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Historiography

 

Prepared by Jim Schnur

September 2002

 

Databases and Indexes

America History and Life

An index to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide (over 90% in the English-language) and 6,000 citations of book and media reviews and abstracts of dissertations.

Arts and Humanities Index   Print: REF AI 3.H8

Contains citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals.

Book Review Index  

Print: 1965 to date - REF Z 1035.A1 B6

[Index Row C]

Released: 3 times/year.

Book Review Digest  Online: 1983 to date

Print: 1906-1996 - Ref. Z 1219.B6 

[Index Row C]

Includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from the indexes: Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, Social Sciences Index, and Business Periodicals Index.

Historical Abstracts

Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.  Sister to the America History and Life Database.

History Resource Center United States

Provides an integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. Includes full-text coverage of approximately 65 periodicals of interest to students and historians as well as access to the citations for history journals from the Arts & humanities citation index.

Social Sciences Full Text Online: 1983 to date

Print: REF AI 3.S62

[Index Row C]

Indexes, abstracts and full-text from periodicals covers areas that include addiction studies, anthropology, criminology, economics, family studies, gerontology, minority studies, policy sciences, political science, psychology, social work, and urban studies.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000

This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.

 

Selected Periodicals

Journal Title Online Access Poynter Print
American Heritage   1960 to date
American Historical Review 1895-1992 1959 to date
American Quarterly 1949-1955;1996 to date 1980-1997
Americas  2000 to date  
Central European History   2000 to date  
Civil War History 2000 to date 1967 to date
Colonial Latin American Review 1998 to date  
European Journal of Archaeology    2000 to date  
Florida Historical Quarterly 1908-1999 1985 to date
Hispanic American Historical Review 1918-1999 , 1999 to date  
Journal of American History 1964-1999; 1999 to date 1964 to date
Journal of Black Studies

1970-2000; 1999 to date

 
Journal of Latin American Studies 1969-1999 , 1997 to date  
Journal of Medieval History        1995 to date  
Journal of Negro History 1916-2000 1956 to date
Journal of Southern History 1935 to 1998 1968 to date
Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1892-1964 1914-1964
Negro History Bulletin   1960 to date
Nineteenth Century French Studies    2001 to date  
Reviews in American History 1973-1994; 1995 to date 1977 to date
Russian Review            1941-1999 , 1998 to date  
Slavic and East European Journal     1957 to 2000  
Studies in East European Thought     2002 to date  
Tampa Bay History 1979-1998 1979 to 1998
Twentieth Century British History     2002 to date  
William and Mary Quarterly 1892-2000; 2001 to date 1965 to date

 

Finding Books

Biographies

To learn about the lives of historians, writers, and others go to the CT call number area to find directories, indexes, and other resources.

American National Biography  24v.  REF CT 213.A68 1999
Dictionary of American Biography: 1946-1958 REF E176.D563
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Being a History of the United States: 1967-1971   50v.  REF E 176.N2813
Dictionary of Literary Biography REF PS 221.D5 

Guides and Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing K. Boyd REF D 14.E58 1999
The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature M.B. Norton REF D 20.A55 1995
A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing D.R. Woolf REF D 13.G47 1998
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought D. H. Fischer D 16.F53
That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession P. Novick D 13.5.U6 N68 1988

 

Historiographical Resources

The call number areas below refer to general areas for materials on the history, practice, and theory of historical writing:

American educational history bibliography   Z 5815
Antiquity, historiography of   D 56
Eastern Europe , historiography of DJK 32 - DJK 34
Economics, historiography of   HB 75
Education, historiography of    LA 9
France , historiography of DC 36.9
Germany , historiography of DD 86
Hagiography   BR, BX, PA (by person or region)
Historians, biographies of (collective) D 14
Historians, biographies of (individual) D 15   

Historiography, general

D 13
History, philosophy of D 16.7 - D 16.8
History, study and teaching D 16.2 - D 16.4
History, study and teaching (United States) E 175.8
Russia , historiography of     DK 38
Scandinavia , historiography of   DL 44.8
Spain , historiography of   DP 63
United Kingdom , historiography of DA 1 - DA 4
United States , biography (collective) E 176
United States , historiography of    E 175
United States , history (general works) E 178

 

Selected Internet Resources

The History Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Resources

D.A Trinkle & S.A. Merriman REF D16.255.C65 H58 2000

 

 



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