These databases combine encyclopedia entries, published scholarship, and primary source documents for history teachers and students.
Available to eligible Nevada public, school, and academic libraries thanks to the Institute for Museum & Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act.
Available to eligible Nevada public, school, and academic libraries thanks to the Institute for Museum & Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act.
Available to eligible Nevada public, school, and academic libraries thanks to the Institute for Museum & Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act.
Available to eligible Nevada public, school, and academic libraries thanks to the Institute for Museum & Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act.
Planning your research
Advice on planning a research project and finding and using primary and secondary sources.
Good for: Learning about working with primary sources in history.
Contains: Essays, videos, how-to guides, and case studies.
Good for: Learning about historiography, historical theory, methods for analyzing primary sources, and schools of thought within the discipline of history.
Contains: Collections of essays and monographs.
Literature Reviews
Essays by scholars in the field present overviews of the work that has been published on a topic.
Good for: Gaining an overview of how academics have approached a topic.
Contains: Essays describing an area of study and its key methods and sources.
Good for: Creating reading lists or consulting overviews of topics to identify significant scholarship.
Contains: Annotated bibliographies focused on areas of study within a discipline.
Booklists, bibliographies and summaries
These research guides from earlier eras are valuable to students writing historiographies. They are arranged by geographical region; editors list and summarize significant books of the era.
Book reviews
Book reviews can help you identify important works on a topic and identify contrasting approaches or different schools of thought.
Good for: Finding out where reviews of a book were published.
Contains: Book abstracts and excerpts and citations of book reviews.
Dates covered: 1983-present.
Provides citations and excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews in at least three of the periodicals. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are excluded.
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more. Also includes ARTSTOR collections from museums and collections of historical primary sources from libraries and cultural heritage organizations.