History: Find Articles

Are databases asking you for a password?
Are you off-campus?

The Library now uses OpenAthens as a proxy server!

Be sure to use a library provided link to the database you wish to use. You should be prompted for your Juniata username and password. After entering those you will be authenticated as a Juniata user for the remainder of your browser session.

For more details see the Off Campus Access guide. 

Keywords are just as useful searching databases as they were in the Library Catalog. Databases tend to have much more content than the catalog, so search terms can be combined to find more precise resources.

Tips that work for most Databases.

• Use AND, OR, and NOT to join keyword terms versus assuming that the search engine will apply ones you want
• Use parentheses to group terms with Boolean terms to distinguish sets of ANDs and ORs
• Asterisk (*) stands for multiple characters. Most databases only allow * on the end of a term. JStor and Wiley allow * to stand before or embedded in a word.

EXAMPLE: war* = war, wars, warring, warlord, etc.

• Question marks (?) stand for single character replacement.

EXAMPLE: wom?n = woman, women

• Use double quotation marks around a phrase that you want to search exactly as typed. Some databases will ignore "stop words" such as 'a', 'the', etc. regardless of quotation marks.
• Use Author, Title, and Abstract search narrowing to find items more specific to your topic. Be careful when using Abstract because not every article contains one.

• Digital Civil War Collection at University of Tennessee
• American Memory
  • Library of Congress project to "provide free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."
• Avalon Project - American Historical Documents
  • Yale Law School's project to  "mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." Documents from 4000 BCE to 2000.
• Civil Rights Documentation Project 
• Digital Commons Network - History
  • "Full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide."
• Documenting the American South
• Eyewitness to History
  • Primary sources from the Ancient World to the Twentith Century.
• Harry Ransom Center At the University of Texas at Austin
  • "Advances the study of the arts and humanities by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible original cultural materials. With extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, photography, film, art, and the performing arts."
• Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project
  • "An open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials. "
• Harvard University Library Open Collections
  • OCP has created seven subject-specific web-accessible collections that can support teaching and learning around the world. Today, OCP collections account for over 2.3 million digitized pages, including more than 225,000 manuscript pages.
    • Harvard in the 17th and 18th Centuries
    • Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
    • Islamic Heritage Project
    • Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age
    • Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
    • Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930
    • Women Working, 1800–1930
• Holocaust Resource Library
• Making of America
  • "A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
• Manhattan District History
  • "General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan Project called the Manhattan District History. Prepared by multiple authors under the general editorship of Gavin Hadden, a longtime civil employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, the classified history was "intended to describe, in simple terms, easily understood by the average reader, just what the Manhattan District did, and how, when, and where."" Made available through the United States Department of Energy's OpenNet.
• National Park Service - The Civil War
• The Newberry Digital Resources
  • "Digital exhibitions, publications, reference materials, and image collections" about the Americas.
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
  • Fordham University's curated "collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
• Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive
  • "Materials examining Judaism and the Jewish experience through the lens of religious, cultural and social movements in America, as well as various philosophies of Judaism and Jewish organizations, originating from the late 1940s to the present."
• Vietnam Center and Archive
  • "Collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War, and supports and encourages research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam Experience."
• Women's History Archive
  • "published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present." See their list of Research Guides for topic ranges.