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Use these databases to locate research articles. Start broad and then narrow your search. Remember that articles are often written on more specific topics than books.

America: History & Life
This resource provides scholarly literature on U.S. and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. It includes journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and more, published since 1964.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
This resource contains citations to articles, books, and book chapters on all aspects of British and Irish history, including the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth from all historical periods.
Historical Abstracts
This database provides access to scholarly articles on all aspects of world history, excluding the United States and Canada, from the 14th century to the present.
JSTOR
This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary database of the full content of archival issues of scholarly journals. Issues published within the last 3-5 years are generally not covered. It also provides citations to books and pamphlets provided by JSTOR in digital format.

Book Reviews

America: History & Life
This resource provides scholarly literature on U.S. and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. It includes journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and more, published since 1964.

Books reviews can provide you with a useful critical analysis of a book and can help you to understand the place of book in the literature on a subject. Most history databases include book reviews and review essays that review one or more books.

The easiest way to search for book reviews is to search for the title of the book in the title of the article. In many databases you can also limit your search to book reviews.

The best databases and journals for books reviews of scholarly historical works are:

Historical Abstracts
This database provides access to scholarly articles on all aspects of world history, excluding the United States and Canada, from the 14th century to the present.
JSTOR
This resource is a searchable multidisciplinary database of the full content of archival issues of scholarly journals. Issues published within the last 3-5 years are generally not covered. It also provides citations to books and pamphlets provided by JSTOR in digital format.

American Historical Review
Access to AHR from the first volume published in 1895 but not including the most recent 6 years.

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