The databases below are recommended by the Research Librarian for History.
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The definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database includes indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, citations, and links to book and media reviews.
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. This authoritative database provides indexing of academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
This link opens in a new windowFull-text of older articles in selected scholarly journals (usually published more than 5 years ago). Also includes selected primary source collections, contributed archival collections, and selected ebooks.
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega includes indexing for periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles as far back as 1994. PDF page images of full-text articles provide access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
Lists of sovereign states & dependent territories in Europe:
European Conflicts:
OneSearch results for resources available at CSU Stanislaus.
OneSearch results for resources on Europe at war available at CSU Stanislaus.