Below is a selection of online resources that include a vast number of articles on topics in History. Within these databases, you can locate articles from academic journals, trade journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources.
Once you've identified the keywords and phrases for your topic, you can start to search the databases for articles on that topic. For example, if you want to write about how women won the right to vote in the United States turn your topic into a keyword search like this:
Search One: (Search with keywords connected by “and”):
women and vote and United States
Search Two: (Truncate some of the keywords using *):
women and vote* and United States
Search Three: (Add alternate words into the search with “(or)”):
(women or female) and (vote* or suffrag*) and (United States or America*)
Truncate keywords where applicable. Truncation uses the asterisk (*) to end a word at its core, allowing you to retrieve many more documents containing variations of the search term. Truncation can also be used to find the singular and plural forms of a term. Example: educat* will find educate, educates, education, educators, educating and more.
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Vote* |
Suffrag* |
America* |
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Vote |
Suffrage |
America |