Library Research Databases
Use academic databases to find articles from scholarly and history journals. Full-text titles include Africa, Journal of African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Studies Quarterly, and others.
News and reference databases may also be useful for your research.
Access from home or work is available for these databases; login using your Madison Area Technical College username and password.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window EBSCO database including academic, peer-reviewed journals More than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals.
- History Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window EBSCO database including reference books, encyclopedias, biographies, and some history periodicals. History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video
- Humanities International Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window EBSCO database Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
- EBSCOhostSearch multiple EBSCO databases Select multiple EBSCO databases to search, Academic Search Complete, History Reference Center, Humanities International, and Masterfile recommended for history.
- JSTORScholarly & academic journals Titles include African Studies Review, Journal of the African Society, Journal of Modern African studies, Journal of Southern African studies, and others.less...For history of Africa research, you may want to take a look at the history, anthropology, and African-American collections.
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new window Provides country-specific geopolitical intelligence on 193 countries in the world, including a brief history overview and other data.
- Find Articleslists all of our Madison Area Technical College Libraries databases
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Newspapers: Research Databases and Websites
- African Newspapers by countryfrom Stanford
- Christian Science Monitor ArchiveFind articles from 1908 to 1980; Use Interlibrary Loan, rather than purchasing copies online.
- Chronicling America - The Library of CongressAmerican newspapers 1880-1922.
- New York Times Article Archiveuse Interlibrary Loan to request articles, rather than purchasing copies online
- Newspaper Source Plus - Proquestaccess provided through Badgerlink
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Comprehensive newspaper database from EBSCO Includes 1,520 newspapers, including The New York Times (from January 1985 to present), The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of London, The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and others.
- Newspapers.com Library Edition - World CollectionProquest database available through Badgerlink. Historical newspapers archive from the 1700s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
ArtStor
- ArtStor (ArtStor) This link opens in a new windowSubject Areas: Art, Graphic Arts, Architecture. ARTstor is a digital library of over 1.6 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Search ArtStor separately - not included in WorldCat Discovery searches.
- African and African-American Studies sample featured collection in ArtStor
History of Africa Research Guide
Recent articles on African history
RSS feeds with recent articles from the journals "African Studies Quarterly" and "International Journal of African Historical Studies" in our library databases.
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