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.
Materials not available at Gustavus might be borrowed from other libraries and sent here for you to use.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/spmaterials/
Learn how to distinguish between scholarly, popular, and trade articles. From the North Carolina University Libraries.
Use these databases to find scholarly (secondary) articles about historical topics.
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).
JSTOR is a digital library of journals, academic eBooks, images, and primary sources. JSTOR provides book and journal content from the date of initial publication up to a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years before the present year.
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes hundreds of full-text journals.
In addition to journals for historians, the library has many popular magazines that can be used as primary sources.
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