LibGuides: A Guide to History: Articles

Journals List: Do We Have this Journal?

When you have a source with a bibliography, you can see if a particular article from the bibliography is available by looking the journal's name up at the link below. Then you can use the volume and date information to navigate to the article. If we don't have access to that journal, we usually can get it from another library.

Search the Journals List: Do We Have this Journal?

History Journals in Print

In addition to journals for historians, the library has many popular magazines from the 19th and 20th centuries that can be used as primary sources. An index to them, the Reader's Guide to Periodicals, is available in the reference collection. Feel free to ask a librarian for help.

Current scholarly journals about history

Current History
History Today (current issue shelved on main floor)
Journal of African American History
Journal of American History
Journal of Southern History
Journal of the West
Minnesota History
Western Historical Quarterly

Recommended Article Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A good place to start research on most any subject. This multi-disciplinary database indexes nearly 8,050 publications and provides full text for nearly 4,600, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed journals. Access is provided by eLibraryMN (ELM).
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Indexes literature related to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistorical times to the present. Covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide including key English-language historical journals, selected historical journals from major countries, and state and local history journals, as well as books, dissertations and book reviews. Note: Access limited to 6 simultaneous users.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text backfiles to over 350 scholarly journals from more than 25 academic disciplines published between the 19th and 21st centuries in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, and Language & Literature collections. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years before the present year. To limit your search to full text articles, make sure that the option to "include links to external content" is turned off.
Project Muse Basic College Collection This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE provides full text electronic access to over 100 scholarly journals in humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics. Topics covered include literary theory; classics; history and cultural studies; philosophy; film, theatre and the performing arts; political science and mathematics.

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Jeff Jenson

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You can find me in the College and Lutheran Church Archives, the offices above the library's main entrance.

Subjects: Archives, Classics, Environmental Studies, Geography, Gustavus History, History, Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies, Religion, Special Collections and Rare Books