LibGuides: HIST 251, Research Methods (Wammack): Secondary sources

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JSTOR
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An archive of more than 700 important scholarly journals covering business, ecology, education, ethnic studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology with content ending 3-5 years ago

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.
America: History & Life with Full Text
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Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.

Scope: U.S. and Canada only
Languages: Abstracts of articles in 40 different languages
This index includes almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Books, media reviews, and dissertations are also covered, and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. The Get Text button links to online full text when available and offers access to UNLV print collections and document delivery options for books and articles not available online.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
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1954-
Journal articles and books about world history from 1450 forward (Does not include the United States and Canada). Limited to 4 simultaneous users.

Historical Abstracts identifies journal articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada (See: America: History and Life). Articles from over 2,000 journals are indexed and annotated, and the database includes over half a million entries in all. A select 3,000 books are also listed.
Project MUSE
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1995-
Scholarly journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Update frequency: monthly
Academic Search Premier
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Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.

Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.

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WorldCat
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Get overviews of scholarship from experts

History reviews - Oxford Handbooks Online
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Scholarly research reviews and historiographical essays published in the Oxford Handbooks series. Use these to get an overview of how historians have approached a topic.

List of all Oxford Handbooks in History
History Compass
This journal publishes review articles that let you get an overview of current scholarship on historical topics.
H-Net online reviews
Reviews of books and web projects in history and other humanities disciplines
Reader's Guide to British History
Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on a subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field.
The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature (1995)
This guide is an annotated bibliography of key sources in different regions and time periods. Sources published after 1992 are not included, but this can help you identify relevant collections or standard works.
AHA guide 1961 edition
(table of contents cuts off but you can use the page number dropdown to navigate the rest of the book - start with the Frontmatter link and navigate to page xix to pick up where the online table of contents ends. US History begins on page 711.)
A guide to historical literature (1931)
First bibliography from American Historical Association

Journal holdings & online access for UNLV

A-Z List of Journals

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example: Pacific Historical Review

Notes and annotations

Marginalia
Quick guide to Chicago Notes & Bibliography style
This quick guide is available without a subscription; UNLV does not currently subscribe to the full CMOS online site.
Annotated Bibliography guide
Advice for creating annotations from Cornell University

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Shared with permission of Olin Library Reference
Research & Learning Services
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY, USA
Annotated bibliography video
4 min. video with advice and examples of annotated bibliographies.

Overviews of topics in reference sources

Routledge Companion to British History
Encyclopedia with entries for significant people, places and events.

Keesings World News Archive
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1931-2015
Over 100,000 unbiased, full-text reports of significant political, social, and economic events of the world between 1931 and 2015.

Update frequency: Last updated in 2016
Neutral and accurate reports created by editors who summarize details of significant events around the world. Among the events covered are elections and changes of government; wars, treaties, appointments, and diplomacy; terrorism and issues of internal security; legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements; actions by the UN and other international organizations; natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific discoveries.
Credo General Reference
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Dictionaries, specialized encyclopedias, quotations, thesauri, and bilingual dictionaries.

Historiography

A Companion to Western Historical Thought by Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza
Call Number: Lied Library Book Stacks D16.8 .B55 2002
ISBN: 0631217142
Publication Date: 2002
This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present. Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day. Provides students with the background to contemporary historical debates and approaches. Serves as a useful reference for researchers and teachers. Includes chapters by 24 leading historians.
Going to the Sources by Anthony Brundage
ISBN: 9781119262749
Publication Date: 2017
Helps students at all levels meet the challenge of writing their first (or their first "real") research paper. This shows readers how to identify, find, and evaluate both primary and secondary sources for their own writing assignments.
Historiography by Ernst Breisach
ISBN: 0226072827
Publication Date: 2007
Account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more.