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HIS 300 - Schooling in American History: Myth versus Reality (Noraian)

The resources in this guide will be useful for student research assignments on the history of American education

Article Databases

To search multiple databases at the same time, click on the "Articles" tab on the Milner website.

 To search specific databases, click on the "Databases" tab.

The sources listed below are good places to begin your research. 
 

1.  America History and Life.
The major index to journal articles on United States and Canadian history.

 2.  ERIC
Major database for education;  indexes journals and reports from 1966 to the present. 

3.  Education Full Text.
Indexes education journals and yearbooks from 1983 to the present, with full text coverage from 1996 to present.

 

4.  Education Index Retrospective.
Citations for journal articles, magazine articles, yearbooks and other sources published between 1929 - 1983

 

5.  Education Magazine Archive.
Full text of articles from 26 major education publications from the early 20th century, 1910 through 2015.

 

6.  JSTOR
Full text of backfiles of journals in the fields of history, sociology, education, anthropology, area studies, etc.  Does not include latest years of journals.

7.  Project Muse
Full text of recent years for some 425 journals in the humanities and social sciences.

8.  Academic Search Complete
Indexes over 11,000 journals and periodicals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, etc.

9.  Dissertations & Theses.
Indexes dissertations and some masters theses & includes full text for most recent years.

10.  Book Review Index Plus and Book Review Digest Plus.

Locating Journals

The Find It link is available in most databases.  Click on this link for full text access and to search for a journal in the Online Catalog.

 If you have a complete citation for an article, use the   Citation Finder
Type in the journal title, year, volume and starting page, and click on Submit.

 

 

 

 



 

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