History
Adrienne Meier - Adrienne is the librarian for History. She is available to help with research questions for all history classes. To ask a question or to schedule an appointment, write to her at ameier@spu.edu
For information on world and American history, see the resources below.
Core Resources
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- America: History and Life - This index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with indexing for 1,700 journals published as early as 1910.(SPU Only)
- In the First Person - offers an in-depth index to collections of letters, diaries, and personal narratives in English from around the world.
- JSTOR - offers digitized versions of core scholarly journals in many disciplines.(SPU Only)
- Military and Government Collection - provides full-text coverage for 300 journals and periodicals, as well as indexes and abstracts for 645 other sources, pertaining to all branches of the military and government.(SPU Only)
- Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index - contains citations from hundreds of newspapers and periodicals, as well as monographs, theses, dissertations, pamphlets, etc., covering Seattle, Washington, and the Pacific Northwest.
Additional Resources
- Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
- New York Times Index - offers full-text coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record. Important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts are included.(SPU Only)
- Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
- ViVa Women's History - ViVa is a current bibliography of women’s and gender history in historical and women’s studies journals. It offers descriptions of selected articles from 180 international journals, with coverage from 1975 to the present.