Research Guides: Graduate Pro-Seminar in African American Studies: Literature Reviews

Handbooks & Companions

To find companions, handbooks, or bibliographies related to History you can use library search; however, individual articles can be hard to find. Also try searching the portals to these resources below. These can be especially helpful when conducting interdisciplinary research.

Oxford Bibliographies, annotated bibliographies that provide a gateway to research in particular subfields.

Cambridge Companions, guides to various topics.

Routledge Handbooks, book-length companions to various topics.

Oxford Handbooks, reviews of scholarly literature.

Annual Reviews Online, reviews of scholarly literature in the sciences and social sciences.

Interdisciplinary Databases

You can find scholarly conversations by discipline by using special features in EBSCO and JSTOR databases. See instructions below!

JSTOR
Do an advanced search to search by one or more disciplines.

Note: You may not be able to access the most current 2–7 years of certain journals—but many of these recent publications are found in Project MUSE.
Academic Search Complete
Search across selected disciplines by clicking on the Academic Search Complete link. A list of all EBSCO databases will appear.

Access broad ranging resources that include full-text journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and video content from the Associated Press, etc.