Primary Sources for International Relations
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Historical Research Starting Points
Journal Articles:
- ProQuest All Databases This link opens in a new window90+ databases covering scholarly articles, dissertations, news, and more.
- EBSCOhost Databases This link opens in a new window30+ multi-disciplinary databases covering scholarly journals, magazines and news.
- JStor This link opens in a new windowSearch full-text scholarly journals. Coverage for recent years is incomplete.
- America: History and LifeCovering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
- Historical AbstractsCovers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present,
Books:
- Catalyst - the JHU Libraries CatalogSearch the Hopkins collections for print and e-books.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowMerged catalogs of almost every U.S. library. Includes books and more.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to the texts of the renowned Cambridge Histories series.
- Oxford Bibliographies OnlineScholarly bibliographies covering a wide range of subjects and types of sources, from books to document collections. Updated frequently by scholars in the field.
See Research Methods Primary Sources to educate yourself about approaches to working with source material and historical evidence.