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HIST 2280: The Historian's Craft

Library resources and information for students in HIST 2280: The Historian's Craft Spring 2025

Featured Resource

America: History & Life

Search the world's scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada.

Historical Abstracts

1450-present. Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada.

History Vault (ProQuest)

Provides access to millions of primary source, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history.

Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration

A curated primary source collection of U.S. government documents on immigration and border security. Includes text of U.S. immigration laws and other content from the legislative branch, reports and statistics from the executive and judicial branches, and news content.

Find Scholarly Sources

Search for peer-reviewed secondary sources (journal articles and books) using SLUth Search Plus. It searches more than 100 library databases, including several history databases (Historical Abstracts, America: History & Life, JSTOR, Project Muse, Bibliography of Asian Studies) and the SLU Libraries Catalog.

Learn how to use SLUth Search Plus by watching this short video.

If you're looking specifically for books and ebooks, you might prefer using the Saint Louis University Libraries' Catalog.

Look for books published by university presses and scholarly associations, written by authors with degrees and credentials in the field. Scholarly or academic books will also cite their sources and will have a lengthy list of references.

What are Primary Sources?

Source: University of Illinois History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library - Tutorial Transcript