History - Top Article Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Get full-text access to magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, business, education, and the humanities. Full-text may be available via Find-It. Useful place to begin broad searches for general topics.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Use with Historical Abstracts. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals, books and dissertations on world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Use with America History and Life. Full-text may be available via Find-It.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR contains the complete digitized backfile of core scholarly journals from a broad range of academic disciplines.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary resource indexes journal literature of the arts and humanities and covers selected items from major science and social science journals. Represented disciplines include archaeology, architecture, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, poetry, history, language, linguistics, poetry, radio, television, and theatre. Search by topic, keyword, or author. Identify articles that cited a previous work. Links to full-text occur when available. Also known as AHCI.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowIndexes research literature across a wide range of disciplines and formats. Use Advanced Search for citation searches.
Websites for Chicago/Turabian Format
- The Chicago Manual of Style official websiteAmazingly informative and thorough website from the U of Chicago Press. Lots of good examples and a great Q & A section.
- Chicago Manual of Style (Author/Date System)Nice guide to Chicago author/date style from Colorado State Libraries.
- Turabian Quick GuideWebsite from the publisher of the manual.
- Chicago Manual of Style from Purdue OwlPurdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) guide to the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition.
- Chicago Style Citation Guide | Templates & Citation ExamplesScribbr's citation guide for the The Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition). It contains guidelines for two styles of citation: notes and bibliography and author-date.
Chicago Bibliography Citation Examples
- Chicago Manual 17th Edition Bibliography ExamplesContains a list of example formats in Chicago style. Does not cover in-text citations.
Multimedia
- Films on Demand
Includes a wide variety of curriculum-focused streaming video titles from producers such as Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, A&E, History, BBC, National Geographic, and more. Modules include Master Academic, Nursing Core, World Cinema, and Allied Health.
