LibGuides: HIS 461: Women Writing War: Find Articles and Journals

Core History Databases: Gitenstein Library

Tier 1 History Databases
Tier 2 History Databases

Abstracting and indexing databases:

America: History & Life
Uncover the peer-reviewed journal literature of United States and Canadian history.
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(1964-) This venerable index contains abstracts of articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide, including state and local history journals and selected journals in the social sciences and humanities. In addition to articles, includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields each year. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. Each entry in the database is assigned appropriate indexing terms based on standard authorities. Every year approximately 16,000 new entries are added to the America: History and Life database.
Historical Abstracts
Uncover the peer-reviewed journal literature of the history of Europe and other parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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(1954-) Abstracts of articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to articles, each year Historical Abstracts includes approximately 3,000 citations to useful historical books as reviewed by the most prestigious journals in the field and citations to abstracts of dissertations of particular interest for historical research. Each entry in the database is assigned appropriate indexing terms based on standard authorities. Every year over 20,000 new citations are added to the Historical Abstracts database.

Journal archives:

JSTOR
JSTOR is the premier journal archive. It provides full-text access to 479 peer-reviewed journal titles in history, but very little content from the most recent three years. Find recently-published articles in Project MUSE (see below).
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(Earliest Full Text from the Late 1800s.) A full text, full image journal archive. Coverage of journals generally begins with their first volume and is updated to within three-to-five years of the current issue. Allows keyword searching of the full text of all articles, as well as browsing of particular journal issues. Subject strengths are African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics/finance, general science, history, literature, math/statistics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, and sociology.
Project MUSE
Another important journal archive, Project Muse provides full-text access to 82 history journals dating from approximately the mid-1990s to date.
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(Dates vary from 1995-present) Access to the full text of more than 100 journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University Press and other publishers.

Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History (1838-1974)
This printed index is located in the General Reference Collection, TCNJ Libary (1st Floor).
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The only offline source in this list, the Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History covers the historical literature published between 1838 and 1974 in an 11-volume printed index available in the Reference Collection located on the 1st floor of the TCNJ Library, Reference Stacks (Call # D1.C6 1977).
Humanities Full Text
Employ Humanities Full Text to search or browse nearly 200 history journals, most of which provide coverage dating from the mid-1980s.
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(Indexing & Abstracting, 1982-; earliest Full Text from 1995.) Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text for periodical articles and reviews from English language periodicals. Subjects include archaeology, classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

Featured Journals

Auto/Biography Studies: a/b
This peer-reviewed journal "serves as a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship and criticism on all forms of lifewriting. Covers autobiography, biography, diaries, and letters as well as the relationships between lifewriting and other discourse. Emphasizes work that deals with diverse ethnic and national topics."
Biography
This peer-reviewed, University of Hawaii Press journal "focuses on life-writing and biographical theory."
European Journal of Life Writing
"European Journal of Life Writing is an interdisciplinary open access journal, published by the European section of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA Europe). The EJLW aims to provide a forum for work in the field of all forms of life narratives, with contributions ranging from conceptual to practical and creative work."
Fourth Genre
This Michigan State University Press journal is "devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction" including autobiography.
Life Writing
"Life Writing is one of the leading journals in the field of biography and autobiography, and publishes scholarly articles, critically informed creative personal essays, and book reviews." Click more for step-by-step directions on how to access articles in this important journal.
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Our library does not subscribe to this journal but students can quickly retrieve any relevant article(s). Click on MLA International Bibliography from the left-hand column of this page. At the top of MLA's homepage (blue bar), click Browse Periodicals. Search for Life Writing. Click on the resulting hyperlinked title for a brief record with information about the journal. Now click Search within this publication. Browse the resulting list of articles or enter additional search terms to narrow your results. Request any article(s) of interest via our library's interlibrary loan (ILL) service. Find a link to the online ILL request form from the library's homepage under GET IT FOR ME. Please note that as of this writing MLA International Bibliography indexes articles in Life Writing from April 2007 through June 2021. Find citations to articles published since summer 2021 from the journal's homepage at Taylor & Francis Online (just Google it). Again, request any articles of interest via ILL.
Lifewriting Annual
"Presents theoretical, critical and scholarly essays on various forms of lifewriting, including memoir, biography, autobiography, journals and letters." Our library does not subscribe but students should be able to quickly retrieve articles relevant to their topics from the link above.
Persona Studies
"Persona Studies is a peer reviewed academic journal that explores the construction of the public self."