Subject Guides: History: History

Subject Librarians

Not sure? Start with David Sulz and he'll direct your question.

Starter Searches: Good for reconnaissance searches to see what's out there or if you have a known citation.

Topic search starters

"Search the Library"
Finds books (print and ebook), journal titles, articles, and many other formats (films, music, maps, primary sources, etc).
Searches UAlberta library (and neos partners') catalogue holdings as well as 300+ specialized search engines (via ebsco discovery service).
Use advanced search for more control (e.g. boolean, specific fields, wildcards, truncation)

Proquest Databases
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Cross searches more than 150 specialized search tools for academic articles, ebooks not in "search the library", historic and current newspapers and media, theses and dissertations, reports. Often better for Canadian content.

Known citation search starters

If you know the title of a book, article, or other item, start with "search the library."

Tips:

Use whole titles or distinctive portions. Use quotation marks to get fewer but more exact matches
Select "catalogue only" box on the main library page before you search. Or, from results page, select "university of Alberta library" under the databases facet on the bottom-left side.

Historical Abstracts
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Academic articles about world history from 1450 to the present.

Contains text in Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French / Français, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh languages.
America: History and Life
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Academic articles on all aspects of the history of Canada and the United States specifically, from pre-historic times to the present.

A fun timeline of the past through wikipedia articles. A dot for every event.

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