Research Guides: HIS 104: Modern World History: Articles

Michael Schwartz Library

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection

Provides digital access to a highly comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877 created from serials holdings of the American Antiquarian Society. Subject coverage includes: advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 (1691-1820) This link opens in a new window
Over 500 titles representing over two centuries of print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 (1821-1837) This link opens in a new window
Over 1000 titles covering the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and including such topics as agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 (1838-1852) This link opens in a new window
Over 1,800 titles thematically revealing a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4 (1853-1865) This link opens in a new window
Over 1,100 titles, not only focusing on the Civil War, but offering a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans, both leading up to and during the war as well as news from the battlefront.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 (1866-1912) This link opens in a new window
Over 2,500 titles reflecting a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances: a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives; the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories.

Core History Research Databases

Start your search for articles in these Core History Research Databases:

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world and including all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides access to books and journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities and social sciences.

Additional History Research Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history
Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Index and cited references for articles in the arts and humanities.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (1974-) This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications in the field of art and related subject areas.
American Periodicals Series Online, 1741-1900 This link opens in a new window
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Including Early American newspapers series 2, 1758-1900 and series 6 (East), 1741-1922.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.

Journals at CSU

Journal A-Z List is a listing of all of the journals that CSU has access to and which database provides the full-text when it is available. It also shows which journals are only available in print in the library's periodicals stacks on the 4th floor. If a journal is not listed in this list, you will need to use Interlibrary Loan to obtain a copy of the article that you need.

Michael Schwartz Library

HIS 104: Modern World History

Interlibrary Loan

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection

Core History Research Databases

Additional History Research Databases

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Journals at CSU