Subject guide: history

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Find articles

• JSTOR
  Includes the full-text of about eighty scholarly journals in literature, usually from the first issue through from two to five years ago. Does not include current issues.
• Academic Search Premier
  Access to over 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines covering all academic subjects. The full-text is available for about 4,700 periodicals.
• Research Library
  Provides coverage to over 2600 journals, magazines, and newspapers covering all academic subjects. Full-text for over 1,700 journals is available.

Off-campus access to these databases is easy. When prompted, sign in with your SMU network/email user name and password. For problems, call 360.486.8803 or email us.

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Find books

• Use the O'Grady Library catalog to find books.
• Use Summit to find books that the O'Grady Library doesn't own.
• Use ILLiad to request books that neither O'Grady Library or Summit owns.

General History Resources

Browse by general subjects in the Online Catalog. For example, United States History or Washington State History.

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Websites

All links go to university or government websites. Most lead to full-text, primary documents.

United States

• Documenting the American South
• Making of America I
• Making of America II
• 19th Century in Print (American Memory Project)

European

• History Links I (University of Washington Library)
• History Links II (University of Washington Library)
• Historical Maps of Europe
• Atlases of the Ancient World

Pacific Northwest

• Pacific Northwest History Links
• Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
• Early Washington Maps (900+ online maps spanning 300 years)
The Middle East
• Islamic History Sourcebook (One of the TOP websites)
• Middle East and North Africa
• Modern History and Politics
• The Middle East 1916 - the Present: a Documentary Record

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Reference

• Oxford Reference
• History Resource Center: Modern World
• History Resource Center: United States