Subject Guides: History: History

Subject Librarians

Doris Wagner
USA, United Kingdom, Continental Europe
Denis Lacroix
Continental Europe, Latin American and Caribbean
Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn
Slavic Studies
Kim Frail
Canada, Continental Europe
David Sulz
Canada, Historiography (also Asia, Religion, history of science)

Not sure? Start with D oris Wagner and she'll direct your question.

Grad Students Library Services Overview

History Grads Library Services
History Grad Library Services Handout

Starter Searches: topic and known item

Known title

If you know the title of a book, article, report, etc: start with "search the library"

Tips: Use whole title 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 databases > "university of Alberta library" in left menu of search results. Journal articles: start with article title but if necessary, search for the journal title.

Topic or Keyword search starters (if you don't have a known title)

Search the Library
Books (print, ebook), journal, articles (and films, music, maps, primary sources, etc) from UAlberta/NEOS catalogues and 300+ specialized search engines via ebsco). Use advanced search for boolean, wildcards, truncation, proximity, field limiters).
NOTE: this does NOT search everything we have access to!!

Proquest - All Databases This link opens in a new window
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Cross searches 150+ databases. Academic articles, ebooks, historic and current newspapers, theses/ dissertations, reports, etc. Often better for Canadian content.

Specialized History Searches

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.

More Resources

Blackwell Reference Online This link opens in a new window
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Brill's New Pauly This link opens in a new window
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Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
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Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Reference Online Premium This link opens in a new window
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Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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World History: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
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Also know as: |Arts & Humanities Full Text|. Contains text in Ancient Greek, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian, Cherokee, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French / Français, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Latin, Maori, Middle English, Middle French, Old English, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Scots, Serbian, Slavic, Slovenian, Spanish, Tagalog and Turkish languages.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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This content is now hosted on the Oxford Academic platform

Full text access to scholarly books published by Oxford University Press.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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IBZ Online: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
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Contains text in Dutch, English and German languages.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Scopus This link opens in a new window
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World History: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window

Economist Intelligence Unit This link opens in a new window
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European Data Portal
Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room (CIA)
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CREST records are divided into collections on the left-hand side of this page. To view a collection, click on the “CREST: 25-Year Program Archive” link on the left. Once the link is clicked, the collections will appear below. To view the records of a specific collection, click the collection name on the left.

In addition, CIA has also made an advanced search capability available. To access the advanced search, click on the “Advanced Search” link just below the search bar on this page. The advanced search allows for search across collections, as well as searches within specific metadata. Additional information and guidance can be found in the “Search Help” link.
The World Factbook (CIA)
World Leaders (CIA)

History Visualization

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

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