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America: History and Life
Includes a large collection of scholarly journals by historians. You can also try limiting by "Historical Period." For world history, try Historical Abstracts. Also includes book reviews.
JSTOR
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 450 journals in history. You can narrow by date and you can also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Project MUSE
Includes the full text of journals in the humanities and social sciences, including history. After searching, you can limit by subject, year, and more.
Academic Search Complete
Scholarly articles in many disciplines. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles. You can limit by Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals.

Library Search
Search across many library databases to find scholarly articles, magazines, books and more. After searching, try the limits at the left hand side. This is also a good place to look for items found in a bibliography.
Google Scholar
Full text searching of articles and books. If you find a journal article of interest, try the "cited by" link.
E-Journal Finder (New)
If you want to search a specific journal (or periodical or newspaper), such as American Historical Review, search for the journal title in Ejournal Finder to find the full text.

Helmke Library Catalog
Find books, e-books and more available at Helmke Library.

Proquest Ebook Central
Search and view the full text of ebooks.
FirstSearch: WorldCat Advanced Search (See also WorldCat Advanced Search: FirstSearch)
Search for books in over 7,000 libraries. Use the FindIt button to request books from other libraries. This is the classic version of WorldCat, with additional search options. See also WorldCat.

Google Books
Search the full text of books. Copyright (as applicable) will prevent you from reading the full text in Google. If you find a book of interest, search Helmke Library's Catalog or WorldCat to locate a print or digital copy.

WorldCat
Search for books in over 7,000 libraries. After searching, you can use the "Request Item" link to borrow items from other libraries.

Founders Online
An extensive digitized collection of the correspondence and writings of Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison. From the National Archives.
Helmke Library Catalog
Here are a few examples of the types of primary texts you might find in Helmke Library Catalog (for additional options, see: Books)

Primary Documents in American History
Selected documents with brief descriptions and links to web versions. From the Library of Congress.
American History as Seen in Congressional Documents, 1774-1873
Identifies major sources of official Congressional documents, from the Library of Congress' Century of Lawmaking Collection.
HathiTrust
A large-scale online archive with digitized books, journals, documents and more. Especially useful for finding materials in the public domain. For example:

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Fulltext searching of digitized books published in Great Britain and North America in the eighteenth century, from Gale.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
A collection of U.S. newspapers from the 19th century. From Gale. For example:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Digitized collection of 19th century books, manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals. From Gale.
American Periodicals
Includes selected magazines and journals from the late 1700s and onward, such as Niles' Weekly Register (1814-1837) and Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine (1790-1792).
British Periodicals
Includes selected magazines and journals from the late 1700s and onward, such as The Gentleman's Magazine ... and Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal.
NewsVault
An extensive collection of historical British newspapers and periodicals, with some U.S. content. You can search the whole database or scroll down to choose a specific collection.

Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue OWL
Consult the options at the left hand side of the screen for info. on creating a bibliography. From the OWL Purdue Writing Lab.
Chicago/Turabian Documentation Style
From the University of Wisconsin Madison Writing Center
Turabian Footnote/Endnote Style
From the Georgetown University Library

A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by Mary Lynn Rampolla A Pocket Guide to Writing in History is a brief, inexpensive, and easy-to-use guide to the writing and research skills needed for undergraduate history courses. Its concise yet comprehensive coverage of every step of the research and writing process—including detailed advice on documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism—have made A Pocket Guide to Writing in History the trusted choice in history.
ISBN: 9781457690884
Publication Date: 2015-01-16