Library Guides: New England History : Databases

History Databases

These databases are the best choices for finding information related to American Studies:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital library consisting of digitized issues of academic journals, books, and primary sources. It provides full text searches of almost 2,000 journals.
New York Times Archive This link opens in a new window
"Over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared." Archival issues of the NYT from 1852 - 2002.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search™ Complete contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Journals on many topic areas, many in full-text.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present.