Research Guides: HIST 379: Historical Methods: Journals/Articles

What is peer-review?

What is a journal and a peer-reviewed article? video by NEIU Libraries

Scholarly journals may be peer-reviewed, where an editorial board or panel of experts review and evaluate articles before publication. History scholarly articles are typically secondary sources.

Identifying if a journal is peer-reviewed
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History Journal Databases

JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Forsyth Library provides licensed access to the following collections in JSTOR: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences VII, and Biological Sciences. These collections include hundreds of different titles across 71 different disciplines. Need tips on searching?
Project Muse
Scholarly articles from a variety of humanities and social science journals. To find complete articles, check the boxes for "articles only" and "only content I have access to" before searching.
Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary EBSCO database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Useful for nearly any research topic.
Black Life in America
Black Life in America provides comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources it includes over 400 current and historical Black publications.
LGBT Magazine Archive
Archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT, gender, DEI, diversity, sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. Some publications may contain explicit content.

More History Databases

History Journals

Oral History Review
Articles, book and film reviews, and bibliographies deal with the authentication of human experience and research findings in oral history.
Nineteenth-century feminisms
Publishes articles and reviews of books focusing on women throughout Britain, the Empire, and America in the nineteenth century and developed from a wide range of approaches and critical methodologies, including literary studies, art history, book history, cultural studies, and critical theory.
Journal of American History
Features a variety of pieces that deal with every aspect of American history, including state-of-the-field essays, broadly inclusive book reviews, and reviews of films, museum exhibitions, and Web sites.
Journal of African American History
Articles, documents, and notes and comments on all aspects of negro history published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Inc.
American Historical Review
Presents articles, review articles, substantial numbers of book reviews and lists of recently published books in all areas of American history.
History in Africa
The journal publishes textual analysis and criticism, historiographical and bibliographical essays, archival reports, and articles on the role of theory and non-historical data in historical investigation
Renaissance Quarterly
Encourages connections between different scholarly approaches to bring together material spanning the period from 1300 to 1700 in Western history
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Commentary Periodicals

How to find journal articles

Search in an article database, directly in a journal, or in Forsyth Library's online catalog:

Start at Forsyth's website: http://www.fhsu.edu/library/
Use the Search Everything search bar to search for your title, keywords, or subject area.
- For example, a search for The French Revolution finds over 518,000 results
Use the sidebar and choose Full Text Online and Peer-Reviewed Journals, and/or any choices for your search.
- For example, filtering for these topics found 1,421 results:
  - Full Text Online
  - Peer-Reviewed Journals
  - Historical Methods Tip: Filter by Resource Type to further refine the results. For example, Articles.
  - Historical Methods Tip: Filter the Publication Date From 1992 To 2022 to find articles from the past 30 years
  - Historical Methods Tip: Add additional keywords or choose more specific subjects, choose 1-2 items under Topics. For example, History, then Culture.
Click on the title on an item to learn more about it, to see the full text, or to select the journal database that has the item

See this article search in our catalog