Research Guides: Military History: Finding Articles and online databases

Best databases

Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Citations and complete scholarly articles from a wide range of humanities and social science journals, including history.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other pertinent content.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Sage Premier This link opens in a new window
An all-scholarly database of journals from multiple disciplines, including History and Military History. Limit your search to 1999 or later, for full-text articles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to older full-text scholarly journals for a variety of disciplines. Some titles date back to the 1600’s. Two hundred forty journal titles for history can be searched in this database (though most are not full-text).
History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains "over 1200 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world; over 300 magazines and journals; hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks. 1977 - present
Omnifile Full Text This link opens in a new window
Article citations, abstracts, and many full-text articles from thousands of magazines, newspapers and scholarly sources. A good choice for most subjects.

War Timelines

Browse Military History and related journals

Forsyth Library owns Military History journals in both print and electronic full-text (i.e., complete articles can be read online). Some examples are listed below.

War in History
A peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on war in all its aspects: economic, social, political and military including the study of naval forces, maritime power and air forces, as well as more narrowly defined military matters
Military Psychology
Focuses on psychological research & practice within a military environment.
Journal of Political & Military Sociology
Publishes articles which deal with the relationship of politics and the military, formal government and informal government, structures, empirical research papers, essays, theoretical pieces, and methodological papers.
Armed forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal
A peer-reviewed, "international journal covering topics such as civil military relations, military organizations, use of force, conflict resolution, logic and consequences of war, terrorism, military leadership & professionalism, ethics, arms control, peacekeeping, defense economics, recruitment and retention, reserve forces and veterans, representation issues, familiy and health issues and military history". (Gale)
Air Power History
"Chronicles the great campaigns, the leaders, the successes and the failures of air forces in the past [including] eyewitness accounts and historical articles

Military History:Finding Articles and online databases

Best databases

War Timelines

Browse Military History and related journals