History

Useful links

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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New in August 2024: Our ProQuest subscription to Early English Books Online (EEBO) is now live and you can search EEBO together with Early European Books (which also contain English titles) via the Early Modern Books platform.

Reading Lists

Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations?

Finding Books

Finding Articles

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For many assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough articles to work with. This short video shows you how to get the best from Discovery.

Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular sources as a good way of finding articles or perhaps you just want fewer articles to look at. This section lists key sources for History:

• Databases

• More Specialist Sources

• Journals

• Journals Covering History of the Americas

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• American Historical Review

One of the top US peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects and eras of history. Book reviews written by invited experts form a large part of each issue and are extensive, critical, and place the reviewed work within historiographical context.

• Bulletin of Latin American Research

A peer-reviewed journal covering Latin America, the Caribbean, inter-American relations and the Latin American Diaspora across Social Science and Humanities topics.

• Civil War History

The leading academic journal about the American Civil War.

• HAHR: Hispanic American Historical Review

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Highly respected, peer-reviewed articles on Latin American history and culture.

• Journal of American Studies

A peer-reviewed journal which gives international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States.

• Journal of Latin American Studies

The most well-known, peer-reviewed journal on Latin America - it covers many aspects of Latin America as taught at Portsmouth.

• Journal of Southern History

The key peer-reviewed journal if you need articles on the history of the Southern United States.

• Slavery & Abolition