or more).
- Project Muse Collection This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides the full-text of over 300 major university press journals including Johns Hopkins, Ohio State University, Michigan State University, and many others.
Other Important Databases
- African American Studies Center (Oxford) This link opens in a new windowAccess 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field and reference tools including biographies, subject entries, primary sources, images, maps, or charts and tables.
- First World War: Personal Experiences (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowShowcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features.
- Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945 This link opens in a new windowWomen’s history online: A cross-cultural resource for information on women's history, spanning more than four centuries and 15 languages.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (Gale) This link opens in a new windowCollection of English and foreign language books, pamphlets, broadsides and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800.
- Jewish Life in America c1654-1954 (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowExcellent resource for all those interested in understanding and exploring the history of Jewish communities in America from their first arrival in New York in 1654 to the integral part that they play today.
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American History Periodicals
Here is an inventory of American historical periodicals contained in our current subscriptions: