Best Article Source for U.S. History
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Other Article Sources for U.S. History
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowAn index to millions of articles covering the arts, humanities, social sciences, psychology and geography across more than 300 years (from the 1680s).
- Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new windowAn index to journals covering the arts, humanities, and the social sciences across more than 300 years (from 1865).
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Originally an archive (JSTOR stands for "Journal Storage"), there is now quite a bit of current material in the database.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowLess comprehensive than JSTOR, but covering many very useful titles, Project Muse is a searchable index of over 180 university press journals.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowDespite its name, Web of Science also indexes thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- UCSB eJournalsUse this link to see if the UCSB Library has online access to specific journals.
- Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History This link opens in a new windowCovers scholarly writing focused on interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century.